Economics of Art | Issue 22

Posted 12:28pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Danielle Pintacasi

Think about Mark Rothko’s White Center. Painted in the 1950s, it's part of the abstract expressionist movement. For those who can’t get your head around abstract art, brace yourselves. White Center sold at auction for $72.84 million US in 2007 to the Qatari Royal Family, at the time Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 22

Posted 11:59am Saturday 10th September 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

The Otago University Debating Society meets every Tuesday at 6pm for social debating—new members are always welcome! Join our Facebook group for more information Affirmative, by Blue Steel What time is more appropriate to talk about drugs and sport than the Read more...

David Clark | Issue 22

Posted 12:01pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by David Clark

As the local MP—and three times over a proud Otago humanities graduate, I am grateful for the opportunity to add my voice to the growing chorus of voices frustrated at the increasingly marginal place of humanities in our universities.  A threatened cut of up to 20 humanities roles at Read more...

Drink of the Week | Issue 22

Posted 12:05pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Fred Flintstoned

Some are calling it the Pumpy revolution of 2k16 as Scrumpy and Syncs are flying off the shelves simultaneously. Boasting a combination of great taste, easy drinkability and next level froth factor it’s no wonder Pumpy is taking over the vomit stained streets of Dunedin.  The origins Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 22

Posted 12:10pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, My car just failed its warrant of fitness and I can’t afford the $220 it’s going to cost to get it repaired. I need my car because I’m living in Brockville and the buses are terrible and super expensive. Any ideas? -Wheelin’, not Read more...

Vitalogy | Issue 21

Posted 12:10pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Prof's Wood & Ruddock

There are various names given to the unnatural and degrading vice of producing venereal excitement by the hand, or other means, generally resulting in a discharge of semen in the male and a corresponding emission in the female. Unfortunately, it is a vice by no means uncommon among the youth of both Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 21

Posted 12:12pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Charlie O’Mannin

But can’t think of anything to ask for that he doesn’t already have.   This week Gregor Macaulay does ODT Watch’s job for us. I don’t think the ODT quite realised that he was ripping into them.   The Olympic gold medal eating event kicked off Read more...

First World Problems | Issue 21

Posted 12:26pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Danielle Pintacasi

New Zealand has one of the highest youth suicide rates among the OECD countries. This is a startling statistic when you compare it with other figures that paint New Zealand in nothing but a favourable light. High life expectancy, literacy rates, physicians per 1000. By all accounts, New Zealanders Read more...

Clark V. Woodhouse | Issue 21

Posted 11:56am Sunday 4th September 2016 by David Clark

David Clark Inequalities have grown faster in New Zealand since the 1980s than elsewhere. Growth in inequality happens because the choices made by successive Governments hold our country back. Rich-country think-tank the OECD released a report showing that growing inequalities have held back New Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 21

Posted 12:01pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

The Otago University Debating Society meets every Tuesday at 6pm for social debating—new members are always welcome! Join our Facebook group for more information Affirmative, by The Dread Pirate Roberts The University of Otago recently announced it would be building a new animal Read more...