NZUSA Demands OUSA Pays $22,500...Again

Posted 11:00am Sunday 12th July 2015 by Joe Higham

The New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) has sent a letter to OUSA in response to its decision to “reallocate” the $22,500 it owes to NZUSA. The letter requests that OUSA pay the fee, which is the second half of its $45,000 membership for 2015. At the end of last Read more...

Health-e Campus Website Launched

Posted 11:07am Sunday 12th July 2015 by Zahra Shahtahmasebi

The University of Otago’s Student Health Services have initiated a new service in the form of a website, Healthy Campus. The website, an extension of the University of Otago website, was initiated by Director of Student Health Services, Dr. Kim Ma’ia’i, after a conversation he had Read more...

Otago Student Wins Worldwide Essay Prize

Posted 11:17am Sunday 12th July 2015 by Laura Munro

A University of Otago student was recently awarded his certificate for winning an international essay contest earlier this year.  Martin Holmes, a third-year history student, was announced as the winner of a worldwide competition for his essay titled “The World Needs To Read more...

Greece Rejects EU Bailout

Posted 11:23am Sunday 12th July 2015 by Angus Shaw

After rejecting an international bailout, Greece has chosen to play spin the bottle with its financial future. The final results of Monday’s referendum show 61.3 percent voted against and 38.7 percent for the terms of the proposed 29 billion euro bailout.  Greece’s governing Read more...

Another Australian Faces the Death Penalty

Posted 11:25am Sunday 12th July 2015 by Oliver Gaskell

An intellectually disabled Australian man could face the death penalty after being charged with attempting to smuggle illegal drugs out of China. Lawyers defending Brisbane man, Ibrahim Jalloh, 26, have said in a press conference that Jalloh was tricked into smuggling more than two kilograms of Read more...

Otago Student Re-Homes the Nepalese

Posted 11:07am Sunday 5th July 2015 by Laura Munro

Aformer University of Otago student has set up camp in Nepal in order to rehome families after over 700,000 houses were destroyed in the recent earthquakes. Matthew McAtamney, who graduated from Otago in 2012 with a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Tourism, has been travelling back and forth Read more...

Super Rugby “Controversy”

Posted 12:27pm Sunday 5th July 2015 by Daniel Lormans

We will have a full review of the Super Rugby season next week, but the Super Rugby playoffs and semi-finals have been dominated by incessant moaning about the “unfair” rules of the conference system, which many see as favouring under-performing teams. A lot of the moaning came from Read more...

Students Fight for Uni Council Seats

Posted 10:53am Sunday 5th July 2015 by Joe Higham

The University of Otago’s governing council is set to hold a vote on 14 July, which will determine the number of council seats allocated to students. The council currently has two seats for students; these are held by OUSA President Paul Hunt and Recreation Officer Jonny Martin. A Read more...

Council Rejects Opening of Graves

Posted 11:13am Sunday 5th July 2015 by Bridie Boyd

The Central Otago District Council (CODC) has declined a proposal which would have allowed the University of Otago to dig up unmarked graves in the region’s 17 cemeteries. In 2013 an archaeologist reported that there could be almost 800 unmarked graves in Central Otago. With the support of Read more...

Nine Killed in Racist Church Shooting

Posted 11:16am Sunday 5th July 2015 by Oliver Gaskell

Nine people were shot dead during a Bible study group in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday 17 June. Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white male, shot and killed the nine African-Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in what is believed to be a racially motivated Read more...