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Inside Out? More Like Dance Your Heart Out

Posted 10:40pm Saturday 10th August 2024 by Molly Smith-Soppet

The Otago Dance Association’s annual showcase is fast-approaching, scheduled for September 28 in the College Auditorium. This year, the ODA’s exec have chosen to base the showcase on Pixar’s Inside Out, the 2015 cartoon movie applauded for its colourful depiction of the inner Read more...

Students Protest University’s Silence on Palestine

Posted 3:41pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Iris Hehir

A crowd of 100 student protesters marched from Union Lawn to the Clocktower on Tuesday, 30 July, to protest the University of Otago's continued silence on Palestine. Otago Students for Justice in Palestine (OSJP) are demanding the University declare Palestine an “independent and sovereign Read more...

Youths Get Crafty For Palestine

Posted 3:31pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Gryffin Blockley

Crochet and fundraising are quite possibly the two most wholesome things you could pair together. Luckily for Aotearoa, the Crochet for Palestine raffle means you can experience just this in the next few weeks. For just five bucks a pop, you can enter the raffle, closing August 11th. Critic Te Read more...

Big Red May Become Just ‘Big’

Posted 3:01pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Hugh Askerud

A makeover is on the cards for the iconic Big Red Castle Street flat. In a recent Trade Me listing which put the flat up for rent in 2025, DNA Property Management described big plans to make the dingy den “into a nice place to call home [...] rather than how it looks now.” To Read more...

Dunedin Sound Icon Martin Phillipps Dies at 61

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Jordan Irvine

Martin Phillipps, lead singer and songwriter of legendary Dunedin band The Chills, died unexpectedly on Sunday, July 29th. Revered as an icon for crafting the legendary New Zealand anthem ‘Pink Frost’, the singer was a beloved local figure. At age 15, Phillipps began his music career Read more...

Look After Your Mates: A Broader Reminder

Posted 2:56pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Hanna Varrs

During OUSA Student Support’s recent Winter Wellbeing Week, students may have noticed ‘Look After Your Mates’ campaign posters on campus from the OUSA Student Exec. Critic Te Ārohi spoke to OUSA Welfare and Equity Rep Tara Shepherd, who spearheaded the campaign and explained Read more...

Hayward’s Dryer Fiasco “Anarchy”

Posted 2:50pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Hugh Askerud

What’s that smell? Hayward College, according to its residents. In a letter to the editor, one student tipped Critic Te Ārohi that the hall has been left with just one functioning dryer for two months and no hot water showers for its 176 residents, welcoming a “barf-inducing B.O. Read more...

Auckland Beats Otago in Football Quarterfinals

Posted 2:47pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Robbie Heller

Chatham Cup fever struck Dunedin on Saturday, July 27, as the University Football Club took on New Zealand football powerhouse Auckland City in the quarterfinals. Held at Logan Park, it was a true David vs Goliath battle, with Auckland claiming a 5-1 win in front of a (slightly sloshed) student army Read more...

Residential Rep Resigns

Posted 2:45pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Nina Brown

The Student Exec’s Residential Rep has resigned from the position for “personal reasons.” This comes mere weeks after the former Finance and Strategy Officer also resigned from her post, with the by-election last week electing a replacement for the position. At their weekly meeting Read more...

Breatha Lands FSO Position at By-Election

Posted 2:43pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Hugh Askerud

Second-year Daniel Leamy would have had one hell of a Wednesday night after winning last week’s OUSA Finance and Strategy Officer by-election by a razor-thin five vote margin. Copping 50.74% of the votes, Daniel beat out his opponent, none other than Critic Te Arohi Bachelor Joel Tebbs, 172 Read more...

Otago Skiers Win Big at Canterbury Campus Comp

Posted 2:40pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Nina Brown

The Otago Uni Snow Sports Club (OUSSC) “brought the energy” at the annual CUBA JIB in Christchurch on Wednesday, July 24th. The Red Bull-sponsored Re-Ori event is a ski and snowboarding competition run by the Canterbury Uni Boardriders Association, held right on campus. They welcomed Read more...

U-Bar Renos Chop Green Room

Posted 2:09pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Hugh Askerud

U-Bar’s green room (where bands and their mates hang out during gigs) is no longer available for use, leaving musos and ardent Pint Night goers in despair. This comes after the bar’s recent renovations, which saw Pint Night temporarily shifted to Auahi Ora for the last handful of first Read more...

‘The Dairy’ Back on the Market

Posted 8:42pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Gryffin Blockley

Grab your dehumidifiers and dustiest mates, notorious Castle Street flat The Dairy is available to rent in 2025. After a year or two of sitting unoccupied, the infamous six-bedroom flat is up for grabs for $150 a week, a price that’s been labelled “expensive” by a previous tenant Read more...

Rob Roy Dairy Sold To New Owners

Posted 8:40pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Angus Rees

Rob Roy has been officially sold to a new owner as of July 17th. The iconic Dunedin dairy, famous for its hefty amounts of ice cream and massive cones (wheyyyy), had been up for sale since March 2nd before being purchased by new owners the Wednesday before last.  As the old guard looks to Read more...

Finance and Strategy Officer By-Election

Posted 8:35pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Critic

Following the resignation of the Finance and Strategy Officer on the OUSA student exec, there is a by-election happening to fill the position. OUSA accepted the nominations of two candidates last week: Daniel Leamy and Joel Tebbs.  Voting is open this week from Monday to Wednesday, July 31st Read more...

Vic Uni Staff & Students Call for Divestment from Israel

Posted 7:56pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Monty O’Rielly

Pressure continues to mount for universities across the motu to express solidarity with Palestine. Pōneke Wellington has seen successive protests, the most recent involving Massey students calling for their university to divest from investments in Israeli Government Bonds. Now, Victoria Read more...

Poker-Playing Students Invite Buy-Ins

Posted 7:54pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Hugh Askerud

Students have flocked to Cosy Dell after two open-invite poker games were advertised to the student body last week. Posted on Castle 24 (before being removed by organisers), the games were advertised as a $50-100 buy-in event, inviting students to rock up for an evening of good old-fashioned poker Read more...

DCC Proposes Time Limits to North D Parks

Posted 7:49pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Hanna Varrs

The Dunedin District Council (DCC) is proposing changes to 60 parks on the student-riddled street of Harbour Terrace. According to the DCC, these changes will occur in two places: “the block between Union Street and St David Street; and the block between St David Street and Dundas Read more...

Icy Plunge Secures $3k for Mental Health Support

Posted 7:45pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Hugh Askerud

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...

‘Flipper Fest’ For Feathered Friends

Posted 7:42pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Sam Smith-Soppet

A genre-diverse festival called Flipper Fest has been scheduled for August 9-10th, all in the name of the Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust. Platforming local musos of the current Dunedin Sound, the festival promises to merge surf rock with punk and indie-adjacent sounds to make for a rip-roaring Read more...