The Weekly Doubt | Issue 9

Posted 12:10pm Sunday 1st May 2016 by Wee Doubt

Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual person’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture. This is true, to a point, but often it translates as “We cannot pass judgement on people of other cultures, no matter Read more...

David Clark | Issue 8

Posted 11:59am Sunday 24th April 2016 by David Clark

Until the Panama Papers were released it was believed that two things were certain – death and taxes.  Now it appears just one thing is certain. That’s because the recent release of the Panama Papers has pushed the question of tax-fairness to the top of the agenda once more. Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 8

Posted 12:03pm Sunday 24th April 2016 by Isa Alchemist

I’ve always been chubby. “Big boned” according to my mother, and just “fat” by my brother. I am no stranger to the diet fads that sweep through the western world. There are the big international diet organisations which weigh you weekly, and have an individual or Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 8

Posted 12:07pm Sunday 24th April 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 Old Major The struggle for equal rights, equal opportunity and equal treatment of women is a noble and just pursuit. This Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 8

Posted 12:12pm Sunday 24th April 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, I’m a fresher and finding uni so hard! I thought it was going to be a breeze but it’s not. I’ve got assessment after assessment between now and exams. I’m so stressed. I don’t feel like eating, I can’t sleep and I keep picking fights with my Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 8

Posted 12:16pm Sunday 24th April 2016 by Sam Fraser-Baxter

Coral bleaching is one of the adverse affects of global warming we hear about, time and time again in the media. Since Al Gore’s fucking-do-something-right-now documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, coral bleaching is a process that is commonly cited along with others such as mass starvation, Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 8

Posted 12:18pm Sunday 24th April 2016 by Sexcellent

Dear Sexcellent I have recently gotten out of a long term relationship and am petrified at the thought of kissing let alone having sex with anyone else. Please help! Yours truly, Cockfright Dear Cockfright How I know your struggle. I think all of us have experienced this at some Read more...

The Weekly Doubt | Issue 8

Posted 12:21pm Sunday 24th April 2016 by Wee Doubt

Colostrum is a fluid that female mammals produce from their mammary glands after they give birth. It isn’t milk – it’s a clear, yellowish substance that will be the newborn baby’s first meal. As well as nutrients for the baby, colostrum contains antibodies produced by Read more...

The Weekly Doubt | Issue 7

Posted 12:16pm Sunday 17th April 2016 by Wee Doubt

Hypnotic regression therapy is a process by which people believe they can uncover repressed memories years, or even decades, after they have been forgotten. For example, regression therapist Barbara Lamb specialises in uncovering memories of alien abductions. One of her patients discovered that she Read more...

Conversational Intercourse With Intellectuals | Issue 7

Posted 11:53am Sunday 17th April 2016 by Lucy Hunter

Lecturer in Media, Film & Communication, Dr Rosemary Overell When Rosie was hired she was the youngest ongoing academic staff member at the university. She was 29. Now 32, Rosie says she was “Just lucky. I went from finishing my PhD to getting the job.” She moved from Melbourne Read more...