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Dear Ethel | Issue 19

Posted 2:30pm Sunday 9th August 2015 by Student Support

OUSA’s Student Support Centre wants to help you with your issues: from dodgy flatmates to unfair grades, email your questions to ethel@critic.co.nz and she will respond to them for you each week, right here in Critic. Dear Ethel, A couple of months ago, I signed up for a flat with five Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 19

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 9th August 2015 by Isa Alchemist

They haven’t been crying, cutting onions or smoking weed — but you will want to stay clear once you know what’s actually going on. The current outbreak of bacterial eye infections is causing fiery red eyes and embarrassing encounters throughout campus. The bacteria that cause the Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 19

Posted 2:21pm Sunday 9th August 2015 by Finbarr Noble

If, like me, you are an avid reader of the Letters to the Editor page of the ODT, not only will you be aware of middle New Zealand’s almost manic opposition to the concept of a cycle lane but also of another current affair that has the denizens of our fine province all riled up. A few weeks Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 19

Posted 2:18pm Sunday 9th August 2015 by Wee Doubt

I magine you buy a new pair of assless rubber underpants (I’m not judging) and you wear them the day that you happen to get your dream job at the waterslide-testing and kitten-cuddling factory. On the same day, you get asked out by the guy from the Old Spice ads, and land a six-digit Read more...

Unzipping the Myths | Issue 19

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 9th August 2015 by T. Antric

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess. A prince won her heart, and they lived happily ever after. For a while, anyway. But it wasn’t long, however, before the prince started pestering the princess for anal. “Everyone is doing it,” he swore. “It feels so much Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 19

Posted 2:13pm Sunday 9th August 2015 by Sam Fraser

Nature is weird. A recent discovery by a Japanese scientist has once again demonstrated this.  After refuting prior knowledge, Masaru Hojo discovered something that could inspire a horror film script: ants that turn into obedient bodyguards after they receive secret signals from their Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 19

Posted 2:09pm Sunday 9th August 2015 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mismatched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Di Lusso, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this sounds like you, Read more...

Editorial | Issue 19

Posted 10:16am Sunday 9th August 2015 by Josie Cochrane

After a fairly decent year from the OUSA Executive, students have unfortunately been let down. The education officer recently abused staff at a local family-owned restaurant, and this was during an OUSA Executive BYO dinner. “It was the worst behaviour we’ve seen in twenty years Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 18

Posted 3:36pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Finbarr Noble

Having been partly raised in Britain, I might say that we love, and are even proud of, a good defeat. The evacuation from Dunkirk evokes notions of good old British pluck in the face of adversity, the Battle of Rorke’s Drift preceded by the Zulu massacre of 1700 British soldiers got made into Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 18

Posted 3:29pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Steph Taylor

Tree huggers unite; the university is killing living things for a new paved area. If you’ve been dying for Uber to hit Dunedin because that $5 taxi ride on Saturday night is starting to hit you in the pocket, you’re out of luck. But they are delivering ice cream as a Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 18

Posted 3:22pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Wee Doubt

Natural News, a “health/wellbeing website” has 1.5 million followers on Facebook. Scrolling down their page I see articles on why vaccines are harming us, how avocados can cure leukaemia, and how microwaves eliminate all nutrients from food. Any of these could be the topic of a sceptic Read more...

Unzipping the Myths | Issue 18

Posted 3:20pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by T. Antric

So there’s this myth right, and it goes something like “your virginity is actually a really big deal”.  Do you know how much bearing your virginity has on your value as a human being? Approximately absolutely none. “Virginity” barely stands up to the weakest Read more...

David Clark | Issue 18

Posted 3:17pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by David Clark

One of my favourite artists — Ewan McDougall — recently showed me one of his newly completed oil-on-canvas paintings. The painting is entitled “Pretty Relaxed Akshully”. In it, a suited figure smoking a cigar reclines atop a sea of despairing faces. True to Ewan’s Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 18

Posted 3:15pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Sam Fraser

Following the “shark attack” on Mick Fanning recently at J-Bay, Bruce (the shark) has been frequenting news headlines worldwide. The media, as expected, went nuts on the incident, reporting on pretty much anything they could write about, from the attack itself to Fanning’s Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 18

Posted 3:12pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, I read some stuff in Critic and it made me think about what happened to me last year. It didn’t seem fair, but I didn’t think I could do anything about it. I was out with my flatmate and got pretty wasted. Campus Watch offered me a ride home. Of course, I accepted! Home Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 18

Posted 3:10pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Isa Alchemist

Arriving down from Christchurch, or from other parts of the world with the beginning of the new semester, influenza is here again. Symptoms are more serious than a cold, characterised by a fever, aches and pains, fatigue (more than normal uni fatigue) and a complete inability to concentrate on Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 18

Posted 3:05pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Lovebirds

Harry We don’t know what the bathroom talk is about but the guy has a nice deck. It was always going to be a push having a lab finishing at six and the date starting at seven, but I caught up pretty fast as my flat mate greeted me at the door with a shot of gin. As I was preparing myself Read more...

Editorial | Issue 18

Posted 10:26am Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Josie Cochrane

The ever-complicated idea of emotions, and how we could, should and do deal with them, is challenging at the best of times. But good art, great art in this example, somehow helps us find a way of making things make sense. The best piece of art I’ve seen lately is the movie, Inside Out. Yes, Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 17

Posted 3:18pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by Lovebirds

Chrystal Critic may have messed up the night we sent you, but you were cold and lonely. First off, I was totally surprised at how quickly this date was arranged! Monday night my flattie nominated me with the subject line, “Cold & lonely third year seeking company”. Sweet, great Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 17

Posted 3:12pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by Finbarr Noble

New Zealander Nancy Wake was the Allies’ most decorated servicewoman of World War Two, “The Electric Bugaloo” and the Gestapo’s most wanted person with a five-million-franc price on her head. She was code-named “The White Mouse” because of her ability to elude Read more...