Next Top Cock-up

Posted 10:02pm Sunday 26th September 2010

The judging of the OUSA Next Top Flat competition had to be postponed from Friday of last week to this Monday, after OUSA President Harriet Geoghegan inexplicably forgot to invite the judges to attend. The cock-up, which inconvenienced Critic for one, comes after Geoghegan won re-election to the Read more...

Teaching Awards

Posted 4:55am Monday 13th September 2010

Nominations for the annual OUSA Teaching Awards open today. The awards have been running for nine years, and honour the best teaching staff at the University of Otago as nominated by students. This year, in addition to the teaching excellence Top Ten awards, there will be two specific awards. Read more...

NZ Universities Slip

Posted 4:53am Monday 13th September 2010

New Zealand’s universities have fallen in the latest major world university rankings to be released. The QS World University Rankings were unkind to almost all New Zealand’s top institutions, with the University of Otago falling ten places from 125 last year to 135 this time around. Read more...

Everyone Cleared of Everything. Except Harriet.

Posted 1:18am Monday 6th September 2010

The official report into the OUSA Elections reveals that while lots of people did lots of kind of bad things, almost no one was actually punished. Except the President, that is. The report by Returning Officer Victoria Nicholson, which runs to 29 pages excluding appendices, covered the Read more...

Confirmed: Old People Hate Youths

Posted 12:43am Monday 6th September 2010

German researchers have found that old people enjoy reading news reports that cast young people in a negative light. The researchers responsible for the study posited that the tendency of old people to react positively to news stories portraying young people negatively was tied to generational Read more...

At least OUSA isn’t this bad

Posted 3:45am Thursday 26th August 2010

At least $750 000 has been misappropriated by former members of the Whitireia Polytechnic Students' Association’s Executive, the Dominion Post reported last week. The scale of the fraud has left members outraged and the Association struggling to remain solvent. A professional audit of the Read more...

Quiztacular

Posted 3:31am Thursday 26th August 2010

On Thursday OUSA will hold its second annual quiz evening, Bride of Quiztacular. This mega-quiz night, which aims to bring together Humanities students from across all different disciplines, will feature 10 rounds of “intense quiz competition,” Walker MacMurdo says. Teams are of Read more...

University Won’t Ban Staff-Student Relationships

Posted 3:24am Thursday 26th August 2010

The University of Otago has confirmed that it will not ban relationships between staff and students. The University’s review of its policy on relationships between staff and students has been completed, and the University Senate will now discuss a revised policy, which mandates that Read more...

School of Business Cuts Confirmed

Posted 3:37pm Monday 16th August 2010

The amalgamation of the University of Otago Accountancy and Business Law department and the Finance and Quantitative Analysis department will result in the loss of almost ten jobs, the Otago Daily Times reported last week. 9.8 Full-Time Equivalent Positions (FTE) in teaching and administration Read more...

E-eeeek

Posted 11:42pm Monday 9th August 2010

A young woman collapsed and suffered a seizure after apparently consuming Ecstasy at the White-Out gig featuring Minuit at the Union last Wednesday.  An ambulance was called and the young woman was rushed to hospital. Concert-goers told Critic that many attending the gig had the Read more...