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Otago's climate researchers get deeper pockets

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Steph Taylor

The University of Otago is a key partner for the second time in one of Government’s multi-million dollar National Science Challenges. The Deep South Challenge is the second challenge to have funding confirmed, with up to $88.1 million available over the next 10 years, inclusive of Crown Research Read more...

Geography students fundraise for Sierra Leone

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Laura Munro

A group of University of Otago Geography students, currently studying GEOG102, will spend the rest of their 2014 study year fundraising for a school in Sierra Leone. The project is set in Kayima, a community in the far northeast of Sierra Leone. The overall aim of the fundraiser is to add a new Read more...

Gender-neutral bathrooms better suit queer students

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Emily Draper

The installation of gender-neutral bathrooms around campus may be on the cards for the University, after a recent study by OUSA. Of the 1,357 students who participated in OUSA’s study, 43 students reported feeling uncomfortable using the current gender segregated facilities. In a recent Read more...

Planetarium being considered for Otago Museum

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Bella Macdonald

Otago Museum is planning to introduce a planetarium as part of the $3.5 million long-term upgrade to the establishment. The Planetarium, if approved by the Museum’s board, will showcase the southern skies in a large, state of the art, indoor dome that would have the ability to project 2D and Read more...

The law proves an obstacle for liquor bans

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Laura Munro

A revision of the 2002 Local Government Amendment Act will make it harder to introduce liquor bans in New Zealand cities. According to The Department of Internal Affairs website, the update, which was first announced in March 2012, aims to create “a more productive, competitive economy, and better Read more...

ACT candidate for Dunedin North resigns

Posted 11:03pm Tuesday 5th August 2014 by Carys Goodwin

ACT Party Board member and Dunedin North candidate Guy McCallum has officially resigned and withdrawn his candidacy as the result of “the development of a race relations policy” that “blindsided” him. This resignation, effective Tuesday 5 August, comes in the wake of ACT leader Jamie Whyte’s shock Read more...

What would it cost them now?

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Carys Goodwin

In an article by Spook Magazine, Ellena Savage figured out exactly how much an education would cost for Australian Cabinet Ministers should their degrees have been undertaken today. It was written amongst the discourse about how Tony Abbott intends to deregulate university fees, a frightening act of Read more...

Greatest hits / Greatest shits | Issue 18

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Carys Goodwin

Greatest HitAnother week brings us another hilarious parody website. This one is making fun of Colin Craig; by going to colincraig.co.nz you’re treated to a number of fake press releases, like: “Perhaps choosing the Conservative Party as a name was a bad choice, as we are constantly mistaken to be Read more...

Politweets | Issue 18

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Carys Goodwin

Reporter Laura McQuillan provides evidence for the Greatest Shit. National MP inadvertently used the Greens’ hashtag #LoveNZ. More than once. Awkward. As you do. Thanks, fake Gerry. Read more...

Critic tackles election year | Issue 18

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Carys Goodwin

Disability rights are not often talked about at university. Given that almost one in four New Zealanders are disabled in some way, it is definitely a topic that should make more waves at Otago. I spoke to Mojo Mathers of the Green Party, who is the first profoundly deaf New Zealand MP, and Chris Read more...

Gentlemen, start your conspiracy theory engines ...

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Daniel Lormans

This week’s report comes from the motorsports desk, with the Formula One season having just reached its halfway point allowing a well-deserved break for the drivers and their crews. Mercedes are the on-form team of the season so far, having won nine of the eleven races, and with their drivers Nico Read more...

Clean sweep for Otago rowers

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Emily Draper

The University of Otago Women’s Senior Rowing Eight have much to celebrate following the International Universities Regatta in China, winning all three regattas of the series. “The wins here in China are huge for this crew and Otago University Rowing,” says Otago University Rowing Club Read more...

Medicine and dentistry learning tool wins CALT Award


Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Anna Whyte

A University of Otago medicine and dentistry online learning tool has won the Committee for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT) Award for Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Technology. Dr Steve Gallagher of psychological medicine won first prize through the establishment of an Read more...

North D. unhappy with “look and feel” Of South D.



Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Anna Whyte

In the Dunedin City Council’s 2014 Residents’ Opinion Survey, 58 per cent of those who responded were satisfied or very satisfied with the DCC’s progress. Approximately 2,000 Dunedin residents completed the survey from 4,500 randomly selected individuals off the electoral roll. Increases in Read more...

Cars for the taking for everyone for anywhere


Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Laura Munro

Shyft, a new carshare initiative, will soon be making its way to Dunedin. Kate Beecroft of Shyft told Critic, “We’re looking to have the Wellington operation up and running in September. We’ll concentrate on proving the concept here and then we’ll be looking for interested parties to help us expand Read more...

$45,000 prize for innovative business idea


Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Laura Munro

The ANZ Flying Start Business Plan Competition is looking for an original business idea, and the supreme winner will be set up with $45,000 worth of prizes to get the winner’s idea off the ground. Existing small businesses are eligible to enter so long as the idea is innovative and able to sustain Read more...

Invisibility cloak: magic is still cooler than maths


Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Emily Draper

Dr Robert Thompson from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics may not look like a magician, but his research on the concept of invisibility “cloaking” sounds like something straight out of Hogwarts. The postdoctoral research fellow, who began his research at the University of Otago in Read more...

OUSA opens new role – Projects Officer

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Laura Munro

After a month of planning, OUSA have advertised for the new role of Projects Officer. The role is available to students, as well as the general public. OUSA President Ruby Sycamore-Smith said, “It is a role for someone who wants to be a key logistics coordinator in the OUSA election drive.” Read more...

Dunedin Craft Beer Fest First Brewery Announcement

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Josie Cochrane

In the early stages of its second year, the Dunedin Craft Beer and Food Festival is already set to have more breweries signed up than last year. In its latest media release, the event promises to be “bigger and better than anything Dunedin has seen before.” “We’re absolutely stoked to have Read more...

Execrable | Issue 18

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Josie Cochrane

Former Finance Officer Nick Tenci handed over his report for the second quarter at last week’s OUSA Executive meeting. He made the report “mostly as a handover document” because, he justified, “it took a while to find my feet in the role and I’d hate Paul to go through the same thing.” The recently Read more...