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Editorial: Boomers Are Upset About Something

Posted 3:00am Friday 10th May 2019 by Charlie O’Mannin

Buying drinks in a bar is like artificial insemination. It’ll cost more than your entire student loan and you’ll end up being disappointed. Last week the media latched onto OUSA pointing out that buying alcohol in a bar costs too much. The ODT ran the inflammatory headline Read more...

Trapped Between Four Walls

Posted 12:35am Friday 10th May 2019 by Nina Minogue

Students have claimed Four Walls Property Management ignored tenant requests for maintenance in a flat at 61 Grange Street that was deemed “unfit to be occupied”. Interim manager of Four Walls Rob Woodhouse described the company’s situation as a “clusterfuck” and Read more...

Stolen Flat Signs Returned, Others Still Missing

Posted 12:33am Friday 10th May 2019 by Wyatt Ryder

Early last week the stolen sign for The Birdcage flat was returned to their doorstep. One of the residents managed to contact a friend of the thief, who convinced them to return the sign. When The Birdcage residents contacted the suspected thief directly, they denied the allegations and told the Read more...

Caity Frickin B from NZUS-frickin-A

Posted 12:26am Friday 10th May 2019 by Sinead Gill

You’re right in wondering what the heck NZUSA is. NZUSA is the New Zealand Union for Students Associations (the daddy of OUSA, if you will). The idea is that there are issues that all campuses share, so the national team based in Wellington does all the lobbying and schmoozing with Read more...

OUSA Fails to Get Extended Opening Hours for Central Library

Posted 12:25am Friday 10th May 2019 by Erin Gourley

On 2 May, OUSA Education Officer Will Dreyer asked for a one-hour extension to Central Library’s hours in a meeting with University representatives. Instead, he came out of the meeting with a trial one-hour extension to the hours of the Marsh over exams. Over the upcoming exam period the Read more...

OPINION: It’s Too Soon For SOULS to Accept Funding from Russell McVeagh

Posted 12:24am Friday 10th May 2019 by Kelly Stitely

In its ninth issue this year, Critic addressed that the Society of University Law Students (SOULS) is considering accepting money from Russell McVeagh after the sexual assault scandals that broke last year. I don’t think that Critic, in its short interview with two random law students, really Read more...

Students Hit Out at DCC Over Parking Proposals

Posted 12:22am Friday 10th May 2019 by Nina Minogue

A public meeting hosted by student activist group Student Voice last week saw students and the DCC go head to head over a parking proposal. As Critic previously covered, the DCC has recently installed more Pay and Display parking meters around North Dunedin, and have proposed that 185 free Read more...

Harcourts Markets Illegal Boarding House as a Studio Room

Posted 12:20am Friday 10th May 2019 by Sinead Gill

If you are living in a flat with at least five other people, you share common areas, and you are all on individual tenancy agreements: you are possibly living in an illegal boarding house. Bri was one of these students. Just two weeks ago she had to move out of her flat due to accessibility Read more...

Students Struggle To Navigate Lime’s Claims System

Posted 12:19am Friday 10th May 2019 by Sinead Gill

Critic spoke to two students who tried to navigate the Lime claims system and were unhappy with the result. Sam returned from a night out with mates to find his car damaged in three places. The offending Lime scooter was left at the scene. After completing two separate forms, sending Lime photos Read more...

Saving Private Quackers: Otago DebSoc’s Multi-Day Search and Rescue Operation to Save an Injured Duck

Posted 9:13pm Thursday 9th May 2019 by Owen Clarke

Say you’re a duck, right? Say you’re a duck, and your leg is busted up. Classic. Probably got into a fight with an evil goose gang while trying to defend some helpless babies or something. Either way, on most University campuses, you’d probably be out of luck. But not at Otago, Read more...