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Man Commits Suicide. Oops, Critic Broke the Law

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Zane Pocock

New media reporting guidelines released last year by the Chief Coroner have been called into question by University of Otago Professor David Fergusson and Auckland's Dr. Annette Beautrais in an editorial published in the New Zealand Medical Journal. Prof. Fergusson and Dr. Beautrais say that Read more...

Mental Health Nurses Define Yelling as Assault

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Margot Taylor

The increasing use of synthetic cannabis is being cited as a reason for the rising number of assaults on mental health workers. In the first seven months of the year there were 131 reported assaults on Otago Southern District Health Board mental health services staff, a rise of 37% on the same Read more...

City Councillor Edgar Putting the GC in DCC

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Zane Pocock

OUSA President Logan Edgar has backed away from claims made on Radio One last Thursday that he is starting a campaign to be elected to the Dunedin City Council next October. He is, however, “really considering it”. In the meantime, Edgar is meeting this week with the Mayor and the Electoral Read more...

Colleges Officer Organises College Sports for Colleges

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012 by Juana Diesing

Aquinas scored a late goal to snatch the overall trophy from Arana last Wednesday, marking the end of the inaugural inter-College Soccer Trophy. Eight Colleges contested the first-ever competition, with all matches played under lights on Wednesday evenings at Logan Park. Aquinas was an early Read more...

I’m Gunna Break Your Face

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012 by Greg Hall

After the last incident regarding a certain Gus Gawn (Sports Editor and world renowned yonker) and the NZ Breakers, the powers that be at Critic decided to send their most popular reporter to the preseason game against the Wollongong Hawks. The Critic security team signed off on this straight away, Read more...

Fraudster Gambles On Freedom, Loses

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012 by Claudia Herron

Name suppression has been lifted for the former University of Otago accounts manager who admitted to stealing almost $240,000 from the University over seven years. Graeme “Petty Cash” Pettitt has pleaded guilty to eight charges of accessing the university’s electronic accounting system between March Read more...

House Prices in Freefall, Sell! Sell! Sell!

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012 by Margot Taylor

Figures released by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand show that over the last year Dunedin house prices have seen the largest fall of all major cities in the country. In August 2011 the median house price in Dunedin was $260,000. As of August 2012, a significant $20,000 has been Read more...

Physics Penalises Kickers’ Conversion Rates

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012 by Bella Macdonald

Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr stadium is transforming into the House of Pain for rugby goal-kickers, after a series of feeble goal-kicking attempts from world-class athletes have left players embarrassed and pointing fingers in all directions. During the test match between the Springboks and All Read more...

Councillor Apologises for Calling Herself Old, Blames Senility

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012 by Claudia Herron

Age Concern Otago has condemned two Dunedin City Councillors for their self-deprecatingly calling themselves “old farts” and “old fellas”. The comments, which were made by Councillors Fliss Butcher and Richard Thomson during a full council meeting on Monday, were interpreted as offensive to the Read more...

Alligator Attacks Terrorise Dunedin

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012 by Josie Adams

There is a strange and terrifying underbelly to Edinburgh’s progeny that we are only just discovering. This week, in news from Dunedin FL, we reveal the insider’s scoop on the alligator attacks that have been terrorising the city. Like its Celtic namesake, the alleys of the city have become a Read more...

Emerson's: Pride of the South since 1992

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012 by Callum Fredric

Emerson’s has reaffirmed its status as Dunedin’s premier brewery after ten of its finest brews were honoured at the Sutton Group Brewers’ Guild of NZ Awards 2012. The Regional Best Bitter won the trophy and a gold medal in the British Ale Styles category, with silver medals going to Emerson’s Read more...

PLEDGEIT

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Staff Reporter

God, if there is a God, can be a bit or a dick. He blesses creative people with all the talent in the world, but no sales skills; no sense of self-promotion. And so they create, and suffer, and die sad lonely deaths in cold houses without ever being recognised in their lifetimes. As all creative Read more...

Student Politician Loves Spandex

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Gus Gawn

We have reached Issue 24 of Critic for the year. That means only three more to go, and it’s fair to say that the well of relevant local sports stories has run a little dry. With that in mind, I made the short trip across the hall from the Critic office to ask OUSA Exec board member Angus McDonald Read more...

Fantasy Sports: The Anti-sex

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Gus Gawn

Lurking just out of the sight of the casual sports fan is an ominous subculture: a pointless pursuit that robs sports fans of not only a high percentage of their waking hours, but also a good deal of their dignity, not to mention their allure to the opposite sex. I’m talking about fantasy sports: a Read more...

Otago Succeeds

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Margot Taylor

A series of tertiary league tables released by the Tertiary Education Commission place the University of Otago first in two out of four performance areas. The study was conducted to reveal how taxpayer-subsidised students in New Zealand are performing in tertiary study. The four performance Read more...

OUSA Is So Gay

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Zane Pocock

Candidate nominations are open for the election of OUSA’s 2013 Executive, from 9am this Monday 17 September until 4pm this Thursday 20 September. Voting is set to occur over the same time period in the week after nominations close. During the election period there will also be a referendum on Read more...

Student Jewry Sentences AUSA President to Insincere Apology

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Callum Fredric

Arena Williams, the President of the Auckland University Students’ Association (AUSA), has been forced to apologise after taking a 10-day trip to Israel, funded by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC). According to its website, AIJAC “endeavours to highlight and counteract Read more...

Otago University's Two Dirty Little Screts

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Callum Fredric

Two University staff members cancelled their plans to speak at an OUSA Environment Week presentation on the University’s use of lignite coal, apparently after discussions with the University’s communications section. Energy Manager Hans Pietsch and Environmental Sustainability Co-ordinator Dr Read more...

Students Engaging in Hubba-Hubba with no Rubber

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Josie Adams

Results are in from a 2009 University of Otago Department of Preventative and Social Medicine survey which questioned nearly 3000 17 – 26 year old university students across New Zealand about their sexual practices. With no update in national sexual health and behaviour data for over 20 Read more...

Trespassed for being NORML

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012 by Bella Macdonald

The grass is no longer greener on the University of Otago’s side after the Uni issued several Trespass orders against members of National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) – without explaining why. On Wednesday September 12, Police issued trespass orders to a handful of Read more...