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Boy Racers Engage in Antisocial Behaviour

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Margot Taylor

On Friday August 24 a large contingent of boy racers took to the roads surrounding Dunedin. There were a reported 1000 “hooligans” in 400 cars participating in Dunedin’s “Big Cruise”. While many claimed that the event would be an opportunity for young car enthusiasts to show that they are merely Read more...

Five sports writers worth reading

Posted 4:33pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Gus Gawn

The thing about sports writing is that there’s a shitload of it out there, and most of it is complete garbage. I call it “down the pub syndrome”. In the past, semi-literate sports hogs would reserve their moronic ramblings for down the pub. Not anymore. There are enough “user content” sports sites Read more...

What if Nadzeya Ostapchuk is innocent?

Posted 4:33pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Gus Gawn

We knew it all along, didn't we? That hideous she-beast from the wilds of Belarus could never beat “our Val” without cheating. They're all cheats over there, aren't they? Bloody communists. She looks like a man! She’s a filthy cheat! Ban her for life! And so on. It seems like everything just Read more...

University explores subconscious undercurrents of religion

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

A recent study at Otago’s Department of Psychology suggests that the fear of death subconsciously makes us more religious. Among atheists, thoughts of death correlate with an increased receptivity to religious belief at an unconscious level and growing scepticism at a conscious level. For Read more...

SOULS

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Zane Pocock

SOULS – the Society of Otago University Law Students – is holding its Annual General Meeting this Monday August 20, followed by elections for the ten volunteer members of the 2013 Student Executive. The AGM will run from 11am to 5pm in the 8th Floor Common Room of the Richardson Building, and will Read more...

Mid-semester Crime Roundup

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Callum Fredric

A serial burglar from Christchurch had a pretty sweet routine going – drive down to Dunedin for a couple of days, saunter into student flats through an unlocked door or window, steal laptops and other goodies, then head back up the highway to safety. But his luck ran out on Saturday August 11 when a Read more...

Nuclear Radiation Gives Survivors Oratory Superpowers

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Josie Adams

On Friday the 10th, Dunedin was honoured to play host to two survivors of the infamous Hiroshima bombing. Shigeko Niimoto Sasamori, 80, and Michimasa Hirata, 77, were children – thirteen and nine, respectively – when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb “Little Boy” onto the Japanese city Hiroshima on Read more...

Dunedin Has “A Bit of a Peeping Problem”

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Bella Macdonald

Dunedin police have advised the University to amend its internet porn ban after six reported sightings of sexually frustrated Peeping Toms masturbating outside bedroom windows at a number of Dunedin flats. Since the year began, six offences of “peeping or peering” have been reported to the Read more...

Orange Election Guy Demands Change, Human Flesh

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Callum Fredric

The Electoral Commission has released a draft proposal paper on changes to the MMP electoral system. The paper contains several recommendations that, if implemented, could dramatically alter the battleground for the 2014 election and beyond. The two most significant recommendations are that Read more...

Sharks almost win, Eels slightly better

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Gus Gawn

Hayden Parker will never have to pay for another beer at the Taieri Rugby Club after he kicked the Eels to a show-stopping victory in the Premier club rugby final last Saturday. Parker’s 47-metre penalty with time up on the Forsyth Barr Stadium clock capped off a 24-22 comeback victory, sealing his Read more...

Rugby Analysis

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Mavis Shamwell

I’ll start with the names: “Eels” and “Sharks”. We all know that in the animal kingdom this would be an unfair fight, but in the Club Rugby finals it seemed like a pretty even match. This made it difficult for me to decide who to support (my usual rule is to go for the underdog). That said, the Read more...

Religion in Sport? No Way.

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Gus Gawn

Religion is everywhere in sport. If you watch any sport at all, it’s impossible to avoid seeing someone thank the big man upstairs for letting them make all the people they have beaten feel like shit. Luckily in New Zealand we like to keep it to a minimum, and thankfully when a prominent Read more...

Somewhere in Dunedin An Executive Waits

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Staff Reporter

OUSA has set the voting dates of September 24 to 27 for the election of next year’s OUSA student executive. Nominations will be open from September 17 to 20, with the results to be announced on the evening of the 27th. Each of the ten positions on the executive is up for grabs, and with Read more...

Community Law Centres Face Judgment

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Zane Pocock

New Zealand’s Community Law Centres are engulfed in a shroud of mystery after the Ministry of Justice indicated that it will move to cut down to 10 and 15 Community Law contracts across the country, instead of the current regime of 25 individually funded centres. Supervising Solicitor Caryl Read more...

Rich Domino’s Sign-Wavers Get Richer

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Margot Taylor

Students have earned $780,735 more through the Student Job Search scheme in the last 12 months than in the previous 12-month period. Figures released earlier this week show that students earned $3,785,938 through SJS for the 12 months to August, which is 26% higher than the $3,005,203 earned Read more...

Mongrel Mob Abuse Public’s Trust

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Bella Macdonald

The Mongrel Mob are due for a stern slap on the wrist after being accused of having their fingers in too many pies. Police allege that Mongrel Mob members obtained money from a government funded anti-violence program, run through the Whanau Ora scheme, and used it to buy cannabis. Over a Read more...

“Treatygate”

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Callum Fredric

Critic has obtained documents from controversial race campaigner Louis Crimp, setting out a plan for a $2million campaign aiming to make New Zealand a “colourblind” (racially neutral) state. The campaign will be split into two distinct “brands”, known as “Treatygate” and “Colourblind State”. Read more...

Tertiary education to the Future!

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Claudia Herron

A board of panellists comprised of tertiary education staff, students, and politicians gathered at the Otago Museum on Wednesday 8 August for the Tertiary Education Union’s latest public forum “Speak up for Education”. The forum had a distinctly left-wing slant, being chaired by Radio 1 Read more...

Shit's Getting Kronic

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012 by Zane Pocock

Peter Dunne is at it again. After receiving a less than satisfactory do from his Kronic-tripping hairstylist, he has apparently put the final nail in the coffin of “dangerous” synthetic drugs, with a new policy designed to deal with syntheic drugs like Kronic. This policy will explicitly ban the Read more...

Greg goes to The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012 by Greg Hall

Something new on your sporting pages this week. For a change of pace, Critic sent the bravest and most hirsute reporter we could find on the most dangerous assignment we could dream up. Faux-Geordie reporter Greg Hall was instructed to stake out the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, examine some Read more...