Canta (magazine)

Established in 1930, "Canta" is the official magazine of the University of Canterbury Students' Association (UCSA) of the University of Canterbury. It is freely available around campus every Wednesday during term time. It is usually 32 pages long and A4 in page size.

Famous former editors include Denis Glover.

There are a variety of sections which usually appear every week:
* Editor
* Letters
* UCSA President
* News
* Music
* Sport
* Arts
* Reviews
* Inquisition
* Fishing for Orphans [http://www.orphan.co.nz/] cartoon

"Canta" is a member of the Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA).

Controversy

In 1996 two of its editors were fired after an article claiming to be humorous was titled "The Importance of Being Furnaced" which talked about a cast of 6 million referring to the Holocaust. The next week Canta contained a full page apology.

"Canta" has recently been involved in some controversy following the publishing of an article titled "The Completely Unofficial Top 13 Ways of Cheating" in the issue preceding midterm exams in June, 2007. New Zealand newspaper The Press and internet news service [http://www.stuff.co.nz/4091630a10.html stuff] published an article which got repeated nationwide and on to the evening news on channel 3 [http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NewsDisplay/tabid/209/articleID/28746/Default.aspx] . The university announced it was introducing a random seating policy in exams following the attention. Canterbury University Students' Association president Belinda Bundy said the article was not meant to be taken seriously. "I think we only ever saw it as a humorous thing, It was just a light-hearted reaction to all the cheating issues that have been raised recently."

In 2008, a weekly column entitled "Trust Deborah - She's Always Right" surfaced. This column features a weekly rant against a group of people, ranging from "fat" girls(females with a BMI>22, according to the column writer) and Christians. In issue 21 of 2008, Deborah again made controversy be suggesting that Christians "have the mental capacity of [sic] Down's syndrome-sufferer with a head injury", are "mentally defective" and declaring that she wishes that all Christians would die.

Historical Columns

*A Bit of Banta - The Engineer
*The Lion's Share
*Good Bastard - Good Bastard
*Off The Wagon - Absinthe Jagermeister
*Fantasy Flatmates
*Anal Commando - The Anal Commando
*The Bovine Free State

External links

* [http://www.ucsa.org.nz/canta/ Canta's Official Site]