MASSIVE FRAUD! UNIVERSITIES LIE!

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Callum Fredric

Playas gon’ play. The Tertiary Education Union has accused New Zealand’s universities of using dodgy (but legal) tactics to push themselves up the national rankings table. The Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) is a complicated system for allocating funding to universities based on the Read more...

OUSA sells Unipol shares for cash monies

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

OUSA no longer has a stake in Unipol, after selling the last of its shares to the University last week. OUSA will be paid $296,000 for its shares, and receive a settlement return of $370,000 from a loan dating back to the 1980s, putting the total amount that OUSA will receive at $666k. When Critic Read more...

Scarfies Give Street a Hyding

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

Everyone’s favourite keg party took place Saturday March 24. Critic, along with 6,000 other partygoers, was there covering the drunkenness and debauchery. The goodProving to John Key that students do occasionally get out of bed before 7.30 at night, a raucous though mostly friendly crew of Read more...

Hyde Street Galvanises Fun Police

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Gus Gawn

Battle lines have been drawn over the much-publicised North Dunedin Liquor Ban proposed by the DCC. The liquor ban proposal has been sitting on the table since the beginning of the year. The council’s initial proposal was debated heatedly on campus early in the semester but it seemed to sit Read more...

University deals with disaster

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Margot Taylor

The University seems to have disaster on the mind, with assessment and construction underway to address the risk of earthquakes and floods. A year after the devastating 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, Otago’s Christchurch campus, which houses the School of Medicine, is undergoing repairs, Read more...

Edgar shits on rights abuse claims

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

OUSA President Logan Edgar appeared in two hard-hitting interviews last week. The first took place on Breakfast on Tuesday March 20. Veteran journalist Corin Dann challenged Edgar on OUSA’s current student enrolment procedures, which allow the student association to skim cheekily above legal Read more...

Critic loses porn access / reason to live

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Gus Gawn

Students will no longer have access to websites deemed “objectionable” by the University’s IT services. In addition to preventing acess to pornography and sex advice, finding lulz has also been hindered by the policy. Critic was first alerted to the change after attempts to access morally Read more...

Dunedin "100% Likely" to Suffer Catastrophic Earthquake by 2012

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Callum Fredric

The University is spending $50m to upgrade its buildings over the next seven years, in order to reduce the buildings’ vulnerability to earthquakes. A top-secret forum, off-limits to students and the media, was held last Tuesday March 6 in the College of Education Auditorium, in order to Read more...

University Entices Students With Stolen Gym

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Gus Gawn

The Otago University has still not had to pay for the University Plaza building located in front of the stadium, despite using it since the start of the year. The Unipol recreation complex has been open since mid-January and has had massive numbers of students from the University and Read more...

Skateboarders unable to read minds

Posted 4:53pm Sunday 4th March 2012 by Gregor Whyte

Property Services have announced that they will release a new Cycling and Skateboard policy later this year, with the intention of addressing several areas of concern for campus users. The policy will include maps showing cycle routes, an update of the current “open” bike racks on campus, and Read more...