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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...

Sam Johnson

Posted 2:29am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Georgie Fenwicke

On a normal day, Sam Johnson is a Canterbury University student majoring in Law and Political Science. Unleash a natural disaster onto his city, however, and Sam becomes one of the co-ordinators of the army of student volunteers working tirelessly to restore Christchurch to its former glory. Each Read more...

O Week

Posted 2:20am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Charlotte Doyle and Georgi Hampton

Each year, Critic conducts a review of OUSA’s O Week - the highlights, the spew-y lowlights, the great bands and the bands that sparked hateful scarfie chants. This year, however, we did things a little differently. For a while now Dunedin bars have been offering up “alternative” OWeeks, often Read more...

Face Value

Posted 2:16am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Siobhan Downes

As of 2011, over 500 million of us are living our lives within the cornflower-blue-and-white themed webpages of Facebook. For most of 2010, Facebook surpassed Google as the most visited website. We’re over searching porn, celebrities and LOLcats. We’d rather search each other; our friends, families, Read more...

Seven irritating ‘friend’ types on Facebook

Posted 2:12am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Josh Hercus

There’s a good chance some people are going to defriend me as a result of this piece... The Liker: Known for: ‘liking’ everything and anything  What they think they’re doing: I’m really bored so I’m just gonna like all this stuff cause it’s just so Read more...

I know what you did last summer…

Posted 4:01am Monday 28th February 2011 by Phoebe Harrop

If the extent of your summer current events knowledge came from: a) doing the occasional Stuff quiz; b) checking the Facebook statuses of your socially-conscious friends; or c) reading the ODT; then this alphabet of Important Summer Happenings, compiled by news-savvy Phoebe Harrop, will bring you up Read more...

It's What He Didn't Say

Posted 3:58am Monday 28th February 2011 by Georgie Fenwicke

Recently, Georgie Fenwicke was set the ambitious task of interrogating John Key on his leadership style, election plans and policies for students. Key turned out to be as evasive as any head of state should be, and thus what follows is compelling both for what he actually said, and what he carefully Read more...

Fresher FAQ

Posted 3:55am Monday 28th February 2011 by Josh Hercus

Most Freshers look like confused puppies as they wander eagerly through campus, giggling loudly about getting OTP and the guy on their floor they pashed last night. It’s the point when freshers still think that their law degree will make them successful, rather than drain their soul, and that doing Read more...

Books are the new Black

Posted 3:50am Monday 28th February 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

The demise of the hard copy book has been predicted by technophiles since the birth of the personal computer. After all, with surf the channel and youtube at our fingertips, who has the time to struggle through Jane Eyre, or, god forbid, Tolkein? Charlotte Greenfield talked to Politics lecturer Read more...

New Zealander of the Year 2010 – Shane Cortese

Posted 2:18am Wednesday 3rd November 2010 by Staff Reporter

Shane Cortese; a man with more talents than there are shades of blonde streaks in his hair. A man who bravely made a comeback after a tragic fake tan incident during Dancing With the Stars that has permanently left his skin a strange, inhuman, yellowy-brown hue.   2010 was a triumphant Read more...

ADJUDCIATION BY THE NEW ZEALAND PRESS COUNCIL ON THE COMPLAINT OF THE OTAGO MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT TRUST AGAINST CRITIC TE-AROHI

Posted 2:03am Wednesday 3rd November 2010 by Critic

  Mike McAlevey of the Otago Mental Health Support Trust has complained to the New Zealand Press Council that an article in the Otago University student newspaper, Critic, headed The Bum at the Bottom of the World, was among other things, inaccurate, discriminatory and in poor Read more...

Scamming Studylink

Posted 1:52am Tuesday 12th October 2010 by Staff Reporter

Ralph grew up in a $7m beachfront house in Auckland’s affluent Cheltenham. His Dad made “serious coin” working as a partner in a prominent law firm for 14 years, enough to retire when Ralph was in fifth form. Ralph has spent the last four years studying physiotherapy at AUT. Throughout those four Read more...