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Who wants to be an OUSA PRESIDENT?

Posted 8:49pm Thursday 20th September 2012 by Staff Reporter

Thank god for term limits ay. Logan Edgar can’t run again, leaving the position of OUSA President wide open. And the scarfies are lining up to replace him. Unfortunately they’re all ugly as sin, and to make it worse, all dudes. Seriously where the ladies at? But you can’t win them all right? So it’s Read more...

Here Are Your Candidates

Posted 8:49pm Thursday 20th September 2012 by Staff Reporter

It is OUSA election time. This is your chance to decide who’s going to run your students’ assocation throughout 2013. These guys are going to be controlling how over $3million dollars of your levies are spent, as well as setting the long term direction for the assocation. So get out and learn about Read more...

U-Create

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Katie Kenny

In Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed dystopian thriller, Never Let Me Go, art is literally a lifeline for the novel’s doomed characters, Tommy and Kathy. “That’s the whole thing about art,” explains Tommy. “It says what’s inside of you; it reveals your soul.” Cuts to CreativitySome would say, Read more...

Apollo’s Arrow

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Josef Alton

Stage 10 of the 2001 Tour de France was a climb in the French Alps involving three above category hill climbs, summiting at the legendary ski resort l’Alpe d’Huez. It is the first mountain stage of the world-renowned bicycle race. Early in the day, Jan Ullrich had eased into the lead of the peloton Read more...

What The Art

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Zane Pocock

As a form of expression and communication, art has been around for almost as long as humanity. The brain is hard-wired to appreciate the aesthetic, and the deeper readings of conceptual art can prove incredibly rewarding for those that way inclined. But interesting though it is, the complexity of Read more...

The Great Critic Politics Quiz

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Callum Fredric

Are you jealous of friends who describe themselves as “progressive,” “right-wing,” or “conservative”? Do you desperately yearn to categorise your political views into a neat little box? If so, good news! Critic’s resident political scientists, Callum Fredric and Sam McChesney, have studied Read more...

Is The Treaty Dead?

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Lauren Wootton

I know what you’re thinking – not another article about the Treaty of Waitangi and race relations in New Zealand. Bring back the blind date lesbian sex! The only people who even have to deal with Treaty stuff are law students and people who study it, right? Wrong. As New Zealanders, we enjoy the Read more...

21st Century Scarfies: Too Cool to Care?

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Michael Neilson

“If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all their youthful vim and vigour, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.” - William Allen White, influential Read more...

Two Little Boys

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012 by Joe Stockman

New Zealand’s best known film-making duo Robert and Duncan Sarkies have teamed up with Oscar winner Bret McKenzie and Aussie comedian Hamish Blake, of Hamish and Andy fame, for their latest Kiwi movie, Two Little Boys. Joe Stockman indulged in an early screening of the film and caught up with Bret Read more...

The Four Most Intolerable Travel Companions

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Anonymous

Third world travel is tough. Those pesky crippled and starving locals are constantly hanging around making you feel bad about spending what they’d make in a month on a totally necessary supply of hash and a bottle of “Real’s” whiskey. Not to mention the nerve of their assumption that Western women Read more...