Campus dry. Scarfies cry.

Posted 4:46am Monday 19th September 2011

The University of Otago is imposing a campus-wide alcohol ban for the Rugby World Cup, and it looks likely to continue once the tournament ends. At a meeting last week, the University Council unanimously adopted Vice-Chancellor Harlene Hayne’s recommendation that an “Alcohol on Read more...

Execrable - 23

Posted 3:10am Monday 12th September 2011

Critic suspected we were in for a long meeting when we looked around the boardroom and saw three of OUSA’s constitutional gurus in attendance. Depressingly we weren’t wrong. The three musketeers had all come along to talk to the Exec about the broke-as-fuck Constitution, and the amendments Read more...

Calvert Turns to Bridget Jones's Diary and Tub of Ice Cream

Posted 5:15am Monday 5th September 2011

Local ACT Party MP Hilary Calvert has been dumped from the party list for November’s election, less than a year after entering Parliament.  Calvert is notably absent from the list of candidates released by the party. There are conflicting accounts surrounding the reasons for Read more...

Execrable - 21

Posted 11:47pm Monday 22nd August 2011

The meeting highlight for Critic this week was the discussion surrounding Francisco’s plan for a “Free Box.” Currently the only free box to be had on campus is generally found in the Monkey Bar after a UniCol college pissup, but Francisco means to change this with his new endeavour. His Read more...

Proctology - 21

Posted 11:40pm Monday 22nd August 2011

The snow hadn’t been causing the Proctor too much trouble when Critic spoke to him, and he had even been deploying Campus Watch in a truck to drive people home safely. Critic immediately formed a completely inaccurate mental image of a pickup truck doing burnouts through the snow with bogan Castle Read more...

Execrable - 20

Posted 4:48am Monday 15th August 2011

This week’s Exec meeting consisted mostly of the Exec doing really boring shit while Critic sat huddled in the corner, trying to work out at what point life had gone so badly wrong that we were forced to report on these idiots in order to be able to buy food. Pretty standard meeting then. In Read more...

Slutwalk hits town

Posted 4:56am Thursday 11th August 2011

Not UniCol daytrip for once. The international protest movement Slutwalk is coming to Dunedin, with the event scheduled to take place next Saturday.   The original Slutwalk protests were sparked by the comments of a Canadian police officer at a safety talk in Toronto, who stated Read more...

Proctology -19

Posted 4:52am Thursday 11th August 2011

Critic hadn’t had a rendezvous with the Proctor since before the holidays, so we were expecting a good haul of stories when we strolled into his mighty chambers of justice. Disappointingly, Re-O Week seems to have been a relatively tame affair, with no stories of note from our favourite Read more...

Execrable - 19

Posted 4:50am Thursday 11th August 2011

Secretary Donna Jones was notably absent from last week’s meeting, and her absence was not for the better. Stand-in AJ didn’t display Donna’s skill at wrangling the monkeys/exec members, and this was reflected in the tedious length of the meeting. First up, the never ending “what to do Read more...

Radio One Saved

Posted 4:41am Thursday 11th August 2011

OUSA cast their sickle aside After a month long submission process that garnered much media attention, the OUSA Executive has decided to reject the Deloitte review recommendation to sell Radio One.   OUSA Administrative Vice President Brad Russell told Critic that the Read more...