I Love Beer Pong Bro

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012

For the next five minutes (or however long it takes to read 800 words) beer pong counts as a sport. If you have a problem with this, direct emails to critic@critic.co.nz, which is thankfully not my email address. Beer pong is a sport in which teams of two compete against each other in a test Read more...

Women’s eight take on eight other women in Windermere

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012

The Otago University Rowing Club is sending a women’s eight crew to the prestigious Windermere Cup in Seattle, Washington. International crews are invited to take on the University of Washington “Huskies” crew at the regatta, which is one of the highlights of the intercollegiate rowing calendar. Read more...

International students aware that Dunedin is not Christchurch

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012

The University of Otago International office has noticed a drop in international students enrolling or arriving on exchange in the past year. However speculation (mainly by the Otago Daily Times) that the drop was caused by the Christchurch earthquakes appears unfounded. International Pro Read more...

Unigames Happened, Otago Won Fair-Play Award. Yay!!

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012

Over the Easter break a team of Otago athletes picked competition over chocolate and sport over spicy hot cross buns when they represented Otago University at the New Zealand Unigames in Wellington. Otago has won the Unigames shield an impressive 35 times. This year the marketing gurus dubbed the Read more...

Med students hate sausage, raise money by tutoring instead

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012

Med student Chrystal Diong is putting her ample spare time to good use by organising a student-tutoring programme that raises funds for World Vision. The scheme, simply entitled Tutoring for World Vision, allows second- and third-year med students with excellent grades to donate their time Read more...

Scarfie Wins South Island Surfing Champs

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012

If you ask a surfer where the best waves in Dunedin are, don’t expect a friendly response. For a group of people that are laid back to the point of being horizontal they become notoriously cagey if they think their doggedly kept ‘secret spot’ may be revealed. Surfers generally can be divided into Read more...

Unbreakable

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012

The Breakers have been the best team in the ANBL all season. They went up against their closest rivals the Perth Wildcats in the grand-final series on the Thursday and Friday just gone and depending on results a possible game three on Tuesday (April 24). To help you bandwagon jumpers out even Read more...

Rising from the ashes

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012

To help you bandwagon jumpers out there Critic has done some homework and come up with three comments you can make that will make it sound like you know something about the Phoenix, other than that they wear Black and Yellow. “The Yellow Fever are the Phoenix’s loyal supporters group. When Read more...

Playoff time. Jump on the Band Wagon

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012

The start of April is playoffs time for trans-Tasman sports. The Wellington Phoenix have had their A-League (football/soccer) playoff run ended by a heartbreaking extra-time goal to the Glory in Perth on Easter Saturday night. And by the time you read this the New Zealand Breakers will have either Read more...

Old people love netball, but do students?

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012

It seems like everyone in Invercargill loves netball. All the grannies and kids used to pack out that stadium (before it fell over), smash those rumble sticks together and have a hell of a time. But does anyone care about netball in Dunedin? The Southern Steel is our netball team. They Read more...