Vitalogy | Issue 22

Posted 12:16pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Prof's Wood & Ruddock

Young men and women living in shared accommodation at Otago University must exercise constant vigilance for signs of the most terrible vice of self pollution. Alerting authorities to the evil indulgences of a friend may save his future and his life.  The following article on self-abuse Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 22

Posted 12:25pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Charlie O’Mannin

Also about money, cocaine and prostitutes.    In ‘thing that hasn’t done anything for 15 years continuing to do nothing’ news   Some Hamiltonian is misinformed about the way in which universities are ranked against each other. Apparently Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 22

Posted 11:53am Saturday 10th September 2016 by Isa Alchemist

I'm not good with glasses. I keep taking them off and putting them on, covering them in sticky finger marks, and shoving them onto my head where they drop onto the floor. One of my friends pointed out, politely, that they were very dirty. I was surprised. When I'm wearing them, it feels like Read more...

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...

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...

Dear Ethel | Issue 21

Posted 12:04pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, I’m living in a studio room and it’s really miserable. I never see any of my other housemates and when I do, it’s just in passing. The kitchen’s always gross but I don’t feel I can saying anything about it. I’m so uncomfortable using the communal Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 21

Posted 12:06pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Sexcellent

Dear Sexcellent, My boyfriend watches pornography, and I feel uncomfortable about that. Am I not enough? Is this like cheating on me?  From Feeling Blue   Dear Feeling Blue, If you are in a relationship with someone whose behaviour makes you uncomfortable, you need to have a 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...