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Posted 2:18am Monday 17th October 2011

Blah blah blah, sad, blah blah blah, k thnx bye   Shit’s about to get all soppy and nostalgic, so if you can’t stomach that sort of thing, I’d recommend you quickly turn the page.   I’ve been Editor now for approximately a year, and what a ridiculous year it’s been. After all the late Read more...

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Posted 4:08am Monday 10th October 2011

Penultimate Prattering To many, politics are about as exciting as watching cricket being played by senile citizens in slow motion. And by that, I mean not very. Me, I’m one of those odd folks who actually enjoys politics. I wish my interest were entirely due to principled ideals, but like Read more...

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Posted 2:49am Monday 3rd October 2011

Break It Down It finally happened! The lumbering elephant in the corner, the symbol of freedom, the subject of doomsday proclamations, the cause of the nearing apocolypse. Yep, the notorious VSM passed through its third reading last Wednesday. To be honest, I’m secretly quite relieved. Not Read more...

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Posted 2:21am Monday 12th September 2011

I believe in miracles This week is our “Beliefs” issue. We’re not talking about what you think exists (I, for instance, refuse to believe in exclamation marks, despite being constantly confronted with evidence to the contrary). We’re talking about the views you hold dear, the ideas that define Read more...

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Posted 10:46pm Monday 22nd August 2011

SNOWY, SNOWY NIGHT It’s just been one of those weeks, really. The internet is moving as slowly as a dying snail, the snow has melted, changing the weather from romantically idyllic to painfully cold, and assignments are setting in, leaving the general population in an academic malaise. First Read more...

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Posted 11:55pm Monday 8th August 2011

VSM: it’s all anyone can talk about. It’s been a somewhat lukewarm bore for a while, with everyone from Metiria Turei to Michael Woodhouse speculating that VSM wouldn’t pass before the election. But on Wednesday, when the final clause of the bill was discussed at the committee of the house Read more...

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Posted 4:15am Thursday 4th August 2011

X-Rated This week, we present our sex issue. Sex, if you hadn’t noticed, is pretty big; if you’re not having it, you’re talking about it. And if you’re not doing either of those, you’re probably thinking about it. Quite often at that, if the notorious seven seconds statistic is anything to go Read more...

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Posted 11:47pm Monday 25th July 2011

ACT'S MOULDY POLICIES This week’s issue is our “culture” issue, hence the delightful petri dish complete with Critic-shaped bacteria on the cover (See ODT, we can make puns too. Even if they do imply rather negative things about our hygiene). The week before last, four politicians Read more...

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Posted 4:01am Monday 25th July 2011

ON DA INTERWEBZ “Technology” is a fairly far-reaching theme. Perhaps it’s just that I’m somewhat of a technophobe who shies away from things with buttons and flashing lights, but the sheer magnitude of what counts as technology is overwhelming. Needless to say, it was hard to pick what Read more...

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Posted 4:43am Monday 11th July 2011

Welcome back! We hope you had a great break and all that jazz. It may have been a break, but hey, the world keeps spinning and boy, did a lot of things happen. OUSA’s very own “sex scandal”   Dan Stride’s very public resignation raised a number of issues surrounding privacy (see Read more...