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ODT Watch | Issue 10

Posted 2:48pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Steph Taylor

In “Scarfies Go Wild” this week, this old-boy appears to have done his OE on the extreme side. An Australian doctor, branded as the posterchild for ISIS, has been found to have previously failed first-year health science in Dunedin. Oh look … another youth binge-drinking story Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 10

Posted 2:36pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Finbarr Noble

Have you ever paid a visit to a friend, acquaintance or even a stranger and had your host offer you a cup of tea or a biscuit or a line of prescription medication? I recently have, which — naturally — got me thinking of the ancient Greek tradition of xenia. Xenia roughly translates to Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 10

Posted 2:34pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Emma Lodes

On Saturday 25 April 2015, a massive, 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, the worst Nepal has seen in 80 years. At the time of Critic going to print, the death toll had passed 5,000, but continues to climb; time will tell what the full extent of the damage is. Kathmandu Valley is densely populated Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 10

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Emma Cotton

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale. Most Americans would never think to hitchhike. Read more...

David Clark | Issue 10

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by David Clark

I have many fond memories of my years flatting at Otago and elsewhere. That said, there’s good reason I chose to spend 11 years living at Selwyn College — one way or another. First-time flatting is when you learn a bunch of things. First off, how good the food actually was at Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 10

Posted 2:24pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Cloudy

A few weeks ago I had an epiphany about attractiveness - it was when you put up your hand up in our lecture. At that moment I had the seemingly life changing realisation that 1. you exist and 2. you are attractive. But this attractiveness isn’t all about the symmetry of your face, the Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 10

Posted 2:20pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Wee Doubt

You are the kind of person who can go to a party and feel great, have fun and talk to lots of people. But when you get home and you go over the things that you said, you suddenly regret how you were behaving. You keep people a little bit at bay when you are first getting to know them, but if you Read more...

Editorial | Issue 10

Posted 10:39am Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Josie Cochrane

It’s terrifying that in the twenty-first century, in a time when we are supposed to be so much more knowledgeable, so much more civil, we’re just not. I know “we” seems harsh — it’s another country, it’s not us, it’s not the same. The thing is, it Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 9

Posted 3:04pm Sunday 26th April 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...

A Broad View | Issue 9

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Isabel Lanaux

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale.  T his is the question that inevitably Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 9

Posted 2:53pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Steph Taylor

  When the front page is often a picture of a farmer in gumboots and a swandri, you shouldn’t really claim that you have your eye on fashion.       Don’t fall asleep at the library, at work or on any form of moving transport, especially if heavy Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 9

Posted 2:42pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Finbarr Noble

Gin and tonic is my favourite cocktail. It is also the only one I know how to make, as it conveniently has all the ingredients in the name. Yet there is more to this noble drink than meets the eye; as that connoisseur of alcohol, Sir Winston Churchill himself, once said: “The gin and tonic has Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 9

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Emma Cotton

Last summer, I went for an early-morning swim in the ocean. The soft wind and gentle tug of the water were calming, so I pushed myself farther and farther out. Suddenly, I realised the ocean floor had dropped far below me. I pictured my body from below, fragile, my feet dangling like bait. I looked Read more...

Whole Lotta Love | Issue 9

Posted 2:34pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Student Support

To get a look-in for special consideration due to ill health or an accident that prevents you sitting an exam or impairs your exam performance, you need to have a “severe medical condition...supported by medical evidence.” So, we’re not talking snivels or general exam Read more...

David Clark | Issue 9

Posted 2:30pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by David Clark

I worked studiously on Labour’s small business policy for over a year. When the time came during the 2014 election campaign, I joined our leader for its launch. Journalists, cameras and microphones turned up. I had planned the launch in a fireworks factory. My policy redirected Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 9

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by LawBoy

Girl from last year’s LAWS101 tutorial; to you I write this confession. Picture this. Making my way down George, walking slow, really slow, then I see you! It’s been a while, and things have changed. We’re both a year older, a year more mature, another notch in the belt of life Read more...

Skeptic Schism | Issue 9

Posted 2:23pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Wee Doubt

In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British former surgeon and medical researcher, published a fraudulent research paper in support of the now-discredited claim that there was a link between the administration of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR), and the appearance of autism and bowel disease. Read more...

Editorial | Issue 9

Posted 10:30am Sunday 26th April 2015 by Josie Cochrane

We live in a country where our week’s headlines are filled with endless stories of how weird our prime minister is that he would think it’s all good to tug on a woman’s ponytail time and time again. We don’t need 100 articles on this, and we all know how wrong it is if the Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 8

Posted 4:10pm Sunday 19th April 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...

ODT Watch | Issue 8

Posted 4:07pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by Steph Taylor

Clinton’s having a crack at the old White House again, yay for girl power! Here is something to do with all those plastic bottles the flat collects: do a three-day trip in a kayak made out of recycled plastic bottles. In “winter is coming” news, the snow-related Read more...