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Execrable | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Callum Fredric

The OUSA Exec meeting got off to a constitutionally dodgy beginning by starting 13-minutes after the strict 5:30pm deadline. This was dealt with by some good old fashioned whitewashing, with the official minutes recording the time as 5:29pm. Students are advised to follow a similar procedure when Read more...

The Tory Templar | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by The Tory Templar

Our government is planning to get tough on immigration, with proposals for a two-tiered system where so-called wealthier people will be favoured. National hopes to stop unskilled migrants and adult dependent children entering the country. The Templar applauds the government for making these Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

New Zealand likes to mythologise itself “100% green”. A similar myth is that the country is tolerant and open to migrants. You may remember last year a boat of Sri Lankan migrants “threatened” to make it to our picturesque coasts. “Luckily” it didn’t. John Key used rhetoric that implied they would Read more...

Proctology | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Bella Macdonald

This week, the Proctor is high about Hyde. Expectations have been set for the event to be smoothly run and for the vast majority of students to thrive in the buzzing human hive known as Hyde Street Keg Party. Not wanting to expose any stories of past Hyde Street mishaps to avoid Read more...

Scarfie Chronicles | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Claudia Herron

Hyde Street Keg Party. The big day is coming around quicker than Dave Cull can say “North Dunedin Liquor Ban” so, as the residents of Hyde Street start to prepare themselves and with near to 30 themes already announced, Critic did a bit of recon and found out just what might be in store for the Read more...

Editorial | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Joe Stockman

I never got behind the Occupy movement, despite agreeing with most of the many and varied changes that they were calling for. I never spent a night asleep in the Octagon; I never bashed away on my keyboard writing about their campaign to make the world a fairer, better place. Occupy failed to Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 3

Posted 3:28pm Wednesday 14th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

The weather has been pretty shite recently, and the ODT is all over it. When the sun did turn up for a few minutes, the ODT online (that’s right, they have a website), waxed seriously lyrical over its arrival. After David Bain’s retrial and acquittal it turns out that we can’t Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 2

Posted 3:28pm Wednesday 14th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

There is really very little that I can add to the ODT’s work this week. They have simply outdone themselves. Yes it is ODT. Yes it is. They then lost their shit that only four of the people arrested in town on Saturday night were students. Sorry ODT, we’ll try harder next Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 1

Posted 3:28pm Wednesday 14th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

If you’ve never read the Otago Daily Times, you and I could probably be friends. I have to read it, but out of that hard slog every morning comes the glorious ridiculousness that is ODT Watch. You see, the ODT is no ordinary daily paper. Its dedication to bad puns and dad jokes is unsurpassed in NZ Read more...

The Tory Templar | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by The Tory Templar

New Zealand’s own terror trials have started. They began with a mini version of Survivor which saw the suspects whittled down to the “real bad guys”. And now resident “rent-a-protestor” John Minto has got on board. If the Templar had a dollar for every half-arse cause John got on board with he’d be Read more...

Presidential Column | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Logan Edgar

Hey Gang, One big number item for Logz to inform you lot of this week, Last week I spent an afternoon going door to door down Hyde St. I informed students of a little party that is set to take place on their street on the 24th of the month (surprise). I wanted to do this because there Read more...

Te Roopu Māori | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Lisa Pohatu

Kia Ora te whanau, o Te Roopu Māori. Ki te kahore he whakakitenga ka ngaro te iwi Without foresight or vision the people will be lost. The Mission Statement of Te Rito is: “Te Rito will establish an environment within the University of Otago that recognises - Taha, tinana, Read more...

Classic Film | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Sam McChesney

Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen All The Dude ever wanted was his rug back. When Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is mistaken for an indebted millionaire of same name, and his rug is thusly micturated upon by a porn baron’s enforcer, he embarks on an epic quest to obtain, you Read more...

LILF | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Hot For Teacher

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an English lecturer in possession of a good student must be in want of a naughty schoolgirl encounter …” The old adage of not judging a book by its cover went out the window the first time I met the good Dr. Rogers. As our eyes locked Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by La Dida

Oh that’s it. (Cracks knuckles, removes rings). I’m mad. This piece is in solidarity with the Wellington based group the Queer Avengers who protested outside the Dominion Post Wellington offices last week. Their protest was organised in response to an article “Why I feel for the kids of Read more...

Uncle Howie | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Uncle Howie

Hey Howie, So there’s this really hot chick on my floor. In fact she is just across the hall from me. We’re great friends and get on really well. I’d love to hook up with her, but I’m not sure if I can handle the awkward morning after experience. I’d be pretty gutted if she came home with someone Read more...

Geekology | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Robbie Masters

Hello again young science buffs! This week’s column is coming at you from Otago Uni’s very own Physics Department, where PhD candidate Ken Hughes has been doing some scintillating research on Antarctic sea ice. Specifically, Ken has been constructing a computer simulation of how sea ice is formed in Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th 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...

How to: Grow Hops in Your Flat

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

Hops is the plant that is used to flavour beer. Hops is also the closest relative of the cannabis plant, and many of the techniques developed for growing cannabis indoors can be applied to the hops plant. Using the instructions below you will be able to grow your own hops plant in your flat and save Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

Get red-y for a piece of advice: Do not trust the government. Not just John Key’s, don’t trust Labour either. Currently in court four “terrorists” are being tried for being the supposed ringleaders of a group planning war against the police and government. The case goes back to 2007, when 300 Read more...