Telephones to Another World

Posted 5:43pm Thursday 12th July 2018

Bruce Mahalski collects skulls. Porcupine, tui, crocodile, human, cow and giraffe skulls decorate the front half of his Dunedin home, which he has turned into the Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery, showcasing his skulls next to bones, fossils, “ethnographic” art, and whatever weird or Read more...

ODT Watch | The Week the ODT Adopted Outdated Yorkshire Idiom

Posted 11:11pm Sunday 8th July 2018

Welcome back. In case you missed it, the ODT have been up to their old tricks over the break. Yip. You missed nothing.      So the ODT has a column called “Ask a Scientist” where readers send in questions and a scientist answers them. Or apparently just Read more...

Campaign To Repeal Voluntary Student Membership Starts

Posted 10:18pm Thursday 5th July 2018

The New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) has begun a behind-the-scenes campaign to repeal Voluntary Student Membership (VSM), offering the greatest hope for reversing the controversial policy, which has been responsible for gutting students’ associations across the country Read more...

University Rolling out Sanitary Bins to All Female Toilet Cubicles After Low-Effort Critic Investigation

Posted 10:15pm Thursday 5th July 2018

The University are putting sanitary bins in every female toilet cubicle after Critic pointed out that Property Services Division Director Barry MacKay’s statement that, “Every female toilet cubicle has a sanitary bin” was false; Critic had a little wander around and found 25 female Read more...

University Reveals Boring Surprise

Posted 10:03pm Thursday 5th July 2018

The Black Wall of the lie-brary. Who can remember when it came, that impenetrable eternal Wall. A computer lab is lost in the golden lake of memory and all that’s left is the Wall, flashing cryptic messages from our masters. WATCH THIS SPACE WE ARE CREATING A NEW SERVICE FOR YOU OPENING NEXT Read more...

Selwyn College Students Secretly Voted on the Fresher Girl with the 'Best Rack'

Posted 10:02pm Thursday 5th July 2018

Second year Selwyn College students secretly voted on and publically awarded a prize for the fresher girl with the “Best Rack,” among other derogatory awards. Monica Nelson, who was given the award in 2014, described it as “sexist and bullying”. The tradition was part of Read more...

Postgraduate Officer Kirio Birks Narrowly Escapes Vote of No Confidence

Posted 1:00am Sunday 27th May 2018

Kirio Birks, OUSA Postgraduate Officer, has avoided being removed from his position by a margin of two votes after a motion for a vote of no confidence in him was raised at a Student General Meeting last Friday. Matthew Schep, postgraduate student, introduced the motion, claiming that Kirio had Read more...

Students Protest University Censorship

Posted 12:59am Sunday 27th May 2018

Otago University Students formed a protest movement last week, while facing close scrutiny from Campus Watch, following the University’s decision to seize and destroy issues of Critic last week. Immediately after the University admitted to destroying copies of Critic’s Menstruation Read more...

The Best Anonymous Comments From the OUSA Referendum

Posted 10:45pm Thursday 24th May 2018

The OUSA Referendum happened and everything went pretty much as expected. All the boring questions passed because no one properly understood them. The environmental, drug, and miscellaneous ones pretty much passed with high majorities. The only close ones were whether OUSA should ban tickets in its Read more...

University Lies About Sanitary Bin Numbers in Female Toilets

Posted 9:49pm Thursday 17th May 2018

The University does not have enough sanitary disposal bins in its female toilets and provides none in their male toilets. The University’s Property Services Division Director Barry MacKay told Critic that, “Every female toilet cubicle has a sanitary bin”. This is not true. Read more...