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*Surprise!* Farry’s f.u.b.a.r. Stadium not attracting first year Efts

BLUNDER CITY #DUD —AND THE STADIUM REVIEW AIN’T NO HELP

Ivy 1 [galleryhip.com]Ivy League Assaults: Dumber and Dumber due to UE failure, drunkenness, fires, civil disorder, better campus and study offerings up north and overseas?

AWAIT UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO PRONOUNCEMENTS AFTER THE MARCH MEETING OF THE HALLOWED UNIVERSITY COUNCIL

A ‘PUBLIC RELATIONS EPIC’ IS EXPECTED

### ODT Online Tue, 10 Mar 2015
University roll worry realised
By Timothy Brown
Fears of University of Otago first-year student numbers falling for the first time since 2011 appear to be realised, with “serious” vacancies at Knox College and Salmond College. About 10% of beds at the two non-university run colleges remain vacant and the Otago University Students’ Association revealed, earlier this year, the University of Otago could face a drop in first-year student numbers.
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Both Knox and Salmond have undergone recent building upgrades and provide excellent pastoral care in quiet settings – who then, would choose a university-owned rough-house college if you were serious about career education.

What sort of undergrad student is the University of Otago attracting nowadays? Party animals? Generation Zero lefties? Discount ivy-leaguers (Kiwi-Asian style)? And how come accommodation at college halls is so steep? It’s an obscene weekly cost if mummy and daddy aren’t paying, so yes, way better(?) to camp out in the grunge and gunge flats of Studentville —or hey, move up the hill to sink the tone of City Rise, look at all those “historic-kick-apart” villas and mansions, incredibly suited to Face Book parties and upsetting middle class owner-occupiers next door. Cripes, at each former family or professional home there’s room to park “6 cars!”, yes, the cash-cow landlords will happily (just ask) destroy established 100-year-old plantings and gardens to lay down asphalt.

Welcome to ‘Absolutely Beautiful’, Dunedin. Welcome to the student ghettos, the broken streetscapes…. smashed bottles, lingering trash, burnt furniture, bouncing basketballs (all hours, Really Dumb like that), drying vomit and worse, weeds, untrimmed trees and hedges, a few kicked-in fences, more asphalt, flaking paint at once proud residences, stickering with satellite dishes and heat pumps, strings of poorly washed laundry draping house fronts. But who can forget the “Dunedin Sound”, of nights, drunken male yahoos, uncoordinated white trash hakas and ‘young girl’ screams, passion or torture, hard to tell. 111.

THIS is, Dunedin FOR Education.
Student loans FOR Banks and Slum Landlords.
Google Images: “castle street hyde street dunedin”

And Harlene, next! Frat Life starts in on St Leonards – just a quick ride from your Ivy League of diminished offerings, that overpriced BA, BCom or BSc.

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University Partyville, North Dunedin: Put the cameras in ~!!

Dunedin disorder 1 [stuff.co.nz]Dunedin disorder [stuff.co.nz]

“We’ve earned the right to live away from home and live by ourselves and do what we want and I don’t think we should be baby-sat or monitored,” Ms Walker said. Students “should be able to be stupid on the weekend” and the situation had improved from previous years. –Maddy Walker (21), student

“If you look at the costs to city council every year of holes burnt in Leith St, Hyde St, Dundas St … some years it’s been $600,000.” –Cr Lee Vandervis

### ODT Online Fri, 1 Aug 2014
Call for north end cameras
By Vaughan Elder
A Dunedin city councillor is calling for video surveillance of the student quarter as a way of preventing out-of-control vandalism. The call for surveillance from Cr Lee Vandervis was not welcomed by north end residents and students spoken to yesterday, who said such a move would be an invasion of privacy. Cr Vandervis said video surveillance in the Octagon worked well and there was no reason why it could not be successfully employed in North Dunedin. “I believe we need to have some cameras up and we need to have a few prosecutions.”
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A Traditionally Burnt-out Couch

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University of Otago: NEGATIVE PRESS: Weekly disorder in Dunedin campus area

● Unacceptable student and non-student behaviour ● Vice-chancellor Harlene Hayne’s bid to bring students into line fails ● Dunedin’s multi-agency approach to campus area unrest not working

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### ODT Online Mon, 25 Mar 2013
Students blame authorities
By Rosie Manins and Eileen Goodwin
Drunken disorder in the student quarter is being exacerbated by police and council intervention, university students and Castle St residents say, citing a Saturday night incident as a classic example. At least one private Castle St party was shut down by a Dunedin City Council noise control officer about 10pm, forcing people out of the flat, on to the street.

$$$ ● About 300 people had gathered on the street by 11pm, when four Dunedin firefighters arrived in an appliance to extinguish two couch fires.
$$$ ● The size of the crowd prompted them to call for a back-up appliance and crew from Roslyn, as well as for police attendance.
$$$ ● At the same time, four Willowbank firefighters in an appliance were called to a Dundas St mattress fire.
$$$ ● They were finished in time to respond as back-up in Castle St, so the Roslyn crew was stood down, then immediately called out to back up a St Kilda crew, attending a fire in Harrow St.
$$$ ● In total, seven furniture fires were extinguished in the student area on Saturday night.
$$$ ● More than a dozen police officers, including a dog handler and two paddy wagon crews, arrived in Castle St to disperse the crowd about midnight.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull said if people’s behaviour on private property was excessive and had to be curtailed, it made no sense for them to assume such behaviour in public was acceptable.
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What do we think of OUSA…
Close down the Hyde St party never to return?

### ODT Online Sun, 24 Mar 2013
Moves to increase safety at Hyde St keg party
By Vaughan Elder
The Otago University Students’ Association has settled on a range of measures to make this year’s Hyde St keg party safer, including a ”one-way” policy from as early as 2pm. An estimated 5000 people attended last year’s party, which was marred by 15 arrests, the collapse of a roof overloaded with partygoers and 80 people requiring treatment by St John. The OUSA has been looking at ways to make this year’s April 13 party safer. OUSA president Francisco Hernandez said apart from limiting numbers, it had settled on a range of measures, including a ”one-way door” policy, with non-resident party-goers who leave the street barred from returning. It was also looking at making it a 10am to 5pm party, he said.
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D Scene – Stabbing DCC over Undie 500, alcohol and the ghetto

### D Scene 23-9-08
Front cover: Burning issues
The council and the liquor industry have come in for scathing criticism for contributing to the boozy and couch-burning culture of Otago University students. We investigate as the fallout continues from the latest mayhem.
See pages 4-7

Try the mirror (page 3)
By Dave Wood, acting editor
So Undie 500s trigger the mayhem at the North Dunedin student enclave. Health authorities, a university researcher, and a lecturer point the finger firmly at the council, saying its decisions – and lack of decisions – are much to blame.

Undie fallout continues (page 4)
By Michelle Sutton
Dunedin City Council and North Dunedin’s student ghetto are copping blame for the latest boozy student chaos.

Council failed to act on recommendations: Kypri (page 4)
By Michelle Sutton
Dunedin City Council is blasted for its part in booze problems leading to this month’s Castle St carnage. Senior researcher at Australia’s Newcastle University, Dr Kypros Kypri put 11 recommendations to the Dunedin City Council in 2003.

PHS points finger at city Council (page 5)
Drinking to get drunk is a social norm among Dunedin students, but they cannot be blamed solely for the problems that then arise, say local health authorities.

Student behaviour ‘moronic’: Ellis (page 5)
One of Otago University’s most infamous scarfies, TV personality and All Black Marc Ellis, calls the Castle St riots “moronic”.

Dunedin is the couch-burning capital of the world, reckons television builder John Cocks (Cocksy). MC at the building industry’s southern region young apprentice of the year awards, he observed: “When you buy a couch here, they ask, ‘Do you want petrol with that?’ ” (page 6)

Society needs to ‘look at self’ (page 6)
By Michelle Sutton
Middle-aged New Zealand needs to look at itself before blaming students for the drunken riots against police, says Kevin Mechen of the Dunedin City Council.

Chaplains ready for disgraced students (page 6)
By Wilma McCorkindale
Campus chaplains are bracing themselves for months, maybe years, of effects on disgraced students from the Undie 500 mayhem in Castle St. University of Otago ecumenical chaplain Rev Greg Hughson supported many in court after the Undie 500 two years ago.

Student ghetto to blame (page 7)
North Dunedin’s student ghetto is singled out as a major factor leading to Castle St’s carnage at the Undie 500 weekend. Otago University music lecturer Graeme Downes offer some insight in his blog about events that led to 67 arrests, about 80 percent of whom were Dunedin students.

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STS to tell members to pay (page 9)
Stop The Stadium will recommend to its members to pay almost $10,000 to the Dunedin City Council. President Dave Witherow says the committee will recommend paying the costs at a special meeting for members, to be held on October 18. The special meeting will also deal with STS’s future actions.

Building a bar (page 19)
Dunedin’s youngest pub baron and former scarfie Richard McLeod tells D Scene about building a bar empire with his mate James Arnott, and the Liquor Licensing Authority decision that threatens to topple it over. Michelle Sutton reports.

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