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Ode to the Vagina

Posted 12:19am Tuesday 9th August 2011 by Joe Stockman

A Man’s View on Women’s Liberation As a man writing an article on women’s liberation, there is a lot of room to get into Alasdair Thompson-style trouble. I am a twenty something, straight, white male. While I have on occasion dated women, dressed as a woman, and spent many hours Read more...

Madonna in a Corset

Posted 12:14am Tuesday 9th August 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

Charlotte Greenfield explores the strained dichotomy between the sexualisation of women, and the judgement of women’s sexuality. It starts early. A marketing exercise in the US analysed language used in advertising aimed at children. Boys got words such as “battle”, Read more...

Not only one Wright track

Posted 12:11am Tuesday 9th August 2011 by Anonymous

A while ago, Commissioner for the Environment Jan Wright was in town, and without really knowing exactly what her job entailed, I seized upon the opportunity to interview someone from the real world, outside of OUSA. It emerged that Jan Wright was appointed as Commissioner for the Environment Read more...

DICKS OUT FOR THE GIRLS

Posted 12:04am Tuesday 9th August 2011 by Siobhan Downes

Innocent-minded Siobhan Downes experiences the genre of ‘female porn’ - pornography made especially for women. It was the worst timing. When I set out to become a connoisseur of female porn, I was actually snowed in at my parents’ house. Thus the initial stages of my research were, Read more...

Out on the town

Posted 4:33am Thursday 4th August 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

One happening Saturday, Critic decided to brave a suitably cold winter’s night in order to find out whether Dunedin can justify its urban identity with sufficiently sordid nightlife. Much to everyone’s surprise, it can. We may have no White House or Mermaid, but what we found was more than enough to Read more...

Between the Sheets

Posted 4:27am Thursday 4th August 2011 by Siobhan Downes

Or, like, on the d-floor at Monkey Bar, on a bike, or in the celebrity squares of Central Library. Critic goes Cosmo and talks to six students about the world’s favourite pastime. Emily I wanted it. But I was also real scared. What happens if I get cum in my eye, or if it smells down Read more...

Into the Wild

Posted 4:22am Thursday 4th August 2011 by Mrs John Wilmot

Mrs John Wilmot ventures outdoors, and rates locations for their al-fresco sex appeal. I have nothing against basic insertive vaginal, anal or oral intercourse. In fact, I happen to be somewhat, and by “somewhat” I mean “extremely and borderline obsessively”, Read more...

In Memoriam: the Death of the Scarfie

Posted 12:27am Tuesday 26th July 2011 by Joe Stockman

If you’re reading this, chances are that you’re an Otago student (or else have a taste for cutting-edge journalism), but does that automatically make you a scarfie? It seems that fewer and fewer students self-identify as scarfies, thinking of scarfies as unfocused pissheads who don’t care about Read more...

SURVIVAL OF THE LINGUIST

Posted 12:15am Tuesday 26th July 2011 by Siobhan Downes

Maori Language Week has been and gone for another year and, as always, its presence was most perceptibly marked by the embarrassingly eager bilingual efforts of television broadcasters, whether it be John Campbell’s ‘kee-ora, good evening, hairy-my New Zealand!’ or ‘celebrity’ chef Richard Till’s Read more...

Fed up with Pandering to Racists?

Posted 12:04am Tuesday 26th July 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

“Its so racist against white people, wheres my free uni?” [sic] says Angus Anderson on the Facebook page “GETTING A UNI SCHOLARSHIP IS SOOOOO HARD lol jk I’m 1/64 Maori” (although Critic speculates that a scholarship might be necessary to improve grammar that bad). And how can we forget ACT’s ads Read more...

Film Festival Comes to Town

Posted 4:31am Monday 25th July 2011 by Sarah Baillie

Local boy, former Critic film reviewer and director of the New Zealand International Film Festival, Bill Gosden visited Dunedin last week for the launch of the festival programme. Sarah Baillie caught up with him for a chat about his cool job and what to expect from the film festival this year. Read more...

Out of This World

Posted 4:17am Monday 25th July 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

300 kilometres above us, a long way in the context of Earth, but a miniscule distance in the vast expanse of the universe, is the home of the first continuous ten years of human occupation in space. It is an odd kind of home. With its conglomeration of wires and mechanics lining the 109-metre length Read more...

Making change for climate change

Posted 4:09am Monday 25th July 2011 by Josh Hercus

All too often we hear about the dire consequences of climate change. However, one thing I’ve noticed is that we don’t really hear that much about the solutions. Climate change is a big problem that requires a big solution. So what can you do? What can one person do? Maybe you’re like me Read more...

Cancer Cells

Posted 4:04am Monday 25th July 2011 by Siobhan Downes

What’s the hang up on cell phones? Could they be the next cigarettes? Siobhan Downes investigates the World Health Organisation’s recent statement that radiation from your cell phone could cause cancer.   It’s the icon of the wireless age: the cell phone. We have been dubbed the Read more...

Winter Wonderland

Posted 5:16am Monday 11th July 2011 by Rueben Black

Winter presents the most practically challenging and aesthetically captivating season for both men’s and women’s fashion. But if you’re not a law student or a rich Auckland hipster with mountains of Country Road and ASOS winter gear, it can be a living hell. Waiting weeks on end for your only Read more...

Voluntary Apocalypse

Posted 5:06am Monday 11th July 2011 by Joe Stockman

You probably don’t realise, walking around campus all rugged up in your puffer jacket, that the world is going to end. It’s not the Mayan calendar, Global Warming, or thermo-nuclear war that’s going to take us all out. There is a tiny little bill in front of parliament right now that has the power Read more...

Private Parts

Posted 5:01am Monday 11th July 2011 by Sam McChesney

With the recent furore around Darren Hughes’s sex scandal allegations, and now our very own Dan Stride, Sam McChesney decides to delve into the wild world of privacy law. Privacy is an issue which has received increasing attention in recent years. In years gone by, individuals were largely Read more...

I wanna have sex baby

Posted 4:49am Monday 11th July 2011 by Phoebe Harrop

Phoebe Harrop talks to renowned sex therapist and author of Sex Life Dr. Pamela Stephenson-Connolly about, well, sex. Dr. Pamela Stephenson-Connolly is a serious MILF. There’s the long and lustrous platinum blonde hair, the come hither gaze, that hard-to-place accent… Oh and Read more...

Back in the golden days

Posted 4:36am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Phoebe Harrop

It’s fair to say that Otago students don’t always receive the most favourable media coverage. While some of it is well-deserved, some of it is clearly a little hyperbolic. Phoebe Harrop considers the New Zealand media’s particular pleasure in outing the latest controversial exploits of students, and Read more...

Their Land, Our Land

Posted 4:33am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

After Israel attacked an aid flotilla headed for the Gaza Strip in May 2010, investigative journalist John Pilger accused members of the Western media, including the trusty BBC, of “deception” in their coverage of the event. The promulgating of propaganda is a charge commonly leveled at the Israeli Read more...