On-License Opposed for Yet Another Dunedin Venue

Posted 4:50pm Sunday 6th April 2014

Yet another popular Dunedin venue is risking closure after its on-licence expired and a new application was opposed by the Police and the Medical Officer of Health. Popular music venue Queens Bar at Queens Garden will face a hearing before the Dunedin District Licencing Committee on 11 April where Read more...

Proctology

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014

Disgruntled moteliers and neighbours – and trampolines – are the latest victims of the plague of rowdy Scarfies, making this week’s Proctology look like an episode of Neighbours at War. Known to some as “The Tavern,” a student establishment in Woodhaugh has taken remembering their Read more...

Noise Complaint Met With Dignified Silence

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014

The filming of a carpet commercial at a View Street flat has incorrectly been associated with a number of noise complaints, despite the flat having a history of noise problems with neighbours. The ODT reported on Friday 14 March that the filming of a Godfrey Hirst Carpet Commercial at the Read more...

Execrable - Resignation & Donation | Issue 5

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 23rd March 2014

This week’s OUSA Executive meeting had a climatic end, with Education Officer Jordan Taylor announcing his resignation from the Executive. Critic’s last Execrable highlighted Jordan’s “sheer incompetence shown in his organising of Sex Week,” and that he was “already following a very similar pattern Read more...

No Chain Smoking for Queen

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 23rd March 2014

NORML have further questioned the boundary of the University’s Smoke-free policy by looking to an archaic property right known as the Queen’s Chain that considers riverbanks to be public property. In his repeated attempts to “break down the policy,” Otago NORML spokesman Abe Grey contacted Read more...

Red Bull Gives Red Bull,

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 23rd March 2014

Three Otago students have beat out thousands of teams from all over the world after being selected to compete in a seven-day mission across Europe using only Red Bull as currency. Red Bull Can You Make It positions 100 teams from all over the world in London, Paris, Milan and Vienna with a case of Read more...

Synthetic cannabinoids

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014

Psychoactive substances are the active ingredients in party pills, energy pills and herbal highs. They are like any other drug, with many people experiencing problems of addiction. The Psychoactive Substances Act commenced on 18 July 2013 and regulates the importation, manufacture and supply of Read more...

Proctology | Issue 04

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014

This week in Proctology saw someone set-up Campus Watch to Police – by divulging examples of the former’s “nefarious” behaviour to the latter. A woman, who locked her keys in her car on Albany Street, was attended to by Campus Watch with “some breaking-in gear” to assist her cause. The Police were Read more...

Charlotte's web of deceit found out

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 9th March 2014

A former president of the Maori Law Students’ Association has been indefinitely excluded from the University after stealing money from the Association during her presidency in 2013. Critic began investigating the incident last year but was unsuccessful in exposing the student despite fruitless Read more...

Unis to produce more skilled employees for economy

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 9th March 2014

A five-year tertiary education strategy that focuses on enabling students to leave university with skills employers want has received bipolar reviews from the TEU and the Greens. Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce last week announced the Government would focus Read more...