Students ‘Heart-Broken’ After Fortune Theatre Shuts Down

Posted 8:59pm Saturday 5th May 2018

Students expressed their sadness last week as the Fortune Theatre, Dunedin’s only professional theatre, closed permanently, as it was no longer financially viable. The theatre will cancel all its current and future shows, and close its facilities to outside groups.  “We have Read more...

Quality of Fake Hyde Street Bands Catches Security By Surprise

Posted 2:34am Monday 30th April 2018

Fraudsters and shucksters stepped up their game for this year’s Hyde Street, as fake wristbands saw a level of professionalism never before seen. Event staff said that several of the wristbands scanned over the course of the day all showed up as the same female second year law student, Read more...

Pharmacy Students “Mucked Around” by Bus Company

Posted 2:30am Monday 30th April 2018

The Pharmacy Students’ Association (NZAPS-O) has been fucked over by a bus company while trying to attend their annual Pharmacy Camp. In February this year NZAPS-O chartered Ritchie’s Bus Service to take 120 students to Pharmacy Camp. Laura Pidcock, the NZAPS-O President, confirmed Read more...

The Week the ODT Blurred a Naughty Word

Posted 2:25am Monday 30th April 2018

We’ve got an ODT classic to start this week off   Reporting on things not happening is quintessential ODT.     Then, a gem from the ‘Secondary Scene’ section, where the ODT features essays from high schoolers because they can’t be bothered Read more...

Proctor Tries to Shut Down Student Party, Fails

Posted 8:56pm Thursday 19th April 2018

A student-run party to raise money for the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital went ahead last week despite the Proctor’s attempts to shut it down. Pedro, one of the organisers, told Critic that he went to see the Proctor to gain the University’s approval for the party, and that the Proctor Read more...

Recreation Officer’s Re-Created Report Accepted

Posted 8:31pm Thursday 19th April 2018

Success! Josh Smythe, OUSA Re-Creation Officer, has had his quarterly report passed, granting him his honorarium for the first quarter. Josh’s report, which was covered in Critic #6, was dedicated to “the breathas and the homies,” insisted on listing his title as Re-Creation Read more...

Burglars hit Hyde Street

Posted 8:28pm Thursday 19th April 2018

Hyde Street resident Sam Gallagher, says he is “pissed” after having a Playstation 4 and an Xbox One stolen from his flat. After “a big night” out on the piss, he got home and went to bed, but couldn’t sleep because he “accidentally drank pre-workout Read more...

OUSA Lobby for More Seats on University Council

Posted 8:19pm Thursday 19th April 2018

OUSA have drafted a submission lobbying the government to increase the number of student seats on the University Council. There is only one seat currently reserved for a student, held by the OUSA President. Sam Smith, OUSA Finance Officer, said that only having one student is “not adequate Read more...

ODT Watch | The Week the ODT Correctly Identified a Cucumber

Posted 6:22pm Thursday 19th April 2018

To start this week the ODT are pondering a question   Simple: Presbyterians, Vegetarians, Finns and anyone whose surname includes the letter J. But nobody else!     Next, the ODT forgot the difference between past and present tense   It “was” to Read more...

President’s Pet Fish Murdered in Brutal Homicidal Rampage

Posted 5:47pm Thursday 19th April 2018

OUSA President Caitlin Barlow-Groome has been in mourning this past week after her beloved pet fish were eaten alive by her flatmate’s friend. The gruesome mouthal assault occurred after her flatmate and his friend had been drinking alcohol and perhaps swearing. The friend menacingly plucked Read more...