Best of Moaningful Confessions

Posted 4:15pm Saturday 23rd March 2024 by Critic

It’s only appropriate that the sex issue pays homage to everyone’s favourite sexscapade column: Moaningful Confessions. The column was born in 2020 out of the ashes of the seedy and often marginal Blind Date column. We’ve ranked the sauciest, most salacious, tit-lickin’, Read more...

Man vs Campus: With Sam Soppet

Posted 5:26pm Sunday 17th March 2024 by Sam Smith-Soppet

The challenge: seven days, 0.22 square kilometers, one Critic office couch (now my bed). Is it doable? Probably. Will it suck? Absolutely. With the Critic office as my home base and staying within main campus bounds (between Clyde, Cumberland, Albany, Dundas), I aimed to answer the question that Read more...

Privacy Commissioner Slams Landlord Website

Posted 12:00pm Monday 11th September 2023 by Zak Rudin

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has released a media release explaining why the website What Does My Landlord Own? (WDMLO) was found in breach of the Privacy Act. The Privacy Commissioner decided to publicly comment on the website as it apparently “provides a cautionary example in Read more...

Moaningful Confessions | Issue 3

Posted 12:46pm Saturday 7th March 2020 by Critic

Dr Lauren Carwell* was the sexiest lecturer I had ever seen. She was maybe 28ish with a nice body and sexy eyes. The fact that she was in a position of power added an even hotter appeal, and I never missed a class for this reason. Although I was at uni, I felt like a stupid young schoolboy with a Read more...

Critic Booze Reviews | Issue 3

Posted 5:48pm Thursday 5th March 2020 by Critic

Critic Booze Review: Odd Company’s The Cheeky One If you haven’t been to Leith Liquor in the past week or so, you’re probably wondering, what the fuck is this drink? Let me enlighten you. Sick of Long Whites being the only alcohol I can manage to stomach after years of Read more...

Cookin' Up Love | Issue 3

Posted 3:20pm Sunday 12th March 2017 by Lovebirds

Each week, we lure two singletons to The Captain Cook Hotel, give them food and drink, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this sounds like you, email critic@critic.co.nz. But be warned--if you dine on the free food and dash without sending us a writeup, a Critic writer will write Read more...

The Hell Hole | Issue 3

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 12th March 2017 by Jessica Thompson

I was baby-sitting my little sister that afternoon and we decided to go to Discovery World. She loved the giant piano but got pretty bored with everything else so we paid to visit the Butterfly room. There was no one inside. My sister ran off to gawk at the glass boxes containing caterpillars and Read more...

Vitalogy | Issue 3

Posted 3:08pm Sunday 12th March 2017 by Prof's Wood & Ruddock

Asthma is a spasmodic disease, characterised by paroxysms of difficult breathing, with great wheezing, and a dreadful sense of constriction across the chest; each paroxysm terminates by the expectoration of a more or less abundant of mucus. It is now considered a mucus disease dependant upon some Read more...

Ethel & Hyde | Issue 3

Posted 3:01pm Sunday 12th March 2017 by Student Support

Stuck with flatties! I’m a second-year student and it’s my first time flatting. I’m flatting with people from my hall from first-year but I actually fucking hate their guts. They have parties at my house and don’t invite me. I’ve signed a full-year Read more...

Economics Everywhere | Issue 3

Posted 2:48pm Sunday 12th March 2017 by Danni Pintacasi

This is a controversial statement to make at a university. For a long time I saw education as a human right, something that should be universally accessible to all those seeking it. Sure, it might be a drag on the taxpayer, but investing in educating a population helps keeps the populous politicians Read more...

Science Bitches | Issue 3

Posted 2:37pm Sunday 12th March 2017 by Wee Doubt

A placebo is anything that seems to be a “real” medical treatment, but isn’t. It could be a pill, a shot, a spell, a potion; anything a person is told will make them feel better. What all placebos have in common is that they do not contain an active substance that demonstrably Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 3

Posted 11:52am Sunday 12th March 2017 by Charlie O’Mannin

This week the ODT has finally done it. They’ve run out of content completely. Over the next couple of weeks they plan to see how many different kinds of feathers they can lodge in different locations.   We seem to have an infestation of Australian Read more...

Editorial | Issue 3

Posted 11:19am Sunday 12th March 2017 by Lucy Hunter

Last week an advert appeared in The Star newspaper promoting Don Brash’s new political movement “Hobson’s Pledge”. In it, the group calls for politicians to stop giving “extra rights for those who arrived here first,” “favourable treatment based on Read more...

Otago University Faces On-going Issue Of Declining Enrollment

Posted 10:14am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Joe Higham

Otago University saw a 2.2 percent decline in overall student enrollments in 2015, with 2016’s enrollment numbers set to be announced at a University Council Meeting on Tuesday afternoon.  With humanities and commerce departments feeling the brunt of the declining numbers over the Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 3

Posted 3:36pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind-date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mis-matched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Dog With Two Tails, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this svounds Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 3

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

This column is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for socail debating every Tuesday at 6pm in the Commerce Building. Affirmative, by Old Major When Eve ate the apple we got kicked out of the Garden of Eden which was a literal paradise. Or maybe not so literal. A lot Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 3

Posted 2:27pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Critic

With the advent of modern genetics, humans are slowly learning more and more about the hardwiring of our own brains. Each discovery tells us a little more about the way our genetics determine how our bodies will react to environmental stimuli. That is, how our genetics may pre-determine various Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 3

Posted 2:22pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, I just moved to Dunedin to begin my first year of study. I grew up in a small rural town and I didn’t meet another LGBT person. I have been questioning for a while now and have been excited about the possibility of coming to Dunedin and finally being able to meet other Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 3

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Sexcellent

Dear Sexcellent I had sex with a couple of different people during o week, and now I’ve got some red, itchy bumps around my genitals. Is this an STD???  Please help, Itchy and anxious Dear Itchy and anxious, First off, stay calm! In my experience, at least 90 percent of those Read more...

The Weekly Doubt | Issue 3

Posted 2:07pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Wee Doubt

According to the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, water fluoridation is one of the “ten great public health achievements” of the 20th century. Fluoride reduces the rate of demineralisation caused by bacteria from sugar on the surface of the teeth. In order to be Read more...

Cull's Column | Issue 3

Posted 2:04pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Dave Cull

A couple of years ago, as part of a fundraising event for a local charity, I abseiled from the gantry at Forsyth Barr Stadium. It was an exhilarating, albeit scary, experience.  It occurred to me that while the abseil was in one sense a unique opportunity, people who live in Dunedin are Read more...

David Clark | Issue 3

Posted 2:00pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by David Clark

Few people would be surprised to learn that the Dunedin North electorate has more students per capita than any other electorate in New Zealand. The vitality of the tertiary education sector plays a vital role in the city’s prosperity. But how many people know that it also has the most people Read more...

Editorial | Issue 3

Posted 11:04am Sunday 13th March 2016 by Hugh Baird

For many years now, popular New Zealand band Six60 have been returning to Castle Street where the band was first formed. Each year the gig has been kept secret and been announced in an impromptu fashion, leading to many students living on and around Castle Street flocking to the event in large Read more...

90 Years Of Critic

Posted 10:57am Sunday 4th October 2015 by Staff Reporter

We’ve included a collection of some of the most interesting articles in Critic’s history - those pieces reflecting the change in times and attitudes during Critic’s 90 years on campus. VOL XXXIX | Issue 3 - 1963 VOL XL | Issue 7 - 1964 VOL Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th 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...

ODT Watch | Issue 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by Steph Taylor

It’s good to know our new Pharmacy graduates are taking their place in the world and giving out dodgy drugs. Only in New Zealand do we feature a convicted killer and ex-NZ Idol participant on our below-par talent show. A strip club in Auckland has been Read more...

Whole Lotta Love | Issue 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by Student Support

W elcome to all the Queer students on campus, and to our allies, whether you are new to Otago or returning. I am excited to be writing my first column and that I get to write about all things great and Queer, and also things that are not so great because the Queer community is still a Read more...

From the Back of the Class | Issue 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by Finbar Noble

“Te Kooti was a brilliant guerrilla warrior, but he was no master of the modern pā.” So said Gregor Fountain, my Year 12 history teacher, and the phrase has stuck with me. True, indeed, Te Kooti was a successful guerrilla leader, especially when ambushing the British, but he failed Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by Emma Cotton

Do you worry about how future Earthlings will learn about twenty-first century life in a post-apocalypse world? If you do, get a little fresh air. But also, fear not! Scientists can now store all of the data in the world into something no bigger than a car. Most of us know that DNA, the Read more...

A Broad View | Issue 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by Ally Willen

My knees still ache, and I waddle to class with swollen feet. Completing my first Great Walk, the Kepler Track, was as beautiful as it was painful. I came to New Zealand with intentions of answering each invitation with a firm “yes” because I didn’t want to miss out on any Read more...

David Clark | Issue 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by David Clark

Volunteering is the unsung hero of nationhood. It provides valuable social glue, and it offers a window into worlds beyond the day to day. Recently, I spent a morning with a bunch of other “volunteers” supporting Mal Law’s bid to run 50 mountain marathons in 50 days. Mal’s #high50challenge Read more...

Crush on Campus | Issue 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by The Clown of your Dreams

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 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by Wee Doubt

There’s nothing like a shitty cold to make you feel terrible for a week and turn you into a disgusting walking bag of mucous: mucous that makes a frequent and dramatic exit via two small portals on your face. If there were a medication I could take to stop me from getting a cold for the rest of my Read more...

Execrable | Issue 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by Laura Munro

Recreation Manager Debbie Coulter kicked off the meeting with the OUSA Aquatic Centre’s repairs and capital work. This included painting and repairing structural support for the canopy located above the deck, as well as the fire-exit steps. The rust is “so severe” that the steps have to be replaced. Read more...

Editorial | Issue 3

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by Josie Cochrane

F or this issue (Issue 3 already!), we interviewed Kiesza. She gave an insane performance last Thursday night for the Orientation Afterparty, and we were lucky enough to meet her. She was genuine, very cool, and wore the coolest dungarees I’ve ever seen. One of the things she spoke to Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 3

Posted 3:28pm Wednesday 14th March 2012 by Staff Reporter

The weather has been pretty shite recently, and the ODT is all over it. When the sun did turn up for a few minutes, the ODT online (that’s right, they have a website), waxed seriously lyrical over its arrival. After David Bain’s retrial and acquittal it turns out that we can’t Read more...

The Tory Templar | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by The Tory Templar

New Zealand’s own terror trials have started. They began with a mini version of Survivor which saw the suspects whittled down to the “real bad guys”. And now resident “rent-a-protestor” John Minto has got on board. If the Templar had a dollar for every half-arse cause John got on board with he’d be Read more...

Presidential Column | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Logan Edgar

Hey Gang, One big number item for Logz to inform you lot of this week, Last week I spent an afternoon going door to door down Hyde St. I informed students of a little party that is set to take place on their street on the 24th of the month (surprise). I wanted to do this because there Read more...

Te Roopu Māori | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Lisa Pohatu

Kia Ora te whanau, o Te Roopu Māori. Ki te kahore he whakakitenga ka ngaro te iwi Without foresight or vision the people will be lost. The Mission Statement of Te Rito is: “Te Rito will establish an environment within the University of Otago that recognises - Taha, tinana, Read more...

Classic Film | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Sam McChesney

Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen All The Dude ever wanted was his rug back. When Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is mistaken for an indebted millionaire of same name, and his rug is thusly micturated upon by a porn baron’s enforcer, he embarks on an epic quest to obtain, you Read more...

LILF | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Hot For Teacher

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an English lecturer in possession of a good student must be in want of a naughty schoolgirl encounter …” The old adage of not judging a book by its cover went out the window the first time I met the good Dr. Rogers. As our eyes locked Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by La Dida

Oh that’s it. (Cracks knuckles, removes rings). I’m mad. This piece is in solidarity with the Wellington based group the Queer Avengers who protested outside the Dominion Post Wellington offices last week. Their protest was organised in response to an article “Why I feel for the kids of Read more...

Uncle Howie | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Uncle Howie

Hey Howie, So there’s this really hot chick on my floor. In fact she is just across the hall from me. We’re great friends and get on really well. I’d love to hook up with her, but I’m not sure if I can handle the awkward morning after experience. I’d be pretty gutted if she came home with someone Read more...

Geekology | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Robbie Masters

Hello again young science buffs! This week’s column is coming at you from Otago Uni’s very own Physics Department, where PhD candidate Ken Hughes has been doing some scintillating research on Antarctic sea ice. Specifically, Ken has been constructing a computer simulation of how sea ice is formed in Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Lovebirds

Dunedin is renowned for many things, but its dating scene is not one of them. Getting boozed and pashing people on the dance floor is hardly anyone’s idea of romance, so Critic wants to sort you out. Every week we’re sending two loveless loners on a blind date to Tokyo Gardens (with a bottle of wine Read more...

Red and Starry Eyed | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Red and Starry Eyed

Get red-y for a piece of advice: Do not trust the government. Not just John Key’s, don’t trust Labour either. Currently in court four “terrorists” are being tried for being the supposed ringleaders of a group planning war against the police and government. The case goes back to 2007, when 300 Read more...

Scarfie Chronicles | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Josie Adams

After settling down to nurse their heads after O-Week, the Scarfies are now back in the game. In a highly exciting turn of events, a Dunedin flatwarming was shut down recently, for reasons we shall hopefully glean from TV in a couple of months. That’s right, Police 10/7 visited the student ghetto. Read more...

Editorial | Issue 3

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Joe Stockman

As young, well-educated people, we often feel a deep desire to try and make positive change in the world. We appreciate the unique privilege of being born in a peaceful, developed country, being well educated and enjoying social and economic success. We hope that we can do something to really make a Read more...