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Something Came Up | Issue 21

Posted 2:20pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Isa Alchemist

Campus is great for socialising and making friends, but the large number of students living in close proximity to each other also makes it easier for outbreaks of afflictions to occur. If you’ve got something crawling under your skin, it’s likely to be tiny parasite known as scabies. Read more...

David Clark | Issue 21

Posted 2:16pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by David Clark

As more information has leaked about the highly secretive draft Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, I’ve become more concerned about just what the government wants to sign us up for. Don’t get me wrong, Labour supports free trade. That’s why we signed a free trade agreement with Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 21

Posted 2:14pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Wee Doubt

Colonic irrigation is a process that its proponents claim will remove nonspecific “toxins” from the colon and intestinal tract. Water or other liquids are injected into the colon via a tube inserted into the rectum. It’s basically an enema that goes a lot further up. The idea is to Read more...

Unzipping the Myths | Issue 21

Posted 2:12pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by T. Antric

So you want to have a night of hot, consensual, no-strings-attached sex with a person who you have no intentions of seeing or sleeping with again.  You’ve your lube and your condoms (I hate nagging, but I will nag people to wear condoms with their one night stands until the day I die. Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 21

Posted 2:09pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Sam Fraser

Are humans really as smart as we think we are? In a generally safe, urbanised and scientific world, one might argue that we are now rational, and act upon reason. Sophocles, an ancient Greek playwright, wrote “reason is God’s crowning gift to man”. Sophocles believed that Read more...

Editorial | Issue 21

Posted 10:23am Sunday 30th August 2015 by Josie Cochrane

Welcome back to the final hill of the year! Keep chugging along cause the break is nearly here — ya know, that time when you can stop thinking about study and exams. Instead, you can start stressing about going from hardly any money each week to no income, no job and no idea where you’re Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 20

Posted 2:55pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mismatched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Di Lusso, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this sounds like you, Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 20

Posted 2:49pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Finbarr Noble

If you have been paying even cursory attention to your Facebook newsfeed recently, you’ll have  noticed that there’s a thing about a flag coming up and that people have opinions about it. Regardless of the merits (or otherwise) of a $25 million referendum or the value some may Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 20

Posted 2:46pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, I think we’re in deep shit! We’re in a five-bedroom place, but it’s expensive, so we got another four guys in to help cover the rent. The landlord came around last week to do an inspection and sprung extra beds and extra people in four rooms. He went nuts and is Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 20

Posted 2:43pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Isa Alchemist

They can come in all sizes, colours and flavours (in theory). Funded versions ($5 on a prescription from a doctor) include coloured, flavoured and gradations of sizes — whether they fulfil the extra promises their packaging suggests is another question — apparently the Read more...