Shosha Selling Cream Canisters Again, Now With Paperwork

Posted 4:52pm Wednesday 9th June 2021

Shosha has started selling cream canisters again, after removing the product from their shelves on 16 May due to concerns about recreational use. The vape store has put measures in place to make sure that their customers are using them for “hospitality/baking/catering purposes” Read more...

Fees Increase for International Students Despite Protest

Posted 5:33pm Tuesday 8th June 2021

70 students showed up to the University Council meeting today in protest of raising international student fees, but the University Council voted to raise the fees anyway. The Council will raise the fees in a new way. For international students returning to Otago, their fees will be Read more...

Goop on a Budget

Posted 6:47pm Sunday 30th May 2021

Disclaimer: Do not follow any of these recommendations. Please.  Accredited health guru Gwyneth Paltrow has realised that Goop, her alternative lifestyle brand, isn’t accessible to people on a budget. What a shock! She advertises things like gold-plated vibrators for the low, low price Read more...

Yikes! Blood Donations Still Restricted for Trans Women and Gay Men

Posted 5:00pm Sunday 30th May 2021

The New Zealand Blood Service are "planning a review" of their approach to gay and transgender donors. A trans student at Otago, who was a frequent plasma donor before they transitioned, said that “it's just fucked at the moment.” Another student noted that the Read more...

National Coordinator of Thursdays in Black: SHOCK RESIGNATION

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 30th May 2021

The Coordinator of Thursdays in Black Aotearoa, Jahla Tran-Lawrence, has resigned. Thursdays in Black Aotearoa will have a by-election on 17 June to find a new leader. Thursdays in Black is a student-run campaign that aims to prevent and respond to sexual harm in universities and polytechs in Read more...

Transphobic Leaflets Left by Losers SLAMMED by Literally Everyone Who Isn’t a Twisted Far Right LOONY

Posted 4:33pm Sunday 30th May 2021

Over the past few weeks, transphobic pamphlets have been appearing on noticeboards around campus.  One student has reported the pamphlets to Critic Te Arohi twice. Both times, the pamphlets were put up on the Hunter Centre noticeboard. On May 12 they said “we noticed some rather gross Read more...

EDITORIAL | I’m very tempted to make Critic this TRASHY all the time

Posted 3:23pm Sunday 30th May 2021

Howdy folks and welcome to the Critic Tabloid issue! Oh boy, oh boy, do we have some salacious stories for you in this one! We’ve finally lost all sense of direction and become an actual rag! We’ve filled this bad boy right to the brim with some piping hot scoops that were legally Read more...

Debate Magazine Left Without Designer for Five Weeks

Posted 11:38pm Sunday 23rd May 2021

Debate Magazine, the student magazine at AUT, has only produced four issues this semester after the AUT Students’ Association (AUTSA) failed to hire a new designer for the magazine. The situation left Editor Rebecca Zhang unable to make a magazine for five weeks.  In her first Read more...

Mid-May Madness for Massey Students

Posted 11:27pm Sunday 23rd May 2021

A lot of shit is going down with Massey University’s various students associations. The General Manager of the Massey University Students’ Association (MUSA) left his job (or was made redundant), students were mad at their students’ associations, and now all four of their students Read more...

There Will Be Blood: The good, the bad, and the messy of period sex

Posted 9:04pm Sunday 23rd May 2021

Most humans swap a lot of bodily fluids to show that we’re attracted to each other, but for some reason we don’t put period blood in that category. There’s a longstanding belief that periods are unclean or gross, with no evidence to back that up. And contrary to what a lot of Read more...