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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
Thrice a year, the OUSA exec team submit reports on what they’ve been up to. We’ve summarised those here for your convenience. President: Melissa Lama Melissa has been absolutely killing it. She’s done 44 interviews with various media outlets and attended to her
In what would prove to be their last chance to greet the voting public before lockdown, OUSA’s candidates for the 2022 Exec took the stage last week to share their plans for the coming year. All of the forums were held in the Main Common Room. The Presidential race was uncontested from day
A bureaucratic nightmare of 32,211 words Nobody set the minimum page count of the Exec’s second quarterly reports of 2021 at seven pages, but they chose to write that much, anyway. We read through all of them to let you know who’s doing what. Points were given exclusively for brevity, because that’s the only thing we can appreciate at this point in the year. It’s not that this stuff isn’t important, it’s just long and filled with acronyms. Haha words go brrrr. 1. Melissa Lama, President of the University of Otago Pacific Islands Students’ Association (UOPISA), 2,004 words. Vibe...
Departments Inconsistent on Disability Note-taking Service University being shit about disabilities and providing an inconsistent level of service? WHY DO I HAVE DÉJÀ VU? 750 students across the university receive lecture notes from peer note-takers, but inconsistencies across departments are still a barrier for some students with learning disabilities. Disability Information and Support provides a range of assistance to around 1500 students each year, half of whom use the peer notetaking system. This system involves students providing a set of notes from each lecture in a paper to Disabil...