Dunners

Overly Keen Scarfie Makes App to Pull

Posted 4:50pm Sunday 6th April 2014 by Emily Draper

A new social networking iPhone app made for Scarfies has been launched across Dunedin. The app, called KEEN, is the brainchild of Auckland University student Philip Chen, who was later joined by Canterbury student Nelson Shaw and Otago student Laxman Popli. KEEN is based around a simple premise: if Read more...

Research Leads to "Pleasing ... Sustained Excellence"

Posted 4:50pm Sunday 6th April 2014 by Nina Harrap

The University has risen 20 places and remains top among New Zealand’s research institution rankings after coming 67th in the 2013 Nature Publishing Index Asia-Pacific. The index ranks nations and institutions on the number of research articles they put out each year and the number of which are Read more...

OUSA Hyde No More Tickets to Keg Party

Posted 4:50pm Sunday 6th April 2014 by Josie Cochrane

General admission Hyde Street tickets sold out in record time last week, with the 1118 tickets available gone within two minutes of release. 3500 tickets were available with priority going to Hyde Street residents, their friends and residents on surrounding streets, and the remaining 1118 being sold Read more...

No Goodbye to By-Elections

Posted 4:50pm Sunday 6th April 2014 by Claudia Herron

The resignation of Education Officer Jordan Taylor has prompted the start to what promises to be another year of by-election folly. While the nominees include current Recreation Officer Henri Faulkner, which may see a shuffle around of the Executive, there are also a number of fresh faces. Should Read more...

Execrable | Issue 7

Posted 4:50pm Sunday 6th April 2014 by Claudia Herron

This week’s Executive meeting was more akin to a marathon, clocking in at nearly three hours long, with a disappointingly large amount of the meeting taking part in Committee of the Whole, which Critic does not have the right to report on. Despite this, Ruby competently chaired the meeting Read more...

On-License Opposed for Yet Another Dunedin Venue

Posted 4:50pm Sunday 6th April 2014 by Claudia Herron

Yet another popular Dunedin venue is risking closure after its on-licence expired and a new application was opposed by the Police and the Medical Officer of Health. Popular music venue Queens Bar at Queens Garden will face a hearing before the Dunedin District Licencing Committee on 11 April where Read more...

Influx of Influenza Flew In

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Mass Cralk

The Emergency Department at Dunedin Hospital has seen a number of people admitted who present symptoms of Bird Flu, which comes on the heels of a recent visit to Dunedin by a group of Chinese bioterrorists. Bird flu is caused by an influenza virus that originally occurs in animals and can Read more...

SJS - Sycamore Jovially Sympathises

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Laura Munro

Job-seeking tertiary students in Otago may be in for a weary hunt after student earnings, generated through Student Job Search, declined by six per cent in the early months of 2014, and overall earnings dropped by $700,000 in 2013. Total earnings of $7.353 million in 2013 were 8.6 per cent lower Read more...

Support Shows Cull Not UNESCOrted in Literature Bid

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Emily Draper

Dunedin has taken a major step in becoming New Zealand’s home of literature after Mayor Dave Cull last week sent through a bid to become a UNESCO City of Literature. UNESCO only permits one City of Literature per country, and Cull’s bid aims to establish Dunedin as just that. A successful bid Read more...

Proctology

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Claudia Herron

Disgruntled moteliers and neighbours – and trampolines – are the latest victims of the plague of rowdy Scarfies, making this week’s Proctology look like an episode of Neighbours at War. Known to some as “The Tavern,” a student establishment in Woodhaugh has taken remembering their Read more...