University Scientist Honoured

Posted 4:27am Monday 21st March 2011

University of Otago Professor Jean Fleming has been honoured by the Royal Society of New Zealand, being elected a Companion of the society in recognition of the leadership she has displayed in the field of science. Prof Fleming is a Professor of Science Communication at the university's Centre for Read more...

Qantas lends a helping hand

Posted 1:36am Tuesday 15th March 2011

Qantas has helped to relocate Cantab students to the University of Adelaide for a semester exchange. The exchange has been set up as part of the response to the devastating earthquake and Cantab students have been shuttled over the Tasman by Qantas in both a chartered Boeing 747 and on various Read more...

Grassroots Cancelled

Posted 1:34am Tuesday 15th March 2011

The inaugural Grassroots music festival, which was to be held on the Puhinui Peninsula over Easter weekend, has been cancelled after the Christchurch earthquake led to a collapse in ticket sales. The two-day, 15,000 person capacity event had been on track to achieve sales of around 12,000 tickets. Read more...

OUSA “Earthquake Support Open Day”

Posted 3:21am Tuesday 8th March 2011

OUSA will be holding an “Earthquake Support Open Day” in the OUSA meeting room between 9-5 today, Monday March 7. Additionally at 3pm there will be an afternoon tea for students and staff to get together and share their experiences of the earthquake. The open day aims to offer support to students Read more...

Critic Hijacked

Posted 3:18am Tuesday 8th March 2011

Some copies of last week’s Critic had a sticker attached to the cover advertising the company BookRenter.co.nz. This was done as an act of “guerrilla advertising” by the company without Critic’s knowledge. Critic did not receive payment for this and does not in any way endorse the company or its Read more...

An Exec Member Got Laid

Posted 4:46am Monday 28th February 2011

Critic this week can exclusively report that it has been offered a detailed breakdown of the sexual performance of a member of the 2011 OUSA Executive. A disgruntled former lover offered the scoop to Critic for a mere $20, and assured us that it would be worth every penny. The mole told Read more...

New Zealander of the Year 2010 – Shane Cortese

Posted 2:18am Wednesday 3rd November 2010

Shane Cortese; a man with more talents than there are shades of blonde streaks in his hair. A man who bravely made a comeback after a tragic fake tan incident during Dancing With the Stars that has permanently left his skin a strange, inhuman, yellowy-brown hue.   2010 was a triumphant Read more...

Alleged: OUSA President Incompetent Driver

Posted 12:36am Monday 18th October 2010

Critic has received information from a University of Otago student that puts into question the driving skills of OUSA President Harriet Geoghegan. The student, who refuses to be named for fear of reprisals, tells Critic that he regularly observes Geoghegan “bungle the parking of that Read more...

Former Critic Editor to stand for Parliament

Posted 10:55pm Sunday 17th October 2010

Former Editor of Critic Holly Walker is to be the Green Party Candidate for Hutt South in the 2011 General election. Walker won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford in 2007, and since returning to New Zealand has worked as a Green Party Advisor in Parliament.    "I am thrilled to stand Read more...

Scamming Studylink

Posted 1:52am Tuesday 12th October 2010

Ralph grew up in a $7m beachfront house in Auckland’s affluent Cheltenham. His Dad made “serious coin” working as a partner in a prominent law firm for 14 years, enough to retire when Ralph was in fifth form. Ralph has spent the last four years studying physiotherapy at AUT. Throughout those four Read more...