Briefs

Otago film selected for festival

Posted 3:46am Thursday 5th May 2011 by Lozz Holding

A controversial film by University of Otago student James Muir has been selected to screen in the London International Documentary Festival in May. River Dog is an environmental documentary that follows Muir’s father’s battle to stop farmers grazing stock on the Pahaoa riverbed in the Read more...

NZ Pair place third in international law competition

Posted 3:42am Thursday 5th May 2011 by Lozz Holding

University of Otago law students Nic Blumsky-Gibbs and Sean Conway gained third place in an international client consultation contest in the Netherlands earlier this month. The duo entered the contest’s final with a perfect score. Ultimately the competition was won by a team from Jamaica, Read more...

Law Study Released

Posted 3:31am Thursday 5th May 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Timaru’s finest export, University of Otago Law Facult Professor Mark Henaghan, has said that more can be done to reduce delays in processing civil cases through the court system. Professor Henaghan, Dr Saskia Righarts and Rachel Laing have recently authored a preliminary study on civil case Read more...

Education Amendment Bill (No. 4) somewhat controversial

Posted 3:31am Wednesday 27th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

The Education Amendment Bill (No. 4) was introduced to Parliament recently and had its first reading under urgency last week. The Bill makes a number of changes to the Education Act, including establishing a new Crown agent Education New Zealand. Perhaps of particular interest to students is that Read more...

Science Communication Centre Booming

Posted 3:29am Wednesday 27th April 2011 by Gregor Whyte

The University of Otago’s Centre for Science Communication has enjoyed phenomenal growth over the last four years, and is now the third most popular masters degree program at the University. The program opened in 2008, enrolling a single student. At the end of last year the program had 24 Read more...

Anzac Day Wreath

Posted 3:28am Wednesday 27th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

OUSA plans to lay a wreath at next Monday’s Anzac day service. OUSA President Harriet Geoghegan told Critic  “We lay a wreath every year and I haven't heard any suggestions from Exec members that we may not continue that practice.”   We were just checking. Read more...

Shanghai scholarships for University and Polytechnic

Posted 3:27am Wednesday 27th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

Visiting delegates from the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade University have offered 10 summer study scholarships to Dunedin students as part of fostering the relationship between the sister cities. Five scholarship are allocated to the University of Otago, with five for the Otago Polytechnic. Read more...

Students fuck themselves by being too good

Posted 6:47am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

The Hyde St Keg Party cleanup was such a success that similar initiatives could be extended to other parts of the student area in the future. The cleanup consisted of students being woken up at 9am by council workers to clean up the street after the annual street party. However the Otago Daily Read more...

Green Party plays April Fools’ joke on media. Critic fooled.

Posted 6:46am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Gregor Whyte

The Green Party kicked off April by announcing a hip-hop tour of New Zealand universities. The tour is designed to raise awareness of environmental and social justice issues among students in a cool way that youths will totally dig. Green MP and Party youth spokesman Gareth Hughes said in a press Read more...

Prostate screening

Posted 6:45am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Andrew Oliver

The results of a long-term Swedish trial, recently published in the British Medical Journal, may suggest that prostate screening is causing more harm than good, according to University of Otago Associate Professor Brian Cox. The research showed that even long-term screening did not significantly Read more...