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ODT Watch | Issue 17

Posted 3:09pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by Steph Taylor

Think you’re being smart when you take that sneaky shortcut jumping a fence on the way home drunk? Just make sure you don’t jump over a ledge and get wedged between it and a wall like a young Dunedin man did. I personally cannot survive without coffee, being a postgrad Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 17

Posted 3:00pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by Wee Doubt

Vani Hari, known to her millions of followers as The Food Babe, is an American author and activist who criticises the American food industry. Huge companies, including Kraft, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks and Subway, have changed or reconsidered ingredients in their products as a Read more...

Unzipping the Myths | Issue 17

Posted 2:58pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by T. Antric

Hey there, period-havers. Chances are, if you have the ability to get pregnant, you also have the ability to stress the fuck out about it. This is where birth control comes in. Sure, we all know about the pill, but the real champions of period management / not having a child are long-acting Read more...

David Clark | Issue 17

Posted 2:55pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by David Clark

I was disappointed to see students lose their second seats on University Council. The change is part of a 1980s-style downsizing of university councils around the country.  Steven Joyce has dictated that universities should no longer have the broad representation Cambridge and Oxford Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 17

Posted 2:53pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by Sam Fraser

I love to sing. I am by no means an accomplished singer, but I find it’s a hell of a way to pass time and turn something as mundane as a walk to uni or a shift at work into something pretty entertaining. I’m stoked that it’s an instrument I will hopefully have and enjoy until Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 17

Posted 2:52pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, What do I do if my supervisor’s got it in for me? I failed my last professional placement, and I know it’s only because he’s a hater. He doesn’t treat anyone else like he does me. He yells at me in front of people and makes me feel like I’m just a total Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 17

Posted 2:49pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by Isa Alchemist

It’s been a vicious winter so far with very low temperatures, frost and snow! Some of our northern visitors are experiencing a new affliction, which presents itself as raised areas of skin, particularly on fingers and toes. Affected areas will appear white but become red and itchy and swollen Read more...

Editorial | Issue 17

Posted 10:29am Sunday 26th July 2015 by Josie Cochrane

I don’t know what spurred you on last week, but the letters we received were actually important. They were about things that you could be demanding changes to. An unfair disciplinary system, threats to increase a fine if you appeal a decision (and getting ripped off to gain a copy of your Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 16

Posted 2:56pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Lovebirds

Cedric Diggory He has a fantastic booty but can't remember names. I’ve always been regarded as a little bit of a ladies man, but even I found this hilarious when I chosen from a pool of hundreds after chucking my own name in the hat; like Cedric Diggory awaiting to read his Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 16

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Steph Taylor

Pluto must have felt pretty gutted back in the day when it was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet. But now it has a reason to be loved again: a near-perfect rusty red heart formation has been found on the dusty, cold planet. With a seemingly simple article title, you would think Read more...

David Clark | Issue 16

Posted 2:37pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by David Clark

The increasing incidence of homelessness and poverty in the land of milk and honey bothers me. I stood for parliament because I am concerned that our society is increasingly out of whack. When the economy grows, those on modest and middle incomes seem to miss out on the benefits.  Growing Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 16

Posted 2:33pm Sunday 19th July 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, It’s us again. So, the rogue flatmate has moved out of Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 16

Posted 2:27pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Finbarr Noble

Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, taking over 470 “prizes” in a career spanning just three years from 1719 to 1722. Three years is a pretty decent innings for an eighteenth-century pirate, and Roberts amassed a Read more...

Unzipping the Myths | Issue 16

Posted 2:24pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by T. Antric

Pubic hair exists for a reason. It is a line of defence against various nasties down there. Shock horror, it even grows on vulvas and the surrounding areas. But, some time between the bush-whacking 70s and today, pubic hair on a vulva became persona non grata.  Maybe the obsession with pubic Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 16

Posted 2:22pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Sam Fraser

Einstein once speculated that if bees were to become extinct, the human race would die out in six years. While Einstein was by no means an expert biologist, he was alluding to the remarkable significance of bees to the world’s ecosystems. Bees are most well known for their ability to produce Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 16

Posted 2:19pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Howard Yuno

If you tune into the History Channel, you get anything but history. Instead, outrageous pseudo-archaeological documentaries about aliens and Atlantis tend to take up the programming. One of the new darlings of the pseudo-archaeological scene is a man named Graham Hancock. Hancock’s theory Read more...

Editorial | Issue 16

Posted 10:33am Sunday 19th July 2015 by Laura Munro

I’m writing this editorial as a somewhat goodbye to Critic. Next week is my final issue as News Editor, so this guest editorial was subtly forced upon me (thanks, Josie). It took me more than long enough to decide what to write about. I considered multiple topics, but when you have been Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 15

Posted 3:13pm Sunday 12th July 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...

Dear Ethel | Issue 15

Posted 3:06pm Sunday 12th July 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, We need some help with a rogue flatmate. There are five of Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 15

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 12th July 2015 by Steph Taylor

A Dunedin woman has found the latest BYO accord hard to swallow, labelling it as having “sexist limits” towards women. Research that really is just common sense has discovered if you exercise, you are more productive. Miserably failed at last semester’s exams? Never fear, one Read more...