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by April Dell | 3:43 am, 23/08/2010
Art and politics – two things that don’t mix. The geniuses at OUSA scheduled Art Week and the elections in the same week. We wanted to cover both so we’ve bought you a magazine that tries to pay both service. Indeed, we are your one stop shop for all your OUSA election needs (sorry, we’ll return to normal next week). Our news team (and special guest pundits!) cover every angle imaginable at the front of the magazine (it starts on p8) – then hear from the candidates themselves at the back from p56. Wedged in between it all is some awesome art. Check it out. Plaster your walls with it.
by Ben Thomson | 2:00 am, 23/08/2010
Being a celebrity in New Zealand is like being a virgin at St Margaret’s – it’s not that hard and they’re, well, everywhere.
by Ben Thomson | 2:26 am, 09/08/2010
YOU ALL LOOK RIDICULOUS
by Ben Thomson | 1:32 am, 26/07/2010
Last week was historic for student politics at the University of Otago. The Critic office sits in the Union Building slightly apart (and most definitely aloof) from the OUSA offices that inhabit the same building. Once a year, when elections are on, the place turns into a hive of activity as gossip is passed around and speculation is used as fuel for a thousand status updates.
by Ben Thomson | 12:22 am, 12/07/2010
Welcome back. This week we look at the death of the Scarfie dream. Whether rugby fiend who chugs down funnels of bourbon in your gruts or the very word ‘Scarfie’ makes you cringe, you cannot deny the culture has had an impact on your time here at Otago. And that culture is under threat.
by Ben Thomson | 12:27 pm 11/07/2010
This week we review stuff
We’ve got our annual fish n chips review along with toilets, coffees, $1 mixtures and a guide to bar safety, courtesy of the OUSA Exec – every other week we only give them half a page for a ‘President’s Column’ so it is the one time each year we are nice and let them write. The benefit for us was supposed to be that drunken photos would come back which we could then use to accompany news stories about them when they inevitably fuck up. This year, however, they “lost the camera.” Bastards.
The Otago Daily Times has also been having mares this week in regards to their coverage of the Design Studies Department closure. You can read all about it on p8 and p38.
We forgive them though, because they employ Garrick Tremain. His cartoon last week was phenomenal. Almost as good as that time he did that awesome racist one in which he ‘implied’ that if Chinese companies bought our farms they would eat our sheep dogs.
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