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Two Hours with Louis Crimp

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Callum Fredric

An interview with the outspoken and often offensive multi-millionaire about life, cats, Maori culture, and sex against trees. When I first came up with the idea of interviewing Louis Crimp, I had a very simple agenda – to get as many outrageous quotes as possible. The Invercargill Read more...

Bursting The Bubble of The Clean Green Myth

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Jordan Maynard

As a Canadian exchange student, I have the impression that pride in New Zealand’s farming history is ingrained in every Kiwi outside of Auckland. But what exactly do you Southerners have to be proud of? Is New Zealand’s clean green agricultural image real, or just a marketing façade to separate you Read more...

The Children of Parihaka

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Katie Kenny

The New Zealand Film Festival screening of Tatarakihi: The Children of Parihaka, directed by Paora Te Oti Takarangi Joseph, left me feeling seriously ignorant of Dunedin’s local history. You see, I had no idea that the streets upon which we walk daily – High Street, Stuart Street, the Read more...

Jimmy Boy

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Claudia Herron

Esteemed moral philosopher and historian Emeritus Professor James R Flynn has a staggering breadth of knowledge in fields of philosophy, psychology, and politics, on topics ranging from human ideals to race, class, and IQ. After a near 30-year reign as Head of the Politics Department at the Read more...

New Zealand's Most Inspirational Celebrities

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Anonymous

The front page of this week’s Sunday Star Times offered a fetching full-page graphic of our victorious Olympic gold medallists, punctuated by the witty headline “IT’S RAINING MEDALS!” Our Olympic success naturally deserves recognition, but I can’t help but worry that this wanton, vulgar celebration Read more...

Get Your Faith On

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Joe Stockman

“Thank God I’m an Atheist” - Luis Bunuel It would be pretty easy, too easy, for a student magazine to write an article about religion and simply tear it down. Religion is stupid in the face of any form of rationality. Pretty much every faith asks you to believe in something unseen – a Read more...

Dunedin's Sons of Abraham

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Michael Neilson

Before getting started, I should clarify that the title of this article does not refer to a couple of blokes you might catch down at the Cook on a Thursday night. Abraham and his sons Isaac and Ishmael provide the historical and spiritual roots of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. University Read more...

Fag?

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Zane Pocock

Members of OUSA-affiliated society UniQ have been revolting against Critic’s Straight Up column due to columnist Dame La Dida’s usage of the words “fag” and “faggot”. Things reached fever pitch on Facebook last week after Critic printed a letter to, and a response from, Dame La Dida in last week's Read more...

The Three WORST Flatmates

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012 by Anonymous

Existentalist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre famously concluded that hell is other people. As my degree stretches into its fifth year, I am convinced that Sartre’s relentlessly bleak view of humanity was developed after an episode of time travel in which he spent half a decade flatting in Dunedin. The Read more...

Need a Dollar

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012 by Katie Kenny

Tacked to the wall above my deskis a note from my sister Charlotte: “Don’t spend all your $$$! xox”. Her warning is not a joke, or even an exaggeration. My ever-sensible sister has been my ready-cash rescuer and my financial conscience all too often. We all have our Read more...

Flatting 101

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012 by Lauren Wootton

It’s that time of year again – every knock at the door is another group of students hoping to look around “really quick” to see what is up for grabs. Going flatting is a rite of passage for students, signifying a new independence away from parents or the swipe card-dominated 10pm Quiet Time of hall Read more...

Dolphin Wars

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012 by Margot Taylor

They are one of those quintessential creatures that people just love, aren’t they. Dolphins fill crappy children’s movies, decorate our toilet paper, and are used by the New Zealand tourism industry to attract tourists who pay up to $200 for a chance to dive into our icy waters and hopefully swim Read more...

A Long Journey Home

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012 by Michael Neilson

We’ve all been in situations where we don’t feel safe and need to escape. Maybe it was a sober night at Monkey Bar, a slightly-too-ruckus Castle St party, or being confronted by a stranger in a dark alley. I was chased down Arthur Street by a drugged-out lunatic at 2am just last week. But luckily Read more...

An Unnecessarily Clinical and Probably Inaccurate Analysis of New Zealand's Olympic Team

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012 by Gus Gawn

185 New Zealand athletes will compete across 21 sports at the London 2012 Olympics. That's a lot. It puts us in the top 20 nations in the world in terms of numbers competing. Britain will have the most, with 542 athletes competing across all 26 sports. 21 sports is a lot of sports to know Read more...

Prof. Alan Musgrave

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012 by Bella Macdonald

Over 40 years of research and dedication to the University of Otago Philosophy department has paid off for Professor Alan Musgrave after being awarded an Otago University Distinguished Research Medal. The medal is Otago University’s highest research honour. It rewards and recognises outstanding Read more...

The Annual Critic Sex Toy Review

Posted 10:46am Sunday 22nd July 2012 by Anonymous

Personal development guru Tony Robbins is famous for breathlessly rhapsodising to lumpen Wal-Mart shelf-stackers that the fastest route to career success and satisfaction is to find something you love doing, and make it your job. I spend most of my time lying in bed with the curtains drawn jerking Read more...

What is Beauty?

Posted 10:46am Sunday 22nd July 2012 by Katie Kenny

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." - — John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” You’re likely thinking, quite rightly, “Oh, how typical for Katie to be given a brief on beauty and to employ poetry...” However, before you condemn my Read more...

Te Wiki o Te Reo

Posted 10:46am Sunday 22nd July 2012 by Gianna Leoni

Hei aha te nui, te iti rānei (No matter how big or how small)Indigenous languages are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. In recent months I have been fortunate enough to meet and listen to different indigenous peoples from around the world, which has made me aware of how lucky we are here in Read more...

It is How We're Drinking

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 15th July 2012 by Katie Kenny

Is student drinking really a problem? Aren’t we just young people having a good time, getting a bit loose with our mates, and enjoying ourselves while we still can? Katie Kenny takes a look at the damage that can be caused when we go a bit too far with the booze. According to the Ministry of Read more...

What The Drunk?

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 15th July 2012 by Lauren Wootton

On any given night of the week scarfies and their friends go out to play, and nine times out of ten their sport of choice is drinking. Getting booze is easy, and getting drunk is even easier. But why does alcohol make us feel so good (and then oh-so-bad)? And what is it actually doing to us? Read more...