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Mr Prez ‘Bribes the Media’ with $1k Centenary Book Pledge

Posted 11:23pm Sunday 9th March 2025 by Nina Brown

Disclaimer: This article was written by said media. In a generous publicity stunt, OUSA President Liam White matched donations towards Critic Te Ārohi’s Centenary book up to $1k last Tuesday, March 4th (payday). The 100-year-old magazine has until March 16th to raise $70k to fund a Read more...

Pint-flation at U-Bar: An Economic Analysis

Posted 11:19pm Sunday 9th March 2025 by peter barclay

Students could once walk into U-Bar’s Wednesday Pint Night with a crisp $20 note, leaving four pints happier and with a shirt as soaked as your poor liver during Flo and O-Week. News of ‘pint-flation’ has spread across campus following the discovery that students’ most Read more...

Wanted: Serial Central Lib Red Wine Slugger

Posted 11:16pm Sunday 9th March 2025 by Cailin Williams

Planning on a bender but don’t know where? Consider the Central Library. A mysterious male individual has been caught not once, not twice, but allegedly on weekly occasions of drinking six to seven bottles of wine in the Central Library over the summer break. However, the University is Read more...

Execrable: The First OUSA Exec Meeting (that Critic attended)

Posted 11:06pm Sunday 9th March 2025 by Nina Brown

The OUSA Exec had their meatiest meeting yet last Wednesday, March 5th – coincidentally the first Critic Te Ārohi was in attendance for. Critic parked up in the corner couches and locked into an hour and a half of aggressive note-taking (first-year-lecture style) and aggressive listening Read more...

BDS Complaint Prompts 30-Minute “Robust” Exec Discussion

Posted 10:52pm Sunday 9th March 2025 by Nina Brown

The OUSA Exec are in the hot seat over OUSA’s Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) “posture” against businesses associated with the state of Israel – including Domino’s, who was excluded from Tent City. Two formal student complaints (and one informal complaint from Read more...

Toroa Has Outgrown Its Fresher Pants

Posted 8:08pm Sunday 2nd March 2025 by Jonathan McCabe

Toroa College is putting on its Big Boy Pants this year, transitioning from your typical first-year hall to a self-catered accommodation option for international and domestic postgrads and mature students. There’s only so long a hall can cope with watching 17-year-olds slam two for $40 Read more...

Campus’ Summer Glow-Up

Posted 8:05pm Sunday 2nd March 2025 by Jonathan McCabe

The University campus is like your one friend who actually hit the gym this summer and achieved their long-promised summer glow-up. Auahi Ora, Burns lecture theatres, Arana College, and OUSA’s Clubs and Socs are some of the spaces to receive a much-needed cash injection and a fresh lick of Read more...

The Ghosts of Cumby Past

Posted 8:01pm Sunday 2nd March 2025 by Harry Almey

It all started one fateful O-Week day. At 4:08 am, Cumberland resident Alex sent a message to the college-wide Snapchat which shook the college to its core: “There was a fucking ghost in my room.” Cue Critic. Alex lives on the Classical floor of Cumby. According to him, he woke up Read more...

A Baptism by Spaghetti

Posted 7:52pm Sunday 2nd March 2025 by Stella Weston

Selwyn College’s latest event does nothing to ease their culty reputation, and they wouldn’t have it any other way. One of their most cherished traditions – the Leith Run – took place on the Saturday morning of O-week, bringing together nervous freshers and hungover exies in Read more...

OUSA Exec: Academic Accessibility

Posted 7:27pm Sunday 2nd March 2025 by Stella Lynch

Listen up, academic weapons. Whether you’re part of the furniture here at Otago or brand-spanking new to our beautiful university, you should care about the accessibility of your education. That’s right, we’re talking lecture recordings and paid placements. Let’s start Read more...