Totally Execrable

Posted 11:11am Sunday 9th April 2017 by Joe Higham

This week there were discussions about grants policy, committee reports, and the clubs council amongst other things, but Critic doesn’t want to distract from the calamitous events outlined below by discussing these other issues. We promise you you’re not missing anything Read more...

Former OUSA President Creates Community Project On Albany St, All Welcome

Posted 11:21am Sunday 9th April 2017 by Anna Linton

Former OUSA President 1979-1980, and local activist, Paul ‘ the Governor’ Gourlie is preparing to launch a community project intended to teach entrepreneurship and tether stronger relations between the town (Dunedin City) and the gown (Otago University). ‘Aotea Peace Read more...

Academics Issue Open Letter in Defence of Free Speech

Posted 11:25am Sunday 9th April 2017 by Zahra Shahtahmasebi

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Sweeping Aside the Opposition

Posted 11:31am Sunday 9th April 2017 by Charlie Hantler

On the back of a strong domestic season with both Otago and Derbyshire on the English County circuit, one of our favourites Neil Broom earned a recall to the Black Caps. He came out firing, with scores of 22, 109*, and 97 in the three ODIs against Bangladesh, to average 114 for the series, before Read more...

Outpost of Empire: The Far Right in New Zealand Up to the 1920s

Posted 11:40am Sunday 9th April 2017 by Tyler West

For the most part, New Zealand has missed the kinds of ultra-reactionary mass movements that typified fascist, and otherwise hardline nationalist, politics during periods of crisis in other countries. Classical fascist movements, or contemporary populist chauvinism (such as, say, Read more...

Behind the Scenes at Hyde Street

Posted 10:47am Sunday 9th April 2017 by Joe Higham

If you want the raw statistics from Hyde Street, you’ll find them in this article, but you’ll also find much more about what preparations are put in place, and by whom, to make the day tick smoothly and to mitigate the disasters that have occurred in the past. The average attendee was a Read more...

University Working with OUSA To Address Sexual Harm

Posted 10:41am Sunday 2nd April 2017 by Joel MacManus

The University of Otago has taken a major step to address the issue of sexual harm among students, establishing the working group called Sexual Harm and Assault Response and Evaluation (SHARE). The aim of the group is to “investigate a co-ordinated response to any future reports of sexualised Read more...

Keeping tabs on the Exec

Posted 10:31am Sunday 2nd April 2017 by Joe Higham

The executive began by formally disaffiliated the Otago University Dive Club and proposed giving the entirety of their diving gear to the Otago University Spearfishing Club. Education Officer Bryn Jenkins reminded the group that doing that doing so could create difficulty in future if the Dive Club Read more...

Absence of Students the Reason Dunedin Won’t Host 2018 Sevens

Posted 10:46am Sunday 2nd April 2017 by Joe Higham

Speculation had been growing that either Hamilton or Dunedin would become the new hosts for the New Zealand leg of the HSBC World Sevens Series, however that was soon dismissed when the event’s dates were not able to be aligned with the university year, meaning students would not be in town to Read more...

Financial Position of PE School “Not sustainable” ­ —Pro-Vice Chancellor

Posted 10:48am Sunday 2nd April 2017 by Joel MacManus

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