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IT'S A MAN'S WORLD
Posted 3:04am Monday 15th August 2011 by Julia Hollingsworth
Or at least, a Men's Issue. Rather than resting our laurels with last week’s women’s issue, we’ve decided to outdo ourselves and make a men’s issue too. Because, well, we like men as well, and sexism can go both ways. Watch out for that. Feeling a little out Read more...
Debatable - 20
Posted 3:00am Monday 15th August 2011 by Maddie Harris and Kurt Purdon
This week’s motion is “that the scarfie stereotype positively defines the university, not undermines it”. Maddie Harris argues the affirmative, while Kurt Purdon argues the negative. Affirmative When Kurt Purdon talks of thinking and not drinking, he’s stuck in a false Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 19
Posted 5:09am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Mike Tindall and Zara Phillips
Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date (courtesy of the lovely people at Toast), complete with a bar tab and positive vibez, in an attempt to prove that Dunedinites can date. The only catch: the love birds each divulge all the salacious details of their date in a short snappy article Read more...
Editorial - 19
Posted 11:55pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Editor
VSM: it’s all anyone can talk about. It’s been a somewhat lukewarm bore for a while, with everyone from Metiria Turei to Michael Woodhouse speculating that VSM wouldn’t pass before the election. But on Wednesday, when the final clause of the bill was discussed at the committee of the house Read more...
Diatribe - 19
Posted 11:48pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Albert Delorino
Cycling is, I believe, one of the greatest pleasures in life and I feel that more people should be on two wheels. But I digress already. I fear that the aforementioned pastime/hobby/transport is becoming a rarity in our great country, in part due to the mandatory bicycle helmet law. If you’ve seen a Read more...
Debatable - 19
Posted 11:42pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Jesse Wall and Olivia Norling
Debatable is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for social debating every Tuesday at 7pm in the Commerce Building. This week’s motion is “That Feminism is Dead”. Jesse Wall argues the affirmative, while Olivia Norling argues the negative. Affirmative Read more...
Editorial - 18
Posted 4:15am Thursday 4th August 2011 by Editor
X-Rated This week, we present our sex issue. Sex, if you hadn’t noticed, is pretty big; if you’re not having it, you’re talking about it. And if you’re not doing either of those, you’re probably thinking about it. Quite often at that, if the notorious seven seconds statistic is anything to go Read more...
Diatribe - 18
Posted 4:12am Thursday 4th August 2011 by Carrie Bradshaw
Timaru gynacologist Dr Albert Makary recently claimed that New Zealand women treat sex like “paddock mating”. We’re too promiscuous and what’s more, we’re “glamourising” it (God forbid we would make something rather enjoyable look fun). Instead, Makary thinks we should be stigmatizing sex, Read more...
Debatable - 18
Posted 4:28am Monday 1st August 2011 by Emily Hay and Maddie Harris
This week’s motion is “We should outlaw public displays of affection”. Emily Hay argues the affirmative, while Maddie Harris argues the negative. Affirmative The issue of public displays of affection, aka PDAs, is no longer about getting a room, it’s about getting some self respect. Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 17
Posted 4:19am Thursday 28th July 2011 by Ashton and Demi
Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date (courtesy of the lovely people at Toast), complete with a bar tab and positive vibez, in an attempt to prove that Dunedinites can date. The only catch: the love birds each divulge all the salacious details of their date in a short snappy article Read more...
Editorial - 17
Posted 11:47pm Monday 25th July 2011 by Editor
ACT'S MOULDY POLICIES This week’s issue is our “culture” issue, hence the delightful petri dish complete with Critic-shaped bacteria on the cover (See ODT, we can make puns too. Even if they do imply rather negative things about our hygiene). The week before last, four politicians Read more...
Diatribe - 17
Posted 11:43pm Monday 25th July 2011 by Marjo Cantus
Foreword: I’m still pretty young to Dunedin and New Zealand. This diatribe is therefore the expression of my feelings as an outsider and a newbie to Dunedin’s student and cultural life. I come from a country where protesting in the streets is almost a national sport. You may have in mind the cliché Read more...
Debatable - 17
Posted 11:42pm Monday 25th July 2011 by Tiho Mijato and Basil Brazil
This week’s motion is “That Maori language should be a compulsory subject in schools”. Tiho Mijatov argues the affirmative, while Basil Brazil argues the negative. Affirmative I always feel a bit thick passing through New Zealand towns and having no clue what the Maori place names mean. Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 16
Posted 5:16am Monday 25th July 2011 by Jamie Hince and Kate Moss
Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date. Jamie Hince After signing up in the hopes of getting a night of free booze and some time off research, my hopes weren’t particularly high with regards to the company. Getting slightly lost on my way to Toast gave me a bit more Read more...
Editorial - 16
Posted 4:01am Monday 25th July 2011 by Editor
ON DA INTERWEBZ “Technology” is a fairly far-reaching theme. Perhaps it’s just that I’m somewhat of a technophobe who shies away from things with buttons and flashing lights, but the sheer magnitude of what counts as technology is overwhelming. Needless to say, it was hard to pick what Read more...
Diatribe - 16
Posted 3:59am Monday 25th July 2011 by Mary-Rose Wiklund
Learning to drive is not just about getting a handle on indicating and turning a wheel – it is a journey of self-discovery. In other words, you discover just how angry you can get at other people, and at strangers no less. Personally, there is a group of people somewhere between those who drive Read more...
Debatable - 16
Posted 3:55am Monday 25th July 2011 by Beau Murrah and Hannah Drury
This week’s motion is “that social networking stunts social skills.” Beau Murrah argues the affirmative while Hannah Drury argues the negative. Affirmative I have (and you likely have too) heard old people say things about social networking websites that sound like things probably said Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 15
Posted 12:08am Tuesday 12th July 2011 by Camilla and Charles
Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date. Camilla I arrived at Toast fashionably late via a taxi van after consuming many glasses of wine, to find a near empty bar-but we filled it up. I entered Toast hopefully without my date noticing that I brought my entire flat with me. I Read more...
Editorial - 15
Posted 4:43am Monday 11th July 2011 by Editor
Welcome back! We hope you had a great break and all that jazz. It may have been a break, but hey, the world keeps spinning and boy, did a lot of things happen. OUSA’s very own “sex scandal” Dan Stride’s very public resignation raised a number of issues surrounding privacy (see Read more...
Diatribe - 15
Posted 4:41am Monday 11th July 2011 by Nick Gavigan
On Wednesday the 1st of June on live television, Murray Deaker described a man working on a sheep farm as “working like a nigger”. I write this on the evening of Friday 3rd, just a few hours after the ‘professional media’ wrote its first online article on the events. Two days late. Cue Sky TV Read more...
Debatable - 15
Posted 4:38am Monday 11th July 2011 by Alec Dawson and Kurt Purdon
This week’s motion is “that insulation of Dunedin flats should be compulsory.” Alec Dawson argues the affirmative while Kurt Purdon argues the negative. Affirmative Dunedin winters are relentlessly cold, dark and bleak. If you’re lucky enough to be living in a hall of Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 14
Posted 4:22am Monday 11th July 2011 by Charles and Diana
Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date. Charles The hour drew nigh as I made my merry way to the tavern of Toaste Barre. Though my journey was long and arduous, I let neither bogle nor banshee nor goblin from the cave of UniColle prevent me from reaching my destination and Read more...
Editorial - 14
Posted 4:17am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Editor
I’M LEAVING ON AN AEROPLANE It’s the last Critic of the semester, and oh, what a semester it’s been. It started with an earthquake, which shook things up for a bit (sorry, I couldn’t help myself). Brash and Harawira fought it out, Geoghegan resigned, a fairly uninspiring national budget was Read more...
Diatribe - 14
Posted 4:16am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Hazel Green
If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s the nation’s obsession with rugby. It’s an all-consuming obsession, one that some (namely Jim Flynn, God bless him), would say is bordering on the unhealthy. Expressing ambivalence/complete disinterest in our national sport is on par with treason. Say you Read more...
Debatable - 14
Posted 4:09am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by John Brinsley-Pirie and Nathan Thomas
Debatable is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for social debating every Tuesday at 7pm in the Commerce Building. This week’s motion is “should New Zealand become a republic?”. John Brinsley-Pirie argues the affirmative while Nathan Thomas argues the negative. Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 13
Posted 3:51am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Michelle and Barak
Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date. Michelle So prior to meeting my date at Toast, I had a cheeky double gin to boost my smalltalk potential. I ignored my flatmates’ advice to “get fuckin’ maggot” because I didn’t want to bring my Read more...
Editorial - 13
Posted 1:01am Friday 1st July 2011 by Editor
Apathy. Meh. It’s presidential election week at OUSA, and we’ve gone all political-bonanza on this issue. Inside, we offer full election coverage: from the forum (pg 7), to Qs and As with the candidates (pg 12 onwards), to election analysis with our pundits (pg16). Read it. Ask the candidates Read more...
Diatribe - 13
Posted 12:55am Friday 1st July 2011 by Amelia Pond
Race relations in New Zealand is delicate discussion territory. I don’t pretend by any means to be an expert on the subject. I’m not a law student, I have never studied the Treaty outside of fourth form social studies, I am not Maori, I’m as pale and pasty as they come and I am originally from Read more...
Debatable - 13
Posted 12:54am Friday 1st July 2011 by Tarsh Turner and John Brinsley-Pirie
This week’s motion is “Southland lignite should stay in the ground”. Tarsh Turner argues the affirmative while John Brinsley-Pirie argues the negative. Affirmative The development of Southland’s lignite deposits represents a major threat to the global climate, and will not Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 12
Posted 11:47pm Monday 30th May 2011 by Ann and King Kong
Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date (courtesy of the lovely people at Toast), complete with a bar tab and positive vibez, in an attempt to prove that Dunedinites can date. The only catch: the love birds each divulge all the salacious details of their date in a short snappy article Read more...
Editorial - 12
Posted 6:21am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Editor
LET’S GET PO-LITICAL If you’re reading this, it means the apocolypse, as predicted by various Christian groups in the US never occurred. Oh well. Better luck next time, crazies. This week’s issue is the food issue, and if there’s one thing I like, it’s food. Like the food editor, Nigella Read more...
Debatable - 12
Posted 6:18am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Todd Dickens and Keegan Burrow
This week’s motion is “Should the US have shot Osama bin Laden?” Todd Dickens argues the affirmative while Keegan Burrow argues the negative. Affirmative Sometimes it is simply not good enough to do your best, you have to actually succeed at doing what is necessary. Obama knows this. He took Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 11
Posted 6:01am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Jay Z and Beyonce
Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date (courtesy of the lovely people at Toast), complete with a bar tab and positive vibez, in an attempt to prove that Dunedinites can date. The only catch: the love birds each divulge all the salacious details of their date in a short snappy article Read more...
Editorial - 11
Posted 7:08am Thursday 19th May 2011 by Editor
It’s OUSA Diversity Week, to celebrate, we bring you the Diversity issue. It’s easy to underestimate the importance of diversity issues in 2011. After all, homosexuality isn’t illegal anymore, civil unions have been established (more on this on page df) and there’s a small possibility that, as a Read more...
Diatribe - 11
Posted 6:49am Thursday 19th May 2011 by Anonymous
“Despite current usage, the word [homosexual] is an adjective describing a sexual action, not a noun describing a recognisable type.” (Gore Vidal) I am a man, I have romantic relationships with men and I have sex with men. At the same time, I do not think of myself as “gay”, Read more...
Debatable - 11
Posted 6:45am Thursday 19th May 2011 by Will Cheyne and Clare Burn
Debatable is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for social debating every Tuesday at 7pm in the Commerce Building. This week’s motion is “We should allow disabled parents to select embryos that will produce disabled children”. Will Cheyne argues the affirmative while Clare Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 10
Posted 5:00am Thursday 12th May 2011 by Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez
Justin Bieber The evening kicked off at home with a couple of pies, some good music and a 15 box to calm the nerves. The flatmates showed more interest in the grand event than in either the Royal Wedding or a free sausage from the Christians. Showered and shaved up and down, I was Read more...
Editorial - 10
Posted 10:06pm Monday 9th May 2011 by Editor
Happy Families It’s the month of May, which, aside from heralding the downward slide into assignments and exams, also happens to be New Zealand music month. To celebrate this, we’ve put together a music themed issue. The Copyright Amendment bill, the best New Zealand bands, the music Read more...
Just Another Fucking Hipster
Posted 9:59pm Monday 9th May 2011 by Robert Smith
No social factor is contrived to be so important, or used so divisively, as one’s music taste. Seemingly above all other things, the particular pressure oscillations of air that one grants unhindered passage into one’s auditory senses is THE defining social boundary. Imagine walking into a Read more...
We should ban offensive material in songs
Posted 9:54pm Monday 9th May 2011 by
This week’s motion is “We should ban offensive material in songs”. John Brinsley-Pirie argues the affirmative while Tiho Mijatov argues the negative. Affirmative By offensive, what I mean is violent and denigrating material. I don’t care about some dude swearing or telling Read more...
Editorial - 9
Posted 3:45am Monday 9th May 2011 by Editor
Since U Been Gone Welcome back to the second half of the semester. I hope you had a wonderful break. We sure did. The one down side to the public holidays are, of course, that on your days off you can’t necessarily do the things you might have wanted to do. I, for instance, wanted to catch Read more...
Diatribe - 9
Posted 6:29am Thursday 5th May 2011 by Adrian Green
It wouldn’t be a New Zealand public holiday without the obligatory reports on the dead, maimed and general carnage on our roads. Death, destruction, cars, explosions and sometimes alcohol; it’s everything we love in our media all wrapped up into one nice little news nugget, ready for nationwide Read more...
War can never be justified
Posted 6:23am Thursday 5th May 2011 by Jack Montgomerie and Rebecca Gates
Debatable is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for social debating every Tuesday at 7pm in the Commerce Building. This week’s motion is “war can never be justified”. Jack Montgomerie argues the affirmative while Rebecca Gates argues the negative. Affirmative Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 9
Posted 5:51am Thursday 5th May 2011 by Prince William and Kate Middleton
Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date (courtesy of the lovely people at Toast), complete with a bar tab and positive vibez, in an attempt to prove that Dunedinites can date. The only catch: the love birds each divulge all the salacious details of their date in a short snappy article Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 8
Posted 4:13am Wednesday 27th April 2011 by Hugh Hefner and Anna-Nicole Smith
Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date (courtesy of the lovely people at Toast), complete with a bar tab and positive vibez, in an attempt to prove that Dunedinites can date. The only catch: the love birds each divulge all the salacious details of their date in a short snappy article Read more...
Work work fashion baby
Posted 4:19am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Julia Hollingsworth
Welcome to the fashion issue. As you may be aware, Planet Media (the umbrella parent company of both Critic and Radio One) underwent a review last week. While the recommendations are not yet public, there is a strong possibility that the panel will recommend that Planet Media be assimilated into Read more...
The Lads
Posted 4:10am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Luke MacLean-McMahon
How is it that sockless boat shoes, ankle-skuxing and flat peaks have become a fashion statement? The current trends on display in and around uni are shameful, if not completely fucked. At least in the days of Canterbury NZ track pants and Kathmandu puffer jackets, comfort and practicality were at Read more...
Summer Lovin' - 7
Posted 7:31am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Kurt and Courtney
In a city where romance consists of drunkenly holding hands while walking home and dates are a post-town pre-root Big Mac, it seems dating, at least in the American television sense, is dead. In Summer Lovin’, Critic sets up two lucky students on a blind date (courtesy of the lovely people at Read more...
Editorial - 7
Posted 5:47am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Editor
If I have one drug-related pet peeve, it’s when people casually but not so casually bring up drugs constantly in conversation. You’ll be discussing something uncontroversial like tractors, or the weather, when next thing you know, the un-subtle drug taker drops their drug consumption habits into the Read more...
Diatribe - 7
Posted 5:45am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Richard Kennedy
If you are a student in New Zealand there exists a magic number. Or, rather, two magic numbers. If you live at home this number is $82,953.82, or if you are away from home the number is $89,936.68. Congratulations if your combined parental income is less than this! It means that you have just gained Read more...
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