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Central America.

Posted 9:46pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jennifer Turek

Picture yourself wandering along a trail through the dense rainforest. You’ve never seen plant life like this before. Water drips down from the trees towering above you and lands on the top of your head. The bushes ahead of you move – is it an anteater or a coati? Neither. It’s an agouti, a relative Read more...

Internet Addic-tron-net.

Posted 7:57pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Caitlyn O’Fallon

The latest thing in protesting seems to be trying to sell something on TradeMe. OUSA tried to sell themselves to make a point about VSM. Design Studies made a brief appearance on the site in April. A school principal in Invercargill even tried to sell the New Zealand curriculum on TradeMe to protest Read more...

Football World Cup

Posted 7:55pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

Country profiles. Group A   South Africa: Despite their measly FIFA ranking (90 at time of print), smart money is on South Africa to progress past the group. They will get the majority of the referee’s decisions, and will always have home crowd advantage, plus conditions Read more...

The Clientele

Posted 7:51pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

Gardies: Touchy subject. Over the years, Gardies has proven a haven for both first- and second-years, especially those on ‘the Castle Street buzz’. Come the end of every exam period, Gardies finds itself packed to the rafters with all sorts of sop, eager to get loose, and erm Read more...

Rising from the ashes of the global financial crisis...

Posted 3:54pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

..over the backdrop of the green revolution, investing with the well-being of the world in mind is an idea whose time seems to have come. If you have some spare cash around at the moment, or are interested in the prospect of investing once you have said cash, then ‘socially responsible investing’ is Read more...

Balancing the Scarfie Budget.

Posted 3:52pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

We lucky Scarfies (OTP) are privy to the most unique form of currency around. It’s more unique than the rand, the clam, or even the button. We Scarfies have So-Go’s (Southern Gold). At $6 a pack, they provide the perfect way of assessing purchases and writing weekly budgets. Critic has taken the Read more...

PLAGIARISE THIS ARTICLE

Posted 3:01pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

“Using one person's ideas is plagiarism. Using lots of people's ideas is research.”   I like this quote, but I'm not sure who to attribute it to; I heard it from a friend, who heard it from a friend, and who knows where they got it. (Actually ,the original quote is “Copy from one, Read more...

Celebrity Financial Failures

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

    Donald Trump: It wasn’t all plain sailing for the rich cat with the killer do. Trumpykins (as he likes to be called) suffered heavily in the recession of the late ‘80s, amassing serious amounts of debt and even going into business bankruptcy (not to be Read more...

61 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Human Body

Posted 2:57pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

1. There are about ten times as many bacterial cells in the human body as human cells.   2. Newborn babies often lactate (produce breast milk), because they’re born with their mum’s hormones in their blood.   3. The muscle that makes men, um … retract Read more...

The Perpetual Student: the life of the student who never graduates is under threat

Posted 2:04pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Thomas redford

What do you picture when imagining the ‘perpetual student?’ A hunched and green-blazered old joker, whose sleeping head isn’t visible within the fortress of library reference books that he constructs around himself every day? Or a strutting, regularly-wassuping party animal with worried eyes that Read more...

It’s graduation time.

Posted 2:02pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

Graduating Over the next few weekends it will be impossible to book a table at a restaurant or drive down George Street without being run over by a horde of people with weird square hats. Why? It’s graduation time, of course. You’ll get there soon. Critic examines the major courses of study at Read more...

The Capping Show: Really Old

Posted 1:59pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Caitlyn O’Fallon

The University of Otago’s oldest tradition has nothing to do with riots, togas, or using furniture as kindling. There is one tradition that predates the Leith run by over 40 years, and the Clocktower race by nearly a century. And it’s not only our oldest tradition, it’s also our funniest. Read more...

The Campus Toilet Review.

Posted 12:43pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Dreke Verkuylen

In one of the more controversial task assignments, Critic sent reviewers around some of the various facilities the University of Otago has to offer. Not quite the glitz and glamour of eating takeaways, but if a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.   Clock Tower After much Read more...

The Coffee Review.

Posted 12:42pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Dreke Verkuylen

In the interest of eliminating student indecision regarding the wide variety of cafés in Dunedin, Critic has compiled a review of some of the more prominent coffee houses around campus and town. While this may leave some uneasiness in the stomachs of connoisseurs, in the interest of appealing to Read more...

The $1 Mixture Review.

Posted 12:40pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Dreke Verkuylen

  Campus Wonderful 12 items Good selection, including sour strap (normally valued at 20c), and a variety of larger lollies. The inclusion of a Mackintosh and fizzer tube was deemed controversial by our judges. The chocolate fish, however, was well received. This selection had the Read more...

The Fish ‘n’ Chips Review.

Posted 12:39pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Dreke Verkuylen

Welcome to the Annual Critic Fish and Chip Review. This has proved to be one of the perks of the job, as Critic’s senior editorial staff got to laze around one night, gorging on takeaways and shooting the shit. In the midst of the resulting grease and squalor we have managed to pull together our Read more...

The Bar ‘Safety’ Review.

Posted 12:35pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Dreke Verkuylen

Critic enlists a (very eager) OUSA Exec to run round town and assess the ‘safety’ of Dunedin’s various drinking establishments. Very important work, of course. Gardies As Shakespeare would have put it: “Alas, poor Gardies, I knew it well (and so did you).” For as everyone now Read more...

How to Fuck a Moose

Posted 4:06am Monday 10th May 2010 by Michael Tyler Jensen

You’ve done it all.  You’ve grasped a Drysdale ram by the horns and hammered away like a road worker.  You’ve dropped trou and done the nasty with squirrels, chipmunks, gophers, marmots, rabbits, hamsters - if it squeaks, you’ve been there.  You even got funky with an aardvark once when you had Read more...

Exploiting Freshers

Posted 4:02am Monday 10th May 2010 by name

First-year Health Sci and Law students are possibly the most desperate people on the planet. Even the ones who start out ‘just keeping their options open’, or those who ‘thought they looked like interesting papers’ tend to end up a quivering wreck by the end of BIOC192 or LAWS101. Surveying students Read more...

Student Soldiers

Posted 3:54am Monday 10th May 2010 by Susan Smirk

Students with guns - probably the University's worst nightmare. Nevertheless, many students do join the armed forces while completing their degrees. In order to juggle study and service, most opt for the Territorial Forces, the part-time troops also known as the Reserve Army. Susan Smirk talks to Read more...

My Life at war

Posted 3:13am Monday 10th May 2010 by Thomas redford

Talking to war veterans is a win-win exercise; you get to enjoy first-hand stories from a time it is hard to imagine yourself experiencing, while most veterans savour having an interested ear to feed their well-practised yarns. But perform a few calculations and you’ll realise that not only are Read more...