Red Bull Marketing Campaign Receives Student Magazine Exposure Because It Totes Counts As A Sport

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012

This is the sixth issue of Critic for 2012. Apparently it only takes six weeks to abandon journalistic credibility and just start reporting on stuff that provides free energy drinks. When you think of Red Bull you think of extreme sports. Maybe a grinning Scandinavian guy pushing the limits Read more...

Hyde Street Galvanises Fun Police

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012

Battle lines have been drawn over the much-publicised North Dunedin Liquor Ban proposed by the DCC. The liquor ban proposal has been sitting on the table since the beginning of the year. The council’s initial proposal was debated heatedly on campus early in the semester but it seemed to sit Read more...

Critic runs Jimmy Cowan Out of Town

Posted 5:00pm Monday 26th March 2012

In breaking code news an un-named source has whispered in Critic Sports reporter Gus Gawn’s ear that Jimmy Cowan’s days as a Highlander are numbered. Our source has stated that Cowan will quit New Zealand at the end of the 2012 season to take up a contract with English club Gloucester. Read more...

Warriors at Forsyth Barr, Yes Please.

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012

How many of you want to see the Vodafone Warriors play an NRL game at Forsyth Barr Stadium? I know I do, and I bet you do too. Though Rugby League is the poorer cousin to Rugby Union in Dunedin, there is a dormant support base. How many of you regularly settle down to watch the Warriors on a Read more...

Highlanders Unbeaten

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012

In unbelievable code update news, THE HIGHLANDERS ARE UNDEFEATED (or they were when we went to print on Thursday). That’s right folks – two home games, two away, four wins, 16 points, top of the table, top of the conference, top of the world. It’s not as if they’ve had an easy draw either. Read more...

Rower rows toward rowing victory (in a rowboat)

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012

Earlier this month 38 rowers were named to represent New Zealand at the London Olympics in July this year. It is the largest rowing squad that New Zealand has ever mustered for an Olympic games. Beyond shot-putter Valerie Adams, most of New Zealand’s medals will probably come from these 38 rowers. Read more...

Victoria IS the bomb

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012

Victoria University in Wellington plunged into chaos on Monday morning when an anonymous email sent to the University outlined a bomb threat against the Easterfield building at the Uni’s Kelburn campus. The building was evacuated and cordoned off for several hours while police used a bomb dog to Read more...

Rigger vents spleen all over Critic reporter

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012

Mark Richardson is an ex-Black Cap, Sky Sports Commentator and host of TV shows The Crowd Goes Wild (CGW), and The Cricket Show. He lived in Dunedin for 10 years, playing cricket for Otago and studying towards a BCom (which he has never used). He makes his money nowadays as an inflammatory TV Read more...

Critic loses porn access / reason to live

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012

Students will no longer have access to websites deemed “objectionable” by the University’s IT services. In addition to preventing acess to pornography and sex advice, finding lulz has also been hindered by the policy. Critic was first alerted to the change after attempts to access morally Read more...

Critic goes to the Cricket

Posted 3:11pm Tuesday 13th March 2012

On Wednesday Critic didn’t go to the cricket because we had to help write for Critic and had class, also it was raining. On Thursday Critic had to do Critic again and also had work so didn’t have time for the cricket. This made Critic angry because it was a lovely day and the cricket was Read more...