Editorial | Issue 25

Posted 10:27am Sunday 27th September 2015 by Josie Cochrane

Last week, we published the blurbs for the 2016 OUSA executive candidates. They sent us their blurbs so that you could have an idea of what they stand for. To those campaigning, you are trying to be student politicians. Can’t you rise above the dirty politics? Most students don’t care Read more...

Editorial | Issue 24

Posted 10:16am Sunday 20th September 2015 by Josie Cochrane

This week the OUSA Executive candidate forums kick off with free pizza and too many hours spent listening to wannabe executive members say the same shit. “I will make a change.” “I will buy a student bar.” “I will not let our student culture die.”  Read more...

Editorial | Issue 23

Posted 10:25am Sunday 13th September 2015 by Josie Cochrane

It’s not often a vacancy comes up for an epic job that will be the coolest and the most challenging role you undertake in your life. There aren’t many jobs where you can say you’ve edited a magazine, produced 30 publications, managed a department and overseen the work of nearly 200 Read more...

Editorial | Issue 22

Posted 10:27am Sunday 6th September 2015 by Josie Cochrane

The United Nations Refugee Agency has recorded 52 million persons of concern this year, the highest number since World War II. New Zealand hasn’t changed its cap of 750 refugees per year in 26 years and per capita, New Zealand is 90th in the world for the number of refugees we admit. The Read more...

Editorial | Issue 21

Posted 10:23am Sunday 30th August 2015 by Josie Cochrane

Welcome back to the final hill of the year! Keep chugging along cause the break is nearly here — ya know, that time when you can stop thinking about study and exams. Instead, you can start stressing about going from hardly any money each week to no income, no job and no idea where you’re Read more...

Editorial | Issue 20

Posted 10:29am Sunday 16th August 2015 by Josie Cochrane

Last week, in a space of 24 hours, Critic was accused of biased storytelling, untrue journalism and “censorship of the student voice”. LOLs, it was one for the journal! The accusations of biased storytelling and untrue journalism came from friends of the executive member called out in Read more...

Editorial | Issue 19

Posted 10:16am Sunday 9th August 2015 by Josie Cochrane

After a fairly decent year from the OUSA Executive, students have unfortunately been let down. The education officer recently abused staff at a local family-owned restaurant, and this was during an OUSA Executive BYO dinner. “It was the worst behaviour we’ve seen in twenty years Read more...

Editorial | Issue 18

Posted 10:26am Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Josie Cochrane

The ever-complicated idea of emotions, and how we could, should and do deal with them, is challenging at the best of times. But good art, great art in this example, somehow helps us find a way of making things make sense. The best piece of art I’ve seen lately is the movie, Inside Out. Yes, Read more...

Editorial | Issue 17

Posted 10:29am Sunday 26th July 2015 by Josie Cochrane

I don’t know what spurred you on last week, but the letters we received were actually important. They were about things that you could be demanding changes to. An unfair disciplinary system, threats to increase a fine if you appeal a decision (and getting ripped off to gain a copy of your Read more...

Editorial | Issue 16

Posted 10:33am Sunday 19th July 2015 by Laura Munro

I’m writing this editorial as a somewhat goodbye to Critic. Next week is my final issue as News Editor, so this guest editorial was subtly forced upon me (thanks, Josie). It took me more than long enough to decide what to write about. I considered multiple topics, but when you have been Read more...