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Conversational Intercourse With Intellectuals

Posted 12:30pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Eileen Kennedy

Marcelo’s law lectures are lively and comedic. “If you’re laughing, you’re listening,” says Marcelo, who aims to make lectures as enjoyable as possible. If students are engaged, it helps to get through “the underlying message, which is usually an astonishingly and Read more...

Editorial | Issue 5

Posted 10:12am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Hugh Baird

Lately, there has been a lot of chat about pay inequality when it comes to gender in sports.  The discussion kicked off when reports surfaced that the New Zealand men’s cricket team had flown business class to the T20 World Cup, while their female counterparts where situated back in Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 4

Posted 2:31pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind-date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mis-matched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Dog With Two Tails, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this svounds Read more...

David Clark | Issue 4

Posted 1:18pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by David Clark

Sometimes good things can be achieved from the parliamentary opposition benches. The fight to end zero hour contracts is a prime example. Students, employers, in fact everyone I’ve spoken to is appalled that zero-hours contracting was ever a thing.  But, where laws are weak, there is Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 4

Posted 1:15pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, I don’t really own that much stuff so do you think I should bother getting insurance? One of my flatmates was talking about it and I don’t know whether I need to or not. Is it worth it? - Uncovered   Hell yeah! You might not want to part with your little Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 4

Posted 1:12pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Sexcellent

Hi Sexcellent, I had sex with a couple of different guys during O Week and some of the girls in my hall are calling me a dirty slut. I’m really upset about it because I thought we were in 2016 and it was not a big deal for women to enjoy a bit of promiscuous sex, but now because of this I Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 4

Posted 1:09pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

This column is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for social debating every Tuesday at 6pm in the Commerce Building. Affirmative, by Old Major It’s easy to listen to your racist uncle and think ‘’this can’t be what our forefathers meant when Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 4

Posted 1:04pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Vibhuti Patel

Remember the old days, before smartphones were a thing and Nokia reigned supreme? Sure, the cellphones of the early milennium were thick slabs with little more function than to call people and play the odd game of Snake. But they had a battery life that lasted forever and were also extremely Read more...

The Weekly Doubt | Issue 4

Posted 1:01pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Wee Doubt

When I was 14 my uncle read my palm. He told me that I would live a long life, but with a lot of misery. I would have many partners before I found one to settle down with, if I ever managed to keep a relationship going at all. I would have two children. I wouldn’t find a career until I was in Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 4

Posted 12:59pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Isa Alchemist

AM I SICK ? We’re all back in Dunedin and should be ready to take on the world. But at this time of year, a lot of us aren’t feeling too well at all. The problem is that at this time of year 20,000-odd people gather together from all over the globe and breathe on one another in the Read more...