Debatable: Cans vs Bottles

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 23rd March 2025

Cans  Otago student culture is founded upon the footsteps of dusty students trampling bits of broken glass. But it doesn’t have to be like this anymore.  Sure, maybe as a fresher at Whiteout it's funny standing in a sea of broken glass. But your car tires don’t say Read more...

Critic’s ‘Cigarette Butt’ Cover’s LJ Hooker Feature

Posted 9:02pm Sunday 23rd March 2025

A former Frederick Street flattie has let Critic Te Ārohi in on an inside secret. The scoop? LJ Hooker’s ad for their former flat is giving Critic free advertising. It began as the historic student tradition of plastering Critic covers on their flat wall. Jessie described the collaging Read more...

Daddy Grant Debuts Annual Arts Lecture

Posted 6:18pm Sunday 16th March 2025

The Uni debuted its (slightly tongue-twisting) inaugural annual School of Arts lecture last week, themed around ‘What did the arts student say to the future?’ Hosted by Otago’s most well-known BA graduate, the Vice Chancellor Honorable Grant Robertson himself, the lecture included Read more...

Reviewing Literal Shitholes: The Best Places to Shit on Campus

Posted 11:52pm Sunday 9th March 2025

Stomach churning, palms sweating, panic creeping in. You’re sitting in a lecture, when suddenly *that* feeling hits. Guaranteed to get you down in the dumps for the rest of the day, it’s a fight that you know you can’t win: You have to take a shit on campus, outside the safety of Read more...

Campus’ Summer Glow-Up

Posted 8:05pm Sunday 2nd March 2025

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...

Debatable: Chasers: Yay or Nay?

Posted 4:31pm Sunday 2nd March 2025

Chasers: Yay First of all, just because you want to have a chaser doesn’t mean that you can’t handle a shot at all. Let’s dispel that common myth. Pres are meant to be a wholesome experience; if there’s a way to decrease the grossness, why not go for it?  Nights Read more...

Te Huinga Tauira, Debriefed

Posted 4:38am Monday 16th September 2024

Te Rōpū Māori sent a delegation of tauira to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in the last week of August – not only to escape the Dunedin winter, but also for Te Huinga Tauira, the annual national Māori students’ conference. Māori tertiary students’ Read more...

NZ Energy Crisis May Affect Power Bills

Posted 7:12pm Sunday 25th August 2024

If you’ve been having a nosey at the news (outside Critic, how dare you) in the last few weeks, phrases like “energy crisis” or “tight supply conditions” have been chucked around. The main gist of the issue is that wholesale power prices have risen above retail prices. Read more...

What Queer Stereotype Are You?

Posted 6:32pm Sunday 25th August 2024

Grab your carabiners and flex those limp wrists! In honour of the Queer Issue, Critic Te Ārohi can look through its crystal ball and determine which mish-mash of gay stereotypes you are.  For each question you’ll get a stereotype. Put it together at the end to get your unique Read more...

Problems Reported at Award-Winning Te Rangihīroa College

Posted 11:47pm Saturday 10th August 2024

Te Rangihīroa College had a rocky start at the beginning of the year, flooding mere 24 hours into its first full-time residents moving in. It has now been alleged to Critic Te Ārohi by multiple sources that the flooding was the first of other issues. The hall, which is the Read more...