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Straight Up | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by La Dida

In case you missed it, this week’s NZ trans-queer news was over the “glitter bombing” of feminist writer and commentator Germaine Greer. The action was undertaken once again by the Wellington-based Queer Avengers, who tipped glitter all over the seated septuagenarian, who appeared stunned in Read more...

Classic Film | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by David Milner and Cory Dalzell

Director: Christopher Nolan Memento follows one man’s hunt for his wife’s killer – a seemingly simple plot complicated by protagonist Leonard’s (Guy Pearce) inability to store new memories. As it turns out, we rely on such abilities for any kind of functioning, let alone a self-propelled Read more...

Swillable | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Pilbo Swaggins

Taste: 9/10 Percentage: 6.4%(domestic), 5% (export) Price: 45 baht (approx. NZ$1.90) Standards per vessel: 3.1 in big bottles (Yai Chang) A strong yet tasty pale lager that has only been in production since 1995 yet has since gone on to gain 60% of the local beer market in Thailand. Read more...

LILF | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Hot For Teacher

Religion and Globalisation was supposed to be a paper that one takes to learn about religion, beliefs and the gods of the world. Little did I know that my thoughts would be much more occupied with a certain square-jawed, dark-eyed lecturer. Krishna’s got nothing on Will Sweetman. That first Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 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 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by The Tory Templar

The Maritime Union and Ports of Auckland are at odds over the Port’s insistence on more flexible working hours, and the union’s insistence that this provides too much uncertainty for staff and is inherently unfair. What to do? Strike, apparently. If even a hardcore lefty such as Auckland Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

Unions must keep on fighting! The Ports of Auckland dispute has hit the media like a wildfire, with ideological differences underpinning all coverage of the dispute. The issue is both complicated and serious. If the port wins, it will be a significant blow to the union movement in New Zealand Read more...

Scarfie Chronicles | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Claudia Herron

If there’s one day when it’s acceptable to claim a bit of “Irish ancestry” because your great-grandmother’s brother’s cousin was born in Dublin, it’s St Patrick’s Day. The dirty old town of Dunedin was evidentially on good terms with old Paddy, who got the fella upstairs to deliver a stellar day for Read more...

Editorial | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Joe Stockman

The first OUSA elections of the post-VSM era took place last week. The usual 10% or so of students bothered to vote – actually not a bad turnout for a by-election – and four new Execies have joined Logan and the rest on the Student Executive. However, even those who voted might be asking, Read more...

Presidential Column | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Logan Edgar

Konnichiha (pronounced as konnichiwa), Hey shout out to all those Japanese students studying here at Otago. Respect to you and your country having just past the 1 year anniversary of that devastating earthquake and tsunami that followed . Just a few sharns to report back about this Read more...

Every day I’m chapil’n | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Father Mark Chamberlain

For those of you who were unlucky enough to be out of Dunedin during the November to January period, we had a fantastic summer. I loved it. Have you noticed our mornings are now cooler and it’s now getting dark sooner, the days are slowly becoming shorter. I gave in last week and admitted to Read more...

LILF | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Hot For Teacher

It was my first semester at Otago, and it could have been The Greatest Story Ever Told. My first paper, my first class – there you were. I arrived to class early and you were already waiting, preparing for the lesson. I chose a desk, sat down. Then I saw your face – and I was a believer. As you Read more...

Clubs & Skux | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by John Stevens

I insisted to Olivia that “one does not simply walk into Mordor” (read: Student Life) to skux. However to skux does not necessarily mean sex or even hooking up. To skux is merely to impart a pleasant experience of mutual enjoyment that leaves both parties feeling like empowered sexual beings. This Read more...

No Fringe, No Indie. | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Sasha Borissenko

No Fringe, No Indie explores the styles and cultures that are so unique to Dunedin, and how you too can embody the style of your choice. The style exposition of the week is ‘mainstream’. Think normal, think average, think generic. Being ‘mainstream’ at Otago involves everything but Read more...

Swillable | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Pilbo Swaggins

Taste: 6/10 Price: $12 per 6-pack, Standards Per Vessel: 2.0 (8%) I was pretty stoked this week when I found out Cumby Superliquor was going to be hooking me up with the ever rowdy Diesel, its not often one gets to write on a subject so close to ones heart. Diesel, a mix of only Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by La Dida

Hey Hetero, try harder! I have done loads of sexuality/gender identity awareness trainings in my time. Unfortunately they are often repackaged as “diversity” training because some people find sexuality/gender identity too embarrassing or political to say. Fact is, sunshine, when I do Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

Okay, so not everyone that walks around with a gun is sinister. But generally speaking, when a guy is walking around central Queenstown with a rifle, you can presume that he’s probably not such a great guy. There is nothing shocking about this. It is of course entirely possible for Read more...

World Watch | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Sumantra Maitra

Bonjour! Comment ça va? How are we today? Apparently the world is still round, with no odd nuke meltdown or tsunami warning anywhere. US/Israel/Iran mega-borefest is just where it was a couple of weeks back, so is the North-South Korean drama, and the Indo-Sino-Pak threesome. Putin “managed” to win Read more...

Objection Overruled | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by

This year will mark possibly the final ruckus of the wonder that is the Hyde Street Keg Party. Every March, scarfies flock in their thousands to Hyde, aptly decorated as it is to house the chronic intoxication, fornication and defecation that unfolds. One would be hard pressed to find an event to Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 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...