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St David’s 2 receives $9.65 million upgrade to not fall

Posted 2:07pm Sunday 25th May 2014 by Laura Munro

St David’s 2 will become the new home to the Department of Applied Science following a $9.65 million upgrade necessary to increase the building’s earthquake safety rating. Originally constructed in 1997 and formerly used for Foundation Studies, the building was measured in 2014 to be at 34 per cent Read more...

Poppa's sale complicated by lease extension refusal

Posted 2:07pm Sunday 25th May 2014 by Claudia Herron

The future of another student institution is up in the air with Poppa’s Pizza on the market and the current landlord unwilling to comment on its future after the lease’s expiry. The existing lease is set to terminate in December 2016, with the current operator, Steve Munro, saying, “I’ve done my Read more...

DCC to trial pedestrian precint

Posted 2:07pm Sunday 25th May 2014 by Nina Harrap

Two Otago post-graduate students are working to transform the lower Octagon into a pedestrian precinct with their submission to the DCC’s Annual Plan gaining momentum and support from councillors. Georgina Hampton, a PhD student in Genetics, and Alexis Belton, an honours student in Geology, Read more...

Dunedin flats to be rated, warranted and starred

Posted 4:32pm Sunday 18th May 2014 by Josie Cochrane

“Many of the landlords are nervous about it and maybe they should be,” says Rate My Flat co-founder, Lindsey Horne. Ratemyflat.org.nz is yet another scheme putting the pressure on landlords to improve rental accommodation. The new flat rating system will launch next semester with the intention of Read more...

Greatest Hits / Greatest Shits | Issue 12

Posted 4:32pm Sunday 18th May 2014 by Carys Goodwin

Greatest HitsOver the past few weeks, Campbell Live has been running an “at home with the leaders” segment, where John Campbell goes to party leaders’ houses and eats the dinner they cook. While it might be a strange twist on Come Dine With Me, it’s a good way to see what the leaders are like as Read more...

Politweets | Issue 12

Posted 4:32pm Sunday 18th May 2014 by Carys Goodwin

Clare tells @g_townnz what parliamentary office training comprises. I look forward to the whole musical. Banks also watches Campbell Live. Whatever “floats your boat.” Considering I have my own selfie with him, I’m disappointed. What? Read more...

Critic tackles election year | Issue 12

Posted 4:32pm Sunday 18th May 2014 by Carys Goodwin

For many of you, this will be your first election; and if you’re into politics enough to be reading this, that’s very exciting. Over the past couple of months, I’ve been picking brains and studying policy in an effort to present a few of the people who you’ll have the opportunity to vote for. This Read more...

Sex scandals, sarcasm and simians? Wake me up when there is a real controversy

Posted 4:32pm Sunday 18th May 2014 by Daniel Lormans

This week let’s first go to the unnecessarily apologetic rugby league desk, which has been rocked with another shocking sex scandal that was neither shocking nor was it a scandal, and should have never been news in the first place. A Snapchat video featuring Warriors hard man Konrad Hurrell was Read more...

PhD students lured by free flights and accommodation

Posted 4:32pm Sunday 18th May 2014 by Nina Harrap

The University is offering free flights and accommodation to domestic PhD candidates considering studying toward a doctorate at Otago. The recruitment campaign is designed to allow doctoral students to “seriously consider Otago as an option,” Head of Marketing Services, Lindy Wilson, said in a press Read more...

Dr. Clarke writes “readable books” for 150 years

Posted 4:32pm Sunday 18th May 2014 by Josie Cochrane

University of Otago historian and archivist Dr Ali Clarke is continuing her work of researching the University’s history, an “enormous responsibility,” after being tasked to write a book based on the first 150 years of the University, spanning from 1869 to 2019. Dr Clarke was selected for Read more...