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Duckface, begone.

Posted 4:48am Monday 28th March 2011 by Josh Hercus

A Public Service Announcement by Josh Hercus There are many, many problems in the world. We have uprisings and corruption. We have climate change and natural disasters. We have war and mass starvation. However there is one problem that needs to be addressed immediately. A problem that has spread Read more...

Duckface, begone.

Posted 4:48am Monday 28th March 2011 by Josh Hercus

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The Arab Spring

Posted 4:35am Monday 28th March 2011 by Joe Stockman

Fuck this shit, I’m lighting myself on fire. Way back in December 2010, while future freshers waited patiently for useless NCEA results, and the rest of us prayed for twelve weeks of living with the olds to come to an end, something big was happening. Something really big. In Tunisia - a country Read more...

The annual BYO review

Posted 3:48am Monday 21st March 2011 by Anonymous

There’s more to student life than just downing Southern Golds on Castle Street and eating fish’n’chips on Fatty Mile. Indeed, the past few years have seen the rise of a new tradition: the BYO. Nowadays there’s no need to wait for a birthday or graduation in order to fill a bottle with goon and Read more...

Red Card 101

Posted 3:38am Monday 21st March 2011 by Phoebe Harrop

For more on the history of Red Cards in Dunedin, check out: How The Red Card Became a Dunedin Cultural Phenomenon An introduction to, and critical appraisal of, a Dunedin student tradition The red card is a mysterious phenomenon. No one knows quite where it came from, but I like to imagine Read more...

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

Posted 3:33am Monday 21st March 2011 by Josh Hercus

Josh Hercus reviews Dunedin ice cream.   Critic ice cream review criteria   Ice cream type: how good it tastes. Obviously, some places use the same stuff. Price and quantity: is it a good size for the price? Standard size = two scoops, always on a cone. Structural Read more...

The Great and Glorious Annual Critic Fish and Chip Review

Posted 3:28am Monday 21st March 2011 by David Milner and Cory Dalzell

Critic’s been reviewing fish and chips for yonks and yonks, or eleven years to be exact. It seems there’s nothing as universal, nor as all-embracingly glutinous, as consuming a greasy packet of deep fried goodness. And so, at least for the sake of keeping tradition alive, we’ve taken it upon Read more...

Wikileaks; Freedom, Law and Politics

Posted 4:58am Monday 14th March 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

The New Yorker's George Packer calls him "super-secretive, thin-skinned, [and] megalomaniacal." Sarah Palin claims he's "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands" whom we should pursue "with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders." Meanwhile, he is the darling of left Read more...

System Overload

Posted 4:53am Monday 14th March 2011 by Georgie Fenwicke

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? - The Merchant of Venice III.II At any time of the week, Courtroom One in the Manukau District Court is a busy place; in the half-hour or so before lunch, it gets pretty Read more...

Bizarre Crimes

Posted 4:44am Monday 14th March 2011 by Josh Hercus

If you’re gonna get locked up, it might as well be for something that will make a good story. Josh Hercus has done his research, and come up with eight of the most bizarre crime and court cases from around the world. Something smells off A man in Singapore was sentenced to 14 years in prison Read more...