Editorial - 14
Posted 4:17am Wednesday 6th July 2011
I’M LEAVING ON AN AEROPLANE It’s the last Critic of the semester, and oh, what a semester it’s been. It started with an earthquake, which shook things up for a bit (sorry, I couldn’t help myself). Brash and Harawira fought it out, Geoghegan resigned, a fairly uninspiring national budget was Read more...
Editorial - 13
Posted 1:01am Friday 1st July 2011
Apathy. Meh. It’s presidential election week at OUSA, and we’ve gone all political-bonanza on this issue. Inside, we offer full election coverage: from the forum (pg 7), to Qs and As with the candidates (pg 12 onwards), to election analysis with our pundits (pg16). Read it. Ask the candidates Read more...
Editorial - 12
Posted 6:21am Thursday 26th May 2011
LET’S GET PO-LITICAL If you’re reading this, it means the apocolypse, as predicted by various Christian groups in the US never occurred. Oh well. Better luck next time, crazies. This week’s issue is the food issue, and if there’s one thing I like, it’s food. Like the food editor, Nigella Read more...
Editorial - 11
Posted 7:08am Thursday 19th May 2011
It’s OUSA Diversity Week, to celebrate, we bring you the Diversity issue. It’s easy to underestimate the importance of diversity issues in 2011. After all, homosexuality isn’t illegal anymore, civil unions have been established (more on this on page df) and there’s a small possibility that, as a Read more...
Editorial - 10
Posted 10:06pm Monday 9th May 2011
Happy Families It’s the month of May, which, aside from heralding the downward slide into assignments and exams, also happens to be New Zealand music month. To celebrate this, we’ve put together a music themed issue. The Copyright Amendment bill, the best New Zealand bands, the music Read more...
Editorial - 9
Posted 3:45am Monday 9th May 2011
Since U Been Gone Welcome back to the second half of the semester. I hope you had a wonderful break. We sure did. The one down side to the public holidays are, of course, that on your days off you can’t necessarily do the things you might have wanted to do. I, for instance, wanted to catch Read more...
Editorial - 7
Posted 5:47am Thursday 14th April 2011
If I have one drug-related pet peeve, it’s when people casually but not so casually bring up drugs constantly in conversation. You’ll be discussing something uncontroversial like tractors, or the weather, when next thing you know, the un-subtle drug taker drops their drug consumption habits into the Read more...
Tragic death of Critic contributor
Posted 3:56am Monday 11th April 2011
Scott Ridley (23) tragically passed away after a car accident last Thursday March 31, just south of Hampden. The car he was driving collided head-on with a truck. The truck driver, a Christchurch man in his 60s, was found deceased when emergency services arrived at the scene. Scott was airlifted to Read more...
Editorial - 6
Posted 5:04am Monday 4th April 2011
What’s this? A “Supernatural” issue with no reference to vampires? It’s not that we aren’t cool enough to pick up on the vampire trend, it’s that we’re just too cool to report on a dying phenomenon. The fanged un-dead phase that sprung up as a result of the notorious movie Twilight (one of the Read more...
Editorial - 5
Posted 4:29am Monday 28th March 2011
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