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NZUSA Co-Presidents David Do and Max Hardy visited Dunedin last week as part of a nationwide tour of member campuses in order to engage with constituent students. Throngs of female students had to be held back by security after Do and Hardy hit the Dunedin campus, such was the sexual allure of the delectable student politicians.

In late 2010, following a period of dissatisfaction with NZUSA and the services it was providing to its members, OUSA gave notice of its intention to withdraw from the national organisation. NZUSA has a one-year notice period for any member withdrawals, and OUSA will be making the decision on whether to carry out its withdrawal before the end of the year.
 
Critic spoke to Do and Hardy, questioning them about the benefits to OUSA of remaining in the national organisation, given OUSA’s fractious relationship with the body in recent years.
 
Hardy stated that NZUSA has undergone a “comprehensive change process” to address OUSA’s concerns and ensure “we are a power voice for students nationally”. He said that he was confident that “we have addressed the concerns OUSA raised last year, and that we will see the national organisation pick up and actively deliver value for OUSA which was one of their concerns.”
 
NZUSA is “waiting for OUSA to come back to us with where they’re at,” said Hardy who insists that he “wants OUSA as a member.”
 
Hardy described the potential withdrawal of OUSA as “very destructive to the national organisation, and very destructive to students’ voice nationally.” He went on to claim that “without NZUSA, we wouldn’t have things like interest-free student loans.”
 
“It’s a no-brainer that [OUSA] should be a member of NZUSA.”
 
OUSA President Logan Edgar told Critic that he thought that NZUSA was a “strange beast” but said that he thought that “they are starting to good job behind the scenes with regards to VSM.”
 
He added that NZUSA was “good if they have been given something to do, but if they don’t have anything to focus on they wither away and turn to shit.”