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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...

Love Is Blind | Issue 19

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Lovebirds

HumbertI’m a mature student, but a Scarfie at heart. I’m even flatting, so I should’ve seen it coming when I got signed up for the Critic blind date. My flatmates are jokers – shout out to Ryan for this one. I was worried (for her sake) that I was too old, but once there’s a bit of alcohol in us we Read more...

The More Things Change | Issue 19

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Jessica Bromell

This week a few things go slightly wrong, but most people have good intentions. August 15, 1040: King Duncan I of Scotland, an otherwise unremarkable figure, was killed in battle by his own men. They had turned against him to fight for his scheming Duke: a guy called Macbeth (yes, the very Read more...

Rand: Human After All | Opinion

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Guy McCallum

Ayn Rand was a crotchety old bitch. But that’s why I love her. Born in 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, Ayn Rand lived through the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 and escaped to the US in 1925. Her books, and her philosophy, brought her both fame and notoriety: to this day, countless adults and Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 19

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Claudia Herron

Mountains are big, mountains are high, and mountains are solid. But mountains that have a deep emotional capacity are not ones that I’m familiar with. Good to know that one lovely lass has finally found a solid and reliable other half. I think I’ll keep looking. Council: you are so Read more...

Editorial | Issue 19

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013 by Sam McChesney

The week before last was OU SA Women’s Week, and by most accounts it went pretty darn well. So well done to Women’s Rep Sam Allen and Welfare Officer Ruby Sycamore-Smith. As reported in Critic last week, Ruby is now talking about holding a Men’s Week – cos, you know, it would be sexist if she Read more...