One Week of Volunteering

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012

The Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) is filling up their bag-o-karma with the introduction of the OUSA Volunteer Week. The programme, which ran from April 16 to April 22, was organised by OUSA alongside a separate volunteering scheme, scarfiecard. It gave students the Read more...

Proctology | Issue 6

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012

Critic was told this week of a venerable young man whose dismal attempt at self-defence landed him at the Proctor’s office. When a wasp approached the chap, he grabbed a glass bottle and threw it in an act of pre-emptive protection from the mighty beast. He soon found that the body mass of a wasp Read more...

Otago Greens Out

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012

Otago University is getting its green on with the appointment of Hilary Phipps in the role of Environmental Sustainability Co-ordinator. The creation of this brand-new role was prompted by the recommendations of a Working Party in late 2008 to promote the environmental sustainability of the Read more...

Marmite stocks depleted

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012

Marmite has disappeared off shelves all around New Zealand, four months after Sanitarium’s Christchurch factory was closed following an engineers’ report showing the building was unsafe. “Marmageddon” has ensued, resulting in rationing, mass riots and the breakdown of New Zealand society. The Read more...

Air NZ’s Cockpit Cock-Up

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012

Air New Zealand has discovered cracks near its planes’ cockpit windows, grounding 11 aircrafts and causing delays to flights in and out of Dunedin. After hairline cracks were found in one aircraft during a routine inspection, all 11 planes in the 11-year-old ATR fleet were grounded until Read more...

Proctology | Issue 4

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012

This week, the Proctor is high about Hyde. Expectations have been set for the event to be smoothly run and for the vast majority of students to thrive in the buzzing human hive known as Hyde Street Keg Party. Not wanting to expose any stories of past Hyde Street mishaps to avoid Read more...

Lamington Attacks Spark Dangerous New Trend

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012

Auckland Mayor Len Brown was attacked on March 9 by a sponge-smearing protester after a session with Auckland University students. Mr. Brown was on campus discussing the dispute between Maritime New Zealand and the Ports of Auckland Union. At the conclusion of his speech, a protester Read more...

Otago Police Watch Titanic and Panic

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012

With a growing number of cruise ships entering the Otago Harbour this year, an emergency plan is being put in place to manage any potential disaster. The number of cruise ships visiting Otago has soared over the past decade from 25 in 2003 to 80 this year, prompting the emergency plan. It Read more...

NZUSA loves flogging dead horses

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012

The New Zealand Union of Students Associations (NZUSA) has realised students are incurring debt in order to study, and have issued a press release to warn everyone about the situation, a mere 20 years after the student loan scheme was launched. In a press release dated March 6 2012, NZUSA Read more...

Burning Down the Castle

Posted 1:57pm Friday 24th February 2012

Otago students have returned to the streets of Dunedin in full force. Following an impromptu street party and several couch fires last Monday at around 10.30pm, police arrested six students involved on Castle Street. A crowd spilled out from a flat-warming and gathered around the fires, Read more...