Something Came Up | Issue 2

Posted 3:20pm Sunday 6th March 2016 by Isa Alchemist

It's that time of year again when the streets and pubs are alive with freshers ! So great to see them. If you’re new to the student scene, the Ori week may have treated you harshly. Tanking up with alcohol can make you feel like the dregs of the glass, especially if you’re a newbie Read more...

The Weekly Doubt | Issue 2

Posted 2:46pm Sunday 6th March 2016 by Wee Doubt

Last week I mentioned healing crystals as an example of the placebo effect, where something can make you feel better even though there is no logical reason why it should. I think crystals are beautiful and I own a few of them.  However, I don’t buy into the people who propose different Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 2

Posted 3:26pm Sunday 6th March 2016 by Sexcellent

Hi Sexcellent, I’m in second year and my girlfriend and I have been together since Year 13. She’s awesome and I love her but for the past few months she hasn’t been as interested in sex and I’m feeling a bit hard done by and unloved. How can I get her interested in sex Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 2

Posted 2:49pm Sunday 6th March 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, Every time we walk up Castle Street to go to New World, we get harassed. We’ve started to detour and walk via Cumberland Street but I really don’t see why we have to do that. My friend was driving down Castle Street last week and had a bottle thrown at her car. We’re Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 2

Posted 3:10pm Sunday 6th March 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

This column is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for socail debating every Tuesday at 6pm in the Commerce Building. Affirmative, by Old Major A B.Com will turn your brains to shit. For instance, if you take Economics at Otago as a Commerce degree you are never Read more...

The Weekly Doubt | Issue 1

Posted 2:06pm Sunday 28th February 2016 by Wee Doubt

Of all the strange things I encounter in indulging my love and hate of alternative ideas, the placebo effect is the strangest. A guest writer covered this last year but I wanted to revisit it to hammer home just how weird the placebo effect is. What marks the placebo effect out from other wacky Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 01

Posted 2:27pm Sunday 28th February 2016 by Sexcellent

Dear Sexcellent, Does every woman REALLY have a g spot? Because I cannot find mine, and not from lack of looking. I have dedicated hours - possibly DAYS - over the past couple of years searching for the little fucker and I swear there just doesn’t seem to be anything there. All this has Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 1

Posted 2:37pm Sunday 28th February 2016 by Author Name

Stanley Milgram wanted to see exactly how far people would go when ordered by an authority figure to cause physical pain to another. In the 1960s, he gathered some volunteers and told them that he was conducting a study about the effect of punishment on learning. The volunteers would be the Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 1

Posted 2:41pm Sunday 28th February 2016 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind-date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mis-matched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Dog With Two Tails, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this svounds like you, Read more...

David Clark | Issue 1

Posted 1:48pm Sunday 28th February 2016 by David Clark

I enjoy life on campus, and all that goes with it.  I wouldn’t have spent so many years as a student here otherwise. Nor would I have returned to take up my previous job as the head of a residential College.  Otago University has been very good to me. One of the best bits about Read more...