Editorial | Issue 26

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 6th October 2013

So here’s the last issue of the year! Oh golly gosh, I have so many people to thank! I’d like to thank my mum and dad, for raising me to be the editor I am today. They were so proud when I delayed entering the workforce to take on an eternally Google-able, man-child job involving prodigious Read more...

Interview: Francisco Hernandez

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 6th October 2013

OUSA President Francisco Hernandez will soon leave the association after three years on the Executive. In that time he has revolutionised student politics, producing groundbreaking campaign videos (“Frangnam Style”), conducting “ironically terrible” interviews on national television (TV3’s Read more...

SOULS Buys Penance for Their Sins

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 29th September 2013

The Society of Otago University Law Students (SOULS) has made a donation to Women’s Refuge, and in future will run Law Revue scripts past Dean of Law Professor Mark Henaghan, after this year’s Revue was slammed as offensive to women and minorities. Prof Henaghan told Critic that “there were Read more...

Editorial | Issue 25

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 29th September 2013

Voting is now open for the OUSA elections, and we have an interesting three-way battle for the top spot. I say “interesting”; in reality it’s a little depressing. If I could have picked two ideal Presidential candidates from the current Exec, it would have been Blake Luff (the Recreation Read more...

Governance Review Shockingly Fails to Deliver

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013

OUSA’s Governance and Representation Review is now “not necessarily” expected to be complete by the end of the year, says OUSA President Francisco Hernandez. Hernandez told Critic that since recommendations made by the Governance and Representation Review Working Party (the Fun Party) “would Read more...

Constitution in Tatters

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013

Both of OUSA President Francisco Hernandez’s referendum questions may prove invalid, after one was ambiguous and the other improperly presented. Hernandez’s question “Should the Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) adopt a Single Transferrable Voting (STV) system for its elections?” Read more...

Editorial | Issue 24

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013

This week is our politics issue. My sincerest apologies. We now have a brand-new “leader” of the “opposition,” who may or may not prove competent enough for us to drop the quotation marks to which we’ve become accustomed in recent times. David Cunliffe’s had an interesting couple of years – Read more...

Execrable | Issue 23

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013

No scandalous revelations this week, folks. This week, all you get is the collapse of drawn-out, politically contentious OUSA project; Budget 2014; a referendum we’ve been waiting for years to hold; a proposal to change OUSA’s voting system at elections; and a laughable attempt by Fran to Read more...

Hernandez: “I Am Not A Bitch”

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013

OUSA has firmly denied that the University of Otago attempted to strong-arm the association out of purchasing the Cook or any other North Dunedin pub, after concerns to that effect were raised in an OUSA Executive meeting on 3 September. OUSA currently receives around three-quarters of its Read more...

Editorial | Issue 22

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013

The University has been waging a long-standing war on alcohol consumption among students. In recent years we’ve seen the death of the Cook, the Toga Parade, the Bowler, Gardies, the Undie 500, Two Beers, Backstage, the Cookathon, the Albert Arms, and couch burning. Following revelations that the Uni Read more...