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Silverline Says Consent Workshop About “Sex and Relating”

Posted 2:49pm Sunday 26th September 2021 by Denzel Chung

Silverline, a student-led mental health initiative, has been called out for saying a sexual violence prevention workshop was about “sex and relating”. On Thursday September 16, student Kayli called attention on Twitter to a Facebook post by Silverline, promoting a Student Job Search Read more...

Dunedin’s Beerfest Moved to Crate Day

Posted 2:47pm Sunday 26th September 2021 by Erin Gourley

OUSA has changed the dates of the Dunedin Craft Beer and Food Festival (Beerfest) due to Covid. The dates have been changed from the end of October to early December. That means the second day of Beerfest, Saturday 4 December, will coincide with Crate Day. The press release announcing the change Read more...

Starters Employees Get Wage Subsidy

Posted 2:44pm Sunday 26th September 2021 by Fox Meyer

Employees of Starters Bar (RIP) have received a government-funded wage subsidy for the lockdown period, despite the fact that the bar never actually re-opened. OUSA CEO Debbie Downs said that because OUSA “fully expected [Starters] to be reopening post lockdown,” the staff were still Read more...

Melbourne Rocked by Earthquake Amidst Protests

Posted 2:40pm Sunday 26th September 2021 by Fox Meyer

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Melbourne on Wednesday around noon, the largest quake in seismically-quiet Victoria for 50 years. The earthquake came amidst increasingly tense collisions between riot police and ‘unions’ protesting the State’s Covid policies. Jono, a PhD Read more...

Initiation Spills Onto Street

Posted 2:36pm Sunday 26th September 2021 by Fox Meyer

An initiation at the Leith Street complex turned into a pitifully-sized brawl during the sunset hours of Thursday 23 September. People abandoned their balcony and rooftop seats when the fights broke up, and spilled out into the streets when the music stopped. Three highschoolers watched the Read more...

Call for Independent Body to Monitor Universities’ Response to Sexual Violence

Posted 2:32pm Sunday 26th September 2021 by Erin Gourley

Stop Sexual Harassment On Campus (SSHOC) has started a campaign to create an independent body that would monitor how universities in Aotearoa respond to sexual violence. They’re encouraging staff and students at universities to fill out their petition in support of the new independent Read more...

TERF Counter-Protest Mostly Wholesome, Despite Assaults

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 26th September 2021 by Asia Martusia King

A “Suffrage Day celebration”, hosted by self-proclaimed gender-critical feminists in the Octagon last Sunday was counterprotested by a transgender-positive Jump Jam pizza party. The counterprotest was described as “wholesome” by attendees, and no arrests were made. Read more...

Best and Worst Flat Awards 2021

Posted 7:32pm Friday 24th September 2021 by Critic

We're looking for the Best and Worst Flats in Dunedin for 2021. There are Delivereasy vouchers up for grabs: $200 for winners and $100 for runners-up in the Best and Worst categories.  To enter, fill out the Google form here. Read more...

Covid Dissuades Potential Postgrads

Posted 3:47pm Monday 20th September 2021 by Fox Meyer

Earlier this year, we wrote about a surge in postgraduate enrolment rates due to something we called a “panic Masters”. This year, still unsure of what the future holds, some students have expressed that they’d rather stay away from further study than enrol in it just to feel like Read more...

OUSA “Strongly Supports” Gender Self-Identification

Posted 3:35pm Monday 20th September 2021 by Erin Gourley

OUSA has submitted in strong support of gender self-identification on birth certificates. The proposed Bill, currently at its final stage before the House of Representatives, would make it easier for people to change the sex or gender on their birth certificates without going to court. The Read more...