Polytech member slams student butts

Posted 3:22am Monday 12th September 2011

An Otago Polytechnic lecturer has slammed students for littering cigarette butts on the streets outside the institution, saying that inconsiderate smokers "make it look like a British council estate".   Speaking to the ODT, design department staff member Simon Swale despaired of Read more...

Woman's skull not crushed in perfectly safe Dunedin shopping mall.

Posted 5:11am Monday 5th September 2011

  A woman was not even slightly injured after not being hit by falling fibre dust at popular Dunedin shopping mall The Meridian, despite receiving what a witness described as a “negligible sized piece of plastic on her table”. Critic’s journalistic panties were Read more...

Tidy Boxes Better than Messy Boxes

Posted 4:29am Monday 5th September 2011

  The one-week trial of the ‘Free Box’, pioneered by OUSA Communications and Colleges Representative Francisco Hernandez, was judged an overwhelming success by OUSA Communications and Colleges Representative Francisco Hernandez. Hernandez told Critic that the box was Read more...

Revolutionary Idea: Free Shit

Posted 11:44pm Monday 22nd August 2011

OUSA is running a one-week trial of a new ‘Freebox’ service this week. Students drop off items they no longer need outside the OUSA Main Office, and other students will then be able to grab themselves useful stuff for free. The initiative is the brainchild of OUSA Colleges and Communications Read more...

VSM struggling through prolonged Labour

Posted 4:58am Thursday 11th August 2011

The Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill failed to pass the committee of the whole stage in Parliament last Wednesday, as Labour party MPs used delaying tactics to prevent the bill from reaching its third reading. Debate on the bill continued until Parliament ended its session at Read more...

Auckland University has enough airpoints to buy 747.

Posted 4:57am Thursday 11th August 2011

Otago just a Cessna. Students have slammed Auckland University after it was revealed the university spent $24 million on travel for academic and general staff in the last financial year. That figure dwarfs the spending of any other tertiary institution in New Zealand, with Massey University Read more...

This Paper Possibly Propels Politico to Parliament

Posted 4:09am Thursday 28th July 2011

Former Critic Editor Holly Walker may earn a list seat in Parliament this year after the Green Party’s strong showing in a recent Colmar Brunton poll. Walker is twelfth on the party list, meaning she would squeak into Parliament if the Greens can replicate their poll showing of 10% at the Read more...

The VC is Dead, Long Live the VC

Posted 4:02am Thursday 28th July 2011

The University of Otago will see a changing of the guard this week, as departing Vice Chancellor Sir Professor David Skegg steps down from the role on the 31st July after almost eight years heading the University. Skegg has overseen an era of significant change in the culture and practices of the Read more...

Next stop the White House

Posted 5:11am Monday 25th July 2011

New OUSA President Logan Edgar has had a meteoric rise in politics. Only weeks ago Edgar was just another bum on a seat in BSNS104: Principles of Economics One. Now he finds himself in charge of a multi-million dollar organisation, and many are tipping him to go on to even greater things. Read more...

Student politicians have conference.

Posted 4:59am Monday 25th July 2011

Nobody cares. Business as usual then. The New Zealand Union of Student’s Associations (NZUSA) recently held its July conference at Victoria University of Wellington, with the presidents of student’s associations from around the country meeting to attend talks and workshops, and Read more...

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