Top of the morning to you students! I hope everyone had a great St. Patrick’s day filled with responsible alcohol consumption. I know you didn’t but there’s nothing I can really do about that.
I just wanted to put a couple of things on your radar that’s coming up in the next couple of weeks.
For OUSA, keep your eyes out for the Hyde St. Party lottery where you and your mates can be in to get tickets for Dunedin’s premier piss-up/street party. It’s a right of passage for Otago students, not that I’m trying to peer pressure you.
The Otago Students Relay for Life is coming up on the 29th-30th of March, which is a great opportunity to raise some money and otherwise support people struggling with cancer. We’ve got an OUSA team that you can donate to (please donate to me I need to beat Amy Martin). Or you can organise a team of your own either with your mates or in your clubs (tramping club, your whole thing is walking surely you get involved).
The Exec have a team on the go, locatable on the Relay for Life website under ‘OUSA Exec/Staff 2025’ and have committed to challenges over the course of the night depending on how much we raise:
Tutu Makeover at $1,000: The Exec will wear purple tutu’s for relay for life
Pie Face at $2,000: The two highest donors get to smash a pie in the face of two exec members of their choice
Three-Legged Liability at $3,000: We’ll will do a 3-legged walk for an hour
Carrying the Team at $4,000: Exec will give each other piggybacks for 10 laps
Gore-athon at $5,000: Exec will walk the distance to Gore by the end of the night
Cancer Stinks at $6,000: Exec will carry around a purple toilet for an hour
Spicy Q&A at $7,000: Exec will eat a chilli and answer questions from students
Clowning Around at $8,000: Exec will wear clown make-up
Polar Pludge at $9,000: Exec will do a sunrise dip in full costume at the end of the night
Shotguns 4 Cancer $10,000: Exec will all shotgun a Blue V and the loser has to wear Daniel’s Highlanders onesie for the rest of the night
Mullet Mania $11,000: Liam will cut his hair to a mullet
Hair Today Gone Tomorrow at $12,000: Liam will shave his head
Liam White
OUSA President