Nominations Are Open For 2025 OUSA Exec

Posted 3:27pm Saturday 7th September 2024 by Hugh Askerud

OUSA is opening its gates on Monday, September 9th (today for diligent readers) calling for nominations for all Exec positions. What does this mean? Basically, anyone who wants to can nominate themselves or a mate to be on the OUSA Exec, the student government around these parts. There are 12 Read more...

Queer Rep Quietly Removed From Exec

Posted 4:42pm Saturday 17th August 2024 by Nina Brown

There is no longer a Queer Rep on the OUSA Student Executive. The position was added to the 2024 Exec as an ex-officio member from UniQ after a Student General Meeting (SGM) in September last year voted it in. However, following contention over whether this followed “due process”, the Read more...

OUSA Exec: Dunedin Needs Its Students

Posted 11:11pm Saturday 10th August 2024 by Daniel Leamy

The thought of Dunedin without its students is like imagining Wednesday nights without Pint Night or Southern Sounds without finger dips in the mosh – of fairy dust, of course. It’s just wrong on so many levels.  While Dunedin may have started as a bustling, gold-rich city, what Read more...

Look After Your Mates: A Broader Reminder

Posted 2:56pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Hanna Varrs

During OUSA Student Support’s recent Winter Wellbeing Week, students may have noticed ‘Look After Your Mates’ campaign posters on campus from the OUSA Student Exec. Critic Te Ārohi spoke to OUSA Welfare and Equity Rep Tara Shepherd, who spearheaded the campaign and explained Read more...

U-Bar Renos Chop Green Room

Posted 2:09pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Hugh Askerud

U-Bar’s green room (where bands and their mates hang out during gigs) is no longer available for use, leaving musos and ardent Pint Night goers in despair. This comes after the bar’s recent renovations, which saw Pint Night temporarily shifted to Auahi Ora for the last handful of first Read more...

Editorial: A Love Letter to Radio One

Posted 2:30pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Nina Brown

This is a love letter to Radio One. I couldn’t possibly write an editorial for the music issue without mentioning our musos across the hall, who Dunedin’s music scene owes everything to. Celebrating their 40th this year, Radio One (91FM) gives a platform to the up-and-coming artists of Read more...

Breatha Lands FSO Position at By-Election

Posted 2:43pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Hugh Askerud

Second-year Daniel Leamy would have had one hell of a Wednesday night after winning last week’s OUSA Finance and Strategy Officer by-election by a razor-thin five vote margin. Copping 50.74% of the votes, Daniel beat out his opponent, none other than Critic Te Arohi Bachelor Joel Tebbs, 172 Read more...

Residential Rep Resigns

Posted 2:45pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Nina Brown

The Student Exec’s Residential Rep has resigned from the position for “personal reasons.” This comes mere weeks after the former Finance and Strategy Officer also resigned from her post, with the by-election last week electing a replacement for the position. At their weekly meeting Read more...

Exec Member’s Ghosting Prompts By-Election

Posted 3:24pm Saturday 20th July 2024 by Hugh Askerud

A by-election for the Finance and Strategy Officer role on the OUSA Student Exec has been called. Abby Clayton, who occupied the role last semester, bowed out of her Exec position last Monday, July 15th. Her formal resignation followed a month of radio silence, with repeated attempts to reach the Read more...

Free Brekky Attracts Porridge Pinchers

Posted 3:32pm Saturday 20th July 2024 by Robbie Heller

Rumours of a porridge thief swept the free brekky community last week after successive mornings saw the porridge stock depleted quicker than you can say “oatmeal.” Breakfast runs from the OUSA Clubs and Socs building from 8:30am every morning, but claims say that the porridge has been Read more...