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OpinionJune 29

Long live the night class: pressure-free learning for pleasure

Night classes have always been a marker of really having your life together, for me. When I think of night classes I think either of people who eat organic vegetables and collect art, or of people who do one thing during the day but value their extracurricular interests highly enough to give up their evenings.
OpinionMay 18

Just what is it with some Nirvana fans?

If there is one thing that has always confused me, it is that when I think of Nirvana fans, I think of hyper-masculine men in Nirvana T-shirts drunkenly singing along to Come as You Are at karaoke, their friends (in Slipknot T-shirts) cheering them on.
OpinionMay 11

Healthy boundaries vital but hard to set

This week I have been thinking a lot about celebrities, public intimacy, and boundaries.
OpinionMay 4

Dark side lurks behind Music Month

May is New Zealand Music Month; that time of year much derided by indie musicians and propped up by acts that were apparently exciting in 2005.
OpinionApril 27

Keeping it simple, but on the move and feeling good

For as long as I can remember, I have felt a fairly strong aversion to regular exercise.
OpinionApril 20

No excuse for lack of self-control

The Dunedin music scene is now living in a post-Chick's Hotel wasteland.
OpinionApril 13

Better aspirations than being most ignorant jerk

I like to imagine there was once a time when being a student meant your politics were more radical and liberal than almost everyone else's.
OpinionApril 6

Brief guide to texting across great divide

It seems like people older than myself are always complaining about the way young people communicate.
OpinionMarch 30

Too many books, not enough time

Now that I am writing my Masters thesis on One Direction I have this niggling anxiety that I won't think about books any more, and that, at the end of my English degree, I still haven't read enough ‘‘important'' books.
DunedinMarch 23

Time for the university to step in to stop student bigotry

Last week my flatmate came home absolutely incensed. Someone she studies with, at postgraduate level, had taken it into his head to attend this year's Hyde St keg party in the most offensive costume he could think of.
OpinionMarch 16

The cold reality that summer’s over bites

As we slipped into March this year, it seemed like I wasn't going to get dreary about the end of summer the way I usually do.
OpinionMarch 9

Spare more than a day’s thought

March 8 was International Women's Day.
OpinionMarch 2

Learning from the other side

As someone who has always been relatively introverted, I have poked my share of fun at extroverts.
OpinionFebruary 24

Young, gifted and freaked out

It's Orientation Week again.
Young, gifted and freaked out
Young, gifted and freaked out
OpinionFebruary 17

How desirable that is, not worrying about being cool

Being cool is something that has always confused me.
OpinionFebruary 10

Taking note of music habits

This year is the year that I really get to think about why and how people listen to music.
OpinionFebruary 3

Singer breaks mould with his sexy single

Last Friday night, ex-boy bander Zayn Malik released his first song as a solo artist.
OpinionJanuary 13

Comfortable resolutions beat laying on the guilt

New Year's resolutions have always confused and frightened me.
OpinionJanuary 6

Covers are sincerest flattery

During the summer break I have been working on a One Direction covers album.
OpinionDecember 30

Foam pillow casts dreams into yet stranger seas

Since I was a very young child I have had extremely vivid dreams, to the point that sometimes it can be quite difficult to differentiate between what has happened in my sleep and what is real life.
OpinionDecember 23

Ain’t no cure for the summertime blues

It's the end of the year and my flatmate and I are getting ready to move house together, again.
OpinionDecember 17

A little self-indulgence never hurt anybody

For the first time in longer than I can remember I am not studying and not working a day job.
OpinionDecember 9

Enchanted by unwavering certainty

Last week, I mentioned playing all-ages shows with my band in Palmerston North, Wellington, and Auckland and how I thought it was great that there was such a culture of inclusion in these cities.
OpinionDecember 9

Opportunity to turn loss into gain

Next year, Dunedin is going to lose the inimitable Chick's Hotel; our only long-standing, ambient and appealing music venue.
OpinionNovember 25

Draining battle of the marginalised

This week, the University of Otago was home to the trans/forming feminisms conference, Millie Lovelock writes.