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Scarfies drink for Africa

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Josie Adams

The 40-Hour Famine was held on the weekend of 25 to 27 May, with participants around the country giving up something of value for 40 sponsored hours in order to raise money for World Vision. A number of Otago students displayed an especially entrepreneurial attitude to the cause. 20 year-old Read more...

$1.4 Billion, Still No Hydroslide

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Staff Reporter

A hard-hitting article by the ODT’s Vaughan Elder has revealed that the University of Otago is the most asset-rich of New Zealand’s many illustrious tertiary institutions. With $1.4 billion in total assets, Otago left the University of Auckland to sob all the way to the bank with its miserable asset Read more...

Referendum Results Retardedly Reach Reporters Retrospectively

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Callum Fredric

By the time you read this OUSA will have announced the fate of the eight motions in its referendum, as well as the results from the International Officer by-election. Due to insensitive scheduling on the part of OUSA, the results were not yet available when Critic went to print on Thursday Read more...

Edgar exposes assets failure

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Bella Macdonald

The Otago University Student’s Association (OUSA) has been criticised for its failure to support the Keep Our Assets campaign, after a media faux-pas from Logan Edgar taught the OUSA President that the majority of journalists outside of Critic do not appreciate his sense of humour. In early Read more...

The Eagle’s Alternative Budget

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Eagle of Liberty

Liberty-lovers rejoice, the Eagle’s back! Socialists, drop your copies of Das Kapital and The Spirit Level and run to the only place you can hide – the state houses of Corstophine, where the aura of welfare dependency and mediocrity saps the Eagle of his powers. Yes, the Eagle’s back with a Read more...

Top 5 - sportspeople who changed their sport

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Gus Gawn

When Anna Harrison of the Northern Mystics performed the “chair lift” or “lady lineout” to reject the Melbourne Vixens shooters, she changed the game. This manoeuvre had never been performed in competitive netball before, and people didn’t know what to think. The obvious road for netball to take Read more...

Critic’s favourite Highlander is now Critic’s favourite All Black (trialist)

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Gus Gawn

Critic’s favourite Highlander Aaron Smith has hit the big time. Just as we predicted, Smith’s form has been too good to ignore, and he has been selected for the All Blacks training squad from which the team to play Ireland will be fingered. While Aaron is not getting too excited just yet, here at Read more...

Critic pretends to give a shit about postgrads

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Josie Adams

The University of Otago will host the inaugural Postgraduate Research Conference on Power and Politics (PRCPP) on 2 – 3 July. The Conference, sponsored by the New Zealand Political Studies Association, will give postgraduate students the chance to present material from their disciplines for Read more...

Fishing in Dunedin no longer confined to Monkey Bar

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Alice McRae

The Leith River is now home to 4000 juvenile salmon, after the New Zealand Salmon Anglers Association released the fish last week to support the “put and take” system of recreational fishing in Dunedin. Salmon have been released into the Leith annually since 1984, and as a result Dunedin is Read more...

University studies coronial impotence

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Claudia Herron

A major research study by University of Otago researchers will review whether recommendations and findings from coroners are currently being heeded to prevent further loss of life. University of Otago Faculty of Law researchers Professor Mark Henaghan and Dr Jennifer Moore will collect and Read more...

Breaking the cycle of broken cyclists

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Margot Taylor

In a move that could save the ratepayer up to $4.7 million over the next decade, the Dunedin City Council (DCC) decided last week to reallocate its road-sealing budget towards improving Dunedin’s cycleways. While a pre-draft budget created in January had initially reinstated part of the seal Read more...

Missing University of Otago employee found dead

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Claudia Herron

The body of missing Health Science Library Team Leader David Palmer has been found after a two-week Search and Rescue operation in the Ahuriri Conservation Park. Mr Palmer’s body was located in a creek bed at the bottom of a 60m-high steep bank in the Canyon Creek area on Saturday 19 May. He Read more...

Otago Students Named Most Alternative: Wellington students weep

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

A team of University of Otago Students has won the 2012 Alternative Budget Competition. The competition, sponsored by the Independent Policy Institute, required students to develop their own national budget in the lead-up to the Government’s announcement of the 2012/2013 budget last Read more...

Edgar Woos Ladyhawke to Re-O

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Bella Macdonald

OUSA has announced the line-up for Re-Orientation 2012, which is to be held in the first week of Semester Two on 11 – 14 July. OUSA President Logan Edgar is “pretty fucking excited” about the line-up, which will include Ladyhawke, Kora, Chopper Read and Paul Ego. Re-Orientation will coincide Read more...

Alty student attempts to import Class B

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Staff Reporter

In a brazen attempt to become the coolest kid on his hall floor, an Otago student has attempted to buy ecstasy over the Internet. The 18-year-old appeared in Dunedin District Court last Tuesday, and admitted procuring the Class B drug. His lawyer has asked for an adjournment to allow for an Read more...

Zero budget provides zero funny headlines

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

The National Government announced the 2012-2013 Budget Thursday 24 May amidst student protest against the changes to the student loan and allowance system. While Bill English’s ‘zero’ Budget was generally described as political commentators as “forgettable”, “dull” and “boring”, Auckland Read more...

New Legislation Aims to Deter Unnecessary Legislation

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012 by Callum Fredric

New research by the University of Otago’s Wellington branch has put a dollar value on the rampant time-wasting, political point-scoring, and other such shenanigans involved with law-making in New Zealand. According to the study, each new Act of Parliament costs an average of $3.5 million, while a Read more...

Pucking Great

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012 by Gus Gawn

This week we go back to talking about students doing well at sports you don’t know much about … Ice Hockey. If New Zealand were a few degrees colder ice hockey would be our national sport. Just like rugby it is rough, tough, fast and exciting. Unlike rugby, nobody gets paid. In fact even the Read more...

Four Thoughts on City Winning the Title

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012 by Gus Gawn

You can still buy the titleJack Walker did it for Blackburn Rovers in 1995. Roman Abramovich did it for Chelsea in 2004 and 2005. Now Sheik Mansour has done it for Manchester City. The easiest way to turn a mediocre team into Premier League Champions is to spend shitloads of money on new players. Read more...

Foreigners rejoice! Democracy for all!

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012 by Yee Min Chua

It’s by-election time yet again! Oh yes people, yet another chance to demonstrate your zeal for practicing democracy, if you’re an international student anyway. OUSA needs a new International Student Officer, and voting is open (to international students) from 9am May 28 until 4pm June 1. It Read more...