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Notes on a Scandal | Issue 24

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Brittany Mann

This is a bit of a departure from tradition – I’ve suddenly gone all PETA on yo’ asses. But as they say, animals are people too. Elephants, for example, mourn and bury their dead, and can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Given the current situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo Read more...

Yes We Might! | Issue 24

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Creepy Uncle Sam

I don’t care what you say, Timothy Dalton was a great James Bond. As I watched Obama’s – let’s face it – boring speech at the Democratic National Convention, the same thought kept running through my mind. Is Obama George Lazenby? Or is he Timothy Dalton? We all know that Obama’s been a Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 24

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Lovebirds

ChrisI know I shouldn’t have eaten dinner, but the aroma of fresh curry was too alluring. Justifying it to myself by saying that the food at Metro would just be “nibbles” I tucked into one-and-half helpings of flat-made Thai and half a small glass of Jim Bean bourbon in an attempt to combat nerves. Read more...

Editorial | Issue 24

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Joe Stockman

It’s OUSA Art Week this week, so Critic have turned the laser beam of our attention to the art world. Zane Pocock explores the local art world and where it might be headed, Katie Kenny takes a look at creativity and its place in tertiary education, and Books Editor Josef Alton compares the two Read more...

Te Roopu | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Lisa Pohatu

“With your basket and my basket the people will live” This whakatauki refers to the co-operation of all in order to get things done. This was exemplified during the mid-semester break at Te Huinga Tauira. A small contingent of 50 tauira of the 1600-plus Māori students enrolled at the Read more...

Poetry | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Staff Reporter

The pieces, they project into the hearts of those surrounding me. Slicing through their thin delicate chest cavities. And when my heart-pieces collide with their whole hearts, they explode, and so do the hearts. And then their pieces fly Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Staff Reporter

The ODT sometimes struggles with the difference between the literal and the figurative. See, when someone says something like “I could literally eat a horse”, they actually mean “I could figuratively eat a horse”. You can see how things get confusing. But when ol’ Justin Stonelake got figurative, Read more...

In 'da House | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Holly Walker

One of the cool things about being an MP is that you get to do stuff you would never otherwise do. If you express an interest in something, usually someone is only too happy to show you around, provide you with information, or host you for a visit. It’s a privileged position, and it still Read more...

Sex at The Dinner Table | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Checker-out St Flat

Tearing apart the terrifying yearnings of a middle-aged woman that make up the novel Fifty Shades of Grey is an endlessly amusing pastime for my friends and I. The novel’s pages, which ooze with post-pregnancy-sexually-repressed fantasies and E. L. James’ overuse of the terms “inner-goddess” and “oh Read more...

Diatribe | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Dan Benson-Guiu

Political shit happens every day at uni. The views, debates, and petitions are endless, but most students shy away from issues that truly concern them. “For fuck’s sake”, you’re thinking, about to turn the page. No, stop! I’m not telling you what political party to vote for or what to believe Read more...

Microbiographia | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Toby Newberry

Royalty, some might think, ought to be excluded from the class of “obscure historical figures” by default. Ruling an empire, nation, duchy, or whatever no doubt entails a fair measure of celebrity during the time that you rule, but the caveat “during the time that you rule” is important. The sheer Read more...

For The Record | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Lukas Clark-Memler

As a society, we’re obsessed with labels. So it’s no surprise that we’ve given names to the past few generations. We’ve pigeonholed and generalised, using war as a simplistic reference: the “Greatest” lived through it, the “Boomers” protested it, and “Gen X” ignored it. I recently read an Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by La Dida

It seems like rape has been all over the news recently, and often in ways I find problematic. I don’t want to write about Julian Assange or Hell pizza; others have done a brilliant job of tearing those two issues apart already. Instead, I want to look at rape from an intersectional queer Read more...

Notes on a Scandal | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Brittany Mann

I once did some volunteer work for a guy who was a thalidomide victim. In a departure from my usual linguistic prowess, I came home from my first day and announced with appropriate gravitas, “He was a formaldehyde baby, you know.” Whilst I still struggle to pronounce the name of the infamous Read more...

Yes We Might! | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Creepy Uncle Sam

Tonight, after finishing my politics reading (yes, I study politics – just thought I’d drip-feed a small teaser of the wildly popular “Who Is Creepy Uncle Sam?” meme that I’m sure will exist one of these days), I found my brain utterly wearied – the result, no doubt, of trying to infer the existence Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Lovebirds

None of you read this anyway. It’s just that little weird standfirst bit above the action below. But anyway ... The Blind Date has been at Metro bar for the last few weeks, and it sounds like they’ve been putting on quite a show. Great feed, good drinks, excellent service etc etc. If you want in on Read more...

Editorial | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Joe Stockman

It’s not unusual to hear people say that they don’t care about politics (“don’t give a fuck” might be a more precise quote). However many times I hear it said, it never ceases to amaze me. Failing to care about politics is a fundamental misunderstanding of how we control our lives. Politics Read more...

Dunedin’s Hebrew Hood

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Matthew Shrimpton

The bottom of New Zealand’s South Island is not the first place that springs to mind when you think of Jews, but Dunedin has been home to some familiar and not-so-familiar Jewish names. In the 1800s, Bendix Hallenstein moved from Germany to Dunedin. Finding it hard to source quality menswear from Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 22

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Staff Reporter

You probably don’t realise just how good the ODT is. In fact, it’s so good that it’s been nominated (again) for Newspaper of the Year at the upcoming New Zealand Media Awards. But there’s more — it’s been nominated for the “Young readers” category. That’s right — the ODT, the oldest, whitest, most Read more...

Poetry | Issue 22

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Dan Luoni

A poem is an animal. You can love an animal too much, Like when my brother hugged His kindergarten hamster Too hard. When you love it too much It dies. You squeeze out the Eyes and blood and shit and soul, And then you are covered In shit and blood and you have a Read more...