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Run Club Tinder
Posted 4:34pm Saturday 28th September 2024 by Jodie Evans
If your Instagram feed is full of Lulu-clad twenty-somethings dashing around Dunedin’s streets at the crack of fucking dawn, you’re not the only one. Run clubs are cropping up everywhere. Hailed by loyalists as an energising route to meeting others in the running community, there are now Read more...
Flat Fungi: Peziza? Do you mean pizza?
Posted 8:22pm Sunday 22nd September 2024 by Imogen Harris
A second-year 6-man Dundas flat has made the alarming discovery of a large rubbery mushroom sprouting from their carpet. What is it? Is it delicious or poisonous? Friend or foe? And what does it mean for the state of their flat? Critic Te Ārohi consults a Botany student to find Read more...
The Great Annual Critic Bar Review
Posted 8:18pm Sunday 22nd September 2024 by Nina Brown
Critic Te Ārohi once again pitted local bars against each other in our annual review. We chose sixteen heavy-hitters and put them to a vote in four rounds of polls on Critic’s Instagram story – democracy at its finest. After a nail-biting semi-final between last year’s champ Read more...
OUSA Student Support: Asking for a Friend
Posted 8:15pm Sunday 22nd September 2024 by OUSA Student Support
Student life isn’t always easy. For OUSA Mental Health and Well-being Week, Student Support answers your questions with advice on everything from how to deal with loneliness to giving a woman an orgasm. You can find OUSA Student Support at 262 Leith Walk behind the purple door for Read more...
Ngā Wai-hono-i-te-pō and the Kīngitanga Movement
Posted 4:26am Monday 16th September 2024 by Molly Smith-Soppet
Shockwaves reverberated through the motu on Friday, August 30th, as Aotearoa learned of the passing of Kīngi Tūheitia Pōtatou Te Wherowhero VII, the Māori King. Less than a week later, the Kīngitanga named its new leader: Te Arikinui Kuīni Ngā Read more...
The Plastics: “So if you’re Māori, why are you white?”
Posted 4:06am Monday 16th September 2024 by Jack Ruddenklau
White Māori. Fake Māori. Plastic Māori. If you’re Māori, chances are you’ve heard these labels thrown around at some point – whether it’s a poke at your pale skin, your lack of fluency in te reo Māori, or even an aversion to kaimoana. You may have Read more...
Opinion: What the Fuck Happens Post Panic Masters?
Posted 5:20pm Saturday 7th September 2024 by Madeline O’Leary
For the first 24 years of my life, school was the centre of my universe. First it was primary, then settling (somewhat) into high school, working hard to get into uni, and being set free upon Dunedin as a fresh-faced 18-year-old. Well, as free as St Marg’s allowed anyway. My entire life had Read more...
New Zealand Young Writers Fest: Nau Mai, Haere Mai
Posted 5:16pm Saturday 7th September 2024 by Jamiema Lorimer
Young writers from across Aotearoa, of all writing forms and backgrounds, are coming together in Ōtepoti this weekend for the New Zealand Young Writers Festival. With accessibility at the core of the festival’s kaupapa, all events are free to attend. These events showcase talent and Read more...
Ethical Gossiping: A guide to keeping it clean and not too mean
Posted 4:57pm Saturday 7th September 2024 by Molly Smith-Soppet
Gossip gets a bad rap. It’s often seen as hurtful, harmful and unnecessary. And sure, sometimes a simple “Did you hear…” turns a flatmate into your new campus opp or sends a relationship to its early grave. But not all gossip was created equal and there’s a right and Read more...
Queer Eye for the Gym (Non)Guy: A Beginner’s Guide to the Gym
Posted 7:30pm Sunday 25th August 2024 by Madeline O’Leary
The gym used to fucking terrify me as a gender non-conforming AFAB (assigned female at birth) and proudly masc lesbian. The weights room is every aspect of heteronormative, patriarchal society funnelled into one space: sweaty men, an open space where you can be perceived from every angle, and even Read more...