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The Tory Templar | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by The Tory Templar

The National Government has vetoed the idea of six months’ paid parental leave, saying $150 million a year is spent on PPL provisions already and more is unaffordable. This government is not big on extending any kind of benefit, especially in the current economic climate. The Templar believes this Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

Bill English’s announcement that National will veto the new parental leave bill that has yet to be debated in Parliament shows National’s priorities more clearly than ever. It does not care for the mothers and children of New Zealand, and it does not care what we think. The National government has Read more...

Editorial | Issue 8

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Joe Stockman

I ’ve been around these parts for a while now. Apart from a few years there where I dropped out of Uni and wandered aimlessly around the northern hemisphere, I’ve spent most of my adult life in Dunedin. As I rode my incredibly hipster fixie bike around North D last weekend, I was struck by how much Read more...

Every day I’m chapil’n | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Greg Hughson

I’m helping Logan organise our first ever official Anzac Day service on campus. It will be awesome. We start at 1.30pm on Wednesday 25th April. Be there. We will gather on the lawn in front of the Clocktower building, and conclude with refreshments in the Link. Together we will honour all those men Read more...

Diatribe | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Abe Gray

A new battlefront between the law and the public is opening up before our eyes and many don’t even realise. Ominous signals are coming from corporations and governments worldwide as what is to be a global system of militarised enforcement of “intellectual property” laws materialises. Now I’m Read more...

Clubs & Skux | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Olivia & John

Olivia:After benders the previous night John and I weren’t really in the mood to get our skux on. Combined with the fact that both of us might be moving into the serial monogamy zone (John will explain more later), the Passover Seder ended up looking like the perfect thing for us at that time: a Read more...

LILF | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Staff Reporter

An apple (or in this case, an aporo) a day keeps the doctor away … for my sake I hope this old cliché is not true. Nobody who had been taught by Dr Jim Williams would want to keep him away. As well as a cultural experience, studying Maori at Otago turned out to be an experience of a more Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Staff Reporter

Man I bet you missed the ODT while you were away over Easter. But fear not! Critic has been saving up some of their little gems to settle your ODT withdrawal shattered nerves. You might think that covering a cat show wouldn’t be the number one beat in town. But I’m fairly sure that the ODT Read more...

Uncle Howie | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Uncle Howie

Hi Howie. I went home over the break and saw my girlfriend for the first time since coming to dunners at the start of the year (she didn’t go to uni). It was nice to see her again, but it’s made me realise how little we have in common now, and how much I really just want to be single and have fun Read more...

Geekology | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Robbie Masters

Hello again budding Einsteins! This week you’re getting your science fill from the Psychology department, where Sophie Slater is currently unravelling the mysteries of memory formation. Specifically, Sophie is exploring how a small area of your brain – the dentate gyrus (DG) – can retain information Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by La Dida

The questions I have been pondering this week are: To what extent is desire political? And what are the ethics of proclaiming desire? I am thinking about this with reference to online dating in particular, which is a super common way for queer folks to meet. It has been a while since I have forayed Read more...

Classic Film | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Jane Ross

Director: Richard Linklater From director Richard Linklater comes a perceptive and poignant film about two young twenty-somethings who meet as strangers on a train, sense a connection, and decide to take a gamble on each other. But the clock is ticking. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Read more...

Swillable | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Pilbo Swaggins

Taste: 6/10 Standards per vessel: 1.3 Price: $13.99 per 6 pack I’m not usually a big cider drinker, the last time I bought some was for a bout of Scrumpy hands in second year. Before that it was a friend and I at the tender age of 15 giving the Korean dairy keeper across the road from Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th 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...

The Tory Templar | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by The Tory Templar

As I write this, and probably as you read it, a despot is killing his people. State violence against rebels in Syria has led to the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, who only want the freedoms that everyone else has. Kofi Annan has put forward a six-point peace plan that Syria, in anger at Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

For more than a year now Syria has spiralled into an Arab-Spring massacre. The UN reports that over 9000 people have died in the conflict. These deaths are not all the consequence of President Assad’s hard-hand though. Despite the spin we are receiving, Syria is bound up in an increasingly bloody Read more...

Execrable | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Callum Fredric

Every man has his limits. After half an hour of announcements about people being appointed to committees, Critic, much like any trauma survivor, retreated into a fantasy world. And that’s when someone cracked an inappropriate joke about the early retirement of Ding Ding that had the entire exec Read more...

Editorial | Issue 7

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Joe Stockman

I hate Easter. Hate it. It’s not the idea of having two days off work that I’m opposed to. I am of course, totally down with that. My issue is with ol’ JC and his peeps. If you’re down with Christ, and like to get down with other people that like him too, then man it must be sweet to have the Read more...

Presidential Column | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Logan Edgar

Garoo Scarfies, Fucking tits I’m busy this week. I’ve been getting my campaign to win the two seats on University Council for myself and my Vice-President Jono off the ground so that we can move some mountains. We’ve done a heap of awesome work on Council so far this year with us both already Read more...

Every day I’m chapil’n | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Mike Wright

How hopeful are you? As we race towards Easter and mid-semester break, it might seem an odd question to ask, but before you read on take a moment to ask yourself, “How hopeful am I?” How hopeful concerning local and world events; concerning your academic future; concerning college mates, flatmates, Read more...