Return of the MOTHRA - Run For Your Lives

Posted 3:59pm Sunday 21st July 2013

OUSA Education Officer Jordan Taylor is making a bid for the return of the MOTHRA Student Film Making Awards run by OUSA. The event, which was named after C-grade Japanese film MOTHRA, was last held in 2011. Taylor claimed that the event, which had been running for over 20 years, was Read more...

Cadbury’s new product

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013

Cadbury has announced a new product to be made in Dunedin that will be tailored to “New Zealand tastes.” It is expected to arrive on the shelves later this year. The announcement of the new product comes after Cadbury’s Dairy Milk blocks underwent a packet transformation, including a Read more...

Psychoactive Substances Bill Committee named

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013

Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne announced the Psychoactive Substances Bill Committee on Friday 17 May. The committee is to be chaired by Otago University Associate Professor of Medicine Richard Robson, and has been put in place to determine a safety testing regime for “legal high” Read more...

University council holds a meeting

Posted 1:24pm Sunday 19th May 2013

Otago University has been deemed by the Otago Daily Times as “trumpeting” its contribution to Dunedin after the annual Economic Impact Report was presented at the University Council meeting on Tuesday 14 March. A media release by the University stated, “The overall direct economic impact of Read more...

Shitty health decisions

Posted 1:24pm Sunday 19th May 2013

The Ministry of Health is in the firing line of Otago professors due to its reluctance to introduce a bowel cancer-screening pilot programme nationwide, despite the programme’s proven success. University of Otago health services researcher Dr Sarah Derrett, also on the Board of the patient- Read more...

Government throws more money at research

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 12th May 2013

Otago University is hoping to get their hands on a chunk of the Government’s $73.5 million budget for research purposes following the announcement of 10 National Science Challenges. The budget was announced on 1 May by John Key and will be added to last year’s $60 million budget to fund these Read more...

World record attempts

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 12th May 2013

Otago University students are in the running to break 10 world records during Re-Orientation Week at an event organised by OUSA. Students who are interested in breaking records have submitted their record idea to OUSA, who have then gone on to co-ordinate with Guinness World Records. So far, Read more...

The Wicked Witches of Union Street East

Posted 4:00pm Sunday 5th May 2013

Abby Howells (Left) and Caitlin McNaughton (Right) are directing 2013’s Wizard of Oz-themed Capping Show, which kicks off this Wednesday. Bella Macdonald interviewed them during one of their nightly rehearsals. What do you see as the purpose of the Capping Show? Caitlin: I guess it was Read more...

Solution: Legalise Reefer

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013

Dunedin dairy owners have recently been arming themselves with machetes, mallets and large wooden sticks as self-protection, after a series of aggravated robberies in which synthetic cannabis has been stolen. Police have been trying to encourage worried dairy owners to take the product off Read more...

Uni buys the wrong Castle Street

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013

The University of Otago has purchased a 128-room hotel on Castle Street South, to be converted into high-quality student accommodation. Otago Polytechnic concurrently announced $20 million plans to build a hostel and atrium. The hotel the University has purchased, formerly called LivingSpace, Read more...