O U S A Th r e a t e n s to Sell R a di o O n e

The Student Edition

Issue 002 Free July 4th 201 1

What the hell happened to bumper stickers?

O t h e r S t o ri e s o f I m p o r t a n c e :
SKET DAN CE - Ska ti n g , Da n ci n g OH M Y GACKT! G r e g , n o t o l d g r e g . . . b u t wh y t h e h e l l a re you tra ci n g a n d worki n g for m a rvel ? H a ra ju ku Ba rbi e-WH AT? - A l ook i n to wh a t c r a p N i c ki M i n a j i s t h r o wi n g a t ou r a i rwaves. O n t h e B e a t ' s So c i a l Se n s e

The Ever Growing Exam Debates..

Contents

2. Greg Land - Y U NO DO NORMAL ART (The controversy on comic book artists) 3. RADIO ONE'S DUNEDIN DEMISE (Thank you Deloitte) 4. JarDiN, Gackt and.... SHONEN JUMP? - Visual Rock Revolution 5. EXAMS Y U NO PASS YOURSELF - The Organizational Nightmare 6. Bumper Stickers Revolution - Memes, Assholes and ... BAND STICKERS! 7. Netspeak & Old farts Corner: Stories from the 90s

ON THE BEAT IS A FREEBIE PUBLICATION THAT HAS TURNED COMPLETE DIGITAL - SAVING PAPER AND TREES. MORE SO WE DO NOT ACCEPT ADVERTISING, THERE ARE NO COSTS INVOLVED IN MAKING THIS PUBLICATION SO WHY SHOULD WE GET PAID? ...so yea, sadly that means no prizes either.... *lesigh* ALL IMAGES ARE PROBABLY NOT EVEN MINE, SO WE JOKINGLY CALL THIS THE PIRATE PUBLICATION. ARRR! <3

WTF I DONT EVEN - God damnit marvel you did it again - you screwed with the laws of art and design all over again by hiring slackjob recycling artists. No wonder these guys are "PERFECT" and making "AWESOME REALISM" - they must've flunked fine art school, and paid off few teachers at comic book school; cause recycling art is just wrong.

THE TRACI RECYC THE NG LING DEMIS COMIC E OF BOOK AND AND

Being that i'm the first to complain when the new X-Men movies come out, mainly because i'm developing my own novel and can't stand that I can write better than most of the script team for the movies, on top of that i can't stand the writing teams on the comics; I bring you sad news: MARVEL COMICS IS A TOTAL SACKJOB OF TOTAL CRAP ARTWORK. Ok now that's off my back, the real story is exactly this: All these hot babes and awesome artworks might be because the time it takes to crap out digital redos of old art, yours or not is much quicker and easier than taking time and inspiration to draw out a new comic book page. So yes, the new news is: GREG LAND IS ONE OF THOSE HACKS YOU JUST WANNA SMACK. There's discussions all over the internet about this, and it's just sad. So yea, marvel you can go suck proverbial goats ass for all i care! - Oh wait, if Stan Lee finishes that Yoshiki comic book i'm A-OK :) XD.

Radio One's Demise?

As of publication, Radio One (91 FM, Dunedin) has been off the air in protest for the last three days. As of Saturday July 9th, they will resume normal programming. From what I could devise inside the press release they gave via the facebook fanpage; students and former students of OUSA/OTAGO alike are up in arms about the proposed sale of the iconic Dunedin radio station. Most of all, why are non student representatives from OUSA and the University talking to the students to devise a plan on how to make things like this more financially viable during the stay of the students?

As a student myself conducting this article, there were several ideas that were put towards not only the fanpage, but devised by other students as well. One idea is that they decide to go even more not for profit, and become a non commercial LPFM station; which would mainly serve the student base area. Reprecussions from that could be that the new Copyright Laws from NZ Government as of recent, due to be in place by September of this year, would limit the way the radio station could operate. Chages in licensing schemes could help the outlook of the iconic student based radio station; but what's really scaring fans is the idea that it has to do with the VSM bill. Volunteer Student Membership by ACT is a mish mash of what seems to be by many people's opinions very backwards thinking. Personal opinions aside, this bill is making many student unions throw their hands up in revolt against this bill- which much like the Copyright 92a act; petitions become largely ignored. Are we at the whim of a larger subject? Or is this just that unfortunatley due to rising costs and bad times during our flucuating economy; that we will just have to let go of the past and remember the good times? Whatever the issue - we want to hear from you! On the Beat would like via EMAIL or Facebook for anyone even internationally to take their own look into this issue, read up on the press release on Radio One's website, and take a look on the Save Radio One fanpage on what people's options and opinions are adding up as. As soon as we get enough responses, we'll publish them in the next issue (or whichever issue is dated closest to the closing of the responses.) Entries need to be in July 31 st 2011 onthebeat@hides-voice.com Search for us on Facebook: On The Beat

Shonen Jump The Visual Rock Revolution

Shonen Jump/Akamaru Jump DOES IT AGAIN! The same weekly serial comic company that has sponsored many popular and succesful animation series in Japan in the last decade, has just started screening it's most newest item on the list. SKET DANCE, set in Japanese High School (go figure) and following the lives of SKET club (Or varied high school clubs). What's the difference between this and any other high school anime? And why are you trying to sell us another Gravitation remake? Well my friends, this is far from your typical geeky girly anime that has pretty boys and fawning relationship issues. This is the next best thing to come out of their pages since Bleach, Naruto and even Gintama. Why does this sort of thing belong in On The Beat? Because it's to do with music, July 1 4th Japan time, TV Tokyo will air the first episodes of the already running series that feature Vocalist and Visual Rock Superstar GACKT. Many anime, mainly shoujo featured music -The Melancholoy of Suzumiya Haruhi or Even K-ON!; which both were good in their own rights. What you don't realize is, that GACKT isn't just a rock superstar. He's the new Voice Actor for DATE(DANTE).

With the series having started previously this April (2011 ) - already there is great music being lined up for the opening and ending themes. Publication to date, I don't have information on these but will post the information either next issue, or on our tumbleblog/facebook. We hope you'll take a look and enjoy this as it's a great entry into new styles of Japanese Animation.

T HE E X A M D EB A TE
5 July 11 th is the first day back for Otago Students; and many have most likely passed their classes. The debate rings on; why are we struggling to get the damn things done and study so we can get those straight A's our parents wish we could get. Granted, unless your me - most of you will get the chance to get a great grade A or B average; somehow I keep taking papers that either you have to be mentally a genius or completley insane to pass. This will be the humor, as the paper I failed this semester left many getting decent if not wonderful grades. However, it's not ME we're talking about now is it? Many people are left struggling for information previous to the exams without knowledge of exactly the situation they're going into. NO we're not asking for examiners to tell us the answers, or the questions in case of cheatstudy.
No, what the biggest issue some of us face is the difference in exam layouts; what's multiple choice with computer generated fill in the dots, what's essay based and what's write out your answers and hope for the best. Many of you won't have much of an issue; but there was one exam I heard about where nobody realized they needed pencils of a specific kind for the exam; and worse off - the pencils whether supplied or not would not erase. Do the lecturers intend for us to fail with this sort of thing? A computer "Can tell no lie" well; that's true except that it can't tell when you've attempted to erase the wrong answer. What the problems that arise are, that you're not giving consistency in proper planning of exams according to students.

R E A D E R I NT E R A C T I ON: E x p la in t o u s h o w y o u ' d conduct the exams tell us w h y y o u w o u ld c o n d u c t it t h a t way and how.

ON THE BEAT IS A FREE MAGAZINE AND SERVES WITHOUT ADVERTISING DUE TO THIS FORMAT WE FEEL THE BEST THING WE CAN DO IS NOT SERVE PRIZES, BUT THE RECOGNITION OF OUR R E A D E R S .

Well with most of our scores being released from respective examiners, there's always the reasoning debate of why we sucked so bad.

Any complaints or concerns just head up an email o n t h e b e a t @ h id e s v o ic e .c o m http://onthebeatotago.tumblr.c om

What the HELL HAPPENED TO BUMPER STICKERS?

Wait, you mean we're now putting bumper stickers on our facebook and tumbleblog pages and no longer littering our cars, our notebooks and backpacks with them? Or was this just part of the package of me moving out of the USA and into this crazy nation we call New Zealand.
Speaking clearly, growing up in my generation most of these bumper stickers in this image is something you remember on the backs of cars. Things like "MY KID CAN BEAT UP YOUR HONOR STUDENT", "I MISS MY EX BUT MY AIM IS GETTING BETTER" and of course to bring the subject to the relative expanse of this magainze - Your typical band bumper sticker. Where tshirts left off in the last couple decades, bumper stickers always managed to crack people up when driving down the motorway. In my case? Mom's station wagon, driving down the freeway in Minnesota. Even so, I keep wondering where the hell these damn things have gone. No more do we see "STUDENT OF THE MONTH AT KINGS HIGH SCHOOL" or "CLASS CLOWN IN ASIA 201 "; no, we now live in a digital age and i'm constantly reminded that somehow no matter how much my generation is inside it? It's here to stay, and the kids are always going to know more than me. I guess what's been replacing bumper stickers is the "MEME" or "MEEM" generation online. Things like the "ME GUSTA" or "Y U NO" guys keep popping up across the computer lines. What and why and how we'll never understand, as usually the generation that came up with this is now considered the "4CHAN GENERATION". Meh... i can't help but be addicted to these damn things..

OLD Cynic's handbook CORNER FARTS

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Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required on it. The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. Two wrongs are only the beginning. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. Monday is an awful way to spend 1 /7th of your life. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.