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Health Professors Rally For Sugar Tax

Posted 10:34am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Jessica Thompson

Several health experts around the country have proposed that sugary drinks such as coke, fanta and sprite be taxed to help combat New Zealand’s high rate of child obesity (fourth highest in the world), diabetes and heart disease. Over 70 health academics have voiced their opinions, Read more...

Arrest Causes Surge In Student Loan Repayments

Posted 10:32am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Joe Higham

The arrest of Ngatokotoru Puna, an overseas-based borrower who defaulted on his loans, at Auckland Airport in January has caused overseas borrowers to begin making repayments on their student loans, the Government says.  According to a Government press release, overseas borrowers repaid Read more...

Auckland Uni Facebook Post Leads To Racial Profile Debate

Posted 10:25am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Tom Kitchin

The issue of racial violence in our country’s biggest city is contentious, and it has been brought to light recently due to a number of attacks against people of Asian ethnicity in the city. This culminated in the publication of a post by a student on the Overheard @ University of Auckland Read more...

Fiesta Gets Feisty

Posted 10:21am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Henry Napier

Alley Cantina was trashed after closing early last Sunday sometime early in the morning. The local restaurant saw $900 worth of damage done to its outside area where chairs and plants were removed or destroyed. Mike Bamkier, the owner and operator of the long-standing restaurant, said the damage Read more...

Execrable | Issue 6

Posted 10:18am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Henry Napier

Last Monday the student executive met with members of the OUSA events team to debrief last years Craft Beer Festival and the worthiness of the festival moving forward.  The meeting began with President Laura Harris posing questions as to what the value was for OUSA running the festival, Read more...

Otago University Faces On-going Issue Of Declining Enrollment

Posted 10:14am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Joe Higham

Otago University saw a 2.2 percent decline in overall student enrollments in 2015, with 2016’s enrollment numbers set to be announced at a University Council Meeting on Tuesday afternoon.  With humanities and commerce departments feeling the brunt of the declining numbers over the Read more...

Clark V. Woodhouse

Posted 11:30am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by David Clark

David Clark Right-wing Governments always scare-monger and say that raising the minimum wage causes job losses.  History tells us otherwise.   In fact, I hazard that there will be a Nobel Prize up for grabs for the economist that can demonstrate the real-world nature of the Read more...

What The Fuck Is Going On In America?

Posted 11:16am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Joel MacManus

The US presidential election is the longest, most confusing, infuriating experiment in the history of democracy. But at the same time, it is also far and away the most entertaining. Over the course of almost 20 months, candidates go from shaking hands in the cornfields of Iowa, to packed arenas Read more...

The Case of March Madness

Posted 11:00am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Sean Nugent

I've heard a few people asking the same question in the last couple of weeks: “What the hell is March Madness?” In simple terms it’s a college basketball tournament in the United States played by the top 68 teams in the nation. Yet look deeper and it’s so much more than Read more...

IPL Chances Reignited For Martin Guptill?

Posted 10:57am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Willy Chapman

With some strong performances in the latest installment of the T20 World Cup in India, Guptill is showing why he will be sorely missed in this years IPL tournament. Guptill was surprisingly snubbed by IPL bosses in February’s auction, where many thought he would cash in after an explosive Read more...

Syrian Forces Capture Vital ISIS Stronghold

Posted 10:48am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Hugh Baird

After days of fighting, Syrian Government forces backed by Russian airstrikes, have re-taken the ancient city of Palmyra from the Islamic State.  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director, Rami Abdulrahman confirmed that over 400 Islamic State militants where killed, with around 180 Read more...

Stop Killing People You Fucking Twats

Posted 10:45am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Joe Higham

A Taliban splinter group, named Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan’s second most populous city, which took the lives of at least 72 people, many of whom were children.  Along with the dead, approximately 300 people were Read more...

Bunnings Warehouse U-Turns On Defibrillators

Posted 10:43am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Joe Higham

Dunedin's branch of Bunnings Warehouse has backed down on plans to remove a potentially life-saving defibrillator, despite one of the staff members having died of a heart condition, the ODT reported.  Bunnings New Zealand manager Jacqui Coombes had been quoted by the ODT as saying that Read more...

Dunedin Resident Says Drift Trikers Are “irresponsible”

Posted 10:39am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Henry Napier

Dunedin has once again ascended to the world stage following the surging popularity of a downhill ‘Drift Triking’ video. The 2 minute 14 second clip, filmed on George King Memorial Drive, has reached over 3.5 million views on Facebook. The video, which was originally uploaded to the Read more...

University Oval To Expand Capacity

Posted 10:36am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Georgia Vosper

The Dunedin University Cricket Oval is currently in the process of being upgraded. This is to meet the 6000 person minimum capacity that has been set by New Zealand Cricket’s (NZC) requirements for international venues.   On completion the oval will hold more than 6000 people, with the Read more...

Otago Uni Dentistry Chomps Into World Rankings

Posted 10:30am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Henry Napier

The University of Otago may not be Harvard or Oxford, but Dunedin-trained dentists can rest assured that their degree is among the highest quality in the world after earning 12th place in the world university rankings. Last week the sixth edition of QS World University Rankings by subject was Read more...

“Increased Vigilance” Sees Student Offences Up 20 Percent In 2015

Posted 10:24am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Joe Higham

Although 2014 witnessed a nine percent drop in overall offending in comparison to 2013, that figure did increase by almost 20 percent during 2015 when compared to 2014, with 576 separate incidents occurring. The large majority of those were simply disorderly behaviour, which totaled 174, while other Read more...

Interview With Grant Robertson

Posted 11:35am Sunday 20th March 2016 by Joel MacManus

Labour Party Finance Spokesperson Grant Robertson bounds into the Critic office on a sunny O-Week Tuesday. While some of the staff may have been a bit dusty from the night before, Robertson is positively vibing. The source of that enthusiasm could be the natural rush of non-stop meetings Read more...

Leicester City Five Points Clear

Posted 11:32am Sunday 20th March 2016 by Sean Nugent

Leicester City have gone five points clear at the top of the Premier League after a 1-0 victory over Newcastle United. Shinji Okazaki’s superb first half strike increased the pressure on both Tottenham and Arsenal as the season nears its conclusion. With eight games to go, Leicester have Read more...

Acting Like Dopes

Posted 11:27am Sunday 20th March 2016 by Sean Nugent

In wake of Maria Sharapova’s admission to taking a banned substance before this year’s Australian Open, I thought it would be a good time to look back on similar doping scandals that shook the world. So, in no particular order, here’s my top five all-time doping scandals: East Read more...