Editorial - 19

Posted 2:00am Monday 23rd August 2010

Being a celebrity in New Zealand is like being a virgin at St Margaret’s – it’s not that hard and they’re, well, everywhere. This week we explore this country’s recent infatuation with the cult of celebrity, which is fuelled more than ever by the gossip pages in the Sunday papers. Read more...

Editorial - 18

Posted 2:26am Monday 9th August 2010

YOU ALL LOOK RIDICULOUS Draaaaaama!    The fall-out from the referendum continued last week, and depending on which way you looked at it, it was hilarious, pathetic, or both. I’m going with both.    For the uninitiated: two weeks ago a referendum was held and Read more...

Editorial - 17

Posted 1:34am Monday 26th July 2010

Last week was historic for student politics at the University of Otago. The Critic office sits in the Union Building slightly apart (and most definitely aloof) from the OUSA offices that inhabit the same building. Once a year, when elections are on, the place turns into a hive of activity as Read more...

Editorial - 15

Posted 12:23am Monday 12th July 2010

Welcome back. This week we look at the death of the Scarfie dream. Whether rugby fiend who chugs down funnels of bourbon in your gruts or the very word ‘Scarfie’ makes you cringe, you cannot deny the culture has had an impact on your time here at Otago. And that culture is under threat. Read more...

Editorial - 14

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 11th July 2010

This week we bring you the Travel Issue. What better way to procrastinate from exams than by day-dreaming about all the places you would rather be? We’ve run with the travel theme this week because there is no better time to book a summer holiday than during the depths of despair that is studying Read more...

Editorial - 13

Posted 7:50pm Sunday 11th July 2010

AN EDITORIAL ABOUT FACEBOOK.     Facebook rolled out yet another round of changes to its privacy settings last week, creating another blitz of reporting in the media. If it were a country, Facebook would be the third largest in the world behind China and India. The Read more...

Editorial - 12

Posted 3:51pm Sunday 11th July 2010

The Government was announcing the 2010 Budget as we were going to print last week. Very inconsiderate. It meant we had to do our own analysis and not wait to see what the ODT did for us the next day. Taxing.   I woke up on Budget Thursday to mail from Inland Revenue. After four Read more...

Editorial - 11

Posted 2:56pm Sunday 11th July 2010

I hate the term ‘silent majority’ – especially when used as justification for hating on some minority. But at university, minorities have it made. Here, the silent majority are students and the minority are attendees of Student General Meetings. The meetings held about twice a year to set the Read more...

Editorial - 10

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 11th July 2010

It’s graduation time at University. Everyone who finished up at the end of last year leaves their high-paying jobs up north and rolls into town for the weekend for one last blowout in Dunedin. Then it’s back to work on Monday. Most of them only left after exams last November, but it is Read more...

Editorial - 09

Posted 12:27pm Sunday 11th July 2010

This week we review stuff   We’ve got our annual fish n chips review along with toilets, coffees, $1 mixtures and a guide to bar safety, courtesy of the OUSA Exec – every other week we only give them half a page for a ‘President’s Column’ so it is the one time Read more...