Take Notice: Student General Meeting To Be Held September 9th

Posted 12:47pm Sunday 23rd August 2026

A Student General Meeting (SGM) will be held in a couple of weeks, discussing major role changes to your OUSA student executive. SGMs invite students to vote on constitutional changes passed by the OUSA Exec – the constitution cannot be altered without student backing. As previously reported, Read more...

Editorial: Read This If You Intend To Run For OUSA Exec

Posted 12:22pm Sunday 23rd August 2026

The OUSA student executive elections are coming up, with campaigning beginning on the 14th of September. For those that are tuned in to the happenings of OUSA, they’ll have some understanding of the current Exec roles.  However, the Exec has passed a decision this week to put major Read more...

Subconscious Studios To Visit For Student Flash Day

Posted 10:30am Sunday 16th August 2026

This Thursday, students will have the absolute pleasure of getting tatted up by Martha, Kesi and Liv – all of whom hail from one of Ōtepoti’s most iconic tattoo parlours, Subconscious Studios. As a part of OUSA’s Art Week, the Subconscious artists will be camped out in the Read more...

Editorial: Less Room For Me, More Room For Politics

Posted 9:59am Sunday 16th August 2026

Holy fuck – what a week! Firstly, I am absolutely thrilled with the amount of letters Critic has been receiving lately. I literally couldn’t fit them all in the mag, even with me cutting this editorial in half. Talk about student engagement.  Secondly, this issue has turned out Read more...

How To De-AI-ify Your Life

Posted 9:53am Sunday 16th August 2026

AI tools are pretty much everywhere, and Big Tech has done a stellar job in normalising their incorporation into just about every digital product we use.  What I will say is that I am not anti-AI in any blanket statement sense. I do believe that there are applications of AI that will do Read more...

Opinion: Can The OUSA Exec Get It The Fuck Together?

Posted 3:54pm Saturday 8th August 2026

The OUSA Executive appears to be sick of its current structure, floating changes that would see the death of the Post Graduate Representative and Political Representative, plus the rebirth of a Disability Representative. On behalf of esteemed publication Critic Te Ārohi, I would like formally Read more...

Editorial: Once Upon A Time…

Posted 3:48pm Saturday 8th August 2026

Once upon a time, there was a student magazine called Critic Te Ārohi. And it was the best publication in the entire world.  I am super proud of this issue, but it feels wrong to be writing this editorial. That’s because this issue belongs to Stella Caulton, the designer for this Read more...

UBS To Shut Down After More Than 80 Years of Service

Posted 11:47am Sunday 2nd August 2026

For more than eighty years, the University Bookshop has been a fixture of student life, and a staple of the wider Dunedin community. When it first opened in 1945, under the management of the Presbyterian Book Room, the first page was turned in the UUniversity’s story following the Second Read more...

Editorial: What’s Up, Party People?

Posted 11:28am Sunday 2nd August 2026

I went to high school in rural-ish Canterbury – Lincoln, to be exact. We didn’t really have a whole lot of parties, and the ones that were thrown were either crammed into cookie-cutter suburban houses, held in someone’s shed or, if things were really fancy, hosted by a local Read more...

University Review Finds “No Substantive Evidence” In Favour Of Ending Palo Alto Networks Partnership

Posted 9:58am Sunday 26th July 2026

Following controversy earlier this year around the University of Otago’s proposed partnership with Israeli-government linked Palo Alto Networks, Vice-Chancellor Grant Robertson announced a review of the partnership agreement. This has now been completed, concluding that there is “no Read more...