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Revolutionary Idea: Free Shit

Posted 11:44pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Gregor Whyte

OUSA is running a one-week trial of a new ‘Freebox’ service this week. Students drop off items they no longer need outside the OUSA Main Office, and other students will then be able to grab themselves useful stuff for free. The initiative is the brainchild of OUSA Colleges and Communications Read more...

Vote Chat: The Incredibly Dry Mr Parker

Posted 11:42pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Joe Stockman

Leading into the November election, politics lecturer Bryce Edwards is hosting New Zealand politicians each Friday at Noon. Last Friday, Labour’s number four, David Parker, took on Politics postgrads, Ashley Murchison and Josh Hercus, in a PowerPoint battle royale over NZ’s debt, taking on Don Read more...

Proctology - 21

Posted 11:40pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

The snow hadn’t been causing the Proctor too much trouble when Critic spoke to him, and he had even been deploying Campus Watch in a truck to drive people home safely. Critic immediately formed a completely inaccurate mental image of a pickup truck doing burnouts through the snow with bogan Castle Read more...

Fuck rugby, this is what the real Scarfies are excited about.

Posted 4:51am Monday 15th August 2011 by Lozz Holding

Now that the first shit rugby game is out of the way, Critic has started salivating about this year’s big event at the Forsyth Barr Stadium: the Elton John concert. This concert will showcase the stadium’s potential as a year-round venue, Dunedin’s new addition being the country’s only fully covered Read more...

PM visit prevents some Tourism students from sleeping till midday. Bastard.

Posted 4:50am Monday 15th August 2011 by Lozz Holding

Hungover student ghetto residents were robbed of any chance of a midday lie-in on Friday August 5, as chanting protestors collected outside the newly refurbished Robertson Library to express their opposition to the VSM bill. The protest was organised in less than 48 hours by OUSA, and high Read more...

Execrable - 20

Posted 4:48am Monday 15th August 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

This week’s Exec meeting consisted mostly of the Exec doing really boring shit while Critic sat huddled in the corner, trying to work out at what point life had gone so badly wrong that we were forced to report on these idiots in order to be able to buy food. Pretty standard meeting then. In Read more...

Hardcore journalism: Critic runs over drunk reporter to prove ODT right.

Posted 4:47am Monday 15th August 2011 by Staff Reporter

The Otago Daily Times has written an impassioned piece decrying the dangers of students jaywalking across Cumberland St. The article, published in the ODT last Monday, extensively covered a complaint by a (presumably elderly) member of the public that students crossing Cumberland St while the Read more...

Bouncing off the Halls - 20

Posted 4:45am Monday 15th August 2011 by Lozz Holding

A pleasant and arousing facet of the first year hall scene is the well-established rivalry between certain colleges. Everyone with a cerebellum still intact is aware of the notable ongoing hatred between the stuck-up Selwynites and the possibly deviant Knoxians. Then there are the less established Read more...

Vote Chat: Tree-Loving Ms Turei

Posted 4:42am Monday 15th August 2011 by Joe Stockman

Leading into the November election, politics lecturer Bryce Edwards is hosting New Zealand politicians each Friday at Noon. Last Friday Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei took on politics students Niki Lomax and Finn O’Dwyer-Cunliffe to discuss getting kids out of poverty, getting adults their Read more...

Selwyn and Knox lads get down and dirty together. Hot.

Posted 4:40am Monday 15th August 2011 by Joe Stockman

The new Forsyth Barr Stadium opened on Friday August 5 with a dawn ceremony led by Ngai Tahu and attended by Prime Minister John Key. Following a delicious breakfast of muffins and cheese rolls, Selwyn and Knox Colleges took to the field for the stadium’s inaugural rugby game. Battling for the Read more...

Act on Campus vs Edgar Part 2

Posted 4:23am Monday 15th August 2011 by Showdown at the Storm-in-a-Teapot Corral

As reported in last week’s Critic, OUSA President Logan Edgar has landed himself in hot water over derogatory comments on the Facebook page of ACT MP Sir Roger Douglas. ACT on Campus called for Edgar’s resignation over the incident, a proposition that received piss-poor support in a highly Read more...

Chronicles of Castle - 20

Posted 4:20am Monday 15th August 2011 by Sam Reynolds

It’s not all happy families on Castle Street. And surprisingly the bad moods are not because of the Kronic ban, the dramas are being caused by a problem that is normally most troublesome in first year. Like drugs, flats for next year are being sussed on the low key. With dodgy dealing going down Read more...

GROWING SOME WEED IN DA BUSH. LOL. WEED.

Posted 4:18am Monday 15th August 2011 by Staff Reporter

Students for Environmental Action (SEA), the 2009 OUSA Society of the Year, have managed to wrangle a piece of land from the University to create Otago University’s first community garden, inspired by the community garden at the University of Canterbury. The garden will be behind the Albany Street Read more...

GUNS AND EXPLOSIONS = NO DENTISTS

Posted 4:06am Monday 15th August 2011 by Basti Menkes

Otago dental students have created a 100% not-for-profit charity that seeks to improve the crumbling healthcare system in war-torn Iraq. The charity is called Iraqi Children's Aid and Repair Endeavour (ICARE), and is the first of its kind operating in New Zealand. There are an estimated 5 Read more...

Dr John McEwan

Posted 5:07am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Georgie Fenwicke

The population of sheep in New Zealand currently sits at around 43.1 million. They double the number of cows and yet have a better environmental reputation. What springs to mind when you hear natterings of a fart tax? Yes, Dairy farms. Sheep, on the other hand, are a bit overlooked by the general Read more...

VSM struggling through prolonged Labour

Posted 4:58am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Gregor Whyte

The Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill failed to pass the committee of the whole stage in Parliament last Wednesday, as Labour party MPs used delaying tactics to prevent the bill from reaching its third reading. Debate on the bill continued until Parliament ended its session at Read more...

Auckland University has enough airpoints to buy 747.

Posted 4:57am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Gregor Whyte

Otago just a Cessna. Students have slammed Auckland University after it was revealed the university spent $24 million on travel for academic and general staff in the last financial year. That figure dwarfs the spending of any other tertiary institution in New Zealand, with Massey University Read more...

Slutwalk hits town

Posted 4:56am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Not UniCol daytrip for once. The international protest movement Slutwalk is coming to Dunedin, with the event scheduled to take place next Saturday.   The original Slutwalk protests were sparked by the comments of a Canadian police officer at a safety talk in Toronto, who stated Read more...

SJS to close

Posted 4:54am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Teuila Fuatai

Student labourers sought to help with clearout. Apply online. Last week Student Job Search confirmed that its local on-campus branches will close in September. A new centralised system will provide services for the recruitment agency from a national call-centre in Wellington.   SJS Read more...

Proctology -19

Posted 4:52am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Critic hadn’t had a rendezvous with the Proctor since before the holidays, so we were expecting a good haul of stories when we strolled into his mighty chambers of justice. Disappointingly, Re-O Week seems to have been a relatively tame affair, with no stories of note from our favourite Read more...