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CriticTE AROHI The Drugs Issue ISSUE 23 EDITORIAL EDITOR Charlie O’Mannin NEWS EDITOR Esme Hall national government, and ammended in 2018 with a few technical wording changes, no policy FEATURES EDITOR Chelle Fitzgerald changes. Therfore this crappy ignoration of cli- CULTURE EDITOR mate change was not a result of david parker, but Henessey Griffiths actually our boys in blue, the National Government. SUB EDITOR Jamie Mactaggart Cheers CHIEF REPORTER Sinead Gill Dear Critic STAFF WRITERS I’m writing to ask why you thought publishing Caroline Moratti, Erin Gourley, Nina Minogue, Owen Clarke Chelle Fitzgerald’s “Master of Memes” article was a CONTRIBUTORS good idea. Chelle creates a character, “Linda from Asia Martusia, Thor Elley, Sophia Letter of the week wins a $30 reception,” whom she imagines has been tasked Carter Peters, voucher from University Book Shop! with running a facebook page for the Department DESIGN of Economics. Chelle’s vision of “Linda” as an older DESIGNER overweight woman “partial to tarot readings and Jack Adank numerology” unable to “engage the kids” due to ILLUSTRATORS Saskia Ruston-Green, Letter of the Week her mismanagement of memes is disparaging to Ceri Giddens Overheard on campus all women, but especially so to the professional FRONT COVER Aiman Amerul Muner “After exams I’m going to be doing one of three staff women of this university. things… sleeping, eating, working or having fun” I question what purpose this satire achieves CENTREFOLD Lon Van Elk Ngā mihi other than to accentuate student feelings of supe- Overhearder riority towards older women working at Otago. PHOTOGRAPHER Aiman Amerul Muner We can all appreciate the creation of a persona in CORRECTION: PRODUCTION Amodini Jayawardena is order to write ironically about an issue, but what’s ONLINE running for Residential Representative happening here strikes me as smug, glib, and Alex McKirdy not Political Representative insulting to a category of university employees DISTRIBUTION Rosie Sullivan who, in my experience, tend to be tolerant, pleas- Hey ant, keen to assist and intelligent. Advertising Sales I’d like to publish this following correction to my Your misogynistic and ageist representation of Tim Couch Jared Anglesey profile blurb. a university employee carrying out allocated tasks Peter Ramsay “In my blurb for the profile of Welfare and Equity is uncalled for and demonstrates nothing beyond [email protected] Phone: 03 479 5361 rep, I wrote that in my 18 months on campus I questionable editorial judgement and a lack of Connect have been actively engaged in on-campus groups empathy. Critic, you have done so much good Read Online such as Thursdays in Black. I understand that this work this year, but like other “Lindas” on campus, Critic.co.nz, Issuu.com/critic_Te_Arohi reads that I have been engaged for the duration I find this piece very disappointing for its sexism, GET IN TOUCH of 18 months. I would like to correct this. I have ageism, patronising attitude and general intoler- [email protected] Facebook/CriticTeArohi only recently begun involvement with TiB, and my ance of people who are different to you. Save your Tweet/CriticTeArohi 03 479 5335 involvement does not total 18 months. My apol- sharp teeth for targets that truly deserve them. P.O.Box 1436, Dunedin ogies to TiB” Regards Josh Stewart “Linda” (1994 model) Critic is a member of the Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA) Disclaimer: the views presented within this publication do not necessarily represent Hi Critic the views of the Editor, PMDL, or OUSA. Currenly reading Sending out an SOS in this weeks NZ Media Council: People with a complaint critic, and you said the economic exclusion zone against a magazine should first complain Notices: in writing to the Editor and then, if not sat- and continental shift act was written by david Food Truck Market on the Union Lawn on Saturday isfied with the response, complain to the NZ Media Council. Complaints should be parker, and bullied him for only having a BCom. 13th September at 5:30 - 7:00 pm. Proceeds raised addressed to the Secretary, info@medi- acouncil.org.nz. The bill was actually submitted in 2012 under the go to St John. EDITORIAL: The OUSA Presidency is Anyone’s Game By Charlie O’Mannin The most important race, and one of the hard- bro. But also this is the OUSA elections; you est to call at this point, is for the Presidency. can definitely overestimate how many breathas I genuinely don’t know who’s going to win. can actually be bothered to vote, and, like Sam, Jack Manning stumbled through the debates Will’s politics might grate with a campus that This week is the Otago University Students’ and didn’t come off well. His policies are also voted red overwhelmingly last election. Association student elections. For those that pretty generic things that OUSA will be doing Alternatively, we could just get rid of all of don’t really give a fuck (fair), OUSA is the stu- regardless. But then again, the forums were this shit and, instead of having an exec made up dent union that represents you, entertains you, collectively watched by a few hundred people of five 10 hour positions, four 20 hour positions, and fights for you. at most. Jack was elected to OUSA last year and a full time President, we could just have OUSA runs O-Week, Starters Bar, Student without even being in the country, so he must 170 one hour positions, or a “Mega Senate” as Support, and Clubs and Socs, as well as owning have a fair bit of support out there. Still, I think I like to call it. Radio One and Critic. They push back whenever most of Jack’s votes will come from people The Mega Senate would guarantee that the Uni or the DCC try to fuck with you. They lobby who know nothing about him. there’s so much of a shit show that people the government to actually care about students. Sam Purchas has great chaotic energy. He will care about OUSA, and there’ll be so many Vote in the election. You can do it online. Go did well in the debates, and he’s well known people elected that there’s a high chance some do it now. At worst you’ll be making some sad around campus. He’s visually distinctive, and of them would actually do something. Also it nerds feel like people actually care about them. that works in his favour. Honestly a lot of people would give Critic guaranteed content for ever. The OUSA exec changes drastically every just vote for the person they recognise, and it’s There’s no way that 170 people could last a year. Over the last few years we’ve seen execs hard not to recognise Sam. He might struggle week without a major scandal breaking out. implode behind closed doors, we’ve seen execs to have a mainstream appeal though, and his It’d be great. just sit around and do fuck all, we’ve seen boring politics tend to turn people off, even if he’s dis- If think you can get 60 odd people to turn execs do effective work, and we’ve seen execs tanced himself from the ACT party he stood for up and support you, why not call a call Student that had furious fights in public to Critic’s glee. in the last general election. General Meeting and actually do it. Seriously. It’s hard to know what kind of exec member Will Moffatt is trying to emulate the great There’s nothing stopping you. You can actually someone’s going to be before they’re elected, scarfie Presidents like Logan Edgar by talking do that. You’ll need a two-thirds majority vote, but Critic’s spent a long time trying to find out. like the common man and not taking any shit. and a lot of people will be really angry with you, Pretty much the entire news section is analysis I don’t know if he succeeds at that, but he per- but I’ll buy you a drink, look deep into your eyes, of the forums and debates so that you can have formed strongly in the debates and his whole and say “You did a good job, I’m so proud of some idea of who to vote for, beyond just the centre-right fiscal responsibility / breatha thing you”. Sometimes that’s all we can ask for. person you’d most like to smash. will go down well with your average commerce Vote Mega Senate 3 Critic Breaks Down the OUSA Presidential Debate Photography: Aiman Amerul Muner He also wants to open up Union Grill to serve ACT’s candidate for Dunedin North in the By Erin Gourley and Esme Hall drinks and have more local gigs in the Main last election. He distanced himself polit- Common Room. His Arana alumni support- ically from ACT, saying that he was more Once Upon A Time, Three ers seemed very enthusiastic about both of anti-corporate than they are, particularly White Men Ran For OUSA those things - and, actually kind of whatever when it comes to regulating industry in the President he said. Will was confident and well spoken face of climate change. but tended to veer into ‘kiwi bloke’ colloqui- Are Jack, Will and Sam the characters from alisms - he said he “dived right in to scarfie Jack is the current Colleges Officer for a boring nursery rhyme? No, they’re the life”, he had an “ear to the ground” and “a OUSA.