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No Fringe, No Indie. | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Sasha Borissenko

“No Fringe, No Indie” aims to sketch the trials and tribulations of different sub-cultures at Otago University. This week, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to look at that strange breed that generally congregates around the Sale/Black House, otherwise known as the “Heavy Metaller”. Read more...

Clubs & Skux | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Staff Reporter

We trawled Facebook trying to find a fun society to visit when we came upon an invite to the Otago University Debating Society opening function, to be held at Monkey Bar of all places. Sold. John:The number of people at the event impressed me. By the law of large numbers I knew there had to Read more...

Objection Overruled | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by

Student drinking habits have again been in the glare of the media. Otago University’s Psychology Department recently released groundbreaking research, revealing previously unknown truths about the detrimental effects of getting OTP. The findings showed that students’ cognitive functioning was Read more...

World Watch | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Sumantra Maitra

Hola! Whassup folks! What a week we had! A siege in France, can you imagine?! A young disillusioned French of Algerian descent, who killed three Jewish kids, a rabbi and three Muslim French paramilitary troops was finally cornered in downtown Toulouse … and bang! The drama starts! Did he surrender? Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Staff Reporter

Critic is going to be fair to the ODT. We hate to do it, but their coverage of the Hyde Street Keg Party was actually pretty balanced. Sure they interviewed two landlords and tried to make it sound like every property owner on the street was calling for the party to end; but generally they talked to Read more...

Swillable | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Pilbo Swaggins

Taste: 4/10 Price: $22 Standards per vessel: 21 Percentage: 9% ’Twas the night before Hyde Street and I needed some horse juice for the big day ahead. I made a trip to Cumby Super Liquor to pick my poison with only one real option. I needed something that could go the distance while Read more...

Classic Film | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Matt Chapman

Director: Howard Hawk Private dicks, classy dames, grifting, shooting, and a whole lot of fedora hats, Howard Hawk’s The Big Sleep is a smooth cocktail of intrigue, romance and suspense. Far removed from the Red Bull attitude of modern cinema, this classy cocktail should be savored and Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by La Dida

“Queer” is often used as a composite term for sex, sexuality and gender non-normative communities in Aotearoa. It is commonly used as an alternative to “LGBT” in order to be more encompassing of identities/behaviours outside this acronym. Questions about queer often come up from both outside Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st 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 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by The Tory Templar

A case is currently in front of the Waitangi Tribunal looking into the running of Maori-language preschools. These centres claim they need more funding and separate legislation to ensure that the language survives. This raises an interesting question – what role should Maori language and culture Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

At the beginning of the 20th century, many New Zealanders hoped Maori would die out. Their numbers were declining quickly, but a hundred years later we claim to be Aotearoa – a multicultural, bilingual society. We may be multicultural, but our society has very little Maori left in it. And our Read more...

Proctology | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Bella Macdonald

Critic was told this week of a venerable young man whose dismal attempt at self-defence landed him at the Proctor’s office. When a wasp approached the chap, he grabbed a glass bottle and threw it in an act of pre-emptive protection from the mighty beast. He soon found that the body mass of a wasp Read more...

Editorial | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Joe Stockman

My day at Hyde Street began before sunrise. Cycling down from the NEV I could already hear the DJs playing as I passed the Richardson building. It was an energetic pre-dawn beginning to what was going to be an exhausting day. I spent hours and hours filming and taking still photos. I was there when Read more...

Presidential Column | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Logan Edgar

Morning all, I’ve got some very sad news to report unfortunately. You see we here at OUSA have not been the least bit cheery this week as the association has been struck with a death in the family; The death of our colleague Thiago Nazario who worked at the Clubs & Societies centre, and Read more...

Te Roopu Māori | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Lisa Pohatu

Ehara taku toa, he taki tahi, he toa taki tini My success should not be bestowed onto me alone, as it was not individual success but success of a collective YOU may or may not be aware of all the various divisional and departmental roopū (groups) on campus. Each roopū are Read more...

Diatribe | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Rape Crisis Dunedin

“Just ask” – two words that seem so simple. In student cities such as Dunedin, sex always seems to be the topic of much consideration and is often acknowledged as just sex. The random one-night stands and “friends with benefits” ease the meaning and pressure surrounding sex and have subsequently Read more...

How To: Kiss

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

Far from a simple anatomical movement, kissing is a complex emotional and philosophical endeavour. It’s easy to get wrong and so, so good when you get it right. Now there are lots of different types of kissing: Affectionate, sexual, platonic, as a greeting, and on and on. But Critic isn’t interested Read more...

Poetry | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Dan Luoni

Like your secretly Methodist mother Says to justify the big spend, “Oh but it will go with anything, And look so good on a Special weekend.” To refresh after devouring The Colonel’s choice Or as a celebratory gesture  To welcome some Wisterian’s Impending divorce. Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

The team over at the ODT spent most of the past week dishing out some truly fantastic advice about a range of social issues. First up, they have a whole new family violence avoidance plan … That’s right, if you can’t stop them beating people, then, um, beat them … They followed Read more...

Uncle Howie | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Uncle Howie

Howie. Is it true that different races have different size penises? I’ve only ever played with white boys, but I’ve been checking out some of the cute brown boys around this place and thought I might get a bit more variety in me, if you get what I mean ... Racing for answers Hey mate, Read more...