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Run Club Tinder

Posted 4:34pm Saturday 28th September 2024 by Jodie Evans

If your Instagram feed is full of Lulu-clad twenty-somethings dashing around Dunedin’s streets at the crack of fucking dawn, you’re not the only one. Run clubs are cropping up everywhere. Hailed by loyalists as an energising route to meeting others in the running community, there are now Read more...

Flat Fungi: Peziza? Do you mean pizza?

Posted 8:22pm Sunday 22nd September 2024 by Imogen Harris

A second-year 6-man Dundas flat has made the alarming discovery of a large rubbery mushroom sprouting from their carpet. What is it? Is it delicious or poisonous? Friend or foe? And what does it mean for the state of their flat? Critic Te Ārohi consults a Botany student to find Read more...

The Great Annual Critic Bar Review

Posted 8:18pm Sunday 22nd September 2024 by Nina Brown

Critic Te Ārohi once again pitted local bars against each other in our annual review. We chose sixteen heavy-hitters and put them to a vote in four rounds of polls on Critic’s Instagram story – democracy at its finest. After a nail-biting semi-final between last year’s champ Read more...

OUSA Student Support: Asking for a Friend

Posted 8:15pm Sunday 22nd September 2024 by OUSA Student Support

Student life isn’t always easy. For OUSA Mental Health and Well-being Week, Student Support answers your questions with advice on everything from how to deal with loneliness to giving a woman an orgasm.  You can find OUSA Student Support at 262 Leith Walk behind the purple door for Read more...

Ngā Wai-hono-i-te-pō and the Kīngitanga Movement

Posted 4:26am Monday 16th September 2024 by Molly Smith-Soppet

Shockwaves reverberated through the motu on Friday, August 30th, as Aotearoa learned of the passing of Kīngi Tūheitia Pōtatou Te Wherowhero VII, the Māori King. Less than a week later, the Kīngitanga named its new leader: Te Arikinui Kuīni Ngā Read more...

The Plastics: “So if you’re Māori, why are you white?”

Posted 4:06am Monday 16th September 2024 by Jack Ruddenklau

White Māori. Fake Māori. Plastic Māori. If you’re Māori, chances are you’ve heard these labels thrown around at some point – whether it’s a poke at your pale skin, your lack of fluency in te reo Māori, or even an aversion to kaimoana. You may have Read more...

Opinion: What the Fuck Happens Post Panic Masters?

Posted 5:20pm Saturday 7th September 2024 by Madeline O’Leary

For the first 24 years of my life, school was the centre of my universe. First it was primary, then settling (somewhat) into high school, working hard to get into uni, and being set free upon Dunedin as a fresh-faced 18-year-old. Well, as free as St Marg’s allowed anyway. My entire life had Read more...

New Zealand Young Writers Fest: Nau Mai, Haere Mai

Posted 5:16pm Saturday 7th September 2024 by Jamiema Lorimer

Young writers from across Aotearoa, of all writing forms and backgrounds, are coming together in Ōtepoti this weekend for the New Zealand Young Writers Festival. With accessibility at the core of the festival’s kaupapa, all events are free to attend. These events showcase talent and Read more...

Ethical Gossiping: A guide to keeping it clean and not too mean

Posted 4:57pm Saturday 7th September 2024 by Molly Smith-Soppet

Gossip gets a bad rap. It’s often seen as hurtful, harmful and unnecessary. And sure, sometimes a simple “Did you hear…” turns a flatmate into your new campus opp or sends a relationship to its early grave. But not all gossip was created equal and there’s a right and Read more...

Queer Eye for the Gym (Non)Guy: A Beginner’s Guide to the Gym

Posted 7:30pm Sunday 25th August 2024 by Madeline O’Leary

The gym used to fucking terrify me as a gender non-conforming AFAB (assigned female at birth) and proudly masc lesbian. The weights room is every aspect of heteronormative, patriarchal society funnelled into one space: sweaty men, an open space where you can be perceived from every angle, and even Read more...

Opinion: Just Call Me a Slur

Posted 7:04pm Sunday 25th August 2024 by Monty O’Rielly

Content warning: This article discusses queerphobia, including slur calling, microaggressions, and misgendering. If you’re not in a headspace to read this, that’s fine! Read some of the other great articles this week, we understand :) Just about every queer person will have this Read more...

What Queer Stereotype Are You?

Posted 6:32pm Sunday 25th August 2024 by Gryffin Blockley

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...

The Rise and Revitalization of Gay Pop, and why it matters so much

Posted 6:21pm Sunday 25th August 2024 by Madeline O’Leary

Chappell Roan, lesbian icon and pop’s newest darling, said in a recent The Jimmy Fallon show appearance that the inspiration behind her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (coincidentally the inspiration of our cover) was that “I just wanted to make something I could Read more...

Opinion: In Defence of BookTok

Posted 5:45pm Saturday 17th August 2024 by Ellie Bennett

As an English major, I am entirely qualified to be the type of person who shits on other people for what they choose to read; to be the type of person who sees BookTok as encouraging ‘the wrong kind of reading’. But I don’t. My decision to major in English stemmed from a love of Read more...

i wrote a diss poem about drunk freshers

Posted 5:24pm Saturday 17th August 2024 by Matilda Rumball-Smith

to the fresher in subs,  i’ve forgotten your name.  there’s a certain predictability to thursday night bottom shelf wine sprays the room pink crushed cans bloom metallica  fresher frenzy emerges clockwork with each drink the savagery of subs makes horrible Read more...

Critic Te Ārohi’s Guide to Arts and Crafts

Posted 5:09pm Saturday 17th August 2024 by Molly Smith-Soppet

Are you sick of your weekends and evenings being filled with despair and boredom? A new hobby or fun flat activity is a good way to build connections with others and yourself. Take this quiz and find out which Critic-approved activities you and your friends should get amongst. Turns out getting your Read more...

Ōtepoti Self-Guided Art Tour

Posted 12:41pm Monday 12th August 2024 by Critic

1. 30 Octagon  Hours: 10am – 5pm Daily   One of New Zealand’s four major metropolitan art galleries, DPAG was NZ’s first gallery opened in 1884. They house a massive collection of Kiwi artworks, and have many current exhibitions on display.   2. Read more...

Flipped Off: Fighting Internet Addiction with a Nokia Phone

Posted 11:23pm Saturday 10th August 2024 by Madeline O’Leary

Screen addiction. Information overload. Brain rot. Terms that, if you’ve spent any time online, you’re probably familiar with. And, if you’re like me, terms that are probably pretty applicable. It’s not unusual for me to spend upwards of ten hours on my phone per day. Read more...

An Ode to the Frontal Lobe

Posted 11:14pm Saturday 10th August 2024 by Jodie Evans

Twenty-five. A quarter of a century. That age when all your mates stop binge drinking every weekend, and take up running half marathons and crocheting instead. When you begin to feel out of place in the Pint Night line, but are officially safe from Leonardo DiCaprio. And now, according to TikTok, Read more...

Ōtepoti Venue Guide

Posted 3:49pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Jordan Irvine

Many a night, students turn to the tried and true options of a good time. You either end up at Subs (again) or stay at home watching 123Movies because you don’t have Disney+ (again). Sure, these are the staples of a Saturday night for a reason, but going to live music gigs can be just as fun, Read more...