E-Waste Department Saves Uni $40,000 in 2025

Posted 12:24pm Sunday 8th March 2026

Te Oraka, a gem in the centre of campus, is full of student-run businesses and second-hand goods. Lesser known is that it also houses a selection of rescued e-waste. Critic Te Ārohi dusted themselves off one dreary day, and went to explore. Tucked in behind the second-hand clothes (nothing Read more...

Local Produce: Cue-Go

Posted 12:08pm Sunday 8th March 2026

One day, in a rush to class, you'll pass Startup Dunedin on Leithbank. If you take a moment to really look, you'll spy a poster in the window of a student business they have proudly nurtured. Ready, set, Cue-Go.  The audio-visual event tech company, Cue-Go, is a star in the sky, Read more...

George Street Block-by-Block

Posted 3:07pm Sunday 22nd February 2026

Sitting in Woodhaugh Gardens on a lovely summer day, I got to thinking — being a Dunedin local is a funny thing. I mean, it has to be, right? You spend at least five years perfectly aware of the drunken shenanigans, Boganmobiles, and broken glass everywhere. If you were unfortunate enough to Read more...

Student Pen Becomes Magical Sword

Posted 12:22pm Monday 15th September 2025

Ah, Otago students, we know how it is. You're forever time poor; all those books, never enough time to actually read them. So, you can imagine Critic Te Ārohi’s surprise when we heard the cry: one of Otago's own is becoming an author! Here are the trials and tribulations it takes Read more...

Debatable: Should all first-years have to take a reo Māori paper?

Posted 11:55am Monday 15th September 2025

Against Freedom: that's what I love about the university experience.  Ah, public school. Thirteen years of "do this," "study that," "these are your classes," and "you must wear this [basic-as] uniform". Being forced to wear a tie made me hate Read more...

Episode II: Return of the Spud

Posted 5:12pm Sunday 7th September 2025

It's been an eventful time for the Polytech’s potato-preneur Emily Gilbert. In the span of a month, she’s reached student stardom with her stupendous spud scoop – from an experimental culinary assignment to Patti’s and Cream sales and a national TV stint. Forget Leo and Read more...

Students Chalk Up Change to Lecture Recordings

Posted 11:27pm Sunday 17th August 2025

To fight for their proposed lecture recording policy, the OUSA Exec team, chalk in hand, marched outside to do a deadly battle. Despite the bitter cold and rainclouds forming, concrete outside the OUSA offices was transformed into a sea of chalked messages – before immediately getting washed Read more...

The Diagnosis of Med Revue

Posted 10:19pm Sunday 10th August 2025

Despite being cancelled for a certain student-theatre review earlier in the year, Critic Te Ārohi is back on its feet for Med Revue. Ever gluttons for punishment, here’s what three hours of enduring med-student humour is like (in the name of charity, of course).  Med Revue’s Read more...

Potato Milk Review: Sold Nowhere Else in NZ

Posted 9:41pm Sunday 10th August 2025

Society loves potatoes for their versatility: Deep-fried, mashed or made into vodka. But one brave Polytechnic tauira, Emily Gilbert, has invented ‘Spud Milk’ – a NZ first.  "Another icky health food!" you blurt out loud while reading this review. "Quality Read more...

Campus Endures 269 Days of Cheesing

Posted 5:13pm Saturday 19th July 2025

It was the 11th of October 2024. The Uni’s Te Korokoro O Te Tūī performing arts studio sat basking in the spring sunshine. But on this mundane Friday at 4:52pm, a slice of cheese was photographed on a window, just above the entrance. Almost a year later, the cheese slice that had Read more...