Editorial: Vote ‘Yes’ to Sexy Garfield
Posted 2:55pm Sunday 19th May 2024
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The OUSA referendum is coming up. Referendums are essentially one of the biggest ways students can influence the policies and stance of OUSA. Not that any of you noticed, but a couple weeks ago the OUSA exec were inviting students to submit questions that will be put to the student body on May 27th Read more...
Frontiers of Scarfiedom: The Legacy of the Capping Cult
Posted 4:33pm Saturday 11th May 2024
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Now in its 130th year, the Capping Show is a time capsule of the ever-evolving Otago University student culture. To recap Capping – and reuse a joke that Critic has made time and again in our 99 years writing about it – what began as a 19th century flash mob of sorts during graduation Read more...
Editorial: Popping My Capping Cherry
Posted 4:24pm Saturday 11th May 2024
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Let’s get this out of the way: I’ve never been to the Capping Show. After talking to cappers for this issue, though, that’s something I really regret. The Capping Show has been around for 130 years. It’s soldiered on through world wars, pandemics, and 33 seasons of Read more...
Mud Wrestling Warms Queen St Flat
Posted 7:57pm Sunday 5th May 2024
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A Queen Street flat has elevated the flat warming game after holding a WWE-esque mud wrestling match to a cheering crowd of about 40 on Saturday, April 27. A couple days later, Critic Te Ārohi sat down with the brains and brawn of the event, fourth-years Ben and Robbie, for the inside Read more...
Editorial: The new logo DOESN’T look like bananas
Posted 7:40pm Sunday 5th May 2024
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The Uni launched its new brand last week. Predictably, with the news came a parade of trolls snarling and gnashing their teeth at the “woke” and “tokenistic” new tohu (symbol) and ikoa Māori (name). The usual protocol would be to sit back and let them tire themselves out Read more...
Otago Uni Launches New Brand
Posted 11:27am Wednesday 1st May 2024
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Otago University officially launched its new brand at a dawn ceremony last Wednesday morning on May 1st, unveiling the new tohu (symbol) and reo Māori name Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka on the St Dave’s plinth to a crowd of around 300. The event had a number of speakers from the Uni and Read more...
Editorial: 2-in-1 Shampoo and Conditioner Isn’t An Ick
Posted 9:13pm Friday 26th April 2024
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This could end up being a shit yarn, but you’re lucky – all five of you who read the editorial – that there’s one at all given it was written through post-Hyde fog. Anyway, here’s why 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner isn’t an ick. Last year, for Anna’s Read more...
Dusty Laps for Life
Posted 8:05pm Sunday 21st April 2024
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Suicide prevention trust ‘Life Matters’ hosted Laps for Life at North Grounds on Sunday, April 14. Fuelled by the sausage sizzle, the crowd of 200 yellow-dressed attendees cumulatively ran 1,954 km (over the length of Aotearoa) eclipsing the original goal of 365 km before lunchtime. Read more...
Te Araroa: An Unexpected Journey
Posted 8:02pm Sunday 21st April 2024
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Te Araroa, though not officially one of Aotearoa’s 10 Great Walks, is arguably the greatest of them all. Translating to ‘The Long Pathway’, the trail spans 3000 km and traverses the entire length of the country, taking walkers through beaches, forests, country, and Read more...
Editorial: Touch Some Grass
Posted 4:55pm Sunday 21st April 2024
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We’re all saying it: winter is coming, and with it the winter blues. Soon enough it’ll have all of us in its clutches once more as we wallow in the sunless pit of North Dunedin. There are all kinds of things that are recommended to help you cope. My advice? Just touch some Read more...
Nina Brown
Editor