Summer Festival Lineups Released
Posted 6:38pm Sunday 25th August 2024

Both Rhythm & Vines and Rhythm & Alps released their first lineups to the deflated applause of students last week. In a tough moment for students who bought early-bird tickets, the RnV line up has been critiqued by pretty much every student Critic talked to as being “shit.” For Read more...
Student Presidents Unite at National Conference
Posted 4:38pm Saturday 17th August 2024

In the wake of a crumbling New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA), student association presidents have united to create a national president’s council. The decision was made at a national conference between the student leaders on the weekend of July 26th, held at Lincoln Read more...
New Venue ‘Dropkicks’ Announced
Posted 4:27pm Saturday 17th August 2024

Captain Cook and Dive Bar’s grave is soon to welcome new occupants. The building, which has been up for lease since 2022, will soon be occupied by a venue called ‘Dropkicks’, set to be open this September. Musos and students rejoice, something fucking great just happened. The Read more...
New Venue ‘Dropkicks’ Announced
Posted 7:20pm Monday 12th August 2024

Captain Cook and Dive Bar’s grave is soon to welcome new occupants. The building, which has been up for lease since 2022, will soon be occupied by a venue called ‘Dropkicks’, set to be open this September. Musos and students rejoice, something fucking great just happened. The Read more...
Surveyors on the Recruitment Rark
Posted 11:08pm Saturday 10th August 2024

Surveying students have had one hell of a fortnight, managing to get on the piss with surveying companies’ dime. Over twenty companies (from both NZ and Aus) were in town on a recruitment spree, offering both summer internships for third-years, and graduate positions for fourth-years Read more...
Big Red May Become Just ‘Big’
Posted 3:01pm Sunday 4th August 2024

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...
Hayward’s Dryer Fiasco “Anarchy”
Posted 2:50pm Sunday 4th August 2024

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...
Breatha Lands FSO Position at By-Election
Posted 2:43pm Sunday 4th August 2024

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...
U-Bar Renos Chop Green Room
Posted 2:09pm Sunday 4th August 2024

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...
Poker-Playing Students Invite Buy-Ins
Posted 7:54pm Sunday 28th July 2024

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...
Hugh Askerud
News Editor