UPDATED
On the stadium, tomorrow’s ODT features a Columba College students’ sock initiative: “Get over it”.
Original ideas are hard to come by, at least the socks aren’t red…
The High Court decision – Basil Walker v Otago Regional Council – is due for release this week.
DCC/STS build up for Rodney Hide’s visit to Dunedin on June 17 – will he survive.
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Sucking up: students will donate 50c from the sale of each pair of socks to the Carisbrook Stadium Trust…
### ODT Online Wed, 10 Jun 2009
Stadium cold feet? If the sock fits ‘get over it’
By Ellie Constantine
An enterprising group of Columba College pupils has decided to help Dunedin “get over” Forsyth Barr Stadium by providing warm socks for any cold feet.
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4 Comments
June 10, 2009 at 11:26 am
### ODT Online Wed, 10/06/2009 – 5:42am.
Comment by MikeStk on Nah ….
They have bad advice “get over it” is not is not a unifying message, it’s more like an extra poke in the eye.
June 10, 2009 at 9:08 pm
So true…
### ODT Online Wed, 10/06/2009 – 4:06pm.
Comment by caz on Unholy Socks
I would have thought that these enterprising young ladies would have been encouraged to donate to a worthy cause like the hospice instead of donating to a trust that is exploiting the needy and protecting the greedy.
June 11, 2009 at 6:48 pm
what caz says stands…a free country is not what Paul advocates elsewhere today at What if? If you can’t afford your stadium rates contribution – SELL YOUR HOUSE.
What a socially responsible thought…GOD IS RUGBY.
### ODT Online Wed, 10/06/2009 – 9:04pm.
Comment by PaulontheBay on This is not a holy crusade
I have noticed the rhetoric surrounding this debate sway from moral to now holy. This is not a holy crusade – do not pervert the issues. I would respectfully ask caz to withhold further offensive remarks. The last time I looked this was a free country.
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July 10, 2009 at 12:13 pm
### ODT Online Fri, 10 Jul 2009
Opinion
Harvard graduates respond to wave of financial depredation
By Ian Harris
Can any good thing come out of the current financial turmoil? The tsunami has destroyed many leading companies around the world, battered confidence in financial institutions, unsettled governments, shattered retirement nest-eggs and, thankfully, toppled some of the greed-driven elite who caused the crisis. Among those appalled at their reckless conduct is a group of graduating business students at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Ian Harris is a journalist and commentator
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Compulsory viewing: “lust, passion, romance and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day.”
### ODT Online Fri, 10 Jul 2009
Michael Moore’s new doco about capitalism
Michael Moore’s latest documentary looking at the consequences of big business will be called Capitalism: A Love Story. The documentary is due in United States theatres on October 2.
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