Archive

ODT Watch | Issue 20

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Zane Pocock

A newspaper isn’t the place to be making kitchen jokes. Critic was expecting an in-depth look at what Nana cooked for dinner on a rare family get-together. An article on the complaints of a teen mum was a bit down buzzy after that. In related news, the look on Jurn Kei’s face suggests Read more...

Editorial | Issue 20

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Sam McChesney

Welcome to the last issue of Critic before the break. Most of the news section this week is otherwise engaged, so here are some stories that failed to make the cut: Exec plays with fire. At the last OUSA Executive meeting, Postgrad Rep Keir Russell asked for – and was given – Read more...

Science, Bitches! | Issue 20

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Elsie Jacobson

When I was 14, my teacher told my class to look up the origins of melodrama. Every single one of us went straight to Wikipedia and returned to tell her, one by one, that it actually came from the ancient “Poo-Greek.” Bet she got a giggle out of that one. By the time we make it to university, Read more...

Hi Dr. Nick | Issue 20

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Dr. Nick

Hi everybody, We love acronyms in medicine. MRI = Magnetic Resonance Imaging; PERRLA = Pupils Equal Round and Reactive to Light and Accomodation; CPILF = Coma Patient I’d Like to … ahem. One of my favourites is IANAN – “I Am Not A Neurologist” – which is usually scrawled before a largely Read more...

Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 20

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Phoebe Harrop

Port Chalmers, a mere 10km along the harbour from Logan Park, feels a world away from Dunedin. (Well, except for the fact that as a Dunedin wannabe and/ or the victim of unimaginative local government, its main thoroughfare is also called George Street.) As its name suggests, it is a “chalming” Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 20

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Lovebirds

XYMy flatmates dobbed me in for the blind date after I broke up with my long-term girlfriend. We had come to Dunedin to study together but the University life did what it does and saw me kicked out of our shared room halfway through this year. The last couple of months have been crazy and amazing Read more...

The Loose Guide | Issue 19

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Campbell Ecklein

Despite all the commercials, warnings and campaigns we endure in today’s society, the fact is that smoking is still pretty cool. Admit it. If it weren’t so bad for you, most everyone would still be doing it – just like back in the day. No shame, no problem. Unfortunately, a guilty conscience and Read more...

Hi Dr. Nick | Issue 19

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Dr. Nick

Hi everybody, I like to think I’m pretty intelligent. Because I am. I’m also athletic, sexy and humble. And incredibly well-hung. Despite all this, however, I still do stupid things – falling for sensationalist media stories, for example. Recently on my Facebook feed I saw a link describing a Read more...

Science, Bitches! | Issue 19

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Bryony Leeke

Science has cloned a human! Well, kind of. Scientists in Oregon have successfully cloned human cells for the first time. Using a technique called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), they removed the DNA from a donated egg cell, replaced it with DNA from an adult cell, and allowed the egg cell to Read more...

Daily Grind | Issue 19

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by M and G

Rating: 3/5 After reading in Critic’s facts and figures section that drinking two to four coffees per day decreases your risk of committing suicide by 50 per cent, M and G’s first thought was “of course – you’d be getting so much done,” and second thought was that with Dunedin’s general gloom Read more...