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...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 20

Posted 12:47pm Sunday 21st August 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

This column is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for social debating every Tuesday at 6pm in the Commerce Building Affirmative, by By Rocky Balboa Dunedin should not adopt the TPP for the same reasons the rest of New Zealand should not. While, in Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 20

Posted 12:49pm Sunday 21st August 2016 by Isa Alchemist

I’m a terrible traveller. I have no sense of direction, and I escalate into pure terror at the mere thought of finding an airport gate. I once got lost in Nelson airport. But I am good at taking medicines with me. Particularly ones for diarrhoea. I have accumulated an impressive list of cities Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 20

Posted 12:54pm Sunday 21st August 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, One of my flatmates has been doing a lot of drugs recently and I don’t really like flatting with him anymore. I’m also really worried about him. He used to be really chill but not anymore. He’s got these new ‘friends’ that spend heaps of time at our place Read more...

Vitalogy | Issue 20

Posted 12:56pm Sunday 21st August 2016 by Prof's Wood & Ruddock

Married persons should adopt more generally the rule of sleeping in separate rooms, or at least in separate beds, as is the almost universal custom in Germany and Holland. This rule being adopted, several very important advantages would result in regard to health and comfort.  Opportunity Read more...

David Clark | Issue 20

Posted 12:58pm Sunday 21st August 2016 by David Clark

Australians deem it important enough to make it an offence if you don’t vote. Across the ditch you get levied with a fine if you fail to cast a vote. I’ve often thought a reward to recognise the time and effort taken might be better—maybe a $50 tax-credit? Even without these Read more...

Drink of the Week | Issue 20

Posted 1:05pm Sunday 21st August 2016 by Fred Flintstoned

At 19 standards for only $14.99 the Longridge Sauvignon blanc goon is a throwback to a better time, one of the last remaining outposts of the elusive sub-$1 per standard benchmark of yesteryear.  It’s a delightfully playful number, with notes of citrus, ethanol and regret lingering on Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 20

Posted 1:17pm Sunday 21st August 2016 by Steve-o Hawkins

Many will argue that after you die, your soul will leave your body and rise to some sort of heaven… Perhaps, but what does happen, scientifically at least, is that you will rot down into your simplest form and most likely become some worms breakfast, lunch and if you’re over six foot Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 20

Posted 1:19pm Sunday 21st August 2016 by Sexcellent

Dear Sexcellent,  While I’ve had a lot of sex, I don’t think I’ve ever had an oragasm (I’m a girl). What to do?  -From Seriously Frustrated   Get a vibrator. Boom, done.  But in all seriousness, orgasm can be elusive for those unfamiliar Read more...