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Undy 500 violence spreads to the capital

Posted 4:42am Monday 19th September 2011 by Gregor Whyte

Victoria University of Wellington was the scene of significant unrest last Wednesday September 14, as students carrying out a peaceful protest against cuts to academic departments clashed with University security services. Students marched on the University’s Hunter Building to Read more...

Hone Harawira

Posted 3:27am Monday 12th September 2011 by Critic

Hone Harawira is all about triple constructions. Vini, vidi, vici; I came, I saw, I conquered, and so on. One suspects, however, he has taken his cue just as much from his mother, Muhammed Ali and Syd Jackson as from Julius Caesar. When Harawira got on the stage in front of the audience for Read more...

Polytech member slams student butts

Posted 3:22am Monday 12th September 2011 by Gregor Whyte

An Otago Polytechnic lecturer has slammed students for littering cigarette butts on the streets outside the institution, saying that inconsiderate smokers "make it look like a British council estate".   Speaking to the ODT, design department staff member Simon Swale despaired of Read more...

Joyce up to his usual tricks.

Posted 3:19am Monday 12th September 2011 by Stella Blake-Kelly

Students may be left without essential student services under a proposal from Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce. The objective of the proposal is to establish a framework for how compulsory fees and student services are administered by universities. This framework aims to create Read more...

Rugby fans invade Dunedin. Everybody glad the Germans don’t play the game.

Posted 3:18am Monday 12th September 2011 by Lozz Holding

Rugby World Cup fever is set to hit North Dunedin over the coming weeks, as the city plays host to several teams, including Argentina, Georgia, Romania, Ireland and Italy.     The highly ranked English team also appear to be spending some of their time/money in Dunedin, Read more...

ODT: playing pokies not solid idea for student summer job

Posted 3:14am Monday 12th September 2011 by Lozz Holding

The Otago Daily Times ran another groundbreaking article last week, revealing to the world at large that gambling on the pokies is not a great way to make money. The article focused on ‘Tony’, former University of Otago BCom student, who lost “thousands” playing the pokies while a student. Read more...

Vote Chat: Annette King

Posted 3:12am Monday 12th September 2011 by Joe Stockman

Politics lecturer Bryce Edwards continues his weekly chats with New Zealand politicians each Friday at Noon. Last week, Labour Party deputy leader Annette King talked to Edwards about her political past, atheism, and the threat from the big bad National Party and their cheesy-grinned leader. Read more...

Execrable - 23

Posted 3:10am Monday 12th September 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Critic suspected we were in for a long meeting when we looked around the boardroom and saw three of OUSA’s constitutional gurus in attendance. Depressingly we weren’t wrong. The three musketeers had all come along to talk to the Exec about the broke-as-fuck Constitution, and the amendments Read more...

Cronicles of Castle - 23

Posted 3:08am Monday 12th September 2011 by Sam Reynolds

Not much has been happening in the ‘hood, most people cruised home for the break or headed to Wanaka and Queenstown to ‘carve up the fresh’, leaving me with some looney fence tagging and the odd story to share with you. Addiction has become a prevalent problem up and down the street; Read more...

Robber run ragged by rapacious redhead

Posted 3:06am Monday 12th September 2011 by Teuila Fuatai

Two University of Otago students managed to chase down a burglar whilst dressed in their slippers, after the man tried to take three iPods from their Dundas St flat. The ODT reported that students Kathryn Kennedy and Emily Reynolds became aware of the intruder after hearing loud noises Read more...

VSM, HAPPENING FO’ REAL

Posted 3:05am Monday 12th September 2011 by Staff Reporter

The Voluntary Student Membership bill, or VSM as it’s colloquially known, completed the Committee of the House stage through Parliament last Wednesday September 7. No amendments to the Bill were accepted, including amendments by Labour MPs to add more clauses to the Bill. In a last Read more...

Bouncing off the Halls - 23

Posted 3:03am Monday 12th September 2011 by Lozz Holding

 Sex is a fascinating topic. According to everyone’s old mate Darwin, sex is the sole purpose of our existence, and nowhere is this truer than the colleges of the University of Otago. At Otago the usual courting process involves twenty alcoholic drinks followed by a vast array of Read more...

Dominos Without Plan For Road Closures.

Posted 5:20am Monday 5th September 2011 by Lozz Holding

Stoners Panic. Not content with making blatantly untrue statements like “RWC 2011 is the third largest sporting event in the world”, the Dunedin City Council (DCC) have also decided that scarfies having access to their hovels during the Rugby World Cup is of little importance, and Read more...

Rich Students Go Play in Expensive Snow

Posted 5:17am Monday 5th September 2011 by Lozz Holding

Poor Students freeze in Dunedin Hovels   Over 100 University of Otago snow-bunnies flocked to the slopes of Wanaka last week to take part in the 2011 University Winter Games.  The week-long event provided the brightly-coloured boarders and skiers with an opportunity to get their Read more...

Calvert Turns to Bridget Jones's Diary and Tub of Ice Cream

Posted 5:15am Monday 5th September 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Local ACT Party MP Hilary Calvert has been dumped from the party list for November’s election, less than a year after entering Parliament.  Calvert is notably absent from the list of candidates released by the party. There are conflicting accounts surrounding the reasons for Read more...

National MP Grows a Heart

Posted 5:14am Monday 5th September 2011 by Julia Hollingsworth

Blossoming romance with Green Party to follow A local National Party MP has spoken out against lignite mining, a stance that controversially runs against the National party line.  At a Generation Zero panel discussion held before mid-semester break, National MP Michael Woodhouse was Read more...

Woman's skull not crushed in perfectly safe Dunedin shopping mall.

Posted 5:11am Monday 5th September 2011 by Gregor Whyte

  A woman was not even slightly injured after not being hit by falling fibre dust at popular Dunedin shopping mall The Meridian, despite receiving what a witness described as a “negligible sized piece of plastic on her table”. Critic’s journalistic panties were Read more...

Tidy Boxes Better than Messy Boxes

Posted 4:29am Monday 5th September 2011 by Gregor Whyte

  The one-week trial of the ‘Free Box’, pioneered by OUSA Communications and Colleges Representative Francisco Hernandez, was judged an overwhelming success by OUSA Communications and Colleges Representative Francisco Hernandez. Hernandez told Critic that the box was Read more...

Execrable - 21

Posted 11:47pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

The meeting highlight for Critic this week was the discussion surrounding Francisco’s plan for a “Free Box.” Currently the only free box to be had on campus is generally found in the Monkey Bar after a UniCol college pissup, but Francisco means to change this with his new endeavour. His Read more...

Harlene’s first day at school

Posted 11:45pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Staff Reporter

Professor Harlene Hayne took over the Vice-Chancellor position last Monday, after a two week period during which the University had no official Vice-Chancellor. The first female Vice Chancellor in the University’s 142-year history, Hayne replaces Sir Professor David Skegg, who spent Read more...