OUSA Postgrad Officer Facing Vote to Remove Him From Office

Posted 9:48pm Thursday 17th May 2018

OUSA Postgraduate Officer Kirio Birks may be removed from his position after a vote of no confidence, which will be brought against him at a Student General Meeting, held on Thursday at 1pm in the Main Common Room.   The motion was introduced by postgraduate student Matthew Schep, who says Read more...

ODT Watch | The Week the ODT Let Themselves Down

Posted 9:07pm Thursday 17th May 2018

We’re disappointed in the ODT this week. They missed an obvious pun. Alternative headline: “Post shops to become post-post shops.” Are you ok Barry (I assume your name’s Barry)? Is your strained relationship with your wife and your growing isolation from your children Read more...

NZUSA on the Brink of Financial Collapse

Posted 8:13pm Thursday 17th May 2018

The New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) is in what President Jonathan Gee called a “precarious financial situation”, and has had to ask its member associations to pay over $100,000 in advance in order to save the organisation. The OUSA exec voted to immediately Read more...

Scandal Alert: Steamy OUSA Prez / Vice-Prez Love Affair Revealed

Posted 8:09pm Thursday 17th May 2018

In what has been described as “The greatest scandal OUSA has seen in the last 10 years,” it has come to light that OUSA President Caitlin Barlow-Groome and Vice-President Cam Meads had a brief, but passionate, romantic encounter in their first years. The explosive information was Read more...

ODT Watch | The Week We Felt (Briefly) Sad for the ODT

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 13th May 2018

To start this week the ODT are seeking help for a problem sculpture that keeps popping up in their garden,   They tried cutting it in half, but then they jut had two worm sculptures to deal with.      Next, some words from Councillor Lee ‘Climate Change is Read more...

Critic Breaks Down the OUSA Referendum Questions

Posted 11:09pm Friday 11th May 2018

OUSA’s Referendum opens 9am Monday. Even though they rejected some of our best questions, like “Should the Clubs and Societies building be turned into a big old gay bar?” and “Should OUSA adopt the stegosaurus as its official dinosaur?” you should still vote. For those Read more...

Gastro Outbreak Hits 70 Selwyn Students

Posted 9:01pm Friday 11th May 2018

Two weeks ago Critic was walking through campus, taking pictures for the esteemed Critical Tribune, when a group of clearly blazed women accosted us with a large bottle of hand sanitiser, claiming that there was gastro around. If only we’d listened.  An outbreak of gastroenteritis Read more...

OUSA President Apologises for Being too “Passionate” Attacking DCC

Posted 8:52pm Friday 11th May 2018

OUSA President Caitlin Barlow-Groome has walked back her comments criticising the Dunedin City Council (DCC) for not caring about students after she received significant blowback from both the DCC and others within OUSA. In her President’s column two weeks ago, titled “The DCC Read more...

Outbreak of Gastro at Selwyn College

Posted 6:47pm Monday 7th May 2018

There has been an outbreak of gastroenteritis (gastro) at Selwyn Residential College. Gastro symptoms include diarrhoea, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain, fever and muscle pains. The disease can last between one to three days and spreads by ingestion of contaminated food or water, contact with Read more...

Hunters Gear Up for Magic Mushroom Season as Cold Weather Hits

Posted 9:01pm Saturday 5th May 2018

Summer is fading away to autumn, the temperature is dropping, the puffer jackets are multiplying, and getting out of bed is harder than making cool friends. It is also the start of magic mushroom season.  Critic approached some mushroomeers to ask how the season’s shaping up. Read more...