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It’s difficult to know what else lies behind the big green door of our OUSA overlords (exec). Love? Gossip? Rivalry? Sex? Murder? Armed with a pen, a notepad, and explicit orders from the editor to source a tabloid-worthy insider scoop, Critic Te Ārohi’s News Editor went to find out
Grant Robertson was spotted on campus recently, spending a week acquainting himself with the University and the people within. A select few were lucky enough to meet the soon-to-be-VC for a lunch date, telling Critic Te Ārohi they felt privileged to be fit into a schedule that was allegedly
A bureaucratic nightmare of 32,211 words Nobody set the minimum page count of the Exec’s second quarterly reports of 2021 at seven pages, but they chose to write that much, anyway. We read through all of them to let you know who’s doing what. Points were given exclusively for brevity, because that’s the only thing we can appreciate at this point in the year. It’s not that this stuff isn’t important, it’s just long and filled with acronyms. Haha words go brrrr. 1. Melissa Lama, President of the University of Otago Pacific Islands Students’ Association (UOPISA), 2,004 words. Vibe...
Students are outraged after a four-page long complaint about wellbeing, workload and mental health to the Biosciences Unitu page was met with advice telling students they will still be a success even if they “walk away from their degree right now”. The comments come from Education Officer Ashley Slanina-Davies, who served as Education Officer until 2020. She also played the role of Amy Barnes in the soap opera Hollyoaks for 12 years, until 2017. The complaint called for staff to stop “patronising” students with “meaningless” responses about the “unprecedented nature” of the pa...