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Greatest Hits / Greatest Shits | Issue 04

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014 by Carys Goodwin

Greatest HitsIt was very tempting to award Greatest Hit to John Key for choosing 20 September as the election date, as a few Critic staff were recipients of healthy iPredict payouts (myself included); but in the interest of providing students with something a little better than “should’ve got on the Read more...

Young Politician | Issue 04

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014 by Staff Reporter

I’m new to Dunedin, so naturally, I’ve gone to start my first of many years at Otago in a hall. When you arrive to your particular hall, they will most probably have a number of initiations for you; designed to break barriers, reduce homesickness, and make new friends. But there was one thing I did Read more...

Critic tackles election year | Issue 04

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014 by Carys Goodwin

Finally, the election date has been announced: 20 September. Bring on the policy releases, campaign ads, catchy slogans, and the inevitable rhetorical fuck-ups. It’s time to cut through the empty statements about student support and “the best education ever” and see what’s actually in writing. This Read more...

NCO spells end for party

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014 by Josie Cochrane

Over half of the 382 noise complaints made to the Dunedin City Council last month were from Dunedin North, with 94 per cent of the complaints relating to noise from stereos. This is the highest number of complaints in a single month since February 2010 and coincides with the influx of students back Read more...

Ben Sherman pushes Paul Smith to Fringe

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014 by Josie Cochrane

The 2014 Dunedin Fringe Festival has arrived, with over 300 guests attending the opening Festival Gala and the Polsen Higgs Comedy Club. The Dunedin Fringe Festival, funded by the Dunedin City Council, Otago Community Trust and Creative NZ, is “an awesomely creative grassroots event that wouldn’t be Read more...

Proctology | Issue 04

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014 by Claudia Herron

This week in Proctology saw someone set-up Campus Watch to Police – by divulging examples of the former’s “nefarious” behaviour to the latter. A woman, who locked her keys in her car on Albany Street, was attended to by Campus Watch with “some breaking-in gear” to assist her cause. The Police were Read more...

Humanities enrolments falling mean fewer in retail

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014 by Josie Cochrane

The University has seen a 1.9 per cent decline in enrolments from 2012 to 2013, with the decline “overwhelmingly concentrated in the Division of Humanities” according to the 2013 End of Year Financial Review. The drop in humanities students accounted for 83 per cent of the overall drop in student Read more...

“No upper limit” on DCC hotel expenditure (or height)

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014 by Josie Cochrane

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed by the Dunedin City Council and Betterways Advisory Ltd, the developers of the proposed $100 million waterfront hotel. The agreement means both parties will now work together on a new design, in order to get the contentious project underway. Read more...

Inferno of injustice in archway four

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014 by Emily Draper

The overheating of the Archway 4 Lecture Theatre is cause for concern, a sentiment echoed by many disgruntled students and teachers who are suffering in Archway 4’s record temperatures. According to Law Lecturer Andrew Geddes, “current heat problems in Archway 4 make it an environment in which Read more...

Young Politician | Issue 03

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 9th March 2014 by Staff Reporter

Liam Kernaghan was supposed to write this, but being distracted by pipe band and dancing Shetland ponies, he was too busy to meet the deadline. As his “trigger-happy puppy dog,” I get to deliver the first political sharn of 2014 – which is, ironically, the Year of the Horse. Our flat jumped Read more...