By Underpaying RAs, the University is Taking Advantage of its Most Kind-Hearted Students

Posted 8:06pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Joel MacManus

Editorial: My first year at Otago in a residential college was the worst year of my life. I had left my small school where I had known most of my classmates since childhood, and been transplanted into a hectic mixing pot where I didn’t know anyone and felt like I didn’t fit in. I was Read more...

Dr Nick | Climate Change, and What You Can Do to Help

Posted 7:51pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Dr. Nick

The world’s climate is changing. “Once in 100 years” storms now seem to be happening yearly. Flooding is becoming increasingly common. Ski conditions are a shell of what they once were. Climate change is here. While the conversation used to be about how to prevent it, the question Read more...

Mr Sandler, Bring Me a Dream | Adam Sandler Himself

Posted 7:49pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Henessey Griffiths

Time to get real with you all. Uni is kicking my ass right now. I’m behind on my work and the last thing I want to do is waste two hours of my time reviewing another shitty Adam Sandler film. I started reading my reviews in his voice as if he was mocking me. The other night I couldn’t Read more...

Critic Food Review | Ginger Kisses

Posted 7:45pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Cameron De Leijer

Ginger kisses contain both gingers and kisses, blended together in some sort of large grinder, which surely can’t be ethical. Both gingers and kisses are average on their own, but when combined they become equal to the sum of their parts. In Poland in 1942 one lucky solider, Gretchilio Read more...

Dunedin Flat Names Project | Staying in Touch

Posted 7:42pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Sarah Gallagher

As long as student flats have been named, students have communicated their identity in a number of ways – in addition to hanging a shingle out the front of the house, that is. These means of identification go hand in hand with the communications technology of the time. Way back in 1991, I paid Read more...

ODT Watch | The Week the ODT Correctly Identified a Cucumber

Posted 6:22pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

To start this week the ODT are pondering a question   Simple: Presbyterians, Vegetarians, Finns and anyone whose surname includes the letter J. But nobody else!     Next, the ODT forgot the difference between past and present tense   It “was” to Read more...

Critic Blind Date | Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor

Posted 6:12pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Critic

The hopeful lovers on the Critic Blind Date are provided with a meal and a bar tab, thanks to the Dog With Two Tails. If you’re looking for love and want to give the Blind Date a go, email critic@critic.co.nz   Wonder Woman The Critic blind date seems to have a Read more...

Advice on Giving Advice | How to Give it to That Git in the Middle of the U-Bar Mosh

Posted 6:03pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Zoe Taptiklis-Haymes and Kelly Davenport

Pint night is the old-but-kinda-nouveau-new thing for those who are keen on a social Wednesday evening. Because of this, the U-Bar mosh is arguably the most sociologically significant location for Dunedin students. There is an important code of etiquette to partaking in the mosh, so freshers listen Read more...

Corona Tastes Like Nothing

Posted 5:58pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Swilliam Shakesbeer

Corona is popular. No understatement, Corona is like herpes, because every third person in the room has it, and it’s usually a fuckboi. Like a dude passed out on the couch and a girl crying on the verandha, Corona is the permanent staple of every flat party. They’re nice to drink, but Read more...

Game of Faculties

Posted 5:54pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Lachie Robertson

If HBO weren’t being massive cockteases and making us wait a whole extra year, the new season of Game of Thrones would be out by now. But it’s not and everyone is very sad about that. To ease the pain of not having any new episodes, we fired up the ol’ imagination and Read more...