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Something Came Up | Issue 17

Posted 2:49pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by Isa Alchemist

It’s been a vicious winter so far with very low temperatures, frost and snow! Some of our northern visitors are experiencing a new affliction, which presents itself as raised areas of skin, particularly on fingers and toes. Affected areas will appear white but become red and itchy and swollen Read more...

Editorial | Issue 17

Posted 10:29am Sunday 26th July 2015 by Josie Cochrane

I don’t know what spurred you on last week, but the letters we received were actually important. They were about things that you could be demanding changes to. An unfair disciplinary system, threats to increase a fine if you appeal a decision (and getting ripped off to gain a copy of your Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 16

Posted 2:56pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Lovebirds

Cedric Diggory He has a fantastic booty but can't remember names. I’ve always been regarded as a little bit of a ladies man, but even I found this hilarious when I chosen from a pool of hundreds after chucking my own name in the hat; like Cedric Diggory awaiting to read his Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 16

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Steph Taylor

Pluto must have felt pretty gutted back in the day when it was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet. But now it has a reason to be loved again: a near-perfect rusty red heart formation has been found on the dusty, cold planet. With a seemingly simple article title, you would think Read more...

David Clark | Issue 16

Posted 2:37pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by David Clark

The increasing incidence of homelessness and poverty in the land of milk and honey bothers me. I stood for parliament because I am concerned that our society is increasingly out of whack. When the economy grows, those on modest and middle incomes seem to miss out on the benefits. Growing Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 16

Posted 2:33pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Student Support

OUSA’s Student Support Centre wants to help you with your issues: from dodgy flatmates to unfair grades, email your questions to ethel@critic.co.nz and she will respond to them for you each week, right here in Critic. Dear Ethel, It’s us again. So, the rogue flatmate has moved out of Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 16

Posted 2:27pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Finbarr Noble

Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, taking over 470 “prizes” in a career spanning just three years from 1719 to 1722. Three years is a pretty decent innings for an eighteenth-century pirate, and Roberts amassed a Read more...

Unzipping the Myths | Issue 16

Posted 2:24pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by T. Antric

Pubic hair exists for a reason. It is a line of defence against various nasties down there. Shock horror, it even grows on vulvas and the surrounding areas. But, some time between the bush-whacking 70s and today, pubic hair on a vulva became persona non grata. Maybe the obsession with pubic Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 16

Posted 2:22pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Sam Fraser

Einstein once speculated that if bees were to become extinct, the human race would die out in six years. While Einstein was by no means an expert biologist, he was alluding to the remarkable significance of bees to the world’s ecosystems. Bees are most well known for their ability to produce Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 16

Posted 2:19pm Sunday 19th July 2015 by Howard Yuno

If you tune into the History Channel, you get anything but history. Instead, outrageous pseudo-archaeological documentaries about aliens and Atlantis tend to take up the programming. One of the new darlings of the pseudo-archaeological scene is a man named Graham Hancock. Hancock’s theory Read more...

Editorial | Issue 16

Posted 10:33am Sunday 19th July 2015 by Laura Munro

I’m writing this editorial as a somewhat goodbye to Critic. Next week is my final issue as News Editor, so this guest editorial was subtly forced upon me (thanks, Josie). It took me more than long enough to decide what to write about. I considered multiple topics, but when you have been Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 15

Posted 3:13pm Sunday 12th July 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...

Dear Ethel | Issue 15

Posted 3:06pm Sunday 12th July 2015 by Student Support

OUSA’s Student Support Centre wants to help you with your issues: from dodgy flatmates to unfair grades, email your questions to ethel@critic.co.nz and she will respond to them for you each week, right here in Critic. Dear Ethel, We need some help with a rogue flatmate. There are five of Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 15

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 12th July 2015 by Steph Taylor

A Dunedin woman has found the latest BYO accord hard to swallow, labelling it as having “sexist limits” towards women. Research that really is just common sense has discovered if you exercise, you are more productive. Miserably failed at last semester’s exams? Never fear, one Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 15

Posted 2:52pm Sunday 12th July 2015 by Finbarr Noble

Dunedin is beautiful, the people are hospitable and, unlike in other so-called cultural metropolises, you can still get an actual pint for less than the down-payment on a house. However, it was not always so idyllic. Many of the streets we walk upon, like High Street, Stuart Street and the suburb of Read more...

David Clark | Issue 15

Posted 2:50pm Sunday 12th July 2015 by David Clark

It is hard to believe a week has passed since the Highlanders’ historic first Super15 win. I was lucky enough to be at Forsyth Barr Stadium for the semi-final win over the Chiefs. Suddenly anything looked possible. Although the final was tense viewing, my hunch proved right, my bets were well Read more...

Unzipping the Myths | Issue 15

Posted 2:43pm Sunday 12th July 2015 by T. Antric

We, as Dunedin students, have a bit of a reputation. And unlike some of our other reputations, this one is perfectly legitimate. We are “poor”. While we usually battle through this in admirable ways, there are times when being poor throws a spanner (or a dildo) in the works, e.g. buying Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 15

Posted 2:40pm Sunday 12th July 2015 by Sam Fraser

If you’ve been to St Clair lately, you may have noticed a large section of the sand dune behind the Sharks rugby ground missing. It’s a bit of a sight, so check it out next time you head to South D; the sand dune is now a cliff that waves have been eroding. There’s a bunch of old Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 15

Posted 2:37pm Sunday 12th July 2015 by DK MF

A sick mother is taken to a shaman who, through the tradition of rituals, uses the power of the ancients and spirits of the realm to heal. The shaman appears to take out the patient’s guts, chanting and channelling energy into the affected area, before returning them into the patient, who Read more...

Editorial | Issue 15

Posted 10:33am Sunday 12th July 2015 by Josie Cochrane

Just after I read this this week’s feature on Yik Yak and how users are Yaktivists in their own special way, I went on the app to look for some of the latest good examples. It is always a great excuse for a bit of procrastination. My Yakarma (or Yik Yak activity level) is pretty low Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 14

Posted 3:06pm Sunday 5th July 2015 by Lovebirds

ODT Watch | Issue 14

Posted 3:00pm Sunday 5th July 2015 by Steph Taylor

In what seems like a miracle after a few seasons of twiddling their thumbs on the fields, the Highlanders have landed a spot in the Super 15 final, with tickets being snapped up like no tomorrow. Well, at least we’re being acknowledged as people now rather than just Read more...

David Clark | Issue 14

Posted 2:46pm Sunday 5th July 2015 by David Clark

The government has to make choices. Limited tax revenue, increasing costs of superannuation and burgeoning healthcare expenses all add up to pressure on our country’s budget. That said, politicians have the job of prioritising spending, and it should be done in a way that creates opportunities Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 14

Posted 2:41pm Sunday 5th July 2015 by Wee Doubt

Acupuncture is a practice in ancient Chinese medicine that involves sticking needles into the skin along the body’s natural “meridian lines” where “qi”, or “life-force”, is traditionally said to flow. The qi flow is redirected to improve the health of the Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 14

Posted 2:37pm Sunday 5th July 2015 by Finbarr Noble

New Zealand women won their right to vote on 19 September 1893, a historic day that made Aotearoa the first self-governing nation to extend this right to all women over the age of 21. The signing of the new Electoral Act was the culmination of years of political agitation by the Women’s Read more...

Unzipping the Myths | Issue 14

Posted 2:35pm Sunday 5th July 2015 by T. Antric

Bring up the topic of masturbation around a group of (maybe slightly under the influence) boys and three of them will tell you, with nary a blushed cheek, about when their mothers walked in. Two will tell you about their first times. Another will mention the pile of tissues beside his bed. This Read more...

Editorial | Issue 14

Posted 10:29am Sunday 5th July 2015 by Josie Cochrane

“Calculus is no use because a calculator can do everything. It’ll be handy if you want to be a maths teacher though.” This is what my high school teacher told me when I asked her why we learn calculus. Aside from the fact she single-handedly made every student in that class lose Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 13

Posted 2:27pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Lovebirds

From the Back of the Class | Issue 13

Posted 2:16pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Finbarr Noble

On 15 January 1919, Boston suffered one of history’s strangest disasters — a devastating flood of molasses. The “Great Molasses Flood” tore through the working-class North End district and deposited so much of the sticky stuff that apparently residents could still smell it on Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 13

Posted 2:13pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Emma Cotton

About 13.8 billion years ago, a small bundle of matter expanded to form the universe. In that single expansion, the stars, the moon, the Earth, oceans, land and life all saw their beginning. The theory of the big bang, which has been pieced together by scientists over nearly a century, explains what Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 13

Posted 2:07pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Reese Sun

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale. Last week, my Kiwi friend messaged me a screenshot Read more...

David Clark | Issue 13

Posted 2:03pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by David Clark

You can’t build an economy on houses, dairy and natural disasters alone. The government’s chance to get back on the front foot lay in last week’s budget. They’ve told us they will fail for the seventh time to achieve a surplus, despite making it the central promise of the Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 13

Posted 2:00pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Record Player

Each week Critic wants to hear from you if you’re struggling to approach the man or woman of your dreams. Does she always sit on that front row seat and give the lecturer far more attention than you’re comfortable with? Does he stroll past your window each morning and your only attempts Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 13

Posted 1:54pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Wee Doubt

Lies can be deadly. Last month a story broke in the world of alternative medicine about Belle Gibson, an Australian woman who had made a living from her account of having cured herself of supposed terminal brain cancer with healthy eating. She said the cancer had spread to her liver and kidneys, and Read more...

Editorial | Issue 13

Posted 10:25am Sunday 24th May 2015 by Henry Napier

At the time this went to print, Budget 2015 had just been released. While Twitter was swarming around the various announcements made about social welfare, health and education funding, it’s important that we take a step back to reflect on what this budget says about our political system, how Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 12

Posted 3:00pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Lovebirds

Whole Lotta Love | Issue 12

Posted 2:53pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Student Support

The month of May is important for two reasons. 17 May is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT). May 2015 is also our first national HIV testing month. IDAHOT represents an annual landmark to draw the attention of decision makers, the media, the public, opinion Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 12

Posted 2:49pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Finbarr Noble

Much like Leslie Knope, Nellie Bly was a pioneer in her field and a woman before her time. She created a whole new brand of investigative journalism known as “stunt journalism”. She was also the first person to figure out that if you went undercover as a journalist you could actually Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 12

Posted 2:46pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Emma Lodes

The Franz Joseph and Fox glaciers are must-sees on a road trip of the South Island. They’re each about 12 kilometres long and unique in that their icy tongues descend through lush rainforest, blue-white enigmas in a green realm. Although Franz Josef Glacier exhibits a natural cycle of advance Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 12

Posted 2:40pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Wee Doubt

David Icke has convinced hundreds of thousands of people that the world is run by something called the “Babylonian Brotherhood”, a race of seven-foot-tall reptilian aliens who squeeze into human-sized suits and rule the world. They have brainwashed humans into believing they are human in Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 12

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Pippin Boots

A Broad View | Issue 12

Posted 2:33pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Przemek Winszczyk

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale. Kiwis are intriguing creatures. Everyone knows Read more...

David Clark | Issue 12

Posted 2:28pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by David Clark

New Zealand has changed a lot since I was a kid. When I was a kid, homosexuality was illegal, and those who engaged in “homosexual acts” risked getting locked up. Kids who didn’t fit gendered stereotypes were bullied mercilessly. There were no education programmes around sexual Read more...

Editorial | Issue 12

Posted 10:20am Sunday 17th May 2015 by Josie Cochrane

At the time we sent this issue to print, 3300 people had signed a petition demanding an apology from TVNZ for its “biased report on Dunedin students” during the Sunday show over a week ago. TVNZ won’t apologise. What it’s done is no different to what we all Read more...

Editorial | Issue 11

Posted 3:07pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Critic

Earlier in this semester, Ally Willen wrote a beautiful piece for A Broad View, a column aimed at giving international and exchange students the opportunity to tell us what makes New Zealand unique to them. We’ve had some great write-ins, but Ally’s was particularly special. Rather than Read more...

Whole Lotta Love | Issue 11

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Student Support

As quoted on the New Zealand Aids Foundation website (NZAF), nearly 80% of HIV diagnoses are among gay and bi guys, but why, you ask? Well, gay and bi guys have much more anal sex than straight guys. You are 18 times more likely to contract HIV through unprotected anal sex than unprotected vaginal Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 11

Posted 2:55pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Steph Taylor

In headline news this week, everyone felt a bit shaky after the 6.0-magnitude Wanaka earthquake. I was in the Richardson, and looking at that building makes me feel shaky. Apparently speed-dating has died in the South, and Tinder has taken over. One women, called “desperate and Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 10

Posted 2:48pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Finbarr Noble

I’m not usually much of a believer in conspiracy theories. I do not necessarily consider the phrase a dirty term as some do, conjuring up images of tinfoil-wearing loonies, but I do subscribe more to the “cock up, not cover up” theory of government than to the secret scheming Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 11

Posted 2:44pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Jeriel Tan

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale. It’s midnight at Pequeño’s down Read more...

David Clark | Issue 11

Posted 2:41pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by David Clark

Ifind it shocking that in Dunedin there are over 1000 young people who are not in employment, education or training. These are the people most likely to end up long-term unemployed. There are lots of myths about the long-term unemployed. They are an easy target for criticism and beneficiary Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 11

Posted 2:37pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Lonely Boy

Sceptic Schism | Issue 11

Posted 2:27pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Wee Doubt

“Detox” diets make out the liver is like a dirty old sponge that needs to go through the washing machine. Actually, the liver is an organ that filters harmful or unneeded substances from the blood to be excreted as urine. It is self-regulating and will replenish its own cells at the same Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 11

Posted 1:05pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Lovebirds

Love is Blind | Issue 10

Posted 3:01pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Lovebirds

ODT Watch | Issue 10

Posted 2:48pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Steph Taylor

In “Scarfies Go Wild” this week, this old-boy appears to have done his OE on the extreme side. An Australian doctor, branded as the posterchild for ISIS, has been found to have previously failed first-year health science in Dunedin. Oh look … another youth binge-drinking story Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 10

Posted 2:36pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Finbarr Noble

Have you ever paid a visit to a friend, acquaintance or even a stranger and had your host offer you a cup of tea or a biscuit or a line of prescription medication? I recently have, which — naturally — got me thinking of the ancient Greek tradition of xenia. Xenia roughly translates to Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 10

Posted 2:34pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Emma Lodes

On Saturday 25 April 2015, a massive, 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, the worst Nepal has seen in 80 years. At the time of Critic going to print, the death toll had passed 5,000, but continues to climb; time will tell what the full extent of the damage is. Kathmandu Valley is densely populated Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 10

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Emma Cotton

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale. Most Americans would never think to hitchhike. Read more...

David Clark | Issue 10

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by David Clark

I have many fond memories of my years flatting at Otago and elsewhere. That said, there’s good reason I chose to spend 11 years living at Selwyn College — one way or another. First-time flatting is when you learn a bunch of things. First off, how good the food actually was at Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 10

Posted 2:24pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Cloudy

A few weeks ago I had an epiphany about attractiveness - it was when you put up your hand up in our lecture. At that moment I had the seemingly life changing realisation that 1. you exist and 2. you are attractive. But this attractiveness isn’t all about the symmetry of your face, the Read more...

Sceptic Schism | Issue 10

Posted 2:20pm Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Wee Doubt

You are the kind of person who can go to a party and feel great, have fun and talk to lots of people. But when you get home and you go over the things that you said, you suddenly regret how you were behaving. You keep people a little bit at bay when you are first getting to know them, but if you Read more...

Editorial | Issue 10

Posted 10:39am Sunday 3rd May 2015 by Josie Cochrane

It’s terrifying that in the twenty-first century, in a time when we are supposed to be so much more knowledgeable, so much more civil, we’re just not. I know “we” seems harsh — it’s another country, it’s not us, it’s not the same. The thing is, it Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 9

Posted 3:04pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Lovebirds

A Broad View | Issue 9

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Isabel Lanaux

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale. T his is the question that inevitably Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 9

Posted 2:53pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Steph Taylor

When the front page is often a picture of a farmer in gumboots and a swandri, you shouldn’t really claim that you have your eye on fashion. Don’t fall asleep at the library, at work or on any form of moving transport, especially if heavy Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 9

Posted 2:42pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Finbarr Noble

Gin and tonic is my favourite cocktail. It is also the only one I know how to make, as it conveniently has all the ingredients in the name. Yet there is more to this noble drink than meets the eye; as that connoisseur of alcohol, Sir Winston Churchill himself, once said: “The gin and tonic has Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 9

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Emma Cotton

Last summer, I went for an early-morning swim in the ocean. The soft wind and gentle tug of the water were calming, so I pushed myself farther and farther out. Suddenly, I realised the ocean floor had dropped far below me. I pictured my body from below, fragile, my feet dangling like bait. I looked Read more...

Whole Lotta Love | Issue 9

Posted 2:34pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Student Support

To get a look-in for special consideration due to ill health or an accident that prevents you sitting an exam or impairs your exam performance, you need to have a “severe medical condition...supported by medical evidence.” So, we’re not talking snivels or general exam Read more...

David Clark | Issue 9

Posted 2:30pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by David Clark

I worked studiously on Labour’s small business policy for over a year. When the time came during the 2014 election campaign, I joined our leader for its launch. Journalists, cameras and microphones turned up. I had planned the launch in a fireworks factory. My policy redirected Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 9

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by LawBoy

Girl from last year’s LAWS101 tutorial; to you I write this confession. Picture this. Making my way down George, walking slow, really slow, then I see you! It’s been a while, and things have changed. We’re both a year older, a year more mature, another notch in the belt of life Read more...

Skeptic Schism | Issue 9

Posted 2:23pm Sunday 26th April 2015 by Wee Doubt

In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British former surgeon and medical researcher, published a fraudulent research paper in support of the now-discredited claim that there was a link between the administration of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR), and the appearance of autism and bowel disease. Read more...

Editorial | Issue 9

Posted 10:30am Sunday 26th April 2015 by Josie Cochrane

We live in a country where our week’s headlines are filled with endless stories of how weird our prime minister is that he would think it’s all good to tug on a woman’s ponytail time and time again. We don’t need 100 articles on this, and we all know how wrong it is if the Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 8

Posted 4:10pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by Lovebirds

ODT Watch | Issue 8

Posted 4:07pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by Steph Taylor

Clinton’s having a crack at the old White House again, yay for girl power! Here is something to do with all those plastic bottles the flat collects: do a three-day trip in a kayak made out of recycled plastic bottles. In “winter is coming” news, the snow-related Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 8

Posted 3:54pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by Finbarr Noble

Kamikaze is perhaps the best known of Japan’s World War Two tactics, yet it was not used until late in the war. By 1944 the Allies had pushed Japan back to the Philippines, a vital conduit for petroleum for Japan, and now threatened the Japanese mainland. The leadership knew that they could Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 8

Posted 3:52pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by Emma Lodes

It’s easy to blow off global warming, especially when we hardly notice it. The most dramatic and rapid effects of climate change are felt more by polar bears than humans — far, far away from human inhabitation in the permanently frosted-over soils of the Arctic. Way up north among Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 8

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by Isabel Lanaux

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale. The first thing I noticed when I moved to Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 8

Posted 3:45pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by Forrest Gump

David Clark | Issue 8

Posted 3:42pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by David Clark

When you buy a burger from a random fast-food outlet in town, you can be pretty sure it won’t give you food-poisoning. But that’s not true everywhere in the world. There are plenty of places where local knowledge is vital if you want to avoid an unpleasant aftermath. Part of the Read more...

Skeptic Schism | Issue 8

Posted 3:40pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by Wee Doubt

In 2006 a book was published that has gone on to sell 19 million copies worldwide by promising everybody literally everything they ever wanted. That book is The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. The “secret” is “The Law of Attraction” – the assertion that the atoms in your Read more...

Editorial | Issue 8

Posted 10:32am Sunday 19th April 2015 by Josie Cochrane

Google “basic bitch” (BB) and you’ll find a plethora of things that make one a basic bitch. Although a BB probably wouldn’t use the word “plethora”, I seem to match the description on many counts #smartcookie: Striped tops — I just bought one for this Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 7

Posted 5:24pm Friday 17th April 2015 by Steph Taylor

As an avid Easter fan, it breaks my heart that at the Great Easter Bunny Hunt, 8000 little bunnies saw the white light and went to bunny heaven, full of carrots and Easter eggs. Don’t go hunting on the West Coast, as your odds of getting stung by a swarm of bees are terrifying An Otago Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Lovebirds

Whole lotta love | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Student Support

The thing about being part of a massive bureaucratic institution with its own jungle of rules, policies and procedures is that we sometimes accept what the institution decides about us without question, because it’s bigger than us. Maybe you’ve been the recipient of one of those ominous Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Finbarr Noble

From a very narrow nineteenth-century British perspective, Edward Gibbon Wakefield might be described as the father of New Zealand, though a strange father he was. The driving force in his life was a hunger for wealth and influence. Wakefield took his first step towards this by eloping at the age Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Emma Cotton

Menopause: we know it as a thing to be dreaded — a word to be uttered, not spoken. It brings our mothers’ and grandmothers’ hot flushes and mood swings, and is probably the reason your mum gave you a little too much grief about breaking curfew or having a messy room. Women don’t typically look Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Isabel Lanaux

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale. I’ve never had much appreciation for the American Read more...

David Clark | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by David Clark

M any of you will have attended ANZAC services around the country. Attending the ANZAC commemoration at Queens Gardens each year rates among the most moving of the regular duties I perform as the local electorate MP. It’s an early start, but the traffic build-up pre-5am tells me I’m not Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Elf Lover

Skeptic Schism | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Wee Doubt

The most controversial Facebook post I’ve ever written was one that said: “I can’t believe how many of my friends who would never judge someone based on their race, gender or sexuality are happy to make massive, sweeping, shameless assumptions about people based on the month they are born in.” This Read more...

Editorial | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Josie Cochrane

This week’s issue was uncomfortable to work on. Aside from Easter causing us to have three days to put Critic together, the feature articles were on topics I really am in no position to make judgment on. But I will anyway. Firstly, the feature on relationships via social media: I really Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Lovebirds

Woody's Word | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Michael Woodhouse

T he Hyde Street Keg Party (HSKP) has come and gone for another year. 12 arrests, 50 treated for injuries and intoxication, six off to hospital, one ambulance out of action for a week. On one level you might think that, given 4,000 students attended the event, this might not be a bad Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Finbarr Noble

You may have read in recent weeks of the easing of tensions and the opening of diplomatic channels between the United States and Cuba. The animosity between these two countries in its present iteration dates back to the Cold War. One might think that given the US’s victory in that war they Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Emma Lodes

Sixty-six million years ago — as the Cretaceous period transitioned into the Paleogene — a massive asteroid hit the earth, and three-quarters of all animal and plant species went extinct in a geologic blink of an eye. In the wake of all the destruction lay evolutionary opportunity: ecologic niches Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Kristen Kampmeier

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale. Well, first things first. What immediately Read more...

David Clark | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by David Clark

I recently heard a senior cabinet minister expressing contempt in parliament for what he still calls Labour’s interest-free loan “bribe”. The government hasn’t been brave enough to return interest to student loans yet. But if NZUSA collapses, an increase in your student debt may be the future Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by A Boy In Love

Skeptic Schism | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Wee Doubt

Wake up and smell the wee! Would you drink your own piss for the sake of your health? Because doing it every day will, according to some, cure you of pretty much everything from acne to cancer. The first big wee in the morning is the most effective, with urine taken mid-stream and then drunk Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Steph Taylor

The beer was chilled and the kegs were flowing as the last bastion of Scarfie culture took place on Saturday 21 March. Following the trend current in Invercargill, Dunedin’s own “code brown” situation occurred last weekend at Moana Pool, with those wanting a “leisurely” swim Read more...

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