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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...

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...