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Finance and Strategy Officer By-Election

Posted 8:35pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Critic

Following the resignation of the Finance and Strategy Officer on the OUSA student exec, there is a by-election happening to fill the position. OUSA accepted the nominations of two candidates last week: Daniel Leamy and Joel Tebbs.  Voting is open this week from Monday to Wednesday, July 31st Read more...

Vic Uni Staff & Students Call for Divestment from Israel

Posted 7:56pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Monty O’Rielly

Pressure continues to mount for universities across the motu to express solidarity with Palestine. Pōneke Wellington has seen successive protests, the most recent involving Massey students calling for their university to divest from investments in Israeli Government Bonds. Now, Victoria Read more...

Poker-Playing Students Invite Buy-Ins

Posted 7:54pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Hugh Askerud

Students have flocked to Cosy Dell after two open-invite poker games were advertised to the student body last week. Posted on Castle 24 (before being removed by organisers), the games were advertised as a $50-100 buy-in event, inviting students to rock up for an evening of good old-fashioned poker Read more...

DCC Proposes Time Limits to North D Parks

Posted 7:49pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Hanna Varrs

The Dunedin District Council (DCC) is proposing changes to 60 parks on the student-riddled street of Harbour Terrace. According to the DCC, these changes will occur in two places: “the block between Union Street and St David Street; and the block between St David Street and Dundas Read more...

Icy Plunge Secures $3k for Mental Health Support

Posted 7:45pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Hugh Askerud

A second-year battler has raised $3k for mental health support after swimming in the recent New Zealand Ice Swimming Championships at Alexandra Pool on July 10-13th. Now that’s Dunedin-core. Maddy spoke to Critic Te Ārohi about the struggles of the race and her motivations for taking Read more...

‘Flipper Fest’ For Feathered Friends

Posted 7:42pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Sam Smith-Soppet

A genre-diverse festival called Flipper Fest has been scheduled for August 9-10th, all in the name of the Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust. Platforming local musos of the current Dunedin Sound, the festival promises to merge surf rock with punk and indie-adjacent sounds to make for a rip-roaring Read more...

Exec Propose to Pay Themselves More

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 28th July 2024 by Nina Brown

An emergency meeting was held between the OUSA Exec last week to discuss the proposal of paying themselves more. Given they’re currently paid $20.50 per hour pre-tax (minimum wage in NZ is $23.15) you can see their reasoning. They plan to present proposed remuneration changes to the student Read more...

Shrexy U-Bar Kicks off Re-Ori

Posted 4:17pm Saturday 20th July 2024 by Gryffin Blockley

After U-Bar was SWAMPED with closure for much of the second half of first semester (cue wails from Pint Night loyalists), its semester two debut was OUSA’s very own Shrek rave – presented by yours truly.  Boasting free entry and complimentary glow sticks – potentially in a Read more...

Closed Caption Lectures (Hopefully) A Step Closer

Posted 4:15pm Saturday 20th July 2024 by Gryffin Blockley

In a win for accessibility and people who swear they can’t hear without subtitles, closed-captions in lectures appear to be getting closer to reality for Otago tauira. Last week, all students were emailed a link for surveys inviting them to give feedback on a policy proposed by the OUSA Exec Read more...

Students Pressure Unis for Stance on Palestine

Posted 3:38pm Saturday 20th July 2024 by Nina Brown

Students for Justice in Palestine across the motu are continuing to pressure their universities to take political stances on the war on Palestine. Universities continue to defend their positions of “institutional neutrality” – a position students might have been willing to accept Read more...

Capping Show Claims Edinburgh Ripped Off ‘Beezie’ Theme

Posted 3:36pm Saturday 20th July 2024 by Molly Smith-Soppet

A recent Edinburgh Realty ad campaign has raised eyebrows after students noticed it looked somewhat similar to the Capping Show’s Barbie-esque theme. Edinburgh? More like Edinbruh. With similarities in colour palette, characters, and terminology, Capping Show members have voiced their Read more...

Free Brekky Attracts Porridge Pinchers

Posted 3:32pm Saturday 20th July 2024 by Robbie Heller

Rumours of a porridge thief swept the free brekky community last week after successive mornings saw the porridge stock depleted quicker than you can say “oatmeal.” Breakfast runs from the OUSA Clubs and Socs building from 8:30am every morning, but claims say that the porridge has been Read more...

Exec Member’s Ghosting Prompts By-Election

Posted 3:24pm Saturday 20th July 2024 by Hugh Askerud

A by-election for the Finance and Strategy Officer role on the OUSA Student Exec has been called. Abby Clayton, who occupied the role last semester, bowed out of her Exec position last Monday, July 15th. Her formal resignation followed a month of radio silence, with repeated attempts to reach the Read more...

OUSA Referendum Results Are In

Posted 8:42pm Saturday 13th July 2024 by Nina Brown

The OUSA referendum was at the end of last semester. All enrolled Otago Uni students were emailed a link to an online survey to have their say on what OUSA should focus their efforts on. Questions were able to be submitted by students prior to being put to vote, and after some to and fro (with many Read more...

Daddy Grant Graces the Vice Chancellor’s Throne

Posted 8:36pm Saturday 13th July 2024 by Nina Brown

July 1st marked Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka’s freshly minted Vice Chancellor Grant Robertson’s first day on the job. The former OUSA President and Deputy Prime Minister has had a busy first couple weeks of welcomes, meetings, and media attention, telling the Uni Council at his first Read more...

OUSA Student Support Has New Digs

Posted 8:32pm Saturday 13th July 2024 by Gryffin Blockley

OUSA Student Support shifted locations early last week, vacating its building on Ethel Benjamin (behind Clubs and Socs) and moving into the old National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies – a casualty of the University’s financial strain.  For those unfamiliar, OUSA Student Read more...

All Aboard the Contiki School Bus

Posted 8:30pm Saturday 13th July 2024 by Gryffin Blockley

If seeing one more TikTok of Euro summer will send you over the edge, travel company Contiki has revealed they’re now offering ‘Contiki University’ branded trips, offering eight ‘courses’, each fit with a major and minor subject. Pretty sure this isn’t why Read more...

SPCA Investigates Claims of Expo Animal Abuse

Posted 6:59pm Saturday 13th July 2024 by Hanna Varrs

A recent ‘Exotic Pet Expo’ in the North East Valley has caused community uproar as allegations of false advertising and animal abuse pour in from community members. Organiser Amelia Seales, who has run the event twice before, has firmly denied any wrong-doing.  The expo, held on Read more...

OUSA Criticises Residential Tenancies Amendment Act

Posted 6:56pm Saturday 13th July 2024 by Hugh Askerud

The OUSA Student Exec recently submitted on the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill in opposition to its proposed introduction of no-cause evictions. It’s exactly what it sounds like: the bill would allow landlords to evict tenants without needing to give a reason. Critic Te Ārohi spoke Read more...

Student Exec Turn In Second Quarterly Reports

Posted 6:53pm Saturday 13th July 2024 by Hugh Askerud

Is it that time already? OUSA second quarterly reports are in (most of them), and we’re here to give you an insight into what our student dictators have been doing/not doing in the time you’ve been pilfering snacks from your parents' pantry. Buckle up for a rootin’ Read more...