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ECONOMIC LIPOFILLING: Landlords Rub Hands Together With Glee and Lick Lips Lasciviously at 2022 Riches as Jacinda and Grant Let Loose the MONEY PUMP

Posted 4:44pm Sunday 30th May 2021 by Sean Gourley

Student allowances are set to increase by $25 in April 2022. Most students can be confident that this change will see a similar rise in rent across most of Dunedin.  The average increase in rent for next year appears to be between $10 and $20 per person, according to the students interviewed Read more...

Transphobic Leaflets Left by Losers SLAMMED by Literally Everyone Who Isn’t a Twisted Far Right LOONY

Posted 4:33pm Sunday 30th May 2021 by Erin Gourley

Over the past few weeks, transphobic pamphlets have been appearing on noticeboards around campus.  One student has reported the pamphlets to Critic Te Arohi twice. Both times, the pamphlets were put up on the Hunter Centre noticeboard. On May 12 they said “we noticed some rather gross Read more...

Tutes and Dems Plead Poverty, But Will It Fall Upon DEAF EARS From RUTHLESS NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY?

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 30th May 2021 by Fox Meyer

The Otago Tutors and Demonstrators Network has collected a lot of data. It found a lot of things — namely that most tutes and dems think they aren’t paid enough. The Uni changed the payscale for these positions, so pay now depends on commitment to the paper, not prior experience or Read more...

Clocktower SILENT During Super Duper Blood Moon, Panned for Refusing to Take a Stance

Posted 4:14pm Sunday 30th May 2021 by Alex Leckie-Zaharic

There was trouble in paradise on Wednesday as the clocktower failed to chime for most of the day. To the dismay of the student population, the clocktower’s ringing was absent on the eve of the super blood moon. Built in 1879, the bongs of the clocktower have graced the ears of hundreds of Read more...

Study SLATED as Bullshit by Demented Grad Students

Posted 4:09pm Sunday 30th May 2021 by Fox Meyer

A study released last week surveyed 4,499 Kiwi students to see if their mental health got worse when they worked on their PhDs. The data said: no, their mental health was not affected. “You’ve gotta be fuckin’ kidding me, right?” asked Dan, a fourth-year. “Is that Read more...

North Dunedin Pests Targeted In New Research Project

Posted 4:02pm Sunday 30th May 2021 by Denzel Chung

City Sanctuary volunteers have been installing backyard traps in student flats on Castle and Leith, as part of a research project investigating attitudes towards community trapping in Dunedin.  Critic Te Arohi joined Kate and Toby, two volunteers, as they installed their 27th trap of the day Read more...

Protest! Dunedinites Show Up in Support of Palestine

Posted 3:32pm Sunday 30th May 2021 by Aiman Amerul Muner

Amidst chanting and handmade protest signs, Rawaa Elhanafy made her point clear: “From the land to the sea, Palestine Will Be Free.”  Rawaa, a third-year Pharmacy student, was one of the organisers of the Dunedin March for Palestine. She and hundreds of others marched down George Read more...

Burmese Activists Organise Solidarity Concert

Posted 2:25pm Thursday 27th May 2021 by Denzel Chung

A concert this Thursday, May 27, aims to raise funds for democracy activists in Myanmar. Dunedin’s small Burmese community have been working non-stop for the last two months to make it all possible. The Solidarity Myanmar concert will be held at the Dunedin Town Hall, with a line-up Read more...

Huawei Phones Struggle to Connect to University Wifi

Posted 11:47pm Sunday 23rd May 2021 by Asia Martusia King

Huawei phones cannot reliably connect to University wifi, a student told Critic. Toby noticed last Thursday that his Huawei phone, which is usually able to connect to the wifi, was unable to connect to the University wifi in the Robertson Library. He went to Central Library but had no luck Read more...

Student Nurses Support Strike in June

Posted 11:46pm Sunday 23rd May 2021 by Hannah Johns

Student nurses have called for the government to take the eight-hour strike planned for June seriously, or face losing graduates to Australia.  The New Zealand Nurses Organisation voted to strike on June 9 for eight hours after the government offered a 1.38% pay increase, a percentage just Read more...