Critic Blind Date | Issue 03

Posted 5:41pm Thursday 7th March 2019

The hopeful lovers on the Critic Blind Date are provided with a meal and a bar tab, thanks to Mamacita. If you’re looking for love and want to give the Blind Date a go, email blinddate@critic.co.nz     HER Okay so right off the bat if you’re here for a super juicy Read more...

The Great Critic Party Review

Posted 9:11pm Thursday 28th February 2019

Back To School – The Courtyard  Ah the first night of Flo Week, when second years shed their fresher skins and emerge like butterflies from their chrysalises. They are dirtied and hardened; many are health sci veterans who have acquired a taste for pingas, Long Whites and Billy Read more...

UoO Moaningful Confessions : Summer Spree

Posted 8:08pm Thursday 28th February 2019

You could say I’m a bit tame. With no outrageously raunchy O-Week tales from first or second year and not a lot of action throughout either, you could consider me an underdog in the game of love. I’m an independent woman who don’t need no man, a busy gal and I have better things to Read more...

Critic Blind Date | Jordan Peterson and Jacinda Ardern

Posted 8:01pm Thursday 28th February 2019

The hopeful lovers on the Critic Blind Date are provided with a meal and a bar tab, thanks to Mamacita. If you’re looking for love and want to give the Blind Date a go, email blinddate@critic.co.nz     Jordan Peterson I entered the crowded restaurant red faced, Read more...

Top 10 Ways to Get in Your Lecturer’s Good Books

Posted 7:49pm Thursday 28th February 2019

1. Argue with them at every opportunity to show that you are a critical thinker and have moxy. 2. Straight up have an affair with them.  3. Claim to be a relative of their immediate higher-up and demand respect for it. 4. Lurk after class and talk to them all the way back to their Read more...

UoO Moaningful Confessions: Issue 01

Posted 9:59pm Thursday 21st February 2019

Had a sexual encounter that was unusual, scandalous, or spicy? Send in your moaningful confession to critic@critic.co.nz     I went to Melbourne over the uni break, to get some chill sunny time and serious partying with my cousin Sarah*, because I worked my ass off last year, Read more...

Best and Worst of Flo Week 2019

Posted 9:28pm Thursday 21st February 2019

Before a plague of freshers and the grotesque huckster’s paradise that is Tent City, North Dunedin was overwhelmed by Flo-Week. An age-old tradition (as in it’s been happening for more than a year), Flo-Week (short for Flatting O-Week) occurs a week before actual O-Week. Powered by Read more...

Critic Blind Date: Here for O-Week, Here for an O

Posted 8:39pm Thursday 21st February 2019

Here for O-Week I’m doing heath sci this year so I knew that this was going to be my only week off before I had to knuckle down. I also knew that this was probably the only week I had a real shot at getting laid. The castle street parties were cool but I didn’t know how to get from Read more...

Critic Wins Big at Student Press Awards

Posted 1:09am Tuesday 23rd October 2018

Otago University student magazine Critic Te Arohi was the big winner at the 2018 Aotearoa Student Press Awards this weekend, picking up eight awards and winning the overall award of Best Publication for the second year straight. The awards were judged by some of New Zealand’s most Read more...

Hold My Hand Lover It Is Weed Time

Posted 2:16pm Monday 8th October 2018

Tonight we take gather here to partake Weed is our captain, its smoke is our guide Oh no, Erin is scared, she does not want to smoke the weed Please don’t listen to Erin A weed is a Good time, every time Everyone get Some weed Out of all the people on this Fair earth We who Read more...