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Execrable - 19

Posted 4:50am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Secretary Donna Jones was notably absent from last week’s meeting, and her absence was not for the better. Stand-in AJ didn’t display Donna’s skill at wrangling the monkeys/exec members, and this was reflected in the tedious length of the meeting. First up, the never ending “what to do Read more...

If it’s not the altar boys or the sacramental wine, then its invariably AUT’s bank account

Posted 4:49am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Lozz Holding

A 53 year-old priest and former gay lover of ex-Labour MP Tim Barnett has been arrested for allegedly misappropriating over $500,000 from AUT University. Jonathan Kirkpatrick, a former Dean of Dunedin’s St Paul’s Cathedral, has resigned as chief executive of the University's Read more...

Amnesty not observed

Posted 4:46am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Staff Reporter

The University Link and the lawn area outside the library were the scenes of violent re-enactments by Amnesty International to raise awareness about the silencing of political activists last Wednesday August 3. Students dressed entirely in black marched through the Link, much to the surprise Read more...

Vote Chat: The Power Hungry Mr Woodhouse

Posted 4:44am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Joe Stockman

Leading into the November election, politics lecturer Bryce Edwards is interviewing New Zealand politicians each Friday at noon. Last Friday, National backbencher and North Dunedin electorate candidate Michael Woodhouse took the stage and talked about being the fifth of nine children, his take on Read more...

Radio One Saved

Posted 4:41am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

OUSA cast their sickle aside After a month long submission process that garnered much media attention, the OUSA Executive has decided to reject the Deloitte review recommendation to sell Radio One.   OUSA Administrative Vice President Brad Russell told Critic that the Read more...

New Divisional Postgrad Reps

Posted 4:38am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Basti Menkes

In the wake of a recent OUSA Postgraduate Committee meeting, eight new Divisional Representatives for the rest of the year have been confirmed. These are: Simon Hoermann, Sarah Forbes, Anna Lindstrom, Aniruddha Chatterjee, Maria Pozza, Margi McMurdo-Reading, Adam Beissel and Sourav Paul. The Read more...

Nineties American Airline runs Ice Hockey game

Posted 4:37am Thursday 11th August 2011 by Lozz Holding

The Douglas Webber group brought three International Ice Hockey games to New Zealand, showcasing top players from the USA and Canada in Auckland and Christchurch before finishing off at the Dunedin Ice Stadium last Wednesday night. The teams were competing for the NZ Exhibition Cup, with the Read more...

Nothing Personal

Posted 11:28pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Georgie Fenwicke

Iranian Embassy Siege, London. Northern Ireland Troubles. American bombing, Tripoli. Tiananmen Square. Gulf War, Kuwait. Genocide in Rwanda. Siege of Sarajevo. This is a woman who has witnessed and covered some of the most significant moments in recent history. She has been shot three times, for Read more...

Fact: students not all that disease ridden

Posted 5:31am Monday 8th August 2011 by Gregor Whyte with reporting by Lozz Holding

Despite being irresponsible, binge-drinking slops who rarely attend class and mostly just waste the government’s money at the rate of $170 a week, Dunedin students are apparently not riddled with venereal disease. Following the election of new OUSA President Logan Edgar, many have been Read more...

Only 12 students found frozen dead in their hovels after minor snow flurry; authorities pleased

Posted 5:29am Monday 8th August 2011 by Lozz Holding

Dunedin suffered its heaviest snowfall in fifteen years, bringing widespread chaos and disruption to the city, but also delivering a couple of days welcome entertainment to the student population that didn’t have to study for UMAT. During the early hours of Sunday July 24, snow began to fall Read more...

Students jizz themselves as rockstar student politicians hit Dunedin

Posted 5:27am Monday 8th August 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

NZUSA Co-Presidents David Do and Max Hardy visited Dunedin last week as part of a nationwide tour of member campuses in order to engage with constituent students. Throngs of female students had to be held back by security after Do and Hardy hit the Dunedin campus, such was the sexual allure of the Read more...

Because the only thing people like more than drinking is studying

Posted 5:26am Monday 8th August 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

The University of Otago has released plans to redevelop former student pub Gardies into a “study and social centre.” Last year the University paid $1.75 million to buy the Gardens Tavern and transform the former drinking den into a new facility called the Marsh Study Centre, named after Graeme Read more...

New Zealander of the Year

Posted 5:24am Monday 8th August 2011 by Staff Reporter

A New Zealand man who witnessed the horrific Oslo bombing has become an internet sensation after giving an interview that literally defies belief for its vacuous stupidity. Cameron Leslie, predictably a University of Waikato graduate, is a sales rep for Thomson Reuters in Norway and was attending Read more...

No More Mass Exodus

Posted 5:23am Monday 8th August 2011 by Teuila Fuatai

Due to negative media attention, the Canterbury Engineering Students Association has cancelled its Great Quake Escape event. The event had been planned as a celebration to thank students who had helped out after the series of earthquakes that devastated Christchurch. Speaking to the Otago Read more...

Bouncing off the Halls - 18

Posted 5:19am Monday 8th August 2011 by Lozz Holding

UMAT. Four letters that strike fear deep into the bosom of the deluded freshers that still actually think they’ll be getting into Med School on the back of that B+ average from first semester. Forget the clap, the can-man or crowbar-wielding, fat South Dunedin swamp-donkeys on P. The most Read more...

Vote Chat: Politicians talk Politics

Posted 5:17am Monday 8th August 2011 by Joe Stockman

Each Friday at noon, politics lecturer Bryce Edwards is interviewing politicians in an ongoing series called “Political Chat”. Last week, Labour's North Dunedin candidate and electoral shoe in David Clark stepped up to the plate and talked about existential philosophy, social justice, and running in Read more...

Students unite for non-shitty future

Posted 5:15am Monday 8th August 2011 by Julia Hollingsworth

New nationwide youth-led lobby group Generation Zero held a public lecture last Wednesday to encourage students to do something about climate change. Held at the St David’s lecture theatre, the venue was almost packed to its 550-person capacity. The lecture was entitled “Cheer up Read more...

Execrable - 18

Posted 5:12am Monday 8th August 2011 by Daniel Benson- Guiu

Upon entry, Critic received weird stares from the exec, perhaps in part because we arrived a whopping five minutes early. Not wanting the exec to think we were too keen, Critic stared at an empty chair for a while. Unfortunately, this didn’t put the exec off: they were all happy to see someone new Read more...

Cadbury

Posted 4:15am Thursday 28th July 2011 by Georgie Fenwicke

Guess what? It's chocolate time! That's right, the Cadbury Chocolate Carnival started on Saturday complete with chocolate house, sculptress extraordinaire Prudence Staite and cooking lessons with Judith Cullen. The event, which began in 2000, has grown from a three-day affair to seven days of fun Read more...

This Paper Possibly Propels Politico to Parliament

Posted 4:09am Thursday 28th July 2011 by Gregor Whyte

Former Critic Editor Holly Walker may earn a list seat in Parliament this year after the Green Party’s strong showing in a recent Colmar Brunton poll. Walker is twelfth on the party list, meaning she would squeak into Parliament if the Greens can replicate their poll showing of 10% at the Read more...