Stories

S.E.A What I Did There?

Posted 1:37am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Lozz Holding

On Sunday March 6, Students for Environmental Action (S.E.A) set out on a trek to tidy up the St. Leonards area on the way out to Port Chalmers. Their aim was a “coastal cleanup” of the beach to help raise awareness of “Sea-Week” which this year ran from February 26 to Read more...

Stride threatens government. Critic unsurprised. Geoghegan next?

Posted 3:31am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

OUSA Finance and Services Officer Dan Stride has brazenly informed Her Majesty’s Government that they have left him with no option but to destroy them, after the Education and Science Select Committee inconsiderately ignored his submission (along with that of a few thousand others) opposing the Bill Read more...

NZUSA commissions report. Discovers students are poor. Everyone shocked.

Posted 3:30am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Gregor Whyte

Critic finally got around to reading the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations’ (NZUSA) report on student income and expenditure, imaginatively titled “Income & Expenditure Survey 2010 – Summary of key findings”. The report is based on a Colmar Brunton survey of approximately 2850 students Read more...

Christchurch Embassy at the Dunedin Railway Station

Posted 3:28am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

The Dunedin community has established a Christchurch “Embassy” at the Railway Station to welcome anyone needing a place to go outside of earthquake-stricken Christchurch. The “Christchurch Embassy” Facebook group describes itself as “the first port of call” where people Read more...

University of Canterbury Students Try to Jump Ship

Posted 3:27am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Lozz Holding

The earthquake has caused the University of Canterbury serious problems as they struggle to restore educational facilities to 20,000 enrolled students. Recently rumours have been floating around that the University may not open until second semester. However Canterbury Vice Chancellor Rod Carr Read more...

Two Otago University Students Missing Following Christchurch Earthquake

Posted 3:26am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Lozz Holding

As Critic went to press, two University of Otago students have been declared missing by the Red Cross and police. The Otago Daily Times reported that Sisi Xin, 28, a Dietetics student based in Christchurch, and her friend Didem Yaman, 31, a Political Science PhD student based in Dunedin, have both Read more...

Critic arbritarily decides O-Week was crap. Writes article to that effect.

Posted 4:51am Monday 28th February 2011 by Lozz Holding

The 2011 Orientation week has been a much reduced affair, with many students commenting that it has been perhaps the most subdued in recent memory. The Christchurch earthquake has put a significant dampener on the week, especially given the large number of Otago students who originally hailed Read more...

Neil Collins: the man, the myth, the legend

Posted 4:50am Monday 28th February 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Earlier in the month the Otago Daily Times (ODT) ran a story stating that Dunedin City Councillor Neil Collins is “in a class of his own” when it comes to knowing big names in the entertainment industry. We liked the story so much we decided to write our own. The esteemed publication detailed Read more...

Your Exec – Who They Are and What They Do

Posted 4:49am Monday 28th February 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Critic knows that none of you, with the possible exception of the actual people on it, know what the Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) Executive does, so we’ve decided to quickly break down for you what they do. The OUSA is run by an executive made up of ten elected representatives. Read more...

Students Swap Six Packs for Shovels to Help Earthquake Relief

Posted 4:48am Monday 28th February 2011 by Lozz Holding

Students from around the country have responded overwhelmingly to the destruction wrought by the February 22 Christchurch earthquake. Members of the public are being urged not to travel to Christchurch but to instead donate money to the Red Cross that they otherwise would spend on travel. This is Read more...