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Otago's Manhood Swallowed by Giant Hole

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012 by Gus Gawn

The Otago Rugby Football Union is officially broke. They can’t afford SoGos, they can’t buy ramen, they can’t even pay the power bill. And they certainly won’t be springing for the whole team to get tuggies down at Lucky Sevens on Friday night. At the time Critic went to print on Thursday Read more...

Orientation Huge

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012 by Josie Adams

Orientadium 2012 was the biggest orientation ever, and, for the most part, saw good behaviour from students with few incidents of note. With the Union building and lawn out of commission (it’s being prettified to the tune of $5.7 million) the week’s events moved to the Forsyth Barr Stadium. Read more...

Dole-bludgers told to get job, haircut

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012 by Callum Fredric

Xbox sales have crashed after the Government announced the first stage of its welfare reforms on Monday February 27. Solo parents on the DPB will be expected to look for part-time work once their oldest child hits five, and full-time work once their oldest child hits 14. Having another kid while on Read more...

Execrable

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012 by Callum Fredric

Welcome to a new year of Execrable, the column that gives you an insight into the spiffing world of OUSA. The year has got off to a great start already, with the old OUSA logo that made the S look like a J being gradually phased out, allowing the Japanese Association to call off its Yakuza Read more...

The Rise of the Lady Referee

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012 by Gus Gawn

For five long minutes Brigitte Tyler was the darling of the New Zealand sporting universe. It was Wellington Sevens weekend. You were probably drunk, wearing a stupid costume you cobbled together in 5 minutes. Or you were drunk somewhere else. You were drunk. That’s all there is too it. It was a Read more...

Single White Cricketer

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012 by Gus Gawn

Neil Wagner is a driven man. Since the age of 14 he has dreamed of playing international cricket, but things just kept standing in his way. He wanted to play for the Proteas, but he couldn’t. He wants to play for the Black Caps but he can’t (yet). It’s all he wants to do. Please New Zealand let this Read more...

Critic goes to the Rugby

Posted 4:08pm Sunday 4th March 2012 by Gus Gawn

Apparently a part of my job as sports reporter for Critic this year involves actually going to sports and reporting on them so, here we go. Joe (the editor) and I went and mixed it up with the other media types in the press box up the back of the main stand. That guy from 3 Sports with the massive Read more...

Summer Political Roundup

Posted 3:39pm Friday 24th February 2012 by Callum Fredric

Summer isn’t all backyard cricket, beer and barbecues. In fact, New Zealand’s politicians have been working hard all summer to take away your freedom to engage in those activities. Here’s a roundup of what happened while you were away over the break ... Tea tapes Biggest letdown of 2012. The Read more...

Remember the Highlanders

Posted 3:06pm Friday 24th February 2012 by Gus Gawn

Whatever happened to the Highlanders? They were a force to be reckoned with at the start of last year and then disapeared into a green oblivion. Well, this year, they are your new favourite rugby team. They have new, better players (cheers Mark Hammet), including an experienced campaigner to do the Read more...

Re-Union

Posted 2:59pm Friday 24th February 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

Otago students are about to receive a snazzy new space to study and socialise. Those in the know, including a certain Student President, have hinted that the space will be well worth the interim annoyance from the construction currently covering the heart of the campus. The Student Union, Read more...

Freshers run about in meaningless bid for physical prestige

Posted 2:56pm Friday 24th February 2012 by Gus Gawn

Last Tuesday hundreds of freshers packed Logan Park in their colour-coordinated and wittily-branded hall T-shirts, to take part in semi-formal passive-aggressive athletic pursuits. Plenty of skills were on show in volleyball, touch, netball and soccer but many chose to keep it casual to avoid being Read more...

North Dunedin Street Drinking Culled?

Posted 2:52pm Friday 24th February 2012 by Callum Fredric

Beverage-loving students are breaking down in tears after the Dunedin City Council took the first step towards a permanent ban on drinking in North Dunedin streets. The ban, if it goes ahead, will cover the area bordered by Queen Street, Opoho Road, Logan Park, and the railway line. Currently, Read more...

Break out your flat-peaks, the Octagon just got gangsta.

Posted 2:34pm Friday 24th February 2012 by Gus Gawn

A gang-related stabbing occurred near the Robert Burns Statue in the Octagon early on the morning of Saturday the 18th of February. One man was hospitalised with stab wounds and another was arrested and faces charges. It is believed the long-standing rivalry between Black Power and Mongrel Mob gangs Read more...

Proctor Chokes Freedom of Expression with COC

Posted 2:28pm Friday 24th February 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

A student flat has received a warning from police over the controversial name of their flat. As is common practice among scarfie flats, the residents of 584 Castle St erected a sign to announce their flat’s identity to the North Dunedin community. This particular group decided to name their Read more...

Dunedin Remembers Christchurch Quake

Posted 2:18pm Friday 24th February 2012 by Claudia Herron

A contingent of 400 Otago students and Dunedin residents gathered on the Museum Reserve, united as one in red and black, to commemorate the first anniversary of the February 22nd Christchurch Earthquake. The memorial service was organized by OUSA, which had also initiated a similar service last Read more...

Knox Knocks. Who's there? Change.

Posted 2:06pm Friday 24th February 2012 by Zane Pocock

2012 looks to be a vastly different experience for residents of Knox College, following a review by the University of Otago and the New Zealand Presbyterian Church, which privately runs Knox in affiliation with the University. The review involved interviews with students to analyse the culture of Read more...

Burning Down the Castle

Posted 1:57pm Friday 24th February 2012 by Bella Macdonald

Otago students have returned to the streets of Dunedin in full force. Following an impromptu street party and several couch fires last Monday at around 10.30pm, police arrested six students involved on Castle Street. A crowd spilled out from a flat-warming and gathered around the fires, Read more...

John Stansfield from Oxfam

Posted 3:18am Monday 17th October 2011 by Critic

John Stansfield worked for a number of non-profit organisations including the Problem Gambling Foundation and sustainability projects on Waiheke Island, he even founded and headed a Department of Non-Profit Studies at Massey for a number of years, before picking up his position at Oxfam New Zealand. Read more...

Proctology -28

Posted 2:42am Monday 17th October 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

In our last meeting of the year, the Proctor was very keen to “blow Campus Watch’s trumpet.” We were a bit taken back by this statement, but really what consenting adults get up to in their own time is none of our business. And Otago’s finest have been protecting the student community Read more...

Bouncing off the Halls - 28

Posted 2:33am Monday 17th October 2011 by Lozz Holding

What a year it has been. The naïve, innocent little first years who joined us in February are now all grown up. In fact it’s hard to believe that less than eight months ago these shameless, grubby little creatures were STI-free, respectable members of society whose parents still loved them. Read more...