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Parties go ahead despite warnings

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Laura Munro

T he University of Otago took a tougher stance on out-of-control flat parties leading up to the 2015 Orientation Week, with flats being asked to cancel events before the week had even begun. Residents of the Dundas Street V Flat, Dylan Hall, Tessa Lunam, Baily Beecher and Ross Stocker, Read more...

Dunedin's proposed Local Alcohol Policies

Posted 12:31pm Monday 1st December 2014 by Isaac Yu

I'm sure you've all heard the saying that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. We all like to think, especially when it comes to the affairs of others, that what we are doing is for peoples’ own good - that if we could sit them down and have a chat we could sort them out and have their Read more...

OUSA Withdraws From NZUSA

Posted 6:51pm Thursday 27th November 2014 by Josie Cochrane

After prolonged discussion, Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) has withdrawn from the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA). The unanimous decision follows the Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) decision to also withdraw earlier this Read more...

OUSA President Resigns, Effective Tomorrow

Posted 10:04pm Thursday 6th November 2014 by Josie Cochrane

At the Executive meeting held on the evening of Wednesday 5 November 2014, OUSA President Ruby Sycamore-Smith announced her resignation. Giving three days of notice, her resignation is effective from Friday 7 November 2014. On Monday 3 November 2014, the OUSA Executive discussed Read more...

Critic Sport takes a stroll down memory lane

Posted 11:58pm Sunday 12th October 2014 by Daniel Lormans

For this sad occasion, the last issue of Critic for this year, we go the tear-soaked nostalgia desk and revisit some of the most memorable sporting moments of 2014, pointing out when we got things right with our predictions and conveniently not mentioning when we got things wrong. Thanks for reading Read more...

Critic tackles election year one more time

Posted 11:58pm Sunday 12th October 2014 by Carys Goodwin

This is it. The final Critic of the year. A year of the most tumultuous election activity we could have asked for; a year of the weirdest gaffs; and a year of the most frustratingly normal results. It got so strange that Twitter began to wonder when we’d hit “peak cray,” and a simple search of the Read more...

Dunedin students’ private photos exploited online

Posted 11:58pm Sunday 12th October 2014 by Josie Cochrane

On Tuesday 7 October 2014, a group called “Rack Appreciation Society Awareness” was created on Facebook. 24 hours later, over 2,000 women were members of the page. The group was formed out of disgust at the “Rack Appreciation Society” – a Facebook group formed two weeks ago, with over 4,000 Read more...

Execrable | Issue 27

Posted 11:58pm Sunday 12th October 2014 by Josie Cochrane

This week’s meeting went on for nearly three hours, but the presence of the 2015 Executive made for a little more excitement than usual. 2015 OUSA President-elect Paul Hunt held the chair for this meeting to give him some experience as the incoming top dog. The Executive also welcomed the new Read more...

No bones about it, there are some top supervisors

Posted 11:58pm Sunday 12th October 2014 by Emily Draper

The Supervisors’ Awards, instituted by the OUSA and the Graduate Research School, aim to recognise and celebrate excellence in PhD, thesis or dissertation supervision. This year, Associate Professor Ruth Fitzgerald of the Anthropology & Archaeology Department was awarded the grand prize of 2014’s Read more...

AUSA Dismisses General Manager

Posted 11:58pm Sunday 12th October 2014 by Anna Whyte

The Employment Authority and Employment Court have deemed the 2012 dismissal of former Auckland University Student Association General Manager Tom O'Connor justified. O'Connor brought the case to court after he was dismissed by AUSA due to the mismanagement of AUSA finances. However, O'Connor Read more...