Icy Plunge Secures $3k for Mental Health Support
Posted 7:45pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Hugh Askerud
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A second-year battler has raised $3k for mental health support after swimming in the recent New Zealand Ice Swimming Championships at Alexandra Pool on July 10-13th. Now that’s Dunedin-core. Maddy spoke to Critic Te Ārohi about the struggles of the race and her motivations for taking Read more...
Bitter Cold: The Winter Blues
Posted 3:50pm Saturday 20th July 2024 by Nina Brown
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Dunedin winters are harsh on bills, the body and the brain. The days shorten, showers lengthen, limbs stiffen, and – in the worst cases – eyes deaden. For freshers cosied up in residential halls, it’s not so bad with free heating and regular hot meals. The bitter bite of winter you Read more...
Editorial: Touch Some Grass
Posted 4:55pm Sunday 21st April 2024 by Nina Brown
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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...
Opinion: Rural Communities Should be at the Heart of the Mental Health Discussion
Posted 2:55pm Monday 15th August 2022 by Annabelle Parata Vaughan
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It’s no secret that Aotearoa faces a crippling and harrowing mental health crisis. From a young age, you’re told to ‘harden up’ or ‘suck it up’. Did you get hurt playing rugby? Toughen up and get back out there. Upset about something? Shut up and stop complaining, Read more...
What’s new? How fields of study have evolved over time
Posted 6:16pm Friday 1st April 2022 by Ruby Werry and Fox Meyer
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Time moves fast. Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that the stuff you’re being taught at Uni might not be the same stuff that was being taught 20 years ago. Plate tectonics, for example, only became a fully-fledged theory in the ’60s. That means we were on the moon before we Read more...
Report Highlights Shortfalls For Under-20s Mental Health Care
Posted 5:27pm Sunday 27th March 2022 by Denzel Chung
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Demand for mental health care among under-20s has spiked in the last two years, according to a new Government report. They were hopeful, though, that increased Government funding would soon make a bigger impact. The report, titled ‘Te Huringa: Change and Transformation’, was Read more...
ADHD Part 2: The highs and lows of prescription stimulants
Posted 2:18pm Sunday 20th March 2022 by Lotto Ramsay
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“We were on a bit of an MD bender and someone said that they had some Ritalin we could do”, Alex told Critic. “We cut up some lines and snorted it – I think we had two or three lines each – and afterwards everyone else was hyper and talking at like three hundred words a Read more...
Mental Health Awareness Whiteboard Sabotaged With Humour
Posted 4:05pm Friday 1st October 2021 by Erin Gourley
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Sometimes, as a treat, OUSA will do something with good intentions that is nonetheless destined for disaster. Setting up a whiteboard in the Link for Mental Health Awareness Week and allowing people to write whatever they choose on a Post-It note, anonymously, is one of those things. The mental Read more...
Silverline Says Consent Workshop About “Sex and Relating”
Posted 2:49pm Sunday 26th September 2021 by Denzel Chung
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Silverline, a student-led mental health initiative, has been called out for saying a sexual violence prevention workshop was about “sex and relating”. On Thursday September 16, student Kayli called attention on Twitter to a Facebook post by Silverline, promoting a Student Job Search Read more...
OUSA Supports Ban on Conversion Therapy
Posted 1:13am Saturday 11th September 2021 by Erin Gourley
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OUSA made a lengthy submission in favour of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill, which proposes to ban conversion practices (including conversion therapy) in Aotearoa. They were one of over 100,000 submissions on the Bill. The OUSA submission, written by Political Read more...
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