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Arts Students Too Poor To Attend Graduation

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Julia Hollingsworth

Graduation fever has hit town, with Science graduation taking place on Saturday. 500 students graduated in person, and 110 students in absentia. The Commerce and Law graduations will take place this weekend with 429 students graduated in person, and 70 in absentia. The Arts graduation has 339 Read more...

Token Weekly Steven Joyce Story.

Posted 2:28pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Julia Hollingsworth

A very small cloud looms over students’ futures as the Government considers charging an annual fee to more than 500 000 people with student debt. The fee is expected to be around $50 a year for every person with outstanding student debt, and will net the Government approximately $15 million. Read more...

After The Dust Has Settled.

Posted 2:27pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Julia Hollingsworth

Some University of Otago Design Studies students are distressed about how they were treated in the lead-up to the decision to close the Department.   Although a silent protest did not change the outcome of the Senate meeting last week which voted to disestablish the Department, Read more...

One down, three to go.

Posted 2:24pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Gregor Whyte

In the wake of the closure of the Design Studies Department, Critic can reveal that three other departments are also under review.   The three departments are: the Department of Social Work and Community Development; the Departments of Accountancy and Business Law and Finance and Read more...

Bouncing off the Halls - 10

Posted 2:23pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by

Aquinas, usually so studious and reserved, is in the midst of a Hall-wide alcohol ban brought on by some hefty property destruction. The recently-installed hallway lights took a massive beating a few weeks back, after the usual Saturday night banter turned from school disco nervousness into a Read more...

Computer Says No.

Posted 2:21pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Gregor Whyte

Students found themselves locked out of Blackboard after the University of Otago took action against students with unpaid debts, and a few other unfortunate souls who hadn’t done anything wrong.   The Blackboard blackout was the University’s response to rising numbers of Read more...

Get Them Young.

Posted 2:20pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Teuila Fuatai

Public health researchers from the University of Otago campus in Wellington have published a study critical of the New Zealand Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) regulation of food advertising to children.   The research contends that the ASA self-regulatory system for controlling Read more...

Dr. Claire Bretherton

Posted 1:34pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Georgie Fenwicke

Dr. Claire Bretherton was at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in the UK before recently migrating to work at the newly-redeveloped Carter Observatory in Wellington. Seeing as she holds a doctorate in astronomy, specialising in galaxies, Critic thought Dr. Bretherton would be the perfect person to Read more...

NZ Music Month on Radio One.

Posted 1:26pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Gregor Whyte

  As you may or may not know (see what we did there?), May is New Zealand Music Month. Radio One will be bringing more events than you can shake a stick at. Kicking off the month is Die! Die! Die! with special guests SEWAGE playing at Kings High School Auditorium, 270 Bay View Road, Read more...

2010 Alternative Budget Competition

Posted 1:26pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Gregor Whyte

The Productive Economy Council and NZMEA are sponsoring a competition to design an ‘Alternative Budget’, which is open to all university students. The winning team in the nation-wide competition will receive $7000, while the three other finalists will receive $1000 per team. Read more...

OUSA Postgraduate Rep Resigns.

Posted 1:25pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Gregor Whyte

OUSA Postgraduate Rep Amith Koleth has resigned from the Executive, citing personal reasons necessitating his return to India. OUSA President Harriet Geoghegan says, “Amith did lots of good works and I would like to extend my thanks to him.” She added that Amith had put in Read more...

Submissions on VSM bill begin.

Posted 1:23pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jacob McSweeny, Salient

Approximately 65 million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth and became the catalyst that contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs. Some believe VSM (voluntary student membership) could be that asteroid for students’ associations nation-wide if Sir Roger Douglas’ Education (Freedom of Read more...

Proctology - 09

Posted 1:21pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Tailgunner Joe

I had to spend some time in the Proctor’s waiting room this week, in the company of a trio of young gentlemen who were being hauled in for a discussion about something or other (large-scale white-collar insider trading fraud, by the looks of them). As we whiled away the minutes, one of these Read more...

University to compete with diabetics, cancer kids, puppies.

Posted 1:19pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Anthony Riseley

The Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has indicated that universities will have to rely more on charitable donations, commercialisation, and foreign student fees for funding when the 2010 Budget is announced. Joyce says there is a limit to how much taxpayers could support the tertiary Read more...

Critic Rates The Exec (part 02)

Posted 1:18pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

Katie Bryan – Rizzo the Rat Commerce Representative Critic had never seen this “Katie” character previous to the presentation of her first report, and apparently neither had the Executive, as Katie has been spending a large proportion of her time with OCOM. Her first Read more...

Execrable - 09

Posted 1:16pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Julia Hollingsworth

RIP the three hours and thirty-three minutes Critic spent in the boardroom. You will be sorely missed. Suffice it to say, the meeting dragged on, to the point where someone could have watched The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition AND made two-minute noodles during the time. Or, in Read more...

Ding-Dong Design is Dead

Posted 1:13pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by

The University of Otago Design Studies School will be disbanded, after a closed-door meeting of the University Senate on Wednesday last week.   Senate meetings are always off-limits to the media and public, but Critic understands that Vice Chancellor Sir Professor David Skegg made a Read more...

Dunedin on High Alert After Two Days of Terror

Posted 1:11pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by

Dunedin residents are beginning to nervously venture into the streets again after the city was rocked by two bomb scares in two days. The nightmare began on Thurday, April 22 when the ‘International’ Airport was shut down due to a “suspicious package” found in the Read more...

Bernard Hickey

Posted 4:02am Monday 28th June 2010 by Georgie Fenwicke

Bernard Hickey is a financial journalist who has worked as the former Managing Editor of Business at Fairfax and held positions at Reuters and the Financial Times Group. Today, he is the Managing Editor of interest.co.nz and a regular contributor to the New Zealand Herald business section. A rather Read more...

Otago Study: Limit Teens’ TV Time

Posted 4:00am Monday 28th June 2010 by Anthony Riseley

Researchers from the University of Otago have published a study that found young people who viewed more television tended to have poorer relationships with friends and family. This is perhaps the 1, 045, 874th study of this kind.   The study involved 3 043 New Zealand adolescents aged 14 Read more...