Sigh…

Posted 4:56am Monday 25th July 2011

A radical element within Critic Te Arohi, the feted University of Otago student magazine, has established a new company with the intention of buying out the popular student watering hole The Captain Cook Tavern. The new Critic subsidiary, Critical Capital Holdings, is the brainchild of Read more...

Radio None

Posted 11:40pm Monday 11th July 2011

OUSA is strongly considering getting rid of student radio station Radio One after an independent review by financial services giant Deloitte recommended selling the station to save money. In May the OUSA Executive commissioned Deloitte to “complete a review of the current organisational Read more...

Critic’s power and influence growing.

Posted 11:35pm Monday 11th July 2011

Critic’s hard-hitting journalism has successfully forced the ODT to redesign the ‘On Campus’ website after Critic’s groundbreaking coverage of an alleged ‘nefarious alliance’ between the ODT and the Otago Polytechnic (see Critic Issue 14, page 13). In June the ODT redesigned their website to Read more...

ODT and Polytech combine to take a dump on head of Uni

Posted 4:11am Monday 11th July 2011

The alleged uncovering of a nefarious alliance between the Otago Polytechnic and the Otago Daily Times (ODT) has triggered a ridiculous article in the student magazine Critic. Whilst browsing the ODT website to find filler news for the “Briefs” section of the magazine, Critic Read more...

Everything passes in OUSA Referendum. Except that darned constitution.

Posted 4:08am Monday 11th July 2011

The OUSA referendum resulted in all motions passing the vote, with the exception of the crucial motion addressing the current constitutional structure of OUSA. Motions accepting the OUSA audited financial statements and annual report for 2010 both passed with only minor opposition, although in Read more...

Otago Less Good

Posted 4:06am Monday 11th July 2011

Unimpressed with lack of couch burnings and riots, ranking agency punishes Otago with huge drop in rankings. New Zealand universities have fallen considerably in the just released version of the QS World Universities Rankings, with Otago University suffering the most significant tumble, Read more...

Student loan system plundered like Scandinavian township in Viking times

Posted 7:53am Thursday 26th May 2011

The 2011 Budget announcement has slashed student loan and allowance entitlements, as the government tightens the collective belt in an effort to get New Zealand to stop bleeding money like a drunk in Vegas. As expected, borrowing for over 55s is to be restricted to course fees only, and borrowing Read more...

Blackboard misuse rampant. Critic happy as makes good filler story.

Posted 7:41am Thursday 26th May 2011

Critic’s continued coverage of nonsense filler stories relating to students sending silly messages on the Blackboard email system has sparked further silly messages, resulting in Critic writing another filler story. Aware of - but ultimately unconcerned by - the self-perpetuating cycle of lowest Read more...

Students mourn end of Air New Zealand monopoly

Posted 8:09am Thursday 19th May 2011

Students expressed a collective sigh of dismay as Jetstar announced it was entering the Auckland to Dunedin domestic flight market from July 14. Many students told Critic that they were concerned that Jetstar offering flights to Auckland out of Dunedin would mean they would now have no excuse not Read more...

Critic brutalised. Prison style.

Posted 4:44am Thursday 12th May 2011

The OUSA-initiated review of Planet Media has been presented to the OUSA Executive meeting, with Critic’s present performance and future independence being brought sharply into question. The results of the OUSA-initiated review of Planet Media, the parent company of which Critic forms a part, were Read more...