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Review recommends less staff

Posted 11:54pm Monday 11th July 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

In May 2011 OUSA engaged the services of Deloitte to complete a review of the current organisational structure. Along with the potential sale of Radio One (covered on page 11), the review has recommended the disestablishment of various staff roles within OUSA. No final decisions have yet been Read more...

Radio None

Posted 11:40pm Monday 11th July 2011 by Gregor Whyte

OUSA is strongly considering getting rid of student radio station Radio One after an independent review by financial services giant Deloitte recommended selling the station to save money. In May the OUSA Executive commissioned Deloitte to “complete a review of the current organisational Read more...

Cook Brothers to sell Cook

Posted 11:38pm Monday 11th July 2011 by Lozz Holding

Identity crisis imminent? The Captain Cook Tavern is officially for sale, ending almost constant speculation from Critic. The Cook Brothers Bars Company has put the bar on the market and expressions of interest are open until 4pm July 22. The Captain Cook Tavern first opened in 1864 and Read more...

O-week again.

Posted 11:36pm Monday 11th July 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

OUSA is promising a “diverse range of entertainment” to “keep you warm while it’s getting a little cold out” for Re-Orientation 2011. The festivities kick off on Wednesday with OUSA Clubs Day in the Union Common Room between 10am and 4pm, giving students and the public a chance “to check Read more...

Critic’s power and influence growing.

Posted 11:35pm Monday 11th July 2011 by Gregor Whyte

Critic’s hard-hitting journalism has successfully forced the ODT to redesign the ‘On Campus’ website after Critic’s groundbreaking coverage of an alleged ‘nefarious alliance’ between the ODT and the Otago Polytechnic (see Critic Issue 14, page 13). In June the ODT redesigned their website to Read more...

Exec Member Strides Off

Posted 11:29pm Monday 11th July 2011 by Julia Hollingsworth

OUSA Finance and Services Officer Dan Stride has resigned from his position after allegations of criminal conduct by Stride were referred to the police. Stride was accused of indecent assault and was offered diversion under the police diversion scheme. The incident occurred at a flat party, Read more...

Students incapable of learning

Posted 11:28pm Monday 11th July 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Dunedin police are formulating a plan to reduce the number of burglaries in the scarfie-populated North Dunedin, having recorded 54 burglaries between March and June this year in streets mainly lived in by students. Inspector Campbell, the police Area Commander, described the area as Read more...

Mayor Dave Cull

Posted 4:20am Monday 11th July 2011 by Georgie Fenwicke

Last year, Dunedin wanted change. It demanded change. And Dave Cull seemed to be the man to deliver it. As such, he was voted in as your Mayor. You may have even given him the tick. Or did you vote back home? Having talked to the guy, I can see why Cull attracted the voters. He writes, he reads, is Read more...

Young voters could decide the MMP referendum

Posted 4:14am Monday 11th July 2011 by Josh Hercus

The youth vote could be the decider in the upcoming referendum on MMP, with current enrolment rates in the 18-24 demographic so low that they could prove critical in MMP’s tight contest to remain as New Zealand’s election system. Only 50.17% of youth aged 18 to 24 are enrolled to vote in Read more...

ODT and Polytech combine to take a dump on head of Uni

Posted 4:11am Monday 11th July 2011 by Gregor Whyte

The alleged uncovering of a nefarious alliance between the Otago Polytechnic and the Otago Daily Times (ODT) has triggered a ridiculous article in the student magazine Critic. Whilst browsing the ODT website to find filler news for the “Briefs” section of the magazine, Critic Read more...

Everything passes in OUSA Referendum. Except that darned constitution.

Posted 4:08am Monday 11th July 2011 by Gregor Whyte

The OUSA referendum resulted in all motions passing the vote, with the exception of the crucial motion addressing the current constitutional structure of OUSA. Motions accepting the OUSA audited financial statements and annual report for 2010 both passed with only minor opposition, although in Read more...

Otago Less Good

Posted 4:06am Monday 11th July 2011 by Gregor Whyte

Unimpressed with lack of couch burnings and riots, ranking agency punishes Otago with huge drop in rankings. New Zealand universities have fallen considerably in the just released version of the QS World Universities Rankings, with Otago University suffering the most significant tumble, Read more...

Execrable - 14

Posted 4:05am Monday 11th July 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Acting-Acting-Vice-President Katie Reid chaired last week’s Executive meeting, with the presidential by-election causing a bit of a shuffle-up in the Exec structure. Administrative Vice President/Acting President Brad Russell didn’t want to chair the meeting in case it appeared he was Read more...

Election campaigns reveal that none of these candidates is the next Obama

Posted 4:03am Monday 11th July 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

By the time Critic is being read by all of our many [several] fans, the by-election results for President will be final, as voting closed at 4pm Friday June 3. Based on the results, the relative success of the candidates’ campaigns should now be obvious. However, prior to voting closing Critic Read more...

High

Posted 4:02am Monday 11th July 2011 by Basti Menkes

University of Otago researchers David Fergusson and Joseph Boden have directed a statement at Prime Minister John Key regarding the prosecution of older teenagers/young adults for possessing marijuana. They have argued that although most teenagers are safe from the harm this drug can cause, Read more...

Drunk gets drunk for charity

Posted 4:00am Monday 11th July 2011 by Staff Reporter

Two Dunedin students lived the scarfie dream and made money for charity in a neat dovetailing of interests by deciding to drink for 40 hours non-stop for the 40 hour famine. The students warmed up for the famine with eight drinks, and then settled into a more reasonable Southern Read more...

Bouncing off the Halls - 14

Posted 3:59am Monday 11th July 2011 by Lozz Holding

I’m not a religious man. Magic and imaginary friends have never really been my thing. But I’ll be the first to admit it’s a goddamn miracle that no poor bastard has broken their ankle crossing the newly refurbished Leith Bridge. What was wrong with it in the first place is beyond me but Read more...

Tiny Ruins

Posted 3:44am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Georgie Fenwicke

Tiny Ruins is the artistic pseudonym of Hollie Fullbrook, an English-born/New Zealand-raised up-and-comer. Her eerie, haunting melodies have an insistence that renders one both relaxed and pensive at the same time. Eat your heart out Runga and Moa! Her album Some Were Meant For Sea is released this Read more...

Proctology -13

Posted 3:30am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

The Proctor had some words of wisdom to impart this week about “planking”, a recent fad that involves lying down with your arms by your sides in weird public places and photographing it. In short; don’t do it. There have apparently been some students planking around campus recently, Read more...

Police institute highly realistic plan to arrest 30,000 for standing up at rugby game

Posted 3:28am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Lozz Holding

Many students are outraged, and frankly a tad bewildered, after hearing that the Dunedin police force are planning to clamp down on Mexican waves at rugby games in the new Forsyth Barr Stadium. The configuration of the new stadium means that in certain places the crowd will be less than six Read more...