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Postgraduate Officer Kirio Birks Narrowly Escapes Vote of No Confidence

Posted 1:00am Sunday 27th May 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

Kirio Birks, OUSA Postgraduate Officer, has avoided being removed from his position by a margin of two votes after a motion for a vote of no confidence in him was raised at a Student General Meeting last Friday. Matthew Schep, postgraduate student, introduced the motion, claiming that Kirio had Read more...

Students Protest University Censorship

Posted 12:59am Sunday 27th May 2018 by Esme Hall

Otago University Students formed a protest movement last week, while facing close scrutiny from Campus Watch, following the University’s decision to seize and destroy issues of Critic last week. Immediately after the University admitted to destroying copies of Critic’s Menstruation Read more...

The Cover Story

Posted 12:58am Sunday 27th May 2018 by Esme Hall

If you were wondering why there were no copies of Critic on campus last week and don’t follow any news outlets in the world, last Monday 2000 copies of Critic’s Menstruation Issue were siezed and destroyed by Campus Watch in a night-time raid because of its cover illustration depicting a Read more...

Letters | Issue 13

Posted 12:45am Sunday 27th May 2018 by Critic

Letter of the Week Hello, On behalf of the Board of Directors of the 40 year old international Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, I write to express our extreme dismay at the University of Otago’s censorship of the student magazine Critic’s Menstruation Issue, and our support of Read more...

Bloody Hell, What a Week

Posted 12:35am Sunday 27th May 2018 by Joel MacManus

EDITORIAL: There’re too many things I want to say and too little space to say them in, so here’s a big ol’ list of random thoughts about the Menstruation Issue. It wasn’t 500 copies, as the Uni insisted. I reckon it was somewhere around 1500-2000 copies.  We print Read more...

Teddy Bear Hospital Is So Cute

Posted 10:46pm Thursday 24th May 2018 by Esme Hall

Otago University Medical Students’ Association (OUMSA) has run its adorable Teddy Bear Hospital for the eighth year in a row. Busloads of kindergarteners arrived at Elim Church and the Hunter Centre last week to get check-ups for their soft toys. Health Professional students donned their Read more...

The Best Anonymous Comments From the OUSA Referendum

Posted 10:45pm Thursday 24th May 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

The OUSA Referendum happened and everything went pretty much as expected. All the boring questions passed because no one properly understood them. The environmental, drug, and miscellaneous ones pretty much passed with high majorities. The only close ones were whether OUSA should ban tickets in its Read more...

An Open Letter On The Removal and Destruction of Latest Issue of Critic Magazine by the University of Otago

Posted 11:10am Wednesday 23rd May 2018 by Critic

Dr Royden Somerville QC Chancellor University of Otago   BY EMAIL: registrar@otago.ac.nz   Dear Sir   RE: Removal and destruction of latest issue of Critic magazine by University of Otago   We are writing to express our deep concern over the recent Read more...

Otago Scientist to Tackle The Mystery of Loch Ness

Posted 10:04am Monday 21st May 2018 by Staff Reporter

The story of the Loch Ness monster is one of the world’s greatest mysteries. We have waited more than a thousand years for an answer on its existence. Now, it is only months away.   A global team of scientists, led by Professor Neil Gemmell of the University of Otago, New Zealand, Read more...

University Lies About Sanitary Bin Numbers in Female Toilets

Posted 9:49pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

The University does not have enough sanitary disposal bins in its female toilets and provides none in their male toilets. The University’s Property Services Division Director Barry MacKay told Critic that, “Every female toilet cubicle has a sanitary bin”. This is not true. Read more...