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Little Visits Cadbury Factory in Show of Solidarity with Workforce

Posted 10:52am Sunday 26th February 2017 by Joe Higham

Mondelez International, the company that owns Cadbury, have stated their intention to end their manufacturing operations at the company’s Dunedin factory.  The closure of the Dunedin factory means the loss of 362 jobs, the first phase of which Mondelez have outlined will begin later Read more...

DCC and Uni Begin New Initiative to Clean up North Dunedin’s Streets

Posted 10:42am Sunday 26th February 2017 by Anna Linton

A collaborative recycling initiative between the Dunedin City Council and Campus Watch, overseen by the Proctor, will mark an overhaul in how glass and rubbish are dealt with in North Dunedin. Street cleaning, extra blue glass recycling bins and skips in North Dunedin, every Friday of February Read more...

OUSA Execrable | Issue 26

Posted 10:27am Saturday 8th October 2016 by Joe Higham

The final reportable OUSA Executive meeting began characteristically slowly, but became easily the most interesting meeting of the year as the largely dysfunctional group came to a head over their third quarter reports, which they present at the culmination of each quarter to determine whether Read more...

Dunedin comedian teams up with 7 Days stars for hilarious new webseries

Posted 10:09am Saturday 24th September 2016 by Joe Higham

When professional comedians venture into the vastly unprofessional abyss of Dunedin’s student flats, comedy naturally ensues. Thanks to a hilarious new comedic venture called Flat Gigs Dunedin, which is brought to you by entrepreneur and comedian ‘Skivvy Jon’ alongside comedians Read more...

Polling booth coming to campus

Posted 10:04am Saturday 24th September 2016 by Joel MacManus

After months of discussion and negotiation, the DCC has relented and will provide a special voting booth on campus this Thursday for local body elections. After Critic reported on the DCC imposing overly strict conditions surrounding the provision of a booth, OUSA has re-opened talks and found DCC Read more...

Hugh Baird wins OUSA Presidential Election by a landslide, as 4 out of 5 ‘Your Voice’ candidates are successful

Posted 9:57am Saturday 24th September 2016 by Joe Higham

The ‘Hugh Baird for President’ ticket has won both the Presidential and the Administrative Vice-President’s seats by a landslide, as fellow presidential candidates Lark Hare and Hashmat Lafraie struggled, coming in equally 14 percent behind Baird. The ‘Hugh Baird for Read more...

Missing: grey rectangles

Posted 10:49am Saturday 17th September 2016 by Critic

Police are seeking the owners of a number of items they suspect were stolen from North Dunedin flats in the last several weeks.  A man was driving a scooter when he was stopped by police on Albany Street, North Dunedin, according to a Police Media Centre statement, along with several Read more...

‘Your Voice’ posters torn down

Posted 10:37am Saturday 17th September 2016 by Joel MacManus

The ‘Your Voice’ ticket, led by Presidential candidate Lark Hare in the OUSA election, has had 28 of their campaign posters around campus torn down, largely those in the Castle Lecture Theatres, according to Bryn Jenkins, who is the Your Voice candidate for Education Officer. He says it Read more...

Otago University Council votes to divest from fossil fuels

Posted 10:34am Saturday 17th September 2016 by Joe Higham

The Otago University Council has voted in favour of committing to divest from fossil fuels within its investment portfolio. The university downplayed the significance of the decision, assuring everyone affiliated with the university that they have “no investments in fossil fuels” Read more...

Presidential Election Forum

Posted 10:32am Saturday 17th September 2016 by Joe Higham

The OUSA Election Forums that ran last week, were a chance for students to hear what the candidates running for the 2017 OUSA Executive are pledging to do if they are elected. Hugh Baird is the editor of Critic*, and is running on the ‘Hugh Baird for President’ ticket alongside Read more...