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Editorial | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Joe Stockman

My day at Hyde Street began before sunrise. Cycling down from the NEV I could already hear the DJs playing as I passed the Richardson building. It was an energetic pre-dawn beginning to what was going to be an exhausting day. I spent hours and hours filming and taking still photos. I was there when Read more...

Presidential Column | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Logan Edgar

Morning all, I’ve got some very sad news to report unfortunately. You see we here at OUSA have not been the least bit cheery this week as the association has been struck with a death in the family; The death of our colleague Thiago Nazario who worked at the Clubs & Societies centre, and Read more...

Te Roopu Māori | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Lisa Pohatu

Ehara taku toa, he taki tahi, he toa taki tini My success should not be bestowed onto me alone, as it was not individual success but success of a collective YOU may or may not be aware of all the various divisional and departmental roopū (groups) on campus. Each roopū are Read more...

Diatribe | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Rape Crisis Dunedin

“Just ask” – two words that seem so simple. In student cities such as Dunedin, sex always seems to be the topic of much consideration and is often acknowledged as just sex. The random one-night stands and “friends with benefits” ease the meaning and pressure surrounding sex and have subsequently Read more...

How To: Kiss

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

Far from a simple anatomical movement, kissing is a complex emotional and philosophical endeavour. It’s easy to get wrong and so, so good when you get it right. Now there are lots of different types of kissing: Affectionate, sexual, platonic, as a greeting, and on and on. But Critic isn’t interested Read more...

Poetry | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Dan Luoni

Like your secretly Methodist mother Says to justify the big spend, “Oh but it will go with anything, And look so good on a Special weekend.” To refresh after devouring The Colonel’s choice Or as a celebratory gesture  To welcome some Wisterian’s Impending divorce. Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

The team over at the ODT spent most of the past week dishing out some truly fantastic advice about a range of social issues. First up, they have a whole new family violence avoidance plan … That’s right, if you can’t stop them beating people, then, um, beat them … They followed Read more...

Uncle Howie | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Uncle Howie

Howie. Is it true that different races have different size penises? I’ve only ever played with white boys, but I’ve been checking out some of the cute brown boys around this place and thought I might get a bit more variety in me, if you get what I mean ... Racing for answers Hey mate, Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by La Dida

In case you missed it, this week’s NZ trans-queer news was over the “glitter bombing” of feminist writer and commentator Germaine Greer. The action was undertaken once again by the Wellington-based Queer Avengers, who tipped glitter all over the seated septuagenarian, who appeared stunned in Read more...

Classic Film | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by David Milner and Cory Dalzell

Director: Christopher Nolan Memento follows one man’s hunt for his wife’s killer – a seemingly simple plot complicated by protagonist Leonard’s (Guy Pearce) inability to store new memories. As it turns out, we rely on such abilities for any kind of functioning, let alone a self-propelled Read more...

Swillable | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Pilbo Swaggins

Taste: 9/10 Percentage: 6.4%(domestic), 5% (export) Price: 45 baht (approx. NZ$1.90) Standards per vessel: 3.1 in big bottles (Yai Chang) A strong yet tasty pale lager that has only been in production since 1995 yet has since gone on to gain 60% of the local beer market in Thailand. Read more...

LILF | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Hot For Teacher

Religion and Globalisation was supposed to be a paper that one takes to learn about religion, beliefs and the gods of the world. Little did I know that my thoughts would be much more occupied with a certain square-jawed, dark-eyed lecturer. Krishna’s got nothing on Will Sweetman. That first Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Lovebirds

Dunedin is renowned for many things, but its dating scene is not one of them. Getting boozed and pashing people on the dance floor is hardly anyone’s idea of romance, so Critic wants to sort you out. Every week we’re sending two loveless loners on a blind date to Tokyo Gardens (with a bottle of wine Read more...

The Tory Templar | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by The Tory Templar

The Maritime Union and Ports of Auckland are at odds over the Port’s insistence on more flexible working hours, and the union’s insistence that this provides too much uncertainty for staff and is inherently unfair. What to do? Strike, apparently. If even a hardcore lefty such as Auckland Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

Unions must keep on fighting! The Ports of Auckland dispute has hit the media like a wildfire, with ideological differences underpinning all coverage of the dispute. The issue is both complicated and serious. If the port wins, it will be a significant blow to the union movement in New Zealand Read more...

Scarfie Chronicles | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Claudia Herron

If there’s one day when it’s acceptable to claim a bit of “Irish ancestry” because your great-grandmother’s brother’s cousin was born in Dublin, it’s St Patrick’s Day. The dirty old town of Dunedin was evidentially on good terms with old Paddy, who got the fella upstairs to deliver a stellar day for Read more...

Editorial | Issue 5

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Joe Stockman

The first OUSA elections of the post-VSM era took place last week. The usual 10% or so of students bothered to vote – actually not a bad turnout for a by-election – and four new Execies have joined Logan and the rest on the Student Executive. However, even those who voted might be asking, Read more...

Presidential Column | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Logan Edgar

Konnichiha (pronounced as konnichiwa), Hey shout out to all those Japanese students studying here at Otago. Respect to you and your country having just past the 1 year anniversary of that devastating earthquake and tsunami that followed . Just a few sharns to report back about this Read more...

Every day I’m chapil’n | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Father Mark Chamberlain

For those of you who were unlucky enough to be out of Dunedin during the November to January period, we had a fantastic summer. I loved it. Have you noticed our mornings are now cooler and it’s now getting dark sooner, the days are slowly becoming shorter. I gave in last week and admitted to Read more...

LILF | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Hot For Teacher

It was my first semester at Otago, and it could have been The Greatest Story Ever Told. My first paper, my first class – there you were. I arrived to class early and you were already waiting, preparing for the lesson. I chose a desk, sat down. Then I saw your face – and I was a believer. As you Read more...

Clubs & Skux | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by John Stevens

I insisted to Olivia that “one does not simply walk into Mordor” (read: Student Life) to skux. However to skux does not necessarily mean sex or even hooking up. To skux is merely to impart a pleasant experience of mutual enjoyment that leaves both parties feeling like empowered sexual beings. This Read more...

No Fringe, No Indie. | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Sasha Borissenko

No Fringe, No Indie explores the styles and cultures that are so unique to Dunedin, and how you too can embody the style of your choice. The style exposition of the week is ‘mainstream’. Think normal, think average, think generic. Being ‘mainstream’ at Otago involves everything but Read more...

Swillable | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Pilbo Swaggins

Taste: 6/10 Price: $12 per 6-pack, Standards Per Vessel: 2.0 (8%) I was pretty stoked this week when I found out Cumby Superliquor was going to be hooking me up with the ever rowdy Diesel, its not often one gets to write on a subject so close to ones heart. Diesel, a mix of only Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by La Dida

Hey Hetero, try harder! I have done loads of sexuality/gender identity awareness trainings in my time. Unfortunately they are often repackaged as “diversity” training because some people find sexuality/gender identity too embarrassing or political to say. Fact is, sunshine, when I do Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

Okay, so not everyone that walks around with a gun is sinister. But generally speaking, when a guy is walking around central Queenstown with a rifle, you can presume that he’s probably not such a great guy. There is nothing shocking about this. It is of course entirely possible for Read more...

World Watch | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Sumantra Maitra

Bonjour! Comment ça va? How are we today? Apparently the world is still round, with no odd nuke meltdown or tsunami warning anywhere. US/Israel/Iran mega-borefest is just where it was a couple of weeks back, so is the North-South Korean drama, and the Indo-Sino-Pak threesome. Putin “managed” to win Read more...

Objection Overruled | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by

This year will mark possibly the final ruckus of the wonder that is the Hyde Street Keg Party. Every March, scarfies flock in their thousands to Hyde, aptly decorated as it is to house the chronic intoxication, fornication and defecation that unfolds. One would be hard pressed to find an event to Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Lovebirds

Dunedin is renowned for many things, but its dating scene is not one of them. Getting boozed and pashing people on the dance floor is hardly anyone’s idea of romance, so Critic wants to sort you out. Every week we’re sending two loveless loners on a blind date to Tokyo Gardens (with a bottle of wine Read more...

Execrable | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Callum Fredric

The OUSA Exec meeting got off to a constitutionally dodgy beginning by starting 13-minutes after the strict 5:30pm deadline. This was dealt with by some good old fashioned whitewashing, with the official minutes recording the time as 5:29pm. Students are advised to follow a similar procedure when Read more...

The Tory Templar | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by The Tory Templar

Our government is planning to get tough on immigration, with proposals for a two-tiered system where so-called wealthier people will be favoured. National hopes to stop unskilled migrants and adult dependent children entering the country. The Templar applauds the government for making these Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

New Zealand likes to mythologise itself “100% green”. A similar myth is that the country is tolerant and open to migrants. You may remember last year a boat of Sri Lankan migrants “threatened” to make it to our picturesque coasts. “Luckily” it didn’t. John Key used rhetoric that implied they would Read more...

Proctology | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Bella Macdonald

This week, the Proctor is high about Hyde. Expectations have been set for the event to be smoothly run and for the vast majority of students to thrive in the buzzing human hive known as Hyde Street Keg Party. Not wanting to expose any stories of past Hyde Street mishaps to avoid Read more...

Scarfie Chronicles | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Claudia Herron

Hyde Street Keg Party. The big day is coming around quicker than Dave Cull can say “North Dunedin Liquor Ban” so, as the residents of Hyde Street start to prepare themselves and with near to 30 themes already announced, Critic did a bit of recon and found out just what might be in store for the Read more...

Editorial | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Joe Stockman

I never got behind the Occupy movement, despite agreeing with most of the many and varied changes that they were calling for. I never spent a night asleep in the Octagon; I never bashed away on my keyboard writing about their campaign to make the world a fairer, better place. Occupy failed to Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 3

Posted 3:28pm Wednesday 14th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

The weather has been pretty shite recently, and the ODT is all over it. When the sun did turn up for a few minutes, the ODT online (that’s right, they have a website), waxed seriously lyrical over its arrival. After David Bain’s retrial and acquittal it turns out that we can’t Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 2

Posted 3:28pm Wednesday 14th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

There is really very little that I can add to the ODT’s work this week. They have simply outdone themselves. Yes it is ODT. Yes it is. They then lost their shit that only four of the people arrested in town on Saturday night were students. Sorry ODT, we’ll try harder next Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 1

Posted 3:28pm Wednesday 14th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

If you’ve never read the Otago Daily Times, you and I could probably be friends. I have to read it, but out of that hard slog every morning comes the glorious ridiculousness that is ODT Watch. You see, the ODT is no ordinary daily paper. Its dedication to bad puns and dad jokes is unsurpassed in NZ Read more...

The Tory Templar | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by The Tory Templar

New Zealand’s own terror trials have started. They began with a mini version of Survivor which saw the suspects whittled down to the “real bad guys”. And now resident “rent-a-protestor” John Minto has got on board. If the Templar had a dollar for every half-arse cause John got on board with he’d be Read more...

Presidential Column | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Logan Edgar

Hey Gang, One big number item for Logz to inform you lot of this week, Last week I spent an afternoon going door to door down Hyde St. I informed students of a little party that is set to take place on their street on the 24th of the month (surprise). I wanted to do this because there Read more...

Te Roopu Māori | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Lisa Pohatu

Kia Ora te whanau, o Te Roopu Māori. Ki te kahore he whakakitenga ka ngaro te iwi Without foresight or vision the people will be lost. The Mission Statement of Te Rito is: “Te Rito will establish an environment within the University of Otago that recognises - Taha, tinana, Read more...

Classic Film | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Sam McChesney

Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen All The Dude ever wanted was his rug back. When Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is mistaken for an indebted millionaire of same name, and his rug is thusly micturated upon by a porn baron’s enforcer, he embarks on an epic quest to obtain, you Read more...

LILF | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Hot For Teacher

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an English lecturer in possession of a good student must be in want of a naughty schoolgirl encounter …” The old adage of not judging a book by its cover went out the window the first time I met the good Dr. Rogers. As our eyes locked Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by La Dida

Oh that’s it. (Cracks knuckles, removes rings). I’m mad. This piece is in solidarity with the Wellington based group the Queer Avengers who protested outside the Dominion Post Wellington offices last week. Their protest was organised in response to an article “Why I feel for the kids of Read more...

Uncle Howie | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Uncle Howie

Hey Howie, So there’s this really hot chick on my floor. In fact she is just across the hall from me. We’re great friends and get on really well. I’d love to hook up with her, but I’m not sure if I can handle the awkward morning after experience. I’d be pretty gutted if she came home with someone Read more...

Geekology | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Robbie Masters

Hello again young science buffs! This week’s column is coming at you from Otago Uni’s very own Physics Department, where PhD candidate Ken Hughes has been doing some scintillating research on Antarctic sea ice. Specifically, Ken has been constructing a computer simulation of how sea ice is formed in Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Lovebirds

Dunedin is renowned for many things, but its dating scene is not one of them. Getting boozed and pashing people on the dance floor is hardly anyone’s idea of romance, so Critic wants to sort you out. Every week we’re sending two loveless loners on a blind date to Tokyo Gardens (with a bottle of wine Read more...

How to: Grow Hops in Your Flat

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

Hops is the plant that is used to flavour beer. Hops is also the closest relative of the cannabis plant, and many of the techniques developed for growing cannabis indoors can be applied to the hops plant. Using the instructions below you will be able to grow your own hops plant in your flat and save Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

Get red-y for a piece of advice: Do not trust the government. Not just John Key’s, don’t trust Labour either. Currently in court four “terrorists” are being tried for being the supposed ringleaders of a group planning war against the police and government. The case goes back to 2007, when 300 Read more...

Scarfie Chronicles | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Josie Adams

After settling down to nurse their heads after O-Week, the Scarfies are now back in the game. In a highly exciting turn of events, a Dunedin flatwarming was shut down recently, for reasons we shall hopefully glean from TV in a couple of months. That’s right, Police 10/7 visited the student ghetto. Read more...

Editorial | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Joe Stockman

As young, well-educated people, we often feel a deep desire to try and make positive change in the world. We appreciate the unique privilege of being born in a peaceful, developed country, being well educated and enjoying social and economic success. We hope that we can do something to really make a Read more...