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Why Otago University Needs A Marae

Posted 9:04pm Saturday 5th May 2018 by Tiana Mihaere

OPINION: To many indigenous people, the marae or wharenui is a place of great cultural significance. It is a place where we come together to welcome new people to our whenua, to celebrate life, to mourn those who have passed. It is a place where we can address past grievances, express ourselves and Read more...

Students Challenge Sexual Violence Stereotypes

Posted 9:02pm Saturday 5th May 2018 by Esme Hall

Content Warning: discussion of sexual violence, child sexual abuse, rape, intimate partner violence     As part of Rape Awareness Week, Union Hall turned into an exhibition of clothing of survivors of rape and sexual assault. The Students Against Sexual Violence (SASV) Read more...

Hunters Gear Up for Magic Mushroom Season as Cold Weather Hits

Posted 9:01pm Saturday 5th May 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

Summer is fading away to autumn, the temperature is dropping, the puffer jackets are multiplying, and getting out of bed is harder than making cool friends. It is also the start of magic mushroom season.  Critic approached some mushroomeers to ask how the season’s shaping up. Read more...

Students ‘Heart-Broken’ After Fortune Theatre Shuts Down

Posted 8:59pm Saturday 5th May 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

Students expressed their sadness last week as the Fortune Theatre, Dunedin’s only professional theatre, closed permanently, as it was no longer financially viable. The theatre will cancel all its current and future shows, and close its facilities to outside groups.  “We have Read more...

Why Haven't Our Students Associations Done Anything About V.S.M.?

Posted 8:33pm Saturday 5th May 2018 by Joel MacManus

EDITORIAL: VSM is the most important issue facing students right now. So why the fuck aren’t we doing anything about it? Voluntary Student Membership, or VSM, was the worst thing to ever happen to students’ associations. When the ACT Party Bill passed in 2011, it was Public Enemy Read more...

OUSA President: The DCC Don't Give a Flying Fuck About Students

Posted 3:16pm Tuesday 1st May 2018 by

OPINION: The DCC don’t give a flying f about OUSA. They don't care about you or me personally. Actually, they don't care about anyone between the ages of 18-24, and if you’re a mature student, they probably don’t care about you either. My biggest problems with the Read more...

Sexual Violence Prevention Centre Opening During Rape Awareness Week

Posted 2:36am Monday 30th April 2018 by Staff Reporter

The University is opening a dedicated sexual violence prevention centre, Te Whare Tawharau (a place of shelter), at 5 Leithbank (between the college of education and the commerce building) following a 3-year-long review of sexual misconduct policies. Te Whare Tawharau is a drop-in centre that Read more...

Quality of Fake Hyde Street Bands Catches Security By Surprise

Posted 2:34am Monday 30th April 2018 by Joel MacManus

Fraudsters and shucksters stepped up their game for this year’s Hyde Street, as fake wristbands saw a level of professionalism never before seen. Event staff said that several of the wristbands scanned over the course of the day all showed up as the same female second year law student, Read more...

Computer-based examinations for seven papers this semester

Posted 2:32am Monday 30th April 2018 by Esme Hall

Seven papers will introduce computer-based exams this semester as the University trials computer-based examinations. OUSA Campaigns Officer Roger Yan sits on the Computer Based Examinations working group that has the “goal of finding a working product that the University can use if it wants Read more...

Pharmacy Students “Mucked Around” by Bus Company

Posted 2:30am Monday 30th April 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

The Pharmacy Students’ Association (NZAPS-O) has been fucked over by a bus company while trying to attend their annual Pharmacy Camp. In February this year NZAPS-O chartered Ritchie’s Bus Service to take 120 students to Pharmacy Camp. Laura Pidcock, the NZAPS-O President, confirmed Read more...

Two AUSA Executive Members Resign

Posted 2:29am Monday 30th April 2018 by Esme Hall

Two Auckland University Students’ Association executive members have resigned in the space of two days over claims of unreasonable work hours and poor management. Welfare Vice-President Isabel Holm resigned on Wednesday 18th April and Queer Rights Officer Isabella Francis resigned on Friday Read more...

Hyde Street Is Boring Now. And That’s a Very Good Thing.

Posted 2:19am Monday 30th April 2018 by Joel MacManus

Editorial: Hyde Street 2018 was boring. And that’s exactly how it should be. I don’t mean it was boring for the attendees; the crowds we saw there were having an absolute frother of a time (at least until the rain hit). But media were well and truly disappointed. In the six years Read more...

Proctor Tries to Shut Down Student Party, Fails

Posted 8:56pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

A student-run party to raise money for the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital went ahead last week despite the Proctor’s attempts to shut it down. Pedro, one of the organisers, told Critic that he went to see the Proctor to gain the University’s approval for the party, and that the Proctor Read more...

Student Bar Might Actually Happen After All

Posted 8:38pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Joel MacManus

University of Otago COO Steve Willis has indicated that a new or revamped student bar on campus could be a possibility as the Uni looks at new developments over the next couple of years. The Union Food Court is “not losing money any more,” Willis said, while addressing the OUSA Exec Read more...

Men’s Only Med Group Hopes to Combat Mental Health

Posted 8:35pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Esme Hall

The Otago University Medical Students’ Association (OUMSA) has started a men’s only social group for mental health support called “Men in Med”. It forms part of OUMSA’s wider initiative to provide social events that aren’t centred around alcohol. Third-year Read more...

Recreation Officer’s Re-Created Report Accepted

Posted 8:31pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Joel MacManus

Success! Josh Smythe, OUSA Re-Creation Officer, has had his quarterly report passed, granting him his honorarium for the first quarter. Josh’s report, which was covered in Critic #6, was dedicated to “the breathas and the homies,” insisted on listing his title as Re-Creation Read more...

Burglars hit Hyde Street

Posted 8:28pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

Hyde Street resident Sam Gallagher, says he is “pissed” after having a Playstation 4 and an Xbox One stolen from his flat. After “a big night” out on the piss, he got home and went to bed, but couldn’t sleep because he “accidentally drank pre-workout Read more...

Freshers Do Sport, Critic Makes Up Results

Posted 8:24pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Joel MacManus

The season kicked off last Saturday for the turgid, semi-competitive shambles that is the inter-college sports league. Critic did not send a reporter down to watch any of the games, because if we wanted to watch a whole lot of sweaty freshers yell and bump into each other, we’d just go to Read more...

CCTV Cameras Begin to Roll Out

Posted 8:20pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Esme Hall

CCTV camera installations are “running a little late” but they have arrived, says a University spokesperson. Two new cameras are now operational. One faces west on Albany Street outside the Link, while the other faces north on Leith St at the corner of St David, which “is kinda Read more...

OUSA Lobby for More Seats on University Council

Posted 8:19pm Thursday 19th April 2018 by Charlie O’Mannin

OUSA have drafted a submission lobbying the government to increase the number of student seats on the University Council. There is only one seat currently reserved for a student, held by the OUSA President. Sam Smith, OUSA Finance Officer, said that only having one student is “not adequate Read more...