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A Broad View | Issue 12

Posted 2:33pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Przemek Winszczyk

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. Kiwis are intriguing creatures. Everyone knows Read more...

David Clark | Issue 12

Posted 2:28pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by David Clark

New Zealand has changed a lot since I was a kid. When I was a kid, homosexuality was illegal, and those who engaged in “homosexual acts” risked getting locked up. Kids who didn’t fit gendered stereotypes were bullied mercilessly. There were no education programmes around sexual Read more...

Editorial | Issue 12

Posted 10:20am Sunday 17th May 2015 by Josie Cochrane

At the time we sent this issue to print, 3300 people had signed a petition demanding an apology from TVNZ for its “biased report on Dunedin students” during the Sunday show over a week ago. TVNZ won’t apologise. What it’s done is no different to what we all Read more...

Editorial | Issue 11

Posted 3:07pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Critic

Earlier in this semester, Ally Willen wrote a beautiful piece for A Broad View, a column aimed at giving international and exchange students the opportunity to tell us what makes New Zealand unique to them. We’ve had some great write-ins, but Ally’s was particularly special. Rather than Read more...

Whole Lotta Love | Issue 11

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Student Support

As quoted on the New Zealand Aids Foundation website (NZAF), nearly 80% of HIV diagnoses are among gay and bi guys, but why, you ask? Well, gay and bi guys have much more anal sex than straight guys. You are 18 times more likely to contract HIV through unprotected anal sex than unprotected vaginal Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 11

Posted 2:55pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Steph Taylor

In headline news this week, everyone felt a bit shaky after the 6.0-magnitude Wanaka earthquake. I was in the Richardson, and looking at that building makes me feel shaky. Apparently speed-dating has died in the South, and Tinder has taken over. One women, called “desperate and Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 10

Posted 2:48pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Finbarr Noble

I’m not usually much of a believer in conspiracy theories. I do not necessarily consider the phrase a dirty term as some do, conjuring up images of tinfoil-wearing loonies, but I do subscribe more to the “cock up, not cover up” theory of government than to the secret scheming Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 11

Posted 2:44pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Jeriel Tan

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. It’s midnight at Pequeño’s down Read more...

David Clark | Issue 11

Posted 2:41pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by David Clark

Ifind it shocking that in Dunedin there are over 1000 young people who are not in employment, education or training. These are the people most likely to end up long-term unemployed. There are lots of myths about the long-term unemployed. They are an easy target for criticism and beneficiary Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 11

Posted 2:37pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Lonely Boy

Each week Critic wants to hear from you if you’re struggling to approach the man or woman of your dreams. Does she always sit on that front row seat and give the lecturer far more attention than you’re comfortable with? Does he stroll past your window each morning and your only attempts Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 11

Posted 2:27pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Wee Doubt

“Detox” diets make out the liver is like a dirty old sponge that needs to go through the washing machine. Actually, the liver is an organ that filters harmful or unneeded substances from the blood to be excreted as urine. It is self-regulating and will replenish its own cells at the same Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 11

Posted 1:05pm Sunday 10th May 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...

Love is Blind | Issue 10

Posted 3:01pm Sunday 3rd May 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 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...