Editorial | The Other Side

Posted 10:22am Sunday 16th July 2017 by Lucy Hunter

Liberals are a bunch of bike-riding, tree-hugging, whale-saving, big-government-promoting, tax-increasing, flip-flopping, wishy-washy, namby-pamby bedwetters. Conservatives are a bunch of meat-eating, game-hunting, tax-decreasing, hard-drinking, Bible-bashing, black-and-white-thinking, Read more...

Editorial | The things we don’t talk about

Posted 10:29am Sunday 9th July 2017 by Lucy Hunter

Mel Ansell’s feature “Health Science: A Trial by Fire” is an expose on the pressure put on first year health-sci students and the effects the course can have on their mental health. The course needs to be difficult to make sure only the toughest, smartest people get through, but Read more...

Editorial | Issue 13

Posted 10:21am Sunday 28th May 2017 by Lucy Hunter

I get into the odd conversation with someone about how illiterate our generation is becoming, because we don’t read novels and write letters anymore. And of course, about the destruction of grammar from the force that will surely end the world, text speak. Because it’s my job to fix Read more...

Editorial | Issue 12

Posted 10:25am Sunday 21st May 2017 by Joe Higham

If you put the acronym ‘OUSA’ and the word ‘referendum’ together, many of you will likely fall asleep, I totally understand that. For most the lure of free pizza isn’t even enough to tempt you into sitting through the upcoming forum (22 May) and, having had to cover the Read more...

Editorial | Issue 11

Posted 10:35am Sunday 14th May 2017 by Joe Higham

When the time came for you to flee the nest and travel to university, you’re likely to have heard your parents or guardians notice your anxiety and reassure you by saying something along the lines of, “Don’t worry. Your university years will be the best years of your life.” Read more...

Editorial | Issue 10

Posted 10:36am Sunday 7th May 2017 by Lucy Hunter

This week Critic has a bit of a music theme going on. We bring you hot scoops from Feastock, a Kiwi’s take on Coachella featuring a delicious cheese sandwich, a rock dog floating on a tiny raft in the Dunedin harbour, and a review of opera singer Jonathan Fa'afetai Lemalu at the Town Hall. Read more...

Editorial | Issue 9

Posted 10:23am Sunday 30th April 2017 by Lucy Hunter

This week’s Critic includes a couple of features on mental health in Dunedin. When visiting Youthline Otago we were struck by the modesty of the operation—we sat in a small room with a second-hand table and two mismatched chairs. In the corner was a beanbag, on the walls, posters for the Read more...

Editorial | Issue 8

Posted 10:29am Sunday 23rd April 2017 by Lucy Hunter

Around half the emails I get are from people wanting to do the Cookin’ Up Love blind date. That’s cool, but seriously, guys, you can do a whole lot of great things for Critic that don’t involve ogling a stranger over a table.  We’re a quarter of the way through the Read more...

Editorial | Issue 7

Posted 10:39am Sunday 9th April 2017 by Joe Higham

This year I was, perhaps naively, beginning to see a glimmer of hope in student politics that I thought could begin to eclipse the division and impotence that embedded itself in last year’s elected ten as the year progressed. The cohesion was almost unnerving having been accustomed to such Read more...

Editorial | Issue 6

Posted 10:22am Sunday 2nd April 2017 by Joe Higham

This week is Diversity Week, an annual event aimed at raising the awareness and visibility of sexuality and gender diversity. One of the features we have in this issue, written by Kyra Gillies, is called ‘Think Pink: a 101 of Pinkwashing in New Zealand’ and delves into the corporate Read more...