The Little Scarfie Who Could

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012

When Harriet Geoghegan mysteriously resigned as OUSA President in the middle of 2011 (Critic has always suspected it was following a failed illicit affair with a fellow execie, or possibly some sort of Dan Stride-Francisco Hernandez-related love triangle), no one thought that the self-proclaimed Read more...

Editorial | Issue 27

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012

Fuck ay. This is it, the last Critic of the year. This place has a strange effect on you. It’s high-stress, amazingly fun, and always, even to the end, completely seat of your pants. You turn up having no idea how to do the job, you leave having no idea how you did it. I think, I hope, Read more...

Editorial | Issue 26

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012

And so just like that, the Logan Edgar era comes to an end. Francisco Hernandez – a career student pol if ever there was one – has come down the middle of a Scarfie vote split by Ryan Edgar and Zac Gawn to claim the OUSA student presidency for 2013. You have to wonder how Gawn and Ryan feel Read more...

Editorial | Issue 25

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012

Wow. This week’s issue of Critic is the 24hr issue. We started work on it at 6am last Wednesday, and we’re just now about to send it off to print at 6am on Thursday morning. All of the content and design has been completed within 24hrs. Needless to say, we’re all pretty exhausted. As far as Read more...

Editorial | Issue 24

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012

It’s OUSA Art Week this week, so Critic have turned the laser beam of our attention to the art world. Zane Pocock explores the local art world and where it might be headed, Katie Kenny takes a look at creativity and its place in tertiary education, and Books Editor Josef Alton compares the two Read more...

Two Little Boys

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012

New Zealand’s best known film-making duo Robert and Duncan Sarkies have teamed up with Oscar winner Bret McKenzie and Aussie comedian Hamish Blake, of Hamish and Andy fame, for their latest Kiwi movie, Two Little Boys. Joe Stockman indulged in an early screening of the film and caught up with Bret Read more...

Editorial | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012

It’s not unusual to hear people say that they don’t care about politics (“don’t give a fuck” might be a more precise quote). However many times I hear it said, it never ceases to amaze me. Failing to care about politics is a fundamental misunderstanding of how we control our lives. Politics Read more...

Itchy Feet

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012

After three, four, or more years at university, most students are pretty keen to get overseas as soon as possible. Whether it’s going on exchange, heading to London for the big OE, or backpacking in Southeast Asia, the drive to travel is an innate part of the Kiwi psyche. Well-travelled ol’ man Joe Read more...

The War at Home

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012

When Goff goofed up the 2011 election, he valiantly handed the reins to one of Labour’s many Davids, namely David Shearer, who is thought to be Labour’s answer to John Key in sheer blokiness. Yet many New Zealanders continue to ask, “David who?” Critic editor Joe Stockman caught up with Shearer for Read more...

Editorial | Issue 22

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” – George Orwell A country in central Asia is wracked with violence. The police and army are attacked in the streets, and the rebels, funded with profits from narcotics, Read more...