Let them smoke pot!

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012

Data from the “Dunedin Study” has shown that under-18s who regularly smoke marijuana are at risk of permanently reducing their IQ. The same dip doesn’t occur in those who become frequent users after 18, supporting previous research which has suggested that marijuana is particularly harmful for the Read more...

Parliament gets FABULOUS!

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012

Labour MP Louisa Wall’s Marriage Amendment Bill, which aims to legalise gay marriage, passed its first reading in a landslide 80-40 conscience vote on the night of August 29. The vote drew a packed public gallery at Parliament, and with many tuned into Parliament TV social media outlets went Read more...

SOULS

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012

SOULS – the Society of Otago University Law Students – is holding its Annual General Meeting this Monday August 20, followed by elections for the ten volunteer members of the 2013 Student Executive. The AGM will run from 11am to 5pm in the 8th Floor Common Room of the Richardson Building, and will Read more...

Fag?

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012

Members of OUSA-affiliated society UniQ have been revolting against Critic’s Straight Up column due to columnist Dame La Dida’s usage of the words “fag” and “faggot”. Things reached fever pitch on Facebook last week after Critic printed a letter to, and a response from, Dame La Dida in last week's Read more...

Community Law Centres Face Judgment

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012

New Zealand’s Community Law Centres are engulfed in a shroud of mystery after the Ministry of Justice indicated that it will move to cut down to 10 and 15 Community Law contracts across the country, instead of the current regime of 25 individually funded centres. Supervising Solicitor Caryl Read more...

Shit's Getting Kronic

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012

Peter Dunne is at it again. After receiving a less than satisfactory do from his Kronic-tripping hairstylist, he has apparently put the final nail in the coffin of “dangerous” synthetic drugs, with a new policy designed to deal with syntheic drugs like Kronic. This policy will explicitly ban the Read more...

New Drugs Regime Dunne

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012

Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne is crafting a new legal high law which will be introduced to Parliament later this year and is expected to be in force by the middle of next year. Once passed, the new law will immediately criminalise all psychoactive substances, including synthetic cannabinoids Read more...

Medieval Trenchcoat Knight Terrorises Waikato

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012

Students at the University of Waikato were falsely alarmed on Wednesday July 25 when a man wearing a trenchcoat was reported to be carrying a weapon on campus. At 10:29am, an email was sent to all staff and students following the sighting of a “tall, Caucasian male, in his twenties... with Read more...

Margaret Mahy - She Dead

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012

Margaret Mahy, the author who gave New Zealand the gift of such brilliant children’s books as The Lion in the Meadow and The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate, died at the age of 76 in a Christchurch hospice last Monday night after losing her battle with cancer. Mahy arguably found her point of Read more...

South Dunedin Blamed for all Problems

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012

Alternatives to the proposed liquor ban are being sought following a meeting between OUSA, Dunedin City Council representatives, and the Youth Action Committee on Tuesday July 24. The Council’s Liquor Ban Implementation Group delayed its decision on the liquor ban last month to consider Read more...