Memorial Trees Die After Leith Construction Work

Posted 10:01pm Thursday 27th September 2018

The Otago Regional Council has apologised after accidentally allowing two memorial trees, planted for members of staff who have passed away, to die after removing them as part of their Leith Flood Protection work. The ORC got permission from the University to remove five trees, including the two Read more...

OUSA Avoids Paying Millions in Repairs by Giving Squash Courts to University

Posted 8:31pm Thursday 20th September 2018

OUSA has decided to give their Squash Court building to the University, putting their future into question, rather than pay around $1,000,000 to do the necessary repairs on the building. According to a building review undertaken by OUSA at the start of the year, “major work” was Read more...

University Apologises After 'Total Fuckup' Prevents Postgrads From Voting

Posted 8:28pm Thursday 20th September 2018

Significant numbers of Postgrad students were prevented from voting for Postgrad Officer in the OUSA election, after the University gave incorrect enrolment information to OUSA. The University has apologised for the error.  Only postgrads can vote for the Postgrad Officer, and OUSA depends Read more...

The Week the ODT’s Opinion Section Really Outdid Itself

Posted 8:23pm Thursday 20th September 2018

To start this week, the ODT are reporting on a truly marvellous occurrence.      Because of their bad behaviour, Santa normally just skips Balclutha, Milton, and Gore, stops briefly in Invercargill to give Tim Shadbolt his present, and then goes on to Stewart Island, Read more...

The Week the ODT Yet Again Chose to Give a Racist a Platform

Posted 4:03pm Friday 14th September 2018

If you’ve ever wondered how we manage to write ODT Watch, let the ODT itself explain,     This week the ODT have tightened up on giving absolutely any clues as to an article’s contents in the headline.     [insert joke here; I’ve given Read more...

The Great Critic Debate Review Thing

Posted 3:30pm Friday 14th September 2018

Finance Bonnie Harrison and Norhan El Sanjak Norhan didn’t show up because she hadn’t finished her family file, so this was just a weird one-on-one interview.  Bonnie has a very good speaking voice. She thinks the finance officer doesn’t need that much financial Read more...

Presidential Debate Draws Biggest Crowd In Years

Posted 3:12pm Friday 14th September 2018

UBar was humming, as a crowd murmured in surprised disbelief that people had actually showed up for an OUSA presidential debate. “What is going on?” they whispered. “Does everyone think it’s pint night? Did they get the day wrong?  Yes, weirdly, people actually showed Read more...

OUSA Introduces Alternative Vote for Elections

Posted 3:03pm Friday 14th September 2018

This year OUSA is changing its voting system from First Past the Post to Alternate Vote (AV). Under AV voters rank the candidates they want instead of voting only for a single candidate.  The winning candidate has to reach over 50% of the vote to be declared the winner. If that doesn’t Read more...

Editorial: This Is Who You Should Vote for in the OUSA Elections

Posted 2:02pm Friday 14th September 2018

Editorial: Firstly, welcome to the Drugs Issue, our biggest issue of the year. The print run this week is 6,000 copies, that’s up from just over 3,000 at the start of the year, so a massive thank you to all you wonderful people for being bored enough to pick up a Critic.  It’s Read more...

Tickets Are Dead and Critic Is Claiming Full Credit

Posted 4:06pm Thursday 13th September 2018

OPINION: Not a single ticket is running for this year’s OUSA election. Critic has won its long war on OUSA election tickets and are in the process of killing all our horses, saying goodbye to the trenches and boarding the steamer for home.  In the past three years, a total of 30 OUSA Read more...