Oh Harlene,

Posted 4:04pm Friday 24th February 2012

You know the Vice Chancellor right? That lady in the big fancy office by the Leith? She basically runs the entire University, and well, let’s face it, is far too busy and important to sit down for an interview with a little old student magazine. Or so you would have thought. Without a second Read more...

Pensioner trades in Gold Card for Critic Editorship

Posted 2:24am Monday 17th October 2011

Mature student and ex-University of Otago dropout Joe Stockman has been appointed to the position of Critic Editor 2012 It is unclear when Stockman began his tenure as an Otago student, as the faded papyrus records of his original enrollment have faded beyond repair. However, his references to Read more...

PMS a Myth

Posted 4:25am Monday 10th October 2011

According to a new University of Otago psychiatric study, the effects of PMS on women’s moods may be exaggerated.   Based on data collected from 76 women, the study found that a woman’s mood doesn’t change substantially during the pre-menstrual phase (when PMS Read more...

Student Art Exhibition a success

Posted 3:13am Monday 3rd October 2011

The OUSA Student Art Exhibition and Sale is being hailed as a great success, after luminaries like OUSA President Logan Edgar were among the purchasers of student art. The People’s Choice awards, sponsored by the University Book Shop and Art Zone, were decided after the event had run Read more...

BMW-driving meth head threatens students with bat after unrelated driver toots lightly at his terrible parking. Critic short on snappy titles this week.

Posted 3:12am Monday 3rd October 2011

Two University of Otago students had the fright of their lives last Tuesday, when a man chased them in his car before following them into a driveway and menacing them with a baseball bat. The incident started when the suspect was trying to park his ‘reasonably nice BMW’ on a Read more...

Critic wins big.

Posted 3:10am Monday 3rd October 2011

Critic took home the largest number of awards at this year’s Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA) awards, held in Wellington on September 24, gaining five first place awards, and narrowly missing out on the major award for ‘Best Publication’. The awards ceremony, which honours the best Read more...

Crayons for Cambodia

Posted 5:10am Monday 19th September 2011

Two University of Otago finalists are travelling to Cambodia this summer to volunteer with orphans and underprivileged children. The two law students are currently fundraising for their trip, which aims to provide Cambodian children with desperately needed school supplies and uniforms. Read more...

Marketing is the new Tourism

Posted 5:00am Monday 19th September 2011

A rogue student caused widespread panic in a second year marketing paper after sending an email on Blackboard to every student in the paper asking if they could join a group for an assignment that hadn’t even been set yet. The first email, sent on September 8, set off waves of panic Read more...

VSM, HAPPENING FO’ REAL

Posted 3:05am Monday 12th September 2011

The Voluntary Student Membership bill, or VSM as it’s colloquially known, completed the Committee of the House stage through Parliament last Wednesday September 7. No amendments to the Bill were accepted, including amendments by Labour MPs to add more clauses to the Bill. In a last Read more...

Harlene’s first day at school

Posted 11:45pm Monday 22nd August 2011

Professor Harlene Hayne took over the Vice-Chancellor position last Monday, after a two week period during which the University had no official Vice-Chancellor. The first female Vice Chancellor in the University’s 142-year history, Hayne replaces Sir Professor David Skegg, who spent Read more...