Campus’ Summer Glow-Up

Posted 8:05pm Sunday 2nd March 2025

The University campus is like your one friend who actually hit the gym this summer and achieved their long-promised summer glow-up. Auahi Ora, Burns lecture theatres, Arana College, and OUSA’s Clubs and Socs are some of the spaces to receive a much-needed cash injection and a fresh lick of Read more...

Debatable: Chasers: Yay or Nay?

Posted 4:31pm Sunday 2nd March 2025

Chasers: Yay First of all, just because you want to have a chaser doesn’t mean that you can’t handle a shot at all. Let’s dispel that common myth. Pres are meant to be a wholesome experience; if there’s a way to decrease the grossness, why not go for it?  Nights Read more...

Te Huinga Tauira, Debriefed

Posted 4:38am Monday 16th September 2024

Te Rōpū Māori sent a delegation of tauira to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in the last week of August – not only to escape the Dunedin winter, but also for Te Huinga Tauira, the annual national Māori students’ conference. Māori tertiary students’ Read more...

NZ Energy Crisis May Affect Power Bills

Posted 7:12pm Sunday 25th August 2024

If you’ve been having a nosey at the news (outside Critic, how dare you) in the last few weeks, phrases like “energy crisis” or “tight supply conditions” have been chucked around. The main gist of the issue is that wholesale power prices have risen above retail prices. Read more...

What Queer Stereotype Are You?

Posted 6:32pm Sunday 25th August 2024

Grab your carabiners and flex those limp wrists! In honour of the Queer Issue, Critic Te Ārohi can look through its crystal ball and determine which mish-mash of gay stereotypes you are.  For each question you’ll get a stereotype. Put it together at the end to get your unique Read more...

Problems Reported at Award-Winning Te Rangihīroa College

Posted 11:47pm Saturday 10th August 2024

Te Rangihīroa College had a rocky start at the beginning of the year, flooding mere 24 hours into its first full-time residents moving in. It has now been alleged to Critic Te Ārohi by multiple sources that the flooding was the first of other issues. The hall, which is the Read more...

Youths Get Crafty For Palestine

Posted 3:31pm Sunday 4th August 2024

Crochet and fundraising are quite possibly the two most wholesome things you could pair together. Luckily for Aotearoa, the Crochet for Palestine raffle means you can experience just this in the next few weeks. For just five bucks a pop, you can enter the raffle, closing August 11th. Critic Te Read more...

‘The Dairy’ Back on the Market

Posted 8:42pm Sunday 28th July 2024

Grab your dehumidifiers and dustiest mates, notorious Castle Street flat The Dairy is available to rent in 2025. After a year or two of sitting unoccupied, the infamous six-bedroom flat is up for grabs for $150 a week, a price that’s been labelled “expensive” by a previous tenant Read more...

Shrexy U-Bar Kicks off Re-Ori

Posted 4:17pm Saturday 20th July 2024

After U-Bar was SWAMPED with closure for much of the second half of first semester (cue wails from Pint Night loyalists), its semester two debut was OUSA’s very own Shrek rave – presented by yours truly.  Boasting free entry and complimentary glow sticks – potentially in a Read more...

Closed Caption Lectures (Hopefully) A Step Closer

Posted 4:15pm Saturday 20th July 2024

In a win for accessibility and people who swear they can’t hear without subtitles, closed-captions in lectures appear to be getting closer to reality for Otago tauira. Last week, all students were emailed a link for surveys inviting them to give feedback on a policy proposed by the OUSA Exec Read more...