No confidence and "Glodia" defeated in OUSA by-elections

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013

OUSA will get to indulge its by-election fetish one more time, after Ruby Sycamore-Smith emerged victorious in the Welfare Officer contest. Since Ruby has now resigned her current position as Campaigns Officer in order to take up the welfare position, there will be another by-election. Bliss. Read more...

Two Straight White Males Talk Politics

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013

Political talk is 99% bullshit. Nobody ever tells the real truth about their political views, for fear of damaging their reputation or being labelled an “EXTREMIST”. Sam McChesney tracked down two hardcore politicos from both ends of the spectrum, promised them total anonymity, and asked them the Read more...

More Details on Hyde Street Emerge

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013

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...

Roots Still Not Forgotten

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013

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...

Hyde Street's Future in Jeopardy

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013

Yesterday a rip opened in the space-time continuum, and Critic peered through a wormhole into the future. In this future, the 2013 Hyde Street Keg Party had been overtaken by meataxes. An influx of Christchurch bogans and the nihilism of the street’s inhabitants had wreaked havoc: people swung from Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 01

Posted 2:52pm Monday 25th February 2013

Welcome back to “ODT Watch,” in which we track the more notable stories peddled by the illustrious Independent Voice of the South. The Otago Daily Times is home to some of the country’s most provincial, prudish, and puntastically-titled news items. This year got off to a great start: despite only Read more...

Anna Karenina

Posted 10:25pm Sunday 24th February 2013

Patriarchy sucks mad d. From the creators of Pride and Prejudice (2005) comes one of the best-looking films since, well, Pride and Prejudice. Adapted from Tolstoy’s novel, which was recently named the greatest ever by Time magazine, Anna Karenina stars Keira Knightley and ... that guy from Read more...

OUSA Lauches Fair Trade Campaign

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 24th February 2013

OUSA pushed its new fair trade message at Tent City on Thursday. The policy, which has been approved by the student body and the University Council, aims to bring predominantly fair trade products to the already laughably overpriced campus shelves. The smell of freshly-roasted Rwandan coffee Read more...

Politicians jump on the O-Week bandwagon

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 24th February 2013

During O-Week, many things appear in the otherwise calm streets of Dunedin – short shorts, drunken bellows, vomit, cheery reps bearing vouchers that sound great when sensually pressed into your palm but actually promise nothing more than $1 off a kilo of tomatoes at the farmers’ market. The seasoned Read more...

OUSA Cook-ing up a deal?

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 24th February 2013

Uncertainty surrounds the future of beloved student pub The Captain Cook Tavern, with DB Breweries’ lease of the bar due to run out on 29 June. The current sub-lessees, the Cook Brothers, have indicated that they do not intend to renew while OUSA have denied any bid to pick up the lease. However, Read more...