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Selwyn Ballet to thrill audiences for 86th year running

Posted 4:00pm Sunday 5th May 2013 by Callum Fredric

Capping Show audiences are once again set for five minutes of top-quality entertainment at the end of the first half of the show, as the Selwyn Ballet makes its 86th appearance. The ballet’s distinctive humour comes from the visual juxtaposition between short-haired, rugby-loving young men Read more...

We’re off to see the wizard

Posted 4:00pm Sunday 5th May 2013 by Jamie Breen

The legendary University of Otago Capping Show will kick off on Wednesday. This year sees the 119th iteration of the world’s second-longest-running (and longest continually running) Capping Revue. For all you freshers out there, allow Critic to educate you. The Capping Show, a yearly event, Read more...

A Lord-to-Lord chat with Christopher Monckton

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Callum Fredric

Lord Christopher Monckton is arguably the world’s most prominent climate change skeptic. He talks to Critic about NZ universities, Generation Zero, and whether he’s actually a Lord. You’re speaking in Gore tomorrow. Are small towns worth your time to attend? It’s always an enormous Read more...

Lord Monckton

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Callum Fredric

Prominent climate change skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton gave two presentations in Dunedin last week, in which he argued that the dangers of human-induced climate change had been greatly exaggerated and that scientists had deliberately tampered with climate data in order to show increasing global Read more...

Lord Monckton | The Eagle's Take

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Eagle of Liberty

The Eagle wrote “The Eagle Denies Climate Change” in Critic back in 2011, and two years later socialists are still rabbiting on about global warming, polar bears, and how taxing dem evil multinational corporations will solve the world’s problems. Thankfully, the Eagle’s liberty-loving friend Lord Read more...

Lord Monckton | The Salamander's Take

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Salamander of Science

So, I want to get something pretty clear. Lord Christopher Monckton is crazy. Not some kind of acceptable/eccentric crazy, but the kind of legitimately crazy that goes on record saying “we should lock up all people with HIV/AIDS,” and “the United Nations is secretly planning to kill 90 per cent of Read more...

Bohm Chicka Wow Wow

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Thomas Raethel

The widow of a Dunedin antiques dealer has been ordered to pay AU$225,000 (NZ$275,000) to her dead husband’s paramour (the illicit partner of a married person). As the sole beneficiary in Anthony Francis Bohm’s childless will, Winifred Lorraine Bohm inherited the entirety of his $3 million Read more...

Solution: Legalise Reefer

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Bella Macdonald

Dunedin dairy owners have recently been arming themselves with machetes, mallets and large wooden sticks as self-protection, after a series of aggravated robberies in which synthetic cannabis has been stolen. Police have been trying to encourage worried dairy owners to take the product off Read more...

Your TV is fucked

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Zane Pocock

The long-awaited digital switchover occurred on Sunday 28 April, which is why your old TV probably stopped working this weekend as New Zealand’s old analogue TV network was switched off. The switchover suddenly renders thousands of TVs obsolete, raising several environmental concerns. Read more...

The 2013 Uni Games Preliminary Results

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Irrelevant Irvine

The University of Otago has won the Best University Shield by a significant margin over Canterbury at the 2013 Uni Games. Otago teams also won the Badminton, Netball and Touch Rugby finals. The other winners were Massey Albany in Basketball, Auckland University in Men’s Hockey, AUT in Read more...

Uni buys the wrong Castle Street

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Bella Macdonald

The University of Otago has purchased a 128-room hotel on Castle Street South, to be converted into high-quality student accommodation. Otago Polytechnic concurrently announced $20 million plans to build a hostel and atrium. The hotel the University has purchased, formerly called LivingSpace, Read more...

Local bands battle over $400 cash money

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Zane Pocock

OUSA’s 25th annual Battle of the Bands kicks off at 8pm this Friday 3 May at Refuel. The door charge is $2 for the weekly Friday night heats and $5 for the finals night, which will be held Saturday 25 May. OUSA Events Coordinator Jason Schroeder said “tracing its roots back to its inception Read more...

Aerosmith

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013 by Claudia Herron

Old Rockers Aerosmith proved they’re still Living on the Edge last Thursday evening, after more than 20,000 loyal bogans descended on Forsyth Barr Stadium for their first ever New Zealand concert. Playing all their big hits including “I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing”, “Dream On”, “Jaded”, and “Love in Read more...

QR Codes

Posted 7:48pm Wednesday 24th April 2013 by Staff Reporter

QR Codes will never be a thing. Don’t scan them, and don’t enable the companies that try to make them into a thing. That is all. Read more...

Victoria Uni teaches students how to rort the system

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013 by Callum Fredric

Victoria University of Wellington appears to have rorted its way to the top of the university research rankings, which were published last week. Victoria came top in two of the four measures, including the coveted award for having the highest average quality of research per staff member Read more...

Alcohol Implementation Group Meeting

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013 by Bella Macdonald

Last year University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Harlene Hayne initiated an “Alcohol Implementation Working Group,” chaired by the staunchly anti-alcohol Professor Jennie Connor, to research and take action on ways that alcohol-related harm could be reduced among students. Critic has gained Read more...

Drug dealers lose a significant portion of their clientele

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013 by Baz Macdonald

In a crushing blow to the legalise cannabis movement, new legislation passed on 9 April will require beneficiaries to undergo drug testing when looking for employment from June this year. A 2008 Ministry of Health study showed that those on the benefit are three times more likely to be weed Read more...

Eva Lavi

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013 by Claudia Herron

“My name is Eva Lavi. I was born in Poland in Krakow, and I was two years old when the war started.” Last Wednesday evening, Eva Lavi shared her incredible story of Holocaust survival. Nearly 600 people crammed into the Colquhoun Lecture Theatre, well exceeding its usual 312-person Read more...

Don We Now Our Gay Apparel

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013 by Zane Pocock

Louisa Wall’s Marriage Amendment Bill passed its third and final reading in Parliament Wednesday night by a landslide 77-44 votes. OUSA President Francisco Hernandez told Critic, “You’re not going to get a different take from me. I’m just going to circle-jerk the liberal-left celebration.” Read more...

Otago: Too Big To Fail?

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013 by Zane Pocock

Figures revealed at the University’s 9 April council meeting show student enrolments “running some 2.3% down on the equivalent point last year,” despite first-year domestic enrolments at Otago increasing by 2.9%. Vice-Chancellor Harlene Hayne expressed particular concern at the large drop in Read more...