Dunners

Aquinas Loses Critic Privileges

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Bella Macdonald

Following an attempt to separate themselves further from society, Aquinas College has been punished for hiding their weekly delivery of Critic magazines in a corner of the building’s foyer. The box of magazines, which was delivered on Monday 25 February, was shunned and hidden out of sight Read more...

OUSA To Spend App-roximately $30k

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Zane Pocock

In a meeting held early last week, OUSA announced they are “looking at the possibility” of developing applications for iOS, Android and Windows smartphones at an estimated upper-end cost of $30,000. The app would likely include features such as “bumping” smartphones to exchange timetables, Read more...

Crazed Gunman Terrorises Wealthy Dunedin Suburb

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Callum Fredric

At around 9pm on Wednesday 6 March, police and the Armed Offenders Squad were called out to a Tolcarne Avenue address in Maori Hill, where a man had apparently holed himself up in his house with his gun collection after a domestic incident. When Critic arrived at the property at 10pm after a Read more...

800 People Found Dead!

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Claudia Herron

In what sounds like the plot of Tomb Raider III, a German archaeologist has uncovered a mass of unmarked graves revealing almost 800 long-decaying bodies. Dr Hans-Dieter Bader of Archaeology Solutions Ltd took to Central Otago with his fluxgate gradiometer and hand-held GPS unit to reveal the Read more...

Polytech Battles Uni for Fair Trade Glory

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Bella Macdonald

Yet again, Otago Polytechnic has made a dismal attempt to compete with the University of Otago. Only a few weeks after the Uni publicised its Fair Trade Campaign to become the first fully accredited fair trade tertiary institution in New Zealand, the Polytech announced their participation. In Read more...

Every Vote Counts! (Except Abstain)

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Staff Reporter

OUSA loves by-elections, and holds them all the time. This week they’re treating us to a delicious double-header, with both the Welfare and Postgraduate positions up for grabs. The candidates are Golda Matthias, Keir Russell and Ruby Sycamore-Smith. Golda and Ruby are duking it out for Welfare Read more...

More Details on Hyde Street Emerge

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Sam McChesney

OUSA has provided more details on the format of this year’s Hyde Street party, with numbers likely to be capped at 3500 and ticket allocations given to residents. The decisions come after a public meeting on Monday and a stakeholders’ meeting on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Otago Daily Times’s coverage Read more...

High School Implements Tuxedo Dress Code

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Dennis Larson

Dunedin’s own King’s High School has set up a class to teach Year 9 boys how to become gentlemen, based on a Texas course called The Gentlemen’s Society. According to the Otago Daily Times, the course will teach the boys “how to act like a sophisticated man,” including dining etiquette, how Read more...

Roots Still Not Forgotten

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Sam McChesney

Dunedin’s most famous roots band, Six60, haven’t forgotten their roots. In fact, these roots have been remembered so well, locked so tightly in Six60’s collective temporal lobes, that they have announced a show in the little old town from whence they spawned. Six60 will rise up onto the stage at Read more...

ODT Invents 19 People

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Zane Pocock

The Otago Daily Times are at it again, this week falsely reporting on a meeting they didn’t attend. The gathering in question was hosted last Tuesday afternoon at OUSA’s Recreation Centre by the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA). It was a workshop designed to involve students in Read more...