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Law Students Swap Firms for Fundraisers
Posted 9:38pm Sunday 10th August 2025 by Gryffin Blockley
A group of Law tauira have put together a roster of fundraising events for Ōtepoti Whānau Refuge. The first of a stacked five-piece line up is a designer clothes sale on the 16th of August, featuring brand new clothes from many iconic labels at up to half price. Critic Te Read more...
BDS Binned: OUSA Executive Fronts Up to Widespread Criticism
Posted 9:29pm Sunday 10th August 2025 by Gryffin Blockley, Hanna Varrs & Nina Brown
News of the OUSA Exec abandoning their Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) posture has triggered an outpouring of criticism from the student community and beyond. The decision went against the 53% of 1,766 students (8.83% of 20,000 students) who voted “yes” to maintaining the policy Read more...
The Goon Show has Landed in Dunedin
Posted 9:24pm Sunday 10th August 2025 by Molly Smith-Soppet
A cult-classic British radio comedy from the 1950s is getting a revival at the most unlikely of places, Allen Hall Lunchtime Theatre. If you're feeling emotionally burnt out by unfair grades or the political drama flooding your TikTok feed, then this might just be your reprieve. The Goon Show is Read more...
BDS Binned: OUSA Executive Fronts Up to Widespread Criticism
Posted 12:35pm Friday 8th August 2025 by Nina Brown, Hanna Varrs & Gryffin Blockley
News of the OUSA Exec abandoning their Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) posture has triggered an outpouring of criticism from the student community and beyond. The decision went against the 53% of 1,766 students (8.83% of 20,000 students) who voted “yes” to maintaining the policy Read more...
Are Vapes Exploding In Our Mouths? Coalition Says “Nuh Uh”
Posted 8:29pm Sunday 3rd August 2025 by Zoe Eckhoff
In a massive win for the nicotine-addicted, vaping restrictions introduced by the previous Labour government have been rolled back by the current coalition government, just over a month since they kicked in. Mason Corporation, who own the vape shop Shosha, challenged the court to lift the ban on Read more...
Nurses Strike Against “Detrimental To Patient” Working Conditions
Posted 8:27pm Sunday 3rd August 2025 by Via Hooks
Last Wednesday, Dunedin nurses joined a national 24-hour strike to protest dangerously low staffing in hospitals across the motu. Marching from the Octagon, a large crowd had gathered on the Museum Reserve by noon, expressing their dissatisfaction with the current Government and Te Whatu Ora’s Read more...
Chaos on the Commute
Posted 8:25pm Sunday 3rd August 2025 by Liberty Murray
In case actually showing up to your morning lectures was bad enough, a recent streak of icy mornings have left Otago tauira shaken and embarrassed. Students were falling like dominoes and cars were slipping and sliding around the roads, much to the enjoyment of wise students who didn’t leave Read more...
Execrable: BDS Abandoned, NZUSA Withdrawal & Protests Planned
Posted 8:23pm Sunday 3rd August 2025 by Nina Brown, Hanna Varrs & Gryffin Blockley
The OUSA Exec held Critic hostage for two hours at their meeting last Thursday (we outlasted Liam, even). In what could only be described as a “robust” meeting (I can’t stop) the agenda had three big ticket items: finally talking about the referendum results, NZUSA withdrawal, and Read more...
Shit Times in Studentville with Chlöe Swarbrick
Posted 8:20pm Sunday 3rd August 2025 by Nina Brown
Behind the mirage of constant socialisation and great discounts, the reality of student life is that it’s a bit shit sometimes. When Green Party Co-Leader Chlöe Swarbrick was in town for the launch of the Green’s Ōtepoti campaign in the upcoming local body elections, she found Read more...
Trip Report: 98 Years of OUTC’s Bush Ball
Posted 8:16pm Sunday 3rd August 2025 by Jonathan McCabe
What happens in the bush stays in the bush. The Otago University Tramping Club (OUTC) has built up an illusive reputation over its storied history of people full-sending it in the woods. Bush Ball is arguably the most famous (and feral) of their many adventures across the motu each year. Read more...
Students Caress Mountain to Win Free Stuff
Posted 5:51pm Saturday 26th July 2025 by Stella Weston
With over $10k worth of prizes to be won, Radio One’s Re:Ori’ Marathon Mountain event was a huge success, with the winner managing to hold onto a paper mache mountain for over seven hours. The mountain was reportedly the only thing in North D that students had a tighter grip on than Read more...
Uni SCRAMBLES to Find POPH192 Tutors
Posted 5:43pm Saturday 26th July 2025 by Molly Smith-Soppet
Health Sciences First Year (HSFY) students are panicking – and it's not about if they will get into Med for a change. This time, it’s because there are no tutors to help them get the grades. St Marg’s, Arana, Hayward and 192 Castle College were all without POPH192 tutors at the Read more...
Minion Rave Reviewed: Where were all the babois?
Posted 5:39pm Saturday 26th July 2025 by Hanna Varrs, Gryffin Blockley and Maddy Barnes
OUSA was reaching for the moon for the Friday of Re-O, hosting a Minion-themed boiler room at U-Bar. Critic Te Ārohi was more than happy to go bananas and review the event – only to be greeted by a desolate dance floor. There were like 20 people there. Of the OUSA-run Re-Ori Read more...
Carrington Flood Refugees Flee to Toroa
Posted 5:36pm Saturday 26th July 2025 by Hugh Askerud
Carrington residents of Dawson House spent last week in Toroa College after a flooding incident which saw two floors of the building seeped in sewage. The University confirmed to Critic that the culprit flushed paper towels down a toilet, soiling fourteen freshers’ rooms. In other news, Toroa Read more...
Freshers Unhappy with Halls’ New Allergen Management
Posted 5:34pm Saturday 26th July 2025 by Ali G.
Following an allergen mishap at Te Rangihīroa, the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) has launched an investigation into halls’ food allergen management procedures. All colleges have now rejigged their allergen management systems, which some say are for the better, and others say for Read more...
Campus Endures 269 Days of Cheesing
Posted 5:13pm Saturday 19th July 2025 by Harry Almey
It was the 11th of October 2024. The Uni’s Te Korokoro O Te Tūī performing arts studio sat basking in the spring sunshine. But on this mundane Friday at 4:52pm, a slice of cheese was photographed on a window, just above the entrance. Almost a year later, the cheese slice that had Read more...
OUSA Exec Gives Birth to Student Charter
Posted 4:53pm Saturday 19th July 2025 by Gryffin Blockley
OUSA’s proposed Student Charter was finally approved at last week’s Exec meeting, birthing it into the wonderful world of policy and bureaucracy. The charter outlines key issues and priorities that students are facing in Dunedin – unfortunately lowering the price of butter did not Read more...
The Rise and Fall of the Green Solo
Posted 4:48pm Saturday 19th July 2025 by Zoe Eckhoff
Ah the kakariki takitahi, a force that once breathed minty nicotine into the lungs of breathas and sheathas alike. But no more, for its reign hath come to a halt. Before the eve of June 17th there was a time when you couldn’t walk down George Street on a Saturday night without seeing the Read more...
Breaking News: You Might Be on Meth and Not Even Know It
Posted 4:47pm Saturday 19th July 2025 by Molly Smith-Soppet
If you felt like O-Week hit harder this year, it wasn't just the hangxiety talking. We felt the same, so we’ve done it again; we hit up the Police to analyse everyone’s piss, and fuck you had a good O-Week! There was a dramatic surge in MDMA consumption across Dunedin during February Read more...
Critical Tribune: University of Otago Reveals Rainbet Sponsorship
Posted 4:18pm Saturday 19th July 2025 by Anderson Coomer
A University of Otago spokesperson, operating under the Instagram handle UoOslaps, has revealed a controversial new partnership with offshore gambling platform Rainbet. In an Instagram Reel featuring a desk littered with paperwork, a leaked law exam, and printouts of boomer complaints from Read more...
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