Ski Club “Coup” Nearly Sweeps Exec Elections
Posted 2:20pm Sunday 2nd October 2022 by Denzel Chung
Your student leaders for 2023 have been voted in. Less than 10% of the student population bothered to cast their ballot. Ski Club members, who had heard that many roles were uncontested, stacked the ballot with their club. They took home five positions, and ousted the returning Vice Read more...
Starters, Student Engagement and Ski Shenanigans Dominate OUSA Forums
Posted 1:22pm Saturday 24th September 2022 by
This week, we’ll get the chance to vote for our very own student leaders. Critic Te Ārohi attended OUSA’s Exec candidate forums last week to get a vibe check on the candidates, and found them agreeing on a surprisingly large range of topics, from student bars to low student Read more...
Oh no please don’t stage a coup haha
Posted 7:20pm Sunday 18th September 2022 by Fox Meyer
Student politics are woefully exploitable. This week, there were meant to be six pages of profiles for the upcoming OUSA election, but they were cancelled literally the day before print because nobody had signed up to run for the positions. Yikes. That meant we had to fill six pages of content, Read more...
OUSA’s Annual General Meeting Canned Due To Lack Of Students
Posted 6:45pm Friday 2nd September 2022 by Denzel Chung
OUSA’s annual general meeting (AGM) happened on Tuesday 23 August. Or at least, it should have, before it was cancelled because not enough students showed up. The AGMs, also known as “Student General Meetings” (SGMs), are theoretically meant to be a chance for students to have Read more...
Club Constitutions Won’t Have to be Revamped Quite Yet
Posted 6:49pm Friday 2nd September 2022 by Fox Meyer
OUSA club execs were frustrated last week when a request went out that all OUSA clubs would have to redo their constitutions. This would have been a very lengthy process, and a lack of consultation ruffled some feathers. Action by the OUSA Student Exec has seen this backpedalled, with the addition Read more...
Last-Minute Motions Added to OUSA Ballot
Posted 3:29pm Friday 19th August 2022 by Fox Meyer and Zak Rudin
The upcoming OUSA Annual General Meeting looks to be a serious and no-nonsense event, not to be missed by anyone passionate about student governance and bureaucratic procedure. Current proposals slated for inclusion include investigating the Taj Mahal fire, extending breaks for students, mandating Read more...
$4 Lunch Goes AWOL For A Week, Students Destitute
Posted 7:04pm Friday 5th August 2022 by Nina Brown
OUSA’s beloved $4 lunch fell victim to Aotearoa’s latest Covid wave, forcing it to shut for a week. It left a trail of starving, impoverished students in its wake. Critic Te Arohi went out to check on the destitute, lunch-less masses, left with nothing to sustain them but the salt from Read more...
OUSA Doesn’t Support Fair Pay Agreements
Posted 1:12pm Sunday 31st July 2022 by Denzel Chung
OUSA has criticised the Government’s proposed new Fair Pay Agreements, with their submission on the Bill currently before Parliament calling it a “fundamentally flawed… [and] restrictive model”. This stands in contrast to other student submissions on the Bill, which have Read more...
OUSA Exec Breach Own Policy
Posted 1:50pm Sunday 31st July 2022 by Fox Meyer
The Student Executive board for OUSA have breached their own accountability policy, according to minutes from the 14 July meeting this year. All Exec members are required to submit weekly breakdowns of what they’ve been up to, to provide a record of their work and also to prove that Read more...
Otago Uni Students* Say No to Microbreweries and te ao Māori papers, Yes to Freshers at Pint Night
Posted 4:32pm Sunday 29th May 2022 by Keegan Wells
The results of OUSA’s referendum have been released, with students voting on everything from mental health accessibility and compulsory recording of lectures to Pacific law school entry pathways, compulsory te ao Māori papers and two-week semester breaks. The exciting admin stuff Read more...
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