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Yes, Someone Did Take Their Cat to Central

Posted 7:09pm Sunday 6th October 2024 by Gryffin Powell

Three million views and 700,000 likes later, Serafina the cat has achieved stardom after rocking up to Central Library (if only it were that easy). A TikTok of the cat hiding in a handbag in Central Library was posted online, and has blown up with numbers Dunedin’s microinfluencer community Read more...

‘What I Was Wearing’ Exhibit Shatters Stigma & Empowers Survivors

Posted 8:11am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Jodie Evans

Student-led sexual harm prevention society, Thursdays in Black, broke down some damaging stereotypes in their powerful ‘What I Was Wearing’ exhibit on Thursday, September 26th. From 10am to 5pm in Union Hall, visitors were invited to read the stories of survivors of sexual harm, Read more...

Selwyn Gastro “Miraculously” Cured 72 Hours Before Ball

Posted 8:07am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Hugh Askerud

Selwyn College has found itself on the other side of a gastro epidemic after approximately 10-40 students contracted the virus over a two week period.  The gastro outbreak got so bad that, according to residents, “you would hear people in the bathroom just chunnying their guts Read more...

Critic Trawls Through Exec’s Third Quarter Reports

Posted 8:05am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Hugh Askerud

Think the OUSA Exec is boring? By the time you read their quarterly reports you’ll probably be thinking, “Yep, it is.” Thankfully, you don’t have to! Instead, read these summaries for all you need to know about the great political machine that keeps the uni experience ticking Read more...

Landlords Sign Flats Under Current Tenants’ Noses

Posted 7:56am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Monica Holopainen

As flat-hunting season draws to a close, multiple reports have emerged of landlords signing their flats to new groups of students without the consent of current tenants. Continuing a sad trend of illegality, the repeated events have forced students who relied on keeping their flats for the new year Read more...

Golf Breathas Raise $5k for Men’s Mental Health

Posted 7:45am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Jonathan McCabe

Six breathas have done some good in the world, raising $5,200 for charity by playing golf. The boys played 72 holes in one day (four full rounds of golf) for ‘Lads Without Labels’, a not-for-profit charity group aimed at improving the state of men’s mental health in New Zealand. Read more...

OUSA Exec Election Results Are In

Posted 7:43am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Hugh Askerud

Democracy has triumphed after a gruelling OUSA Exec election period which saw many candidates lose and many candidates win. Voting closed at 4pm last Thursday. To the usual crowd of current OUSA Exec, nominees, and a handful of Critic staff, returning officer Abby Bowman read out the results – Read more...

Initiative Encourages Students to Look on the Brightside

Posted 7:37am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Madeline O’Leary

An Otago-based research initiative called Brightside Aotearoa is looking to improve access to mental health resources for uni students across the motu. With the research confirming that, yes, Gen Z is pretty glum, they’re hoping to turn that frown upside down. Headed by Dr Charlene Rapsey, Read more...

Ōtepoti Cannabis Party “Shut Down” by Police

Posted 7:28am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Hanna Varrs

Eye witnesses have claimed that the Ōtepoti Cannabis Party were strong-armed into leaving the Link on Wednesday, September 25th, after conversations with the police. The Ōtepoti Cannabis Party had invited students with a flyer promising to “elevate [their] voting” and Read more...

Town & Gown Unite in Fight for Dunedin Hospital

Posted 11:10am Saturday 5th October 2024 by Hugh Askerud

35,000 Dunedinites marched from the Dental School to the Octagon on Saturday, September 28th in a protest to end all protests. The DCC campaign ‘They Save, We Pay’ promised to be a “rally cry” against critical cuts to the new Dunedin Hospital.  The protest came just a Read more...


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