Where Does All My Data Go?
A Critical, In Depth Investigation into the Soup Habits of the New Zealand Grindr Community
Delivereasy Statistics Reveal Dunedin’s Food Delivery Diagnosis
A fifteen minute walk in the cold versus experiencing the full offerings of Fatty Lane from bed for a $5 delivery fee – this choice is becoming shamefully easy. Kiwi-owned delivery platform, Delivereasy, has recently shed light upon customer statistics, revealing the tendency for tauira across the country to opt in for convenience and out of in-person interaction. Delivereasy goes beyond just the convenience of food delivery. As put by...Possums? We Don’t Know Her
The Otago Peninsula was declared possum free in March, making it one of the first inhabited landscape-scale areas in Aotearoa to successfully eliminate the pest. Critic Te Ārohi reached out to Chris Arnison, Community Coordinator and Operations Director of the Otago Peninsula Biodiversity Group, to tell us the story. The Otago Peninsula Biodiversity Group (OPBG) was first started in 2008 by locals sick of the possum problem. It began as a...Strait Talk: What’s Actually Going On in Hormuz?
With TikTok explainers flying around and group chats spiralling, Critic Te Ārohi went straight to Professor Robert Patman to make sense of the escalating situation in the Strait of Hormuz. Patman, a Professor in the University of Otago’s Politics Department, specialises in international relations, global security, and US foreign policy. We asked him to explain the crisis in plain terms and what it actually means for students here in...People of Hyde
Hyde Street Party is the best day of the year for any self respecting Otago student. Hyde Street Party has become a sacred tradition of the student body. The thrill of putting your flatmates names in the lottery, hoping to receive that blessed email saying “YOU’RE GOING TO THE HYDE STREET PARTY.” It's the kind of email that gets screenshotted and sent to the group chat faster than a breatha cums from behind, and is...‘Dunedin Herald’ Taking Shit Posting to the Next Level
The Dunedin Herald is a new satirical Instagram account, self-described as “our most special city’s most trusted news”. Despite being only six days old at time of writing, they’ve gained over 1400 followers. Although the student behind the account wanted to remain anonymous for “a little bit longer”, even to Critic Te Ārohi (um, rude), they were more than happy to answer a few questions about their rise in...Student Wellbeing Hub is (Officially) Open
Two years after announcing that Te Pou Whirinaki (the Wellbeing Hub) would take the place of the old Campus South stationary shop, Vice-Chancellor Grant Robertson, and National Party Minister for...
From the Pātaka
The semester has properly settled into its pace now. Calendars are filling, deadlines are approaching, and the whare is rarely quiet. Before things tighten up even more, we are back in the pātaka, clearing the shelves and checking what has been happening...
Editorial: 32 Pages and Hustle Culture
Christmas has come early for you lot, because I’m pleased to announce on behalf of the Critic Te Ārohi team that the mag will shift to printing 32-pages per week, effective semester 2. The...
Local Produce: Rheumy
Rheumy are a self-described “kosmiche noise group” who materialised into Ōtepoti’s music scene in early 2025. The trio create compositions that can be difficult to pin down with descriptions — the music is somehow free-form yet...
Execrable: Written Warning, MoU and Political Planning
Celebrating 4/20 likely in a different way to most students, the OUSA Exec still managed to push their fortnightly meeting up to a...
OUSA Exec: Kamesha Jones
I spend far too much time on Instagram reels. It’s true – though I wish it wasn’t. And while I’ve now cut myself off from the addictive political whirlpool run by an ‘unbiased algorithm’, it is truly hard to escape from...
Proctology – 30
Critic Te Ārohi was a little uncertain about whether the Proctor would be keen to meet once again, given our artistic interpretation of him. However, despite him thinking that the Proctology column would have “no readership interest” and be...
Horoscopes: Issue 9 2026
Aries You're gonna go to a pub quiz this week, and feel like an absolute genius when you get the most random question right. Watch out though, cause at the rate you're drinking, you're going to wake up with the fattest hangover in history on a...
Booze Review: The 5 Dessert-ish Beers
Sup pissers and shitters! This isn’t your typical review. We couldn’t remember what we thought of the drinks from Hyde, so we dragged our dusty rears through New World's health and...
Moaningful Confessions: Truck Stop Tinder
At the end of the academic year, one must take stock. Papers passed: 7. Extra-curriculars: doing them. Friends made: heaps. Huzz: 0. A big, fat, embarrassing zero. After the last few students trickled...
