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Canterbury Students Flee

Posted 4:17am Monday 28th March 2011 by Staff Reporter

The University of Canterbury has announced a new exchange opportunity which will allow 42 senior students to study for a term at the University of Oxford. There will be places for 32 honours students and 10 postgraduates students from arts, humanities, social sciences or law. The term will Read more...

Fear and loathing in Dunedin

Posted 4:36am Monday 21st March 2011 by Staff Reporter

Dunedin students, absolved from responsibility over the increasingly violent nature of the inner city, are now taking the opportunity to express the constant and harrowing fear in which they find themselves living. Critic interviewed several students, all of whom wished to remain anonymous for Read more...

University not planning to buy Monkey Bar. Students breath collective sigh of relief

Posted 4:33am Monday 21st March 2011 by Gregor Whyte and Lozz Holding

The University has confirmed that they have no plans to buy popular student nightspot The Monkey Bar and turn it into a cutting-edge research lab for the only part of the University that anyone in power really cares about; the Medical School. Monkey Bar has been listed for sale on popular auction Read more...

Hughes demands students get 454 more Sogos per annum

Posted 4:31am Monday 21st March 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

The Green Party has issued a statement saying that the amount students can borrow for course-related costs should be increased to $1500 to reflect inflation. Critic is frothing at the gash at the idea of the extra moneyz. The current borrowing limit on course-related costs is $1000 each year, an Read more...

Stride captures Critic’s attention. Literally.

Posted 4:29am Monday 21st March 2011 by Staff Reporter

Critic sent a news reporter to speak to OUSA Finance and Services Officer Dan Stride last Thursday in an attempt to weasel information out of him that he had been expressly forbidden from giving us. Stride, however, was playing his cards close to his chest and refused to let slip any juicy details Read more...

Date. Hole.

Posted 4:28am Monday 21st March 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

A by-election for the positions of International Students’ Representative and Postgraduate Representative is to be held to replace the originally elected reps, who have gone AWOL in recent weeks. Critic speculates that with the outstanding rate at which the Executive has already lost two Read more...

University Scientist Honoured

Posted 4:27am Monday 21st March 2011 by Staff Reporter

University of Otago Professor Jean Fleming has been honoured by the Royal Society of New Zealand, being elected a Companion of the society in recognition of the leadership she has displayed in the field of science. Prof Fleming is a Professor of Science Communication at the university's Centre for Read more...

Pastoral Support Available for Japanese Students

Posted 4:26am Monday 21st March 2011 by Andrew Oliver

Following Japan’s horrific earthquake and tsunami disasters, both Otago Polytechnic and the University of Otago are offering full pastoral support to all of their Japanese students. Supportive emails were sent to all Japanese students studying at the University of Otago as well as to Read more...

Bouncing off the Halls - 4 (Trouble in Paradise Edition)

Posted 4:23am Monday 21st March 2011 by Lozz Holding

As we get older, we look back fondly on our first year days living in a hall of residence as some of the best we had. Our lives were so comfy, living as we did with insulation, heating and sluts, the kind of things you take for granted until you go flatting. I mean, how good is waking up in the bed Read more...

Scarfie Card scheme unfairly compared to slavery in this title

Posted 1:59am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

An initiative set up to “invigorate Dunedin’s social connectedness” is sending Otago students out into the local community to do odd jobs, with the aim of letting Dunedin residents know that we aren’t just OTP in Dunnaz the whole time we’re here. The Scarfie Card scheme, run by Student Life, is in Read more...

Postgrads unenthused about enforced Monday night Jelly Wrestling

Posted 1:56am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Postgraduate students, incensed at the possible cancellation of their Friday night Gazebo drinks, have taken to the walls of Facebook for a regular old-fashioned bitching session. OUSA Postgraduate Representative Stephanie Ruddock, responsible for the Gazebo drinks, has threatened to send any future Read more...

Gangs bang laws.

Posted 1:54am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Gregor Whyte

In a piece of news completely unrelated to students, but thankfully tenuously connected to this week’s theme, Critic can un-exclusively report that the Wanganui gang patch ban has gone down in flames after the High Court ruled the ban was illegal. Justice Clifford found that the Wanganui Council had Read more...

Let them eat roadkill.

Posted 1:51am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Lozz Holding

While most were wallowing in their own filth and bewailing their hangovers, twelve innocent little freshers were being put through their paces in a series of challenges known as the “OUSA Fresher Comp”. The event ran from Sunday through to Friday with the selected group facing multiple challenges Read more...

Execrable - 3

Posted 1:41am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Anthony Riseley

Feeling somewhat excited about this week’s meeting (having heard rumours we could be in for a bit of a show), Critic decided to rock up early to see what the Execcies were up to prior to start time. Upon arrival Critic was greeted by Campaigns Officer Daniel Beck, who seemed to be going out of Read more...

S.E.A What I Did There?

Posted 1:37am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Lozz Holding

On Sunday March 6, Students for Environmental Action (S.E.A) set out on a trek to tidy up the St. Leonards area on the way out to Port Chalmers. Their aim was a “coastal cleanup” of the beach to help raise awareness of “Sea-Week” which this year ran from February 26 to Read more...

Qantas lends a helping hand

Posted 1:36am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Staff Reporter

Qantas has helped to relocate Cantab students to the University of Adelaide for a semester exchange. The exchange has been set up as part of the response to the devastating earthquake and Cantab students have been shuttled over the Tasman by Qantas in both a chartered Boeing 747 and on various Read more...

Grassroots Cancelled

Posted 1:34am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Staff Reporter

The inaugural Grassroots music festival, which was to be held on the Puhinui Peninsula over Easter weekend, has been cancelled after the Christchurch earthquake led to a collapse in ticket sales. The two-day, 15,000 person capacity event had been on track to achieve sales of around 12,000 tickets. Read more...

Sloppy students pissing off Emergency Department

Posted 1:32am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Andrew Oliver

Those who find themselves in need of the services of Dunedin Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) could be in for quite a wait, as drunken university students are stretching hospital resources. Southern District Health Board chief operations officer Vivian Blake told the Otago Daily Times that the Read more...

Christchurch Campus to Reopen

Posted 1:31am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Teuila Fuatai

The University of Otago will resume teaching at its Christchurch campus this week. A temporary teaching facility has been set up in the Hagley Golf Club building whilst repairs to buildings damaged in last month's earthquake take place. Whilst most of the 800 Otago students in Christchurch will be Read more...

Bouncing off the Halls - 3

Posted 1:28am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Lozz Holding

It’s common knowledge that the week after O Week is shit. After all, it’s very hard to make the transfer from a week of constant partying to the cruel, unforgiving world of nine-hour weeks at uni. Ten in the morning no longer means time to crack open another bag of Country Red but instead it’s time Read more...