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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

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...

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

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 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

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...

Love is Blind | Issue 10

Posted 3:01pm Sunday 3rd May 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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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, email Read more...

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...