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Editorial | Issue 6

Posted 10:11am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Hugh Baird

Here in New Zealand, our younger generations are privileged beyond belief. We’ve never had to experience any wars or terror, found ourselves without a home or lived under any tyrannical rulers. Thankfully we live in a free and democratic nation. In just under a couple of weeks Dunedin will Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 5

Posted 2:04pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind-date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mis-matched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Dog With Two Tails, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this svounds like you, Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 5

Posted 12:54pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Sarah Rosemary

Raging parties, copious amounts of booze, benders and no mum and dad there to tell you what to do… Now you are in an 8am lecture, head throbbing as you join the dawn chorus that is hundreds of your classmates coughing every 10 seconds… welcome to the fresher flu. Every year, 90 Read more...

The Weekly Doubt | Issue 5

Posted 12:50pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Wee Doubt

If you want to poison the entire population of a city, what could be a better method than to spray everyone from a plane? Quite a few things, actually, but I’ll get to that in a minute.  A “contrail” is a condensation trail left when a plane flies through the air. According Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 5

Posted 12:46pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

This column is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for social debating every Tuesday at 6pm in the Commerce Building Affirmative, by Old Major Let’s face it; US politics is screwed. The entire system of Government in the US is an ill-functioning bureaucratic Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 5

Posted 12:40pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel I want to do a shout out to the Are You OK’er who looked after me at Hyde Street. He was amazing! I was pretty out of it but he was so cheerful and nothing seemed to bother him. Maybe I’ll volunteer to do that one day, but not next year cos I want to do Hyde again! Thanks Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 5

Posted 12:38pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Sexcellent

Hi S, I want to make my dick bigger to impress my girlfriend and make sex better for both of us. Can it really be done? And if so, how? I'll give anything a go at this point. –Chris Hey Chris, Like many men before you, you are probably about to be somewhat disappointed. There Read more...

Conversational Intercourse With Intellectuals

Posted 12:30pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Eileen Kennedy

Marcelo’s law lectures are lively and comedic. “If you’re laughing, you’re listening,” says Marcelo, who aims to make lectures as enjoyable as possible. If students are engaged, it helps to get through “the underlying message, which is usually an astonishingly and Read more...

Editorial | Issue 5

Posted 10:12am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Hugh Baird

Lately, there has been a lot of chat about pay inequality when it comes to gender in sports.  The discussion kicked off when reports surfaced that the New Zealand men’s cricket team had flown business class to the T20 World Cup, while their female counterparts where situated back in Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 4

Posted 2:31pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind-date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mis-matched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Dog With Two Tails, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this svounds Read more...

David Clark | Issue 4

Posted 1:18pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by David Clark

Sometimes good things can be achieved from the parliamentary opposition benches. The fight to end zero hour contracts is a prime example. Students, employers, in fact everyone I’ve spoken to is appalled that zero-hours contracting was ever a thing.  But, where laws are weak, there is Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 4

Posted 1:15pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, I don’t really own that much stuff so do you think I should bother getting insurance? One of my flatmates was talking about it and I don’t know whether I need to or not. Is it worth it? - Uncovered   Hell yeah! You might not want to part with your little Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 4

Posted 1:12pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Sexcellent

Hi Sexcellent, I had sex with a couple of different guys during O Week and some of the girls in my hall are calling me a dirty slut. I’m really upset about it because I thought we were in 2016 and it was not a big deal for women to enjoy a bit of promiscuous sex, but now because of this I Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 4

Posted 1:09pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

This column is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for social debating every Tuesday at 6pm in the Commerce Building. Affirmative, by Old Major It’s easy to listen to your racist uncle and think ‘’this can’t be what our forefathers meant when Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 4

Posted 1:04pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Vibhuti Patel

Remember the old days, before smartphones were a thing and Nokia reigned supreme? Sure, the cellphones of the early milennium were thick slabs with little more function than to call people and play the odd game of Snake. But they had a battery life that lasted forever and were also extremely Read more...

The Weekly Doubt | Issue 4

Posted 1:01pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Wee Doubt

When I was 14 my uncle read my palm. He told me that I would live a long life, but with a lot of misery. I would have many partners before I found one to settle down with, if I ever managed to keep a relationship going at all. I would have two children. I wouldn’t find a career until I was in Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 4

Posted 12:59pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Isa Alchemist

AM I SICK ? We’re all back in Dunedin and should be ready to take on the world. But at this time of year, a lot of us aren’t feeling too well at all. The problem is that at this time of year 20,000-odd people gather together from all over the globe and breathe on one another in the Read more...

Editorial | Issue 4

Posted 10:25am Sunday 20th March 2016 by Hugh Baird

Dissapointingly this week the second flag referendum will finally come to an end. Personally I’m rather impartial to either flag, but for the past few months I’ve been increasingly amused by some of the antics and peculiar arguments surrounding the flag change project. Take for Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 3

Posted 3:36pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind-date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mis-matched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Dog With Two Tails, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this svounds Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 3

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

This column is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for socail debating every Tuesday at 6pm in the Commerce Building. Affirmative, by Old Major When Eve ate the apple we got kicked out of the Garden of Eden which was a literal paradise. Or maybe not so literal. A lot Read more...