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Anzac Day Wreath

Posted 3:28am Wednesday 27th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

OUSA plans to lay a wreath at next Monday’s Anzac day service. OUSA President Harriet Geoghegan told Critic  “We lay a wreath every year and I haven't heard any suggestions from Exec members that we may not continue that practice.”   We were just checking. Read more...

Shanghai scholarships for University and Polytechnic

Posted 3:27am Wednesday 27th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

Visiting delegates from the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade University have offered 10 summer study scholarships to Dunedin students as part of fostering the relationship between the sister cities. Five scholarship are allocated to the University of Otago, with five for the Otago Polytechnic. Read more...

Members of community outraged over arrest of boy for breaking the law. Critic confused.

Posted 3:23am Wednesday 27th April 2011 by Lozz Holding

A 15 year old male was arrested on the Union Lawn on Friday the 8th of April after allegedly shoplifting from the $2 shop. Eyewitness reports claim the youth entered campus in between the two OUSA offices on Cumberland St, and sat down in the middle of the NORML 4.20 pro-cannabis Read more...

Disgruntled student attempts to assassinate entire Exec with monologue

Posted 3:19am Wednesday 27th April 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Former OUSA Finance and Services Officer James Meager spoke about his written complaint at last week’s Executive meeting, over three weeks after it was first submitted. Meager’s complaint raises eleven different concerns. These grievances include the state of the OUSA Constitution and Read more...

Chronicles of Castle - 8

Posted 2:54am Wednesday 27th April 2011 by Sam Reynolds

It was a relatively uneventful week on Castle Street as mid-semester tests proved to be more effective fun sponges than Campus Watch. Luckily there are some students who don’t aim to get marks high up the alphabet and who give us our week’s entertainment. In one particularly cringe-worthy Read more...

Dave Clark:

Posted 7:13am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Georgie Fenwicke

Introducing Dr David Clark, the next Labour Party candidate for Dunedin North. Taking over from Pete Hodgson, his is a face you will probably become quite familiar with come November. For, together with the Rugby World Cup, 2011 is also an election year. Originally from Auckland but having lived in Read more...

Weatherston appeals murder conviction.

Posted 7:00am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Convicted murderer Clayton Weatherston has appealed his conviction in the Court of Appeal. The three judges on the Court of Appeal have reserved their decision until later in the year. The 34 year old former University of Otago tutor was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years in prison two years Read more...

Tragic death of community-involved student

Posted 6:58am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

As reported last week, University of Otago student and regular Critic contributor Scott Ridley was tragically killed on March 31, when his car collided head-on with a truck and trailer unit in heavy fog near Hampden. Scott was heavily involved in the community in a number of ways, particularly Read more...

Polytech plans move to trimester system

Posted 6:57am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Teuila Fuatai

The Otago Polytechnic is considering extending its academic year from two semesters to three trimesters. Instead of the current 32-week year split into two semesters, there would be three 14-week trimesters. Under the proposed model, classes would begin mid-January and run through to the end Read more...

Polytech Library re-billed as plain Robertson. People shitty about that, and also at terrible pun in this title.

Posted 6:54am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Lauren Enright

Otago Polytechnic deputy chief executive Robin Day said that the name change of the Robertson Library (formerly the Bill Robertson Library) last year has made some of the staff at the institution unhappy. The University of Otago, who own the library, made the decision to change the name. Read more...

Omg moar Exec members. Critic is omg so happy!

Posted 6:53am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

The happy family that is the OUSA Executive has gained two new members after a by-election was successfully held last week. Art Kiojarunchitt has been elected as the International Student Officer and Thomas Koentges has been elected as the Postgraduate Representative for the remainder of Read more...

Bonus Bonds suspected of taking tainted money

Posted 6:49am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

To mark the “drugs” issue, Critic sent a reporter into the field to delve into the student drug trade. We found that Dunedin is a relatively pricey and difficult place to obtain most drugs, with drugs like ecstasy and acid far less accessible and more expensive than in other major New Zealand Read more...

Students fuck themselves by being too good

Posted 6:47am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

The Hyde St Keg Party cleanup was such a success that similar initiatives could be extended to other parts of the student area in the future. The cleanup consisted of students being woken up at 9am by council workers to clean up the street after the annual street party. However the Otago Daily Read more...

Green Party plays April Fools’ joke on media. Critic fooled.

Posted 6:46am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Gregor Whyte

The Green Party kicked off April by announcing a hip-hop tour of New Zealand universities. The tour is designed to raise awareness of environmental and social justice issues among students in a cool way that youths will totally dig. Green MP and Party youth spokesman Gareth Hughes said in a press Read more...

Prostate screening

Posted 6:45am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Andrew Oliver

The results of a long-term Swedish trial, recently published in the British Medical Journal, may suggest that prostate screening is causing more harm than good, according to University of Otago Associate Professor Brian Cox. The research showed that even long-term screening did not significantly Read more...

Bouncing off the Halls - 7

Posted 6:43am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Lozz Holding

In the wake of the recent Health Sci CELS191 terms test, worth a life-threatening 20%, freshers have somehow conspired to be exponentially more annoying than usual. The mass march from St. David’s to Castle has become an even more hazardous obstacle for the rest of the student population, as the Read more...

Chronicles of Castle - 7

Posted 6:41am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Sam Reynolds

It’s been a week of internal flat dramas down here on Castle. The first incident stems back to O Week when one smelly little shit took a cool three hundy cash out on the flatcard. He invested the three hundred in disco biscuits unbeknownst to his flatmates, who were left wondering why they Read more...

Annabel Langbein

Posted 4:19am Monday 11th April 2011 by Georgie Fenwicke

Annabel Langbein has had a busy year so far, travelling through the Europe and the US over the past few months to launch her TV series (now syndicated in 74 markets around the world) and cookbook, The Free Range Cook. You may know her as a friendly face on television or perhaps as the woman on your Read more...

Goff stops in for a coffee at Staff Club. Brings best mates. Hughes not invited. Awkward.

Posted 4:18am Monday 11th April 2011 by Julia Hollingsworth (guest appearance)

In a meeting held in the Otago University Staff Club last Tuesday, Labour frontbenchers unanimously decided to back Goff as leader of the Labour Party. The announcement came amid speculation that a change of leadership could be in the works as a result of Goff’s mishandling of the allegations Read more...

The Dark Knight

Posted 4:16am Monday 11th April 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Little is known about the character situated above the Proctor in the discipline chain; the very elusive and somewhat secretive Provost. Critic does some digging to find out more about the the man you will get sent to if you’ve been significantly naughtier than your average scarfie. The University Read more...