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Classic Film | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Kathleen Hanna

Director: Martin Scorcese Released: 1993 The Age of Innocence hit me like no other film ever has. My heart was racing for the majority of its 138 minutes; after it finished I paced the room trying to calm down, shaking the tingles from my fingers. It’s the only film to ever make me, Mr Read more...

Swillable | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Pilbo Swaggins

Taste: 4/10 Standards per vessel: 1.6 Price: $20 for 12 This week I decided to try out the new Cindy’s RTD variation to see what they were like. The scene was a Saturday night red card with a sit-down dinner consisting of 3 courses of alcohol and a court session jammed in the middle. A Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Staff Reporter

ODT watch headed into the Regions section this week: Critic suggests beans bags, xboxs and flat screens. They really love that hump The entire Otago region definitely needed to know about that. Not only is this song going to get Critic Read more...

Uncle Howie | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Uncle Howie

Dear Howie, I’ve started dating this new girl, and she’s pretty high class – private schools, dad owns a yacht, all that jazz. I’m a bit worried that my humble upbringing is going to be a problem for her. You’re a classy cat; how can I turn on the class myself and make sure I don’t loose this Read more...

Geekology | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Robbie Masters

Science is an awesome thing! The whole process begins with a simple hypothesis (a prediction). Researchers will then design an experiment to test their hypothesis, often using some extremely clever techniques and manipulations. It is in most cases a long, slow (and let’s not forget, fun!) process. Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by La Dida

Before anyone assumes anything. I am a (gender)queer guy who also loves vaginas. I think they are amazing and powerful. After all without the gifts of generations of women none of us would be here in the first place. I really hate the rubbish that some gay bois express around women’s bodies/people Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Lovebirds

Dunedin is renowned for many things, but its dating scene is not one of them. Getting boozed and pashing people on the dance floor is hardly anyone’s idea of romance, so Critic wants to sort you out. Every week we’re sending two loveless loners on a blind date to Tokyo Gardens (with a bottle of wine Read more...

Diatribe | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Gus Gawn

Who is your new favourite basketball team? It’s the Breakers, isn’t it? You love them. You got all excited last Tuesday night and watched the whole game. It was exciting, tense, close, and the good guys won. Now you like basketball. I am here today to tell you why you should never watch the Breakers Read more...

The Tory Templar | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by The Tory Templar

It has been claimed that the words “lest we forget” are misused. Instead we should say “lest we remember”. That’s what it’s about they say, the memorials and the two minutes’ silence, because there is no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it, they say. They lie. We Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

What do we celebrate in Anzac Day? Anzac Day is celebrated with pride every year. Like zombies, the old and young wake up before the sun has even set its alarm; we congregate around cenotaphs under artillery siege. There are the trumpets we have come to associate with war and the smell of Read more...

Editorial | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Joe Stockman

It is Rape Awareness Week this week. Nobody needs to be told that rape and sexual violence exist, but the extent of the problem is something that far too many people are ignorant of. The statistics are so shocking they are incredibly hard to believe: One in four women will suffer some form of sexual Read more...

Presidential Column | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Logan Edgar

Hey there everyone, ANZAC Day means many different things to many different people. For me it’s a day of remembering those who fought for us so we can live the awesome lives we live today. I try to put myself in those who served our country and think what it must have been like, it’s all Read more...

Te Roopu Māori | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Lisa Pohatu

E Ngā ākonga, E ngā mana, e ngā reo, E ngā karangarangatanga maha, Tenā koutou katoa. Te Mana Ākonga is the National Māori Tertiary Student Body which emerged after the protest movements in the 1970s. It is a voice for tauira Māori and Read more...

Objection Overruled | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by

The scarfie flat is a rite of passage for Otago students. Fraught with mould, colder inside than out, and bathrooms laden with more E Coli than a Chinese food outlet, we’ve all seen and experienced some shockers. But below-par living conditions form only part of the wondrous composite: Seemingly Read more...

Classic Film | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Jane Ross

Director: Richard Linklater Have you ever had a chance encounter with someone who you felt a real connection with? You might have even caught yourself daydreaming about an idyllic future together, but for reasons outside of your control you reluctantly had to part ways. Was it just a matter Read more...

How To: Prevent Global Warming

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Staff Reporter

Global warming is undoubtedly the hottest issue around at the moment. And it’s time that we, as students, and as individual citizens of the globe, take responsibility for what is happening to our planet. With that in mind, Critic presents the top five ways you can do your bit to combat global Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Staff Reporter

Critic managed to get out of bed early enough to to read the weekend issue of the ODT this week. Probably should have stayed in asleep: Blaine’s stomach is also turned by driving north, thinking about things that are in the north, the North Island, and migratory birds that head north. Read more...

No Fringe, No Indie. | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Sasha Borissenko

Dearest Friends, Foes and Fancies, You are cordially invited to a European party hosted by Master William John Darling III of Roslyn, Dunedin. Beverages shall include: Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, possibly Vodka (for Pushkin lovers), soy milk, loose leaf teas and disgustingly black and Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by La Dida

The last few months have been really stressful. I have been constantly worried about a member of my family who has been in and out of hospital since the end of 2011 suffering from chronic medical conditions as a result of her addiction to alcohol. I have been anxious – worried about how the Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Lovebirds

Dunedin is renowned for many things, but its dating scene is not one of them. Getting boozed and pashing people on the dance floor is hardly anyone’s idea of romance, so Critic wants to sort you out. Every week we’re sending two loveless loners on a blind date to Tokyo Gardens (with a bottle of wine Read more...