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Staff Brace For Redundancies as Support Services Review Proposal is Revealed
Posted 11:01am Sunday 16th July 2017 by Joe Higham
University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne has presented a business case proposal that will outline future organisation and management of support services at the Uuniversity to staff on Friday last week. The meeting, which took place at the College of Education Auditorium, is Read more...
University Approves $26 Million New Music Building and Renovations
Posted 10:55am Sunday 16th July 2017 by Joe Higham
The University of Otago has approved plans to construct brand new recording studios for the Department of Music as well as refurbishing the nearby Music suite, Teaching Wing and Tower Block on the University of Otago College of Education campus. The project, which is scheduled to be completed by Read more...
University Objects to Night’n’Day Liquor License: OUSA President Hits Back
Posted 10:50am Sunday 16th July 2017 by Joel MacManus

OUSA President Hugh Baird has hit back at attempts by the University of Otago to prevent the sale of alcohol at a local liquor store. The University of Otago is objecting to the continuation of the liquor license at Regent Night’n’Day in North Dunedin, but Baird says their efforts are Read more...
Landlords Provide Perfect Conditions for Mould At No Extra Cost to Tenants
Posted 10:45am Sunday 16th July 2017 by Joe Higham

Former Blackcaps cricketer and current host of TV3’s AM Show, Mark Richardson, provided some advice to anyone worried about the inaccessibility of the property ladder last week: “just rent,” he said. However, research clearly shows that renting can expose people to serious Read more...
Students Fight ‘Unliveable’ Flats at Tenancy Tribunal
Posted 10:38am Sunday 16th July 2017 by Joel MacManus

Two student flats have won cases at the tenancy tribunal over flats which were deemed to not be in clean or liveable condition. Prime Campus Ltd., the property management firm which leases 654 Castle Street was ordered to refund the tenants $5,250, the equivalent of six weeks’ rent. When Read more...
OUSA Lead the Way in Re:Orientation Glass Ban Initiative
Posted 10:32am Sunday 16th July 2017 by Zahra Shahtahmasebi

A new initiative is being launched during this year’s Re-Orientation week that will ban glass in the North Dunedin area, in the hope of cleaning up the glass that regularly plagues the streets of the city's student quarter. The initiative continues to be student led, initiated by OUSA Read more...
Keeping tabs on the Exec | Issue 15
Posted 10:28am Sunday 16th July 2017 by Joe Higham

The Department of Tourism have made a proposal to “repaint the two corridors in the Division of Commerce building ... in the rainbow colours that have been utilised both by the LGBT community and the post-apartheid South Africa as an emblem of inclusivity”. The department wanted to know Read more...
University seeks student feedback on CCTV proposal
Posted 11:11am Sunday 9th July 2017 by Critic
The University of Otago made a complaint to Critic Magazine that the article published on the University's CCTV implementation plan was not fairly reported. As a result, Critic provided this space for the University to respond to these issues. The University of Otago is seeking Read more...
University of Otago Researchers Criticise Government’s Tobacco Strategy
Posted 11:02am Sunday 9th July 2017 by Anna Linton

University of Otago scientists from the Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost-Effectiveness Programme (BODE³) have published research in the international journal Tobacco Control last month advocating various tobacco endgame strategies. This follows a 2011 announcement, Read more...
The Most Famous Pub In New Zealand Is Up For Sale... Again
Posted 10:56am Sunday 9th July 2017 by Joe Higham

The Captain Cook Hotel is once again up for sale. With a name arguably as well known as any other pub anywhere in the country, the recently renovated Cook (as it’s known to most students) should, it is hoped, be snapped up as quickly as possible. ABC Business Sales, who are tasked with Read more...