Dunners

Anonymous Jerk Knocks Over Cones

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Callum Fredric

An unknown vandal systematically knocked down two lines of road cones set up to protect the path on the Museum Lawn while it was being repaved. The crime was committed on Thursday night, which is regarded by many as one of the two main drinking nights of the week. Alcohol may have been a Read more...

Hyde Street Sold Out

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Bella Macdonald

Tickets to the infamous Hyde Street keg party sold out by midday when they went on sale at OUSA on both Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 April. Although the 500 tickets available on Monday were sold from 9am instead of 11am as publicised, OUSA President Francisco Hernandez reported that “every man and Read more...

Hör∂ur Torfason

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Zane Pocock

Hör∂ur Torfason, widely credited as “the man who brought participatory democracy to Iceland,” delivered several open speeches in Dunedin on 27 and 28 March. Held in the Burns 1 Lecture Theatre, the last of these speeches was entitled “Modern Democracy and the Iceland Experience,” and was Read more...

Still the best place to defecate on campus

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Sam McChesney

Renovations to the University’s staff club facility are expected to run about $150,000 over budget, bringing the total cost of the project above $750,000. The building is more than a century old, having opened in 1907, and has been the staff club since 1980. Because of the club’s highly Read more...

Rabbits take revenge

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Bella Macdonald

A 26-year-old man ended up in hospital on Saturday 30 March after an attempt to make his own hot cross bunnies turned sour and resulted in a gunshot wound to his own hand and the removal of two fingers. The man had been attending the Great Easter Bunny Hunt in Central Otago, trying to Read more...

University set to continue annual offering of a lecturer's life

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Zane Pocock

Expectations that the University would put a bicycle lane through campus in order to get cyclists off Dunedin’s dangerous labyrinth of one-way streets have been shut down, due to “pedestrian safety concerns” and the University’s current cycle ban. Speculation started after the death of Read more...

ODT fails to clean up rubbish journalism

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Sam McChesney

The Otago Daily Times has officially jumped the shark, reporting on the efforts of a heroic Dunedin trash vigilante. A full eight days before April Fools’, the ODT ran a story entitled “Rubbish dumper made to clean up.” The story was penned by the same reporter responsible for February’s Read more...

Debating thieves show audacity

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Claudia Herron

Stilt walkers, prowling lions and some hilarious misuse of the word “advice” helped to kick off another successful year for business incubator Audacious. Taking place in the Business School Atrium, the evening saw entrepreneurs Alex Dong and Logan Elliot, both from vastly different business arenas, Read more...

Hernandez hard at work

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Sam McChesney

OUSA President Francisco Hernandez has released his first quarterly report, containing a detailed breakdown of the progress he has made toward his plethora of campaign pledges. The report, which stretches to 15 pages, has been kindly summarised by Critic in this 265-word article. The first Read more...

Hail Brittennia

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Basti Menkes

From 12-24 April the Department of Music is hosting a festival to celebrate the centennial birthday of the renowned English composer Benjamin Britten. Britten was a key figure in twentieth-century British classical music, composing music for opera, film scores and more. The festival, directed Read more...