Dunners

Critic devotes page 7 to permanent by-election coverage

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Staff Reporter

OUSA will finally get to heal the gaping hole at the centre of the Executive, with a by-election for Ruby Sycamore-Smith’s vacated Campaigns Officer portfolio to be held on Thursday 28 March. Voting will open at 9am and close at 4pm, and the winner will receive a free stuffed toy (to be confirmed). Read more...

Couch burning no longer a healthy diversion

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Claudia Herron

Pyromaniac students may well be losing their get-out-of-jail free cards after Police announced they would no longer offer pre-charge warnings or diversion to those caught lighting couch fires. Fire starters would now meet their match in both disciplinary action under the University’s Code of Conduct Read more...

DJ Fadez Away

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Sam McChesney

The Dunedin music fraternity is shocked and saddened to hear of the retirement of popular local musician DJ Fadez, who on Wednesday announced via Facebook that he would be hanging up his mic for good. Fadez, a.k.a. Tim Patrick, made the decision after the hard drive containing his life’s work Read more...

Belgian brings laptop to Union Hall

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Bella Macdonald

Over 1500 students turned up at a sold-out Union Hall on Thursday 14 March to witness Belgium’s top liquid funk, drum and bass, and dubstep musician Netsky. The evening started off with opening acts Fazerface and Southern Lights, before Netsky (rhymes with “get pie,” not with “let me”), named Read more...

University sticking it to the man

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Sam McChesney

Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) is taking all eight of New Zealand’s universities to the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal, after Universities New Zealand (UNZ) refused to increase the annual licensing fee that allows lecturers to copy course materials for students. The fee covers any use Read more...

New Alcohol Policy?

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Claudia Herron

The fate of where and how licensed premises operate in Dunedin could lie in the wrinkled hands of bitter geriatrics due to current alcohol legislation allowing for local body policies to be influenced by communities. A draft local alcohol policy for the city is currently being worked on by Dunedin Read more...

Smoke banished from campus; fire to follow?

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Claudia Herron

The demise of the durry on campus appears inevitable after the University Council affirmed that from 1 January 2014, the University will be completely smokefree. Previously smokers had been exiled from the shelter of building awnings when smoking within six metres of any building on the Dunedin Read more...

No confidence and "Glodia" defeated in OUSA by-elections

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Sam McChesney

OUSA will get to indulge its by-election fetish one more time, after Ruby Sycamore-Smith emerged victorious in the Welfare Officer contest. Since Ruby has now resigned her current position as Campaigns Officer in order to take up the welfare position, there will be another by-election. Bliss. Read more...

Fashion Angers The Patriarchy

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Zane Pocock

Dunedin’s iD Fashion Week was launched last Monday evening at a boozy invite-only function in the bowels of the Otago Daily Times. While introducing Susie Staley, who is the iD Committee Chairperson, Paul Dwyer of the ODT had a dig at the event’s lack of a major sponsor, suggesting that Read more...

Panesar Becomes Commerce Meathead

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Claudia Herron

England international cricketer Monty Panesar made a test appearance of a different kind by taking time out from his hectic training schedule to sit a two-hour exam at the Otago School of Business last Monday. Panesar is studying towards a Masters of Business Administration in Sport at Loughborough Read more...