Where the Hell are all these Wasps Coming From?

Posted 2:47pm Sunday 27th February 2022

Wasp populations are at their yearly high, and students have reported fear, frustration and an “absolute fuck-ton” of the stinging insects around town. Critic Te Arohi reached out to the Zoology Department to get to the bottom of this. The short answer is simple: wasp colonies follow Read more...

New VC Just Dropped

Posted 2:31pm Sunday 27th February 2022

David is your new Vice Chancellor, sort of like the Uni’s CEO. He’s an infectious disease expert, a guitar-maker, and a very kind man who looks a bit like a more scholastic Colonel Sanders. Critic recently sat down with David to give him a quick vibe check, which he passed with flying Read more...

EDITORIAL: If we had student bars, I bet there’d be less news about party breaches

Posted 2:27pm Sunday 27th February 2022

There is no student bar this year. That’s a first for Dunedin, as far as I can tell.  See, student bars are like whales. In the mid 1800’s, Pākehā settlers set up shop on the peninsula and hunted migrant whales by the boatload until they learned to avoid Dunedin. By the Read more...

Student Makes the Big Screen

Posted 12:52pm Friday 28th January 2022

At least one student has made it into the cast (but not the credits) of The Royal Treatment, the Netflix movie filmed in Dunedin last year.   It was dark in the room where Critic met with Reid. He sat at a laptop, watching and re-watching an eight second clip of The Royal Treatment. In Read more...

LadBible Reports On OUSA’s Blues and Golds

Posted 8:43am Sunday 10th October 2021

OUSA’s Blues and Golds awards are “in recognition of the sporting, cultural and service achievements of current University of Otago students,” said still-president Michaela Waite-Harvey. This year, Laurel Hubbard took home Best Sportswoman. Strangers on the internet, who Read more...

Australian Unis Mandate Vaccines on Campus

Posted 4:08pm Friday 1st October 2021

Two Australian universities mandated last week that all students, staff and workers on campus be fully vaccinated. La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne were the first to require this, with Melbourne requiring everyone on campus to be vaccinated from November 5.  Otago Read more...

OUSA Dog Is The Sixth Best Dog with a Job

Posted 3:59pm Friday 1st October 2021

Ella, who works for OUSA Student Support, placed sixth in New Zealand's Top Dog with a Job contest. There were 402 entries this year for the overall contest, up 67% from 2020. Student support said, “firstly, we would like to congratulate all of the pups who were nominated and give an Read more...

New Residency Pathway Excludes Upcoming International Graduates

Posted 3:33pm Friday 1st October 2021

International students about to graduate from the Uni will just miss the deadline for an exciting new residency visa application. Those who graduated before September 29 2021 will be eligible. Many international students began a degree this year as a means of staying in New Zealand. Upon Read more...

Erections Continue at New College

Posted 3:30pm Friday 1st October 2021

There’s a new residential college going up by Emerson’s brewery, in case you’ve been wondering what all the dramatic scaffolding is for. Te Rangihīroa College is set to be operational by semester two, 2023. Chief Operating Officer Stephen Willis told Critic that the college Read more...

One-Way George Street: Worse than Hiroshima?

Posted 3:12pm Friday 1st October 2021

The DCC voted last week to make George Street a 10km/hour one-way system. Predictably, the move was met with mixed reviews. The Dunedin News Facebook page was, as always, ripe with all sorts of colourful comments, including ones that likened the change to the bombing of Hiroshima. Here are some of Read more...