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The Official Dunner Lover Test

Posted 8:31am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Nina Brown

Find out where you rate on the scale from loveless hermit to hopeless romantic. In the pursuit of a crush or during a courtship, have you ever… Used dating apps? Deleted dating apps for them? Stalked their mum's Facebook for pictures of them? Gone through their tagged Read more...

Opinion: She’s Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl(friend), She Has ADHD

Posted 11:16am Saturday 5th October 2024 by Jodie Evans

The manic pixie dream girl doesn’t do small talk, only enigmatic discussions about the universe and its infinite possibilities. She stargazes from abandoned rooftops, sings out loud in the supermarket, and writes poetry on bathroom stalls. Her love language is dancing barefoot in the rain. She Read more...

More Gum Than a Wrigley’s Factory: Southern Sounds Reviewed

Posted 5:38pm Saturday 28th September 2024 by Hanna Varrs

Start to finish, baby. Critic Te Ārohi set off to review Southern Sounds from 2pm to 10pm – the full ride. This review was collated from a series of voice memos, videos, photos, and interviews with the few punters we convinced to speak to us.  “Buckle up Dunners,” Read more...

Will It Frisbee: A Critic Te Ārohi Experiment

Posted 4:38pm Saturday 28th September 2024 by Sam Smith-Soppet

Abstract Ever found yourself zoning out staring at an object, wondering how far you could throw it? Yeah, that. Welcome to Critic Does Sport: Frisbee Edition.  Introduction We assembled the Uni’s best and brightest (your bona fide ranga reporter and our only friend who can throw Read more...

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...