Stories

OUSA cuts down on coke and hookers in light of VSM. Lucky Sevens to go bust?

Posted 3:17am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

The OUSA Executive has put the 2012 budget to notice, ahead of a referendum timed to coincide with the OUSA Elections, in which students will vote on whether to pass the budget. Following the successful third reading of the VSM Bill in Parliament last week, the budget reflects the possible Read more...

Student Art Exhibition a success

Posted 3:13am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Staff Reporter

The OUSA Student Art Exhibition and Sale is being hailed as a great success, after luminaries like OUSA President Logan Edgar were among the purchasers of student art. The People’s Choice awards, sponsored by the University Book Shop and Art Zone, were decided after the event had run Read more...

BMW-driving meth head threatens students with bat after unrelated driver toots lightly at his terrible parking. Critic short on snappy titles this week.

Posted 3:12am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Staff Reporter

Two University of Otago students had the fright of their lives last Tuesday, when a man chased them in his car before following them into a driveway and menacing them with a baseball bat. The incident started when the suspect was trying to park his ‘reasonably nice BMW’ on a Read more...

Presidential candidates debate the numbers. Yes they were maths-debating.

Posted 3:08am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Julia Hollingsworth

The OUSA election trail kicked off last week, with a lacklustre attendance at the Presidential debate, and a number of nominations that is laughably low, even by Otago’s usual poor standard. This year there are only two candidates for the role of OUSA president: newcomer Dan Benson-Guiu, and Read more...

VSM passage inspires postmodern Cubist poetry

Posted 2:58am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Gregor Whyte

VSM here to stay, Students no longer need to pay, ACT on Campus very gay, Dinosaur-cunt shouts hooray? The Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill, colloquially known as the VSM bill, finally passed its third reading in Parliament last Wednesday September 28, ushering in Read more...

0.00175% of students get fired up. Government unmoved.

Posted 2:55am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Gregor Whyte

A very small crowd of student protestors gathered on the Union Lawn at noon on Monday September 26, as part of a co-coordinated national day of protest against VSM. Otago protestors, backed by OUSA and OPSA, were also protesting against future fee increases, and the cutting of courses and staff at Read more...

Pig killed in North Dunedin. South Dunedinites mourn loss of relative.

Posted 5:03am Monday 19th September 2011 by Lozz Holding

A group of unassuming scarfies were the victims of an unfortunate piece of malicious littering on Sunday September 11, after they discovered a deceased pig in their wheelie bin in the early hours of the morning. The group had enjoyed a pleasant night out in town after watching the England vs Read more...

Marketing is the new Tourism

Posted 5:00am Monday 19th September 2011 by Staff Reporter

A rogue student caused widespread panic in a second year marketing paper after sending an email on Blackboard to every student in the paper asking if they could join a group for an assignment that hadn’t even been set yet. The first email, sent on September 8, set off waves of panic Read more...

NORML fails to make Joyce's list

Posted 4:58am Monday 19th September 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Student leaders are alarmed at the Government's latest attempt to cripple students' association, as Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce released draft directions on Student Services Levies last week.   Joyce has composed a list that dictates what services institutions can spend Read more...

NORML fails to make Joyce's list

Posted 4:54am Monday 19th September 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

Student leaders are alarmed at the Government's latest attempt to cripple students' association, as Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce released draft directions on Student Services Levies last week. Joyce has composed a list that dictates what services institutions can spend student Read more...