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OUSA Postgrad Officer Facing Vote to Remove Him From Office

Posted 9:48pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

OUSA Postgraduate Officer Kirio Birks may be removed from his position after a vote of no confidence, which will be brought against him at a Student General Meeting, held on Thursday at 1pm in the Main Common Room.   The motion was introduced by postgraduate student Matthew Schep, who says Read more...

Former OUSA Presidential Candidate Running for NZUSA Vice President

Posted 9:46pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Esme Hall

Former OUSA presidential candidate Finn Shewell, who narrowly lost to Caitlin-Barlow Groome by 91 votes is standing for Vice President of the New Zealand Union of Students’ Association (NZUSA), after previous VP Melissa Evans resigned mid-year. The only other candidate is current NZUSA Read more...

Main Common Room Could Be Revamped into Student Bar

Posted 8:20pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Joel MacManus

The University Union Main Common Room becoming a licensed space could meet the need for a decent on-campus student bar, said University of Otago COO Stephen Willis. As the only late-night entertainment venue on campus, U-Bar is not up to scratch in terms of capacity, and lines of over 200 people Read more...

Where to Get Free Sanitary Products: A Critic Investigation

Posted 8:19pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Sinead Gill

Sanitary items are super expensive, and if you menstruate, there is no avoiding them. Being a broke student means that having to trade in a night out with mates for tampons and pain medication is an inconvenient, but doable, sacrifice. But what if getting your period means having to skip meals, Read more...

NZUSA on the Brink of Financial Collapse

Posted 8:13pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

The New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) is in what President Jonathan Gee called a “precarious financial situation”, and has had to ask its member associations to pay over $100,000 in advance in order to save the organisation. The OUSA exec voted to immediately Read more...

Carol’s Back and She’s Complaining About Students Again

Posted 8:11pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Joel MacManus

Dunedin resident Carol Devine, whose role in the widely-criticised 2015 TVNZ Sunday piece “Party Central” made her public enemy number one for many Otago students, has hit headlines again this week after another complaint of excessive noise from students who live near her Read more...

Scandal Alert: Steamy OUSA Prez / Vice-Prez Love Affair Revealed

Posted 8:09pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

In what has been described as “The greatest scandal OUSA has seen in the last 10 years,” it has come to light that OUSA President Caitlin Barlow-Groome and Vice-President Cam Meads had a brief, but passionate, romantic encounter in their first years. The explosive information was Read more...

How To: Talk Sports With Your Dad

Posted 6:03pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Charlie Hantler

Your dad is old, I mean really old. It’s just one of the facts of life. Here are the facts of life, by the way: Your dad is old  Everybody fucking hates the Chiefs.  But back to your dad. He’s old. It’s not his fault that he’s old, but he is Read more...

We Almost Won a Proper Award for Real Media

Posted 5:56pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Joel MacManus

EDITORIAL: Critic made history last week by nabbing what the organisers reckoned was the first-ever nomination for a student magazine in any category at the Voyager Media Awards (formerly Canon Media Awards).  Trevor Cokley was among the top three finalists in the Best Photographer Read more...

Talking About Periods Is a Very Good Thing

Posted 5:55pm Thursday 17th May 2018 by Esme Hall

GUEST EDITORIAL: My friends and I recently had a conversation about periods. We discovered that one friend had been going through life with some very wack assumptions. Firstly, he thought that people on their periods wore pads all the time like diapers. Secondly, he thought pads stuck to skin Read more...