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Students for Environmental Action Given $5,000

Posted 10:17pm Thursday 6th September 2018 by Thea Bailie-Bellew

The Students for Environmental Action (SEA) club has been bequeathed $5,000 from the Estate of Kenneth David Mason, a gift that aimed to ensure a continued interest in nature and ecological preservation among university students. An avid lover of the outdoors, Kenneth Mason was an honorary member Read more...

Law Students Slam Law Camp Review

Posted 10:02pm Thursday 6th September 2018 by Esme Hall

The Society of Otago University Law Students (SOULS) have got more than 200 people to submit their experiences of Law Camps in protest after a draft review of Law Camps was released that only drew on interviews with five former attendees. A review of Law Camp was commissioned from Dunedin Read more...

Who Is Watching Campus Watch?

Posted 9:58pm Thursday 6th September 2018 by Joel MacManus

EDITORIAL: A couple of years ago, I lived on Hyde Street. There was a flat on the street that was apparently connected to the Mongrel Mob. There were a bunch of high school cunts that would always show up on Saturdays looking for a fight. There were drunk randoms constantly trying to crash Read more...

The Otago Uni Students Running an Art Exhibition for 125 Years of Women’s Suffrage

Posted 11:32pm Thursday 30th August 2018 by Esme Hall

Two Otago Art History students have organised an ambitious two-week art show accompanied by a publication and events to commemorate 125 years of women’s suffrage. The show centres on intersectional feminism, which event organisers, sisters Kari and Lydie Schmidt see as a “natural Read more...

Opinion: The OUSA Squash Courts Have Become a Money Pit

Posted 11:31pm Thursday 30th August 2018 by Sinead Gill

OUSA is allowing the Squash Club and its 86 Facebook group members to make $bank$ on something that all students pay for.  Since the only people that look at the OUSA budget are the Executive, Critic, and total nerds, it is likely that you don’t know that your student services fee goes Read more...

Shit-Show Chateau up for Sale

Posted 11:30pm Thursday 30th August 2018 by Esme Hall

Offshore owners appear to have given up on the ‘Shit-Show Chateau’ at 47 London Street, despite a high-profile renovation attempt by students in 2013. The five bedroom, solar-panelled flat, that Harcourts euphemistically dubbed a “prime development opportunity,” is up for Read more...

WWII Mortar Shell Found Under Leith Bridge

Posted 11:29pm Thursday 30th August 2018 by Sinead Gill

The Police and New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) were recently called over a bomb found in the Leith, and it wasn’t the first one this year. The old mortar shell was unearthed during excavation for the construction of a new bridge near the Burns building. It had been chilling just one metre Read more...

The DCC Spent 73 Times More Money on Ed Sheeran than Kendrick Lamar

Posted 11:27pm Thursday 30th August 2018 by Joel MacManus

The DCC spent just $3,181 on promotion and events for Kendrick Lamar’s Dunedin concert, compared to $221,000 for Ed Sheeran’s three concerts, according to details released to Critic under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA – it sounds gross if you Read more...

Opinion: Why It Sucks that the Art History Department Is Getting Cut

Posted 11:16pm Thursday 30th August 2018 by Esme Hall

I am where I am today because of art. My father is an art gallery curator and my mother is a jeweller and after-school art teacher. People’s desires to see art, learn about art, wear art and encourage their children to make art have supported my family throughout my life. My parents encouraged Read more...

Student Drag Competition Returns After Hiatus

Posted 11:13pm Thursday 30th August 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

The Great Southern Drag Off, a student-run drag show and competition, will be returning after a long hiatus. The 2018 event, Tucked and Loaded, will be run at Stilettos, in conjunction with Dunedin Pride and Sacrilege Productions, an alternative performance group, on the 14th of September. Critic Read more...