OUSA Reception Rescues At Least $25,000 of Lost Property

In the days after St. Patrick's, OUSA Lost Property received 26 quality drink bottles, 14 chargers, 5 pairs of headphones, 4 Apple pens, 3 reading glasses, 2 telephones, 1 driver's license (rescued from Castle26 box negotiations), and 80 more assorted items. They don't have a partridge on a pear tree, but they might have something of yours. From June to December 2025, pleas for that-shit-you-left-in-your-lecture made up over a third...

Cost of Living and Unemployment Take a Hit on OUSA Student Hardship Fund

With 2026 well underway, many of Ōtepoti’s tauira are feeling the pressure from gold-plated petrol prices and the hellscape of Aotearoa’s supermarket duopoly. With seemingly the cost of everything on the rise, student hardship is taking a toll, and she’s not slowing for no-one. OUSA Student Support Manager Dwaine Tait acknowledged the significance of such a  “marked increase” in the number of students...

Get Standards and Start Complaining

By not speaking up when something is wrong with a product or service, young people and students are losing themselves a collective estimated $16.5 million every year. Kadie Wilson, an advisor for consumer services at MBIE had some words to share with students about the benefits of making a fuss when something isn’t what it was meant to be.  Whether it’s cars, concert tickets or clothes, 51% of young adults have had some kind...

Local Produce: AW / Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson is an Ōtepoti-born musician with a hectic but impressive musical career. Many will know him as the frontman/guitarist of post-punk trio Die! Die! Die!, one of Aotearoa’s most important and consistent bands of the last 20 odd years. In that band he’s played innumerable shows around the world with the likes of Slint, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and more. Die! Die! Die!’s debut album was also recorded by none...

Editorial: What is a question that you are really scared to know the answer to?

Hey there! Welcome back, and see you soon. It’s about to be the midsemester break, after all. It’s my week to do the editorial. I’ve procrastinated writing this until the night it was due, too stubborn to let Gryffin take over doing it instead. I scrolled through a lot of writing prompts before I found something that I felt like I could talk about: what is a question you are really scared to know the answer to? Between...

Horoscopes: Issue 6 2026

Pisces As you hear the Clock Tower strike twelve at Pint Night, you’ll rush to buy another shot. However, in your haste to get drunk, you will lose your three year old Converses. It’s not guaranteed your Prince Charming will find them, but maybe...

Crossword Answers - Issue 6 2026

Across 1. Armenia 4. Two face 7. Goat 8. Verified 10. Seem 11. Inbred t13. Cables 15. Busted 17. Crook 18. Suspended 20. Tee 21. Rule Of Thumb 22. Nature 23. Enticing Down 1....

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