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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Molly Smith-Soppet

    Your Body, On Drugs: What's Actually Happening in There? (opens the original)

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    Today is a very special day. Today, we are riding the Magic School Bus into our friend Sally. Sally is having a very normal night for an Otago student. There’s alcohol in her stomach, caffeine keeping her eyes open and nicotine being passed around. As the evening progresses, things are becoming increasingly pharmacologically complicated. From the outside, Sally is just standing in the kitchen pre-ing for a 21st, having a deep conversation with a girl she met 20 minutes ago. Inside, billions of n

  2. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Molly Smith-Soppet

    ODA opens the gates to Willy Wonka’s factory (opens the original)

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    For two nights only, the College Auditorium is becoming Willy Wonka’s factory – minus the workplace violations. The Otago Dance Association (ODA) is bringing Charlie and The Chocolate Factory to life on October 2nd and 3rd, with over 100 dancers storming the stage to perform twenty six dances. The show is mainly based on the 2005 film adaptation by Tim Burton, otherwise known as the film that scared our entire generation (plus our parents) away from ever willingly entering a strange man's chocol

  3. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Molly Smith-Soppet

    Home (opens the original)

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    I have spent five years ruminating on the idea of home. On where it is, what it is, and what it means to me, and to those around me. I was lucky. I grew up in a happy family who lived in the same house from when I was six months old until I left for uni, so I had never really needed to question what home meant to me. This was home, where my Dad would set up a fake Christmas tree every year because I had bad hayfever, where the door frame was covered in Sharpie markings noting me and my siblings’

  4. Article · Aug 2, 2026 · Molly Smith-Soppet

    Bars With Activities (opens the original)

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    Let's be honest: nights out at the pub have gotten a little stale. After a few rounds of beating the same dead horse, someone inevitably ends up scrolling Instagram reels and suddenly the night feels less like a fun social outing and more like an obligation to live the “Scarfie lifestyle” while you’re still young. Luckily, Dunedin – while still losing to Auckland in this one very specific category – has a few places where you can do more than sit around, eat hot chips, drink pints, and slowly be

  5. Article · Aug 2, 2026 · Molly Smith-Soppet

    40 Ways to Start a Conversation (opens the original)

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    As many of you will have experienced recently, tutorials have just started back up. And with the return of tuts comes one of university’s most painful traditions: the dreaded ice breaker. It always starts the same way. “Tell us your name, where you’re from, and what you did over the break.” Suddenly, every interesting thing you’ve ever done disappears from your brain, and you’re left mumbling something like “I have a dog” or “I went overseas”. What's even worse is that the whole time you’re goin

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