Referendum 15% successful

Posted 1:58am Monday 18th October 2010

The results of the OUSA referendum were announced last Thursday, with only 2 of the 13 motions meeting the required quorum of 1049 votes. The 2011 Budget passed by a narrow margin, with 50.27 percent of students voting in favour of it. The Budget, which was the first motion on the website, Read more...

ODT buys political influence, very cheaply

Posted 1:48am Monday 18th October 2010

The role the Otago Daily Times played in the recent local body elections is coming under scrutiny. Rumours were circulating wildly around town last week about the nature of a donation made by Allied Press owner Julian Smith to Dave Cull, who is part of the Greater Dunedin party. A Read more...

Meager eager to go

Posted 1:03am Monday 18th October 2010

Finance and Services Officer James Meager has resigned from his position on the OUSA Executive. Meager’s resignation letter casts doubt on the way the Exec is run and OUSA President Harriet Geoghegan’s leadership style. Meager tendered his resignation in a rather lengthy letter addressed to Read more...

Duke Sex List

Posted 10:52pm Sunday 17th October 2010

Scandal has descended on the prestigious Duke University of North Carolina, in the USA, after a ‘sex thesis’ complied by a senior student of the University went viral on the internet.  The 43-page list, which included the names and photographs of 13 of student Karen Owen’s sexual Read more...

Exec prepares for clusterfuck

Posted 1:35am Tuesday 12th October 2010

On Thursday last week, a Student Forum was held to discuss the motions that will be put to an online referendum this week. Students will be asked to vote on 13 motions, including motions on NZUSA, the OUSA Budget and GST. The crowd at the Student Forum was comprised mostly of Exec members and Read more...

Act’s ‘Babe’ Talks to Critic

Posted 1:27am Tuesday 12th October 2010

Last week Act’s superstar MP Heather Roy, champion of the VSM bill, was in town, so Critic sent Julia Hollingsworth to grill her about students’ associations and VSM. Should the change to compulsory membership have come from the students?    I think that when you look at the Read more...

Revealed: grown up politicians no better than student politicians

Posted 9:50pm Monday 11th October 2010

The 2010 DCC Mayoral Candidates gathered in the University’s Main Common room last Tuesday, to speak to a small crowd of around 60 students.  Mayoral favourite Cull, who sat at 45.9 percent in the latest ODT poll, didn’t show, claiming he was stuck in traffic in Waikouaiti. Read more...

Execrable - 26

Posted 9:48pm Monday 11th October 2010

Once again shit was super dull. Yeah, Critic’s a whiner, but this time, all the Execcies looked pretty over the whole shebang as well. It is almost painful for Critic to relive this, but OUSA undertook four mind-numbing phone interviews with NZUSA presidential hopefuls, so that they could Read more...

For those of you who can’t get enough of voting

Posted 9:15pm Monday 11th October 2010

Voting closes on 9 October for local body elections, in which voters will elect their new Dunedin City Council, Otago Regional Council, and Southern District Health Board. Voting will be held by postal election (if you haven’t received your voting pack, you probably aren’t enrolled). Seven Read more...

Execrable - 25

Posted 2:00am Monday 11th October 2010

It seemed at first as though the meeting would be crazily brief: quorum was only just met, and Ros needed to leave in seven minutes. Needless to say, Critic was stoked. An hour in, Ros was frantic, and Imogen subbed in for her. By this point Critic was a lot less stoked. Somebody asked whether Read more...