The Week the ODT Didn’t Know What a Bridge Was

Posted 10:05pm Thursday 12th April 2018

To start this week we have a dramatic encounter   The ODT was facing up against their nemesis: the concept of “fun”.     The ODT have noticed a problem   Oh no. Not the biting spiders, why can’t it be the singing Read more...

BREAKING INVESTIGATIVE REPORT

Posted 8:08pm Thursday 12th April 2018

In recent weeks a sinister Wall has emerged on the bottom floor of the lie-brary, where the computers used to be. The Wall has been painted black, with strange runic symbols daubed in invisible ink, and white plastic, the colour of white, girdles its extremities.  A pair of large double Read more...

Hyde Street to Become Fully Self-Funded After Ticket Price Increase

Posted 8:02pm Thursday 12th April 2018

Ticket prices for the Hyde Street Party are increasing this year as OUSA make the event financially independent. Ticket prices for the average student are going up from $20 to $35, and ticket prices for residents are going from $2 to $5.      OUSA Events Manager Jason Read more...

ODT Watch | The Week the ODT Did Exactly What They Always Do

Posted 10:07pm Thursday 5th April 2018

The ODT’s actions this week are shrouded in secrecy       Then some classic ODT whinging   ‘It’s bad, but has been worse’ is both the ODT’s catchphrase and a good description of them.       In classic Read more...

Talking Shit About The Exec For A Bit

Posted 9:03pm Thursday 5th April 2018

Every quarter the OUSA Executive submit reports about what they’ve been doing, which the exec then votes to approve. In order to get paid, they have to have their reports approved in full. This quarter’s reports were super boring so we had our subeditors pore through them and mark Read more...

Free Te Reō Classes Return

Posted 11:18pm Thursday 22nd March 2018

In 2016 Te Roopū Māori, the Otago University Māori Students’ Association, started offering free Te Reo Māori classes. The response was impressive, with the beginners’ class in 2017 peaking at 120 people, most of whom were not Māori. “We were overwhelmed Read more...

A Conspiracy Unmasked

Posted 11:17pm Thursday 22nd March 2018

You woke up this morning ignorant and innocent. The sunshine sunk into your skin like a spoon into a puddle of thick custard, and the world oozed contentment. BUT NOW IT WILL ALL CHANGE. A letter was sent to the OUSA Exec on the 12th of March by brave whistleblower Fiona A. Bowker informing Read more...

OUSA Executive Endorse Medical Marijuana

Posted 11:13pm Thursday 22nd March 2018

The OUSA Executive have backed a submission from the Otago Campus Greens on the Government’s new medical marijuana bill. Marijuana, also known as dank weed, the devil’s lettuce, reefer, Chronicles of Narnia, combustible herbargy, buckle truckle, wacky-backy, munt moss, canobinisinis, Read more...

Eat a Locust, Save a Cow

Posted 10:57pm Thursday 22nd March 2018

Malcolm Diack loves animals. As we enter his suburban house in Caversham we’re greeted by a beautiful deaf Samoyed, two cats, and a tank of frogs. At his house Malcolm Diack also farms locusts for human consumption. The frogs are what got him into insect farming in the first place; he used Read more...

ODT Watch | The Week the ODT Were Full of Themselves

Posted 9:55pm Thursday 22nd March 2018

This week, the ODT has a vey high opinion of themselves indeed.  There’s nothing more “eminent” and “witty” than talking about how eminent and witty you are.     Desperate to live up to their self-awarded wittiness, the ODT then engaged Read more...