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ODT Watch | Issue 21

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by Sam McChesney

There was but one thing on the ODT’s brilliant and incisive journalistic mind last week, and no, it wasn’t Syria. On 29 August, this was the front page: This was the front page of the next section: This was the front page of the sports section: And this Read more...

Jacobin Encourages Lawlessness | Opinion

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by Jacobin

A young man who is a friend of theirs has cancer in the spine. He is just over twenty years old, is experiencing extreme nausea, and is in the late stages of the condition. I don’t really know who he is, but we share mutual friends and I know he is a brother of mine. We are all brothers in our Read more...

Editorial | Issue 21

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by Sam McChesney

There’s a great scene in season five of The Wire in which journalists at the Baltimore Sun are discussing an upcoming series on poverty in the city. The paper’s veteran journalists begin to point out the complex web of factors that contribute to poverty – education, parenting, drugs, nutrition, race Read more...

The More Things Change | Issue 20

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Jessica Bromell

This week, some things happen in Europe. August 23, 79: Mount Vesuvius began stirring, and it was all downhill from there. There’d already been small earthquakes that apparently nobody realised were warning signs, and everybody was left fleeing for their lives when the volcano went off. Read more...

Anarchy or the State? | Opinion

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Guy McCallum

Who will build the roads? It’s a question frequently posed to libertarians. Well, private citizens (you and I) pay taxes to the government, and they pay a company of private citizens to do the work. The government (at least in this country) simply decides where the roads need to be; it is private Read more...

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...