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

Stashing exam notes in the toilet and posting computer science code on an online forum were among the 45 cases of dishonest practice that Otago students were reported for in 2012. The Annual Discipline Report shows that of these 45 cases, 17 stemmed from the Commerce Department, 15 from the Read more...

Dunedin: The China of counterfeit wristbands

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

The limited amount of tickets, which came in the form of a green wristband, available to this year’s Hyde Street Keg Party led to a thriving “green market” in the days preceding the event. An entrepreneurial Hyde Street keg party attendee tried to outwit authorities by ordering a large quantity of Read more...

You can hide the event, but you can’t Hyde the Street

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

After much concern and debate, the annual Hyde Street Keg Party took place on Saturday 13 April before the watchful eyes of media, the University, and other relevant parties, who finally declared that behaviour was “OK”. 3500 students turned up to the event, which officially started at 9am Read more...

Please can you teach me how to Dougie

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Gus Gawn

The celebration is one of my favourite parts of sport. It serves so many purposes: an outpouring of raw emotion; a message to your opponent or the crowd; a “look at me” moment especially for the cameras; or pure relief. The days of manners and sportsmanship limiting celebration to a nod and a Read more...

Cowardly bag snatcher adds to vast collection

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Thomas Stevenson

Andersons Bay Cemetery has become a hotspot for the lowest form of crime ever conceived: snatching someone’s handbag from their car while they visit a grave. The cemetery has experienced three occurrences of the ghoulish crime over just two weeks. Most recently, on 30 March local woman Sybil Read more...

The Jolly Exec Report

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Nick Jolly

There are many ways to spend $50k. $3 dinners should not be one of them. Unfortunately, our great leader Francisco believes that they should be. Luckily, this mindless spending has been curbed by the restraint of a sensible few. I live in a flat that is close enough to the Clubs and Socs building to Read more...

"Quite steamed" scarfie pays the price for trying to keep warm

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Josie Cochrane

A second-year Otago student has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service following his arrest for endangering public safety on Friday 29 March. The student spoke with Critic directly and has asked to remain anonymous. At about 1am, a “huge fire with about 100 people around it” was Read more...

"Pay off your fucking loans" - Govt

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Gerard Barbalich

Economically-minded students will be disappointed to discover that the Government has scrapped the voluntary repayment bonus for student loans, effective from 1 April 2013. While the incentive was in place, borrowers who repaid more than the minimum amount required had a 10% bonus credited to that Read more...

Critic manufactures story based on ODT's manufactured story

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Sara Lamb-Miller

The ODT’s Sunday article claiming that Dunedin is the true Garden City of New Zealand sinks to a new low, even for them. It seems mean-spirited to take Christchurch’s last claim to fame away while they’re not looking. They even have gardens made out of bits of rubble now, in the empty spots where Read more...

An-Nur Kiwi Academy

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Thomas Raethel

After years of planning, an all-male Islamic boarding school is confirmed to be opening in South Dunedin. Built on the site of a former Catholic primary school, An-Nur Kiwi Academy will be the third Muslim school in New Zealand, and the first outside of Auckland. Formerly owned by the Dunedin Read more...

Driver admits liability in cycle death

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Sarah Bayly

Beverley Peat, who caused the death of Dentistry lecturer Dr. Chris He last November by opening her car door as he was cycling past, has been charged with “causing death by careless operation of a vehicle,” and remanded on bail for sentencing in May. Dr. He, described by a student as a Read more...

Getting Down and Nerdy

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Jamie Breen

In a recent article published in the ODT, University of Otago Physics lecturer Tim Molten pointed out that in New Zealand greater value is placed on sports than on the sciences. Critic is absolutely shocked. “Imagine if you were to become a Physicist and you became a hero and everyone bought Read more...

Racist Danish Runs Rampant

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Claudia Herron

The Maori community has set its harpoons on foreign territory after a Danish MP denounced Maori culture as “uncivilised and grotesque.” An opinion piece published by MP Marie Krarup in the Danish newspaper Berlingske revealed that a powhiri made her feel uncomfortable, especially after being Read more...

Councillors counselled

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Jack Montgomerie

Dunedin City Councillors are to be warned against conflicts of interest at every meeting, just weeks after the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) cleared two councillors of voting for funding that would help their businesses. Councillors Kate Wilson and Richard Thomson, both of whom are part Read more...

Victoria Victorious in Research Rankings

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Callum Fredric

In its trademark bureaucratic and inaccessible style, the Tertiary Education Commission has published the results of its 2012 Quality Evaluation. The evaluation, which is the first since 2006, ranked the research performance of over 6,300 tertiary staff across the country. Despite the influx Read more...

Lord Monckton

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Claudia Herron

Controversial climate change skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton will share his views with Dunedin next week as part of a nationwide speaking tour. His Dunedin visit is being organised by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. Lord Monckton is a British journalist, politician, former Read more...

Smelling Gastly helps Weezing and Koffing

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Bella Macdonald

Professors around the globe have been blown away by a recent Otago Uni study which found that hydrogen sulphide (H2S), the gas that gives farts their characteristic odour, could reduce the symptoms of asthma. The results came from a sample of over 1600 Rotorua residents, a popular tourist Read more...

Anonymous Jerk Knocks Over Cones

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Callum Fredric

An unknown vandal systematically knocked down two lines of road cones set up to protect the path on the Museum Lawn while it was being repaved. The crime was committed on Thursday night, which is regarded by many as one of the two main drinking nights of the week. Alcohol may have been a Read more...

Hyde Street Sold Out

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Bella Macdonald

Tickets to the infamous Hyde Street keg party sold out by midday when they went on sale at OUSA on both Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 April. Although the 500 tickets available on Monday were sold from 9am instead of 11am as publicised, OUSA President Francisco Hernandez reported that “every man and Read more...

Hör∂ur Torfason

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Zane Pocock

Hör∂ur Torfason, widely credited as “the man who brought participatory democracy to Iceland,” delivered several open speeches in Dunedin on 27 and 28 March. Held in the Burns 1 Lecture Theatre, the last of these speeches was entitled “Modern Democracy and the Iceland Experience,” and was Read more...