Nina Brown, Hanna Varrs & Gryffin Blockley

BDS Binned: OUSA Executive Fronts Up to Widespread Criticism

Posted 12:35pm Friday 8th August 2025

News of the OUSA Exec abandoning their Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) posture has triggered an outpouring of criticism from the student community and beyond. The decision went against the 53% of 1,766 students (8.83% of 20,000 students) who voted “yes” to maintaining the policy Read more...

Execrable: BDS Abandoned, NZUSA Withdrawal & Protests Planned

Posted 8:23pm Sunday 3rd August 2025

The OUSA Exec held Critic hostage for two hours at their meeting last Thursday (we outlasted Liam, even). In what could only be described as a “robust” meeting (I can’t stop) the agenda had three big ticket items: finally talking about the referendum results, NZUSA withdrawal, and Read more...

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