Date. Hole.

Posted 4:28am Monday 21st March 2011

A by-election for the positions of International Students’ Representative and Postgraduate Representative is to be held to replace the originally elected reps, who have gone AWOL in recent weeks. Critic speculates that with the outstanding rate at which the Executive has already lost two Read more...

Scarfie Card scheme unfairly compared to slavery in this title

Posted 1:59am Tuesday 15th March 2011

An initiative set up to “invigorate Dunedin’s social connectedness” is sending Otago students out into the local community to do odd jobs, with the aim of letting Dunedin residents know that we aren’t just OTP in Dunnaz the whole time we’re here. The Scarfie Card scheme, run by Student Life, is in Read more...

Postgrads unenthused about enforced Monday night Jelly Wrestling

Posted 1:56am Tuesday 15th March 2011

Postgraduate students, incensed at the possible cancellation of their Friday night Gazebo drinks, have taken to the walls of Facebook for a regular old-fashioned bitching session. OUSA Postgraduate Representative Stephanie Ruddock, responsible for the Gazebo drinks, has threatened to send any future Read more...

Stride threatens government. Critic unsurprised. Geoghegan next?

Posted 3:31am Tuesday 8th March 2011

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...

Christchurch Embassy at the Dunedin Railway Station

Posted 3:28am Tuesday 8th March 2011

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...

Neil Collins: the man, the myth, the legend

Posted 4:50am Monday 28th February 2011

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

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...

Toastmasters

Posted 4:45am Monday 28th February 2011

The Scarfies Speechcraft Club is offering students the opportunity to improve their speaking skills and develop their leadership experience in 2011, for periods of ten weeks each semester. A demonstration meeting is being held in Room 101, 665 Cumberland St on March 8 from 5-7 p.m., and the Read more...

Gangbang? Or clusterfuck?

Posted 4:39am Monday 28th February 2011

Former gang members have received assistance from the Dunedin City Council (DCC) to lease a flat situated in the student area on Dundas St. Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has confirmed that he helped arrange for the tenants – ex-Black Power members – to lease the council flat until May this Read more...