Love Is Blind | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mismatched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Di Lusso, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this sounds like you, email Read more...

Woody's Word | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Michael Woodhouse

T he Hyde Street Keg Party (HSKP) has come and gone for another year. 12 arrests, 50 treated for injuries and intoxication, six off to hospital, one ambulance out of action for a week. On one level you might think that, given 4,000 students attended the event, this might not be a bad Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Finbarr Noble

You may have read in recent weeks of the easing of tensions and the opening of diplomatic channels between the United States and Cuba. The animosity between these two countries in its present iteration dates back to the Cold War. One might think that given the US’s victory in that war they Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Emma Lodes

Sixty-six million years ago — as the Cretaceous period transitioned into the Paleogene — a massive asteroid hit the earth, and three-quarters of all animal and plant species went extinct in a geologic blink of an eye. In the wake of all the destruction lay evolutionary opportunity: ecologic niches Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Kristen Kampmeier

A Broad View is written by different international students each week who wish to share their impressions of their time here or unique experiences. Email critic@critic.co.nz if you are an international student wanting to tell your tale. Well, first things first. What immediately Read more...

David Clark | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by David Clark

I recently heard a senior cabinet minister expressing contempt in parliament for what he still calls Labour’s interest-free loan “bribe”. The government hasn’t been brave enough to return interest to student loans yet. But if NZUSA collapses, an increase in your student debt may be the future Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by A Boy In Love

Each week Critic wants to hear from you if you’re struggling to approach the man or woman of your dreams. Does she always sit on that front row seat and give the lecturer far more attention than you’re comfortable with? Does he stroll past your window each morning and your only attempts Read more...

Skeptic Schism | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Wee Doubt

Wake up and smell the wee! Would you drink your own piss for the sake of your health? Because doing it every day will, according to some, cure you of pretty much everything from acne to cancer. The first big wee in the morning is the most effective, with urine taken mid-stream and then drunk Read more...

Horoscope | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Madame McMystery

Do you struggle with making basic life decisions? Worried about never bumping into your campus soulmate, or whether to eat two-minute noodles for every dinner this week? Fear not, chums, for I, Madame McMystery, have gazed deep into the cosmos to reveal the secrets the planetary alignments hold in Read more...

Humans of Hyde

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Olivia Collier

For those of you oblivious hipsters out there still living in the age of Myspace and Bebo, the Facebook page Humans of New York is an arts/humanity project where a photographer in New York — you guessed it — photographs humans in New York. The core message that this project shares with Read more...