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British Universities Greedy. Like Cookie Monster

Posted 4:09am Monday 11th April 2011 by Gregor Whyte

British universities have responded to the opportunity to drastically raise student fees without substantive justification by drastically raising student fees without any justification whatsoever (mostly). British students have responded to this by rioting, burning shit, attacking the motorcades Read more...

Miss University

Posted 4:08am Monday 11th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

Radio station ZM is a running a Miss University contest where ladies can post a charming photo of themselves on the station’s website and be in to win $1000 and a years supply of Subway. This competition is pretty much tailor made for first year UniCol tarts, so get your iPhones out and get Read more...

Cagey Character

Posted 4:07am Monday 11th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

A man has taken to a cage by the side of the road on State Highway 1 for a month to protest against the treatment of battery caged hens. Carl Scott was spurred to protest by a draft code issued by the Government's National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee. The draft code called for hens to be Read more...

Insider Trading

Posted 4:05am Monday 11th April 2011 by Teuila Fuatai

University of Otago researchers Dr David Lont and Kate McCune have received international recognition for their work investigating insider share trading in the United States. Together with Professor Paul Griffin of the University of California, the pair performed an eight-year study examining the Read more...

Top Dentistry Award for Otago Student

Posted 4:04am Monday 11th April 2011 by Andrew Oliver

Grace Lee (23), a fifth-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery student at the University of Otago, has been awarded the eminent Hatton International Dental Research Award this month in San Diego, California. Lee was chosen by the International Association for Dental Research for her investigation into Read more...

Bouncing off the Halls - 6

Posted 4:01am Monday 11th April 2011 by Lozz Holding

At this time of year, the look around campus starts to change. Stubbies start getting replaced with warehouse bum-pants, and that healthy summer tan begins to fade into an honest Dunedin white. As well as changing colour, many first years begin to change shape too. Everybody doing first year is Read more...

Business School tests Blackboard-based dating service?

Posted 3:59am Monday 11th April 2011 by Gregor Whyte with reporting by Lozz Holding

The latest online craze predicted to sweep the University of Otago is “Blackboard Dating”, after enterprising business student Sam Love last week used Blackboard’s group email function to attempt to charm a girl known only as “Sarah”. In a move both innovative and profoundly retarded (noted Read more...

Tragic death of Critic contributor

Posted 3:56am Monday 11th April 2011 by Editor

Scott Ridley (23) tragically passed away after a car accident last Thursday March 31, just south of Hampden. The car he was driving collided head-on with a truck. The truck driver, a Christchurch man in his 60s, was found deceased when emergency services arrived at the scene. Scott was airlifted to Read more...

Chronicles of Castle - 6

Posted 3:53am Monday 11th April 2011 by Sam Reynolds

The scene on Castle Street this week was messier than when Edward Scissorhands tried wanking. Things got out of hand as Castle Street’s road was redecorated thanks to a kind soul with a good eye for colour. He or she poured two buckets of paint on the road, one orange and one white. The perpetrator Read more...

Riding in cars with students

Posted 2:25am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

The Dunedin City Council has plans to stop students from abusing the scarfie ride-share scheme, involving a takedown* of anyone caught breaking its rules. The scheme allows those students attending either the University of Otago or Otago Polytechnic living in a certain zone of Dunedin to share a Read more...

Meager’s feelings hurt: either stupid Exec member or maverick genius to blame

Posted 2:22am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

A blog authored by former OUSA Executive member James Meager has received disparaging comments from an author claiming to have access to the Postgraduate email account within OUSA. Meager’s blog, “Mydeology”, is described by the author as “where reasonable people Read more...

Carnage/Carnal Report

Posted 2:18am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Lozz Holding

For those students who have better things to do than dress up like a pregnant nun and try to drink their age in standard drinks, Saturday March 19 was just another day. But for the rest of us, it was one of the social highlights of the year. The amount of creativity that went into decorating Hyde Read more...

Apparently police not stoked about babysitting thousands of drunks. Who could have guessed?

Posted 2:12am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Lozz Holding

The annual Hyde Street keg party that took place on Saturday March 19 has been criticised, with local police and fire officials arguing the event should not be held in 2012. The event, which has been a highlight on many students’ calendars for years, is now facing an uphill battle to see a Read more...

Labour whip Darren Hughes faces allegations

Posted 2:07am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Gregor Whyte

Labour MP Darren Hughes last Wednesday stood down from his parliamentary responsibilities after it emerged police were investigating a sexual complaint laid by an 18-year old male Victoria University student. Mr Hughes has categorically denied any wrongdoing. Hughes, the senior whip and Education Read more...

Fired Up

Posted 2:03am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Lozz Holding

The pyromanic activities of some students at the Hyde Street party have been slammed by fire fighters and officials, with Willowbank fire station officer Grant Clarkson labelling students “idiots” and “sheep”. Clarkson told the Otago Daily Times that “half of our future leaders appear to be Read more...

Execrable - 5

Posted 1:58am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Critic bowled in a teeny tiny bit late to the Exec meeting last week and was shocked to find they had started without us. Obviously having Critic there isn’t as special to them as it is to us…*sob* Moving right along, it didn’t seem like we had missed much until Stephanie Ruddock (the now Read more...

Successful Scholar

Posted 1:56am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Andrew Oliver

First-year University of Otago student Will Coleman has been awarded the prestigious Sir Douglas Myers scholarship for 2011. The scholarship is worth $100,000 per annum and covers four years of study at Cambridge University. The former King’s College Head Boy achieved the highest mark in the Read more...

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...