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ODT Watch | Issue 7

Posted 5:24pm Friday 17th April 2015 by Steph Taylor

As an avid Easter fan, it breaks my heart that at the Great Easter Bunny Hunt, 8000 little bunnies saw the white light and went to bunny heaven, full of carrots and Easter eggs. Don’t go hunting on the West Coast, as your odds of getting stung by a swarm of bees are terrifying An Otago Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th 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, email Read more...

Whole lotta love | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Student Support

The thing about being part of a massive bureaucratic institution with its own jungle of rules, policies and procedures is that we sometimes accept what the institution decides about us without question, because it’s bigger than us. Maybe you’ve been the recipient of one of those ominous Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Finbarr Noble

From a very narrow nineteenth-century British perspective, Edward Gibbon Wakefield might be described as the father of New Zealand, though a strange father he was. The driving force in his life was a hunger for wealth and influence. Wakefield took his first step towards this by eloping at the age Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Emma Cotton

Menopause: we know it as a thing to be dreaded — a word to be uttered, not spoken. It brings our mothers’ and grandmothers’ hot flushes and mood swings, and is probably the reason your mum gave you a little too much grief about breaking curfew or having a messy room. Women don’t typically look Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th 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. I’ve never had much appreciation for the American Read more...

David Clark | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by David Clark

M any of you will have attended ANZAC services around the country. Attending the ANZAC commemoration at Queens Gardens each year rates among the most moving of the regular duties I perform as the local electorate MP. It’s an early start, but the traffic build-up pre-5am tells me I’m not Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Elf Lover

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...

Skeptic Schism | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Wee Doubt

The most controversial Facebook post I’ve ever written was one that said: “I can’t believe how many of my friends who would never judge someone based on their race, gender or sexuality are happy to make massive, sweeping, shameless assumptions about people based on the month they are born in.” This Read more...

Editorial | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Josie Cochrane

This week’s issue was uncomfortable to work on. Aside from Easter causing us to have three days to put Critic together, the feature articles were on topics I really am in no position to make judgment on. But I will anyway. Firstly, the feature on relationships via social media: I really Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 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, email Read more...

Woody's Word | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Michael Woodhouse

T he Hyde Street Keg Party (HSKP) has come and gone for another year. 12 arrests, 50 treated for injuries and intoxication, six off to hospital, one ambulance out of action for a week. On one level you might think that, given 4,000 students attended the event, this might not be a bad Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Finbarr Noble

You may have read in recent weeks of the easing of tensions and the opening of diplomatic channels between the United States and Cuba. The animosity between these two countries in its present iteration dates back to the Cold War. One might think that given the US’s victory in that war they Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Emma Lodes

Sixty-six million years ago — as the Cretaceous period transitioned into the Paleogene — a massive asteroid hit the earth, and three-quarters of all animal and plant species went extinct in a geologic blink of an eye. In the wake of all the destruction lay evolutionary opportunity: ecologic niches Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Kristen Kampmeier

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. Well, first things first. What immediately Read more...

David Clark | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by David Clark

I recently heard a senior cabinet minister expressing contempt in parliament for what he still calls Labour’s interest-free loan “bribe”. The government hasn’t been brave enough to return interest to student loans yet. But if NZUSA collapses, an increase in your student debt may be the future Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by A Boy In Love

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...

Skeptic Schism | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Wee Doubt

Wake up and smell the wee! Would you drink your own piss for the sake of your health? Because doing it every day will, according to some, cure you of pretty much everything from acne to cancer. The first big wee in the morning is the most effective, with urine taken mid-stream and then drunk Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Steph Taylor

The beer was chilled and the kegs were flowing as the last bastion of Scarfie culture took place on Saturday 21 March. Following the trend current in Invercargill, Dunedin’s own “code brown” situation occurred last weekend at Moana Pool, with those wanting a “leisurely” swim Read more...

Editorial | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Josie Cochrane

Last week we held a competition for you to choose which Hyde Street photo would make the cover of Critic. You went nuts. I tried to rig it by putting my favourite four photos at the start of the album but, no, you social media whizzkids could not be fooled. It’s time everyone got better taste Read more...