Microwave Meals for the Maniacal Masses

Posted 9:10am Monday 8th September 2025

Need to prep for an all-day study sesh? Want to eat a hot meal on campus instead of in your cold flat? Keen to push the edges of culinary possibility and ethics? I (might) have the solution for you. A few weeks ago – armed with several microwave-safe containers, a lack of sleep, and one Read more...

Debatable: Should flatmates be banned from opening windows in winter for fresh air?

Posted 5:52pm Sunday 7th September 2025

For It's winter in Dunedin (spring technically begins on September 21) which means two things: the wind hurts your face and your power bill could bankrupt a small nation. Yet somehow there is always that flatmate, the one who decides the flat's already freezing lounge needs a "fresh Read more...

Campus Cryptids

Posted 10:06am Monday 25th August 2025

Cryptozoology is part of a long line of various pseudosciences, promising to reveal hidden worlds that traditional sciences fail to properly comprehend. You may have heard of many ‘cryptids’, like mothman, bigfoot and the chupacabra. We at Critic Te Ārohi believe that Dunedin is Read more...

Debatable: Is it appropriate to wear pajamas to campus?

Posted 9:02pm Sunday 10th August 2025

For There’s something deeply liberating about the idea of rolling out of bed, chucking on your Oodie and stumbling into a brisk 9am lecture. The cosy feel of your soft cotton PJs brushing against your skin, the faint scent of last night's Mi Goreng noodles still lingering, and the Read more...

Nurses Strike Against “Detrimental To Patient” Working Conditions

Posted 8:27pm Sunday 3rd August 2025

Last Wednesday, Dunedin nurses joined a national 24-hour strike to protest dangerously low staffing in hospitals across the motu. Marching from the Octagon, a large crowd had gathered on the Museum Reserve by noon, expressing their dissatisfaction with the current Government and Te Whatu Ora’s Read more...

Debatable: Should you date international students?

Posted 4:28pm Saturday 19th July 2025

For Who doesn’t love an accent?  Winter is the best time of year to smell out the fresh batch of sexy internationals away for a semester to play in the snow of Central Otago, or enjoy the black mould of Dunners. For many of us the fantasy of finding the love of our lives at Read more...

You are here: An investigation into the tangled web of the queer Dunedin dating scene

Posted 5:56pm Sunday 25th May 2025

Having been in ostensibly queer friend groups basically since arriving in Dunedin, I’ve observed that all of my friends (myself included) are, indeed, dating each other. But can I back this up with data?  Yes. My proposed hypothesis is the “Queer event horizon” - that Read more...