“...Give me money [the best student flat New World supermarket vouchers]. Give me models [the worst student flat a professional clean]...” It’s finally here. The first cycle of Dunedin’s Next Top Model Flat. The competition is fierce*. The judges are fearsome**. Do you have what it takes to make it to the top? Proudly brought to you by Nivea OUSA. Who will be New Zealand’s Dunedin’s Next Top Model Flat? [Enter by] This Friday TV3 [email why to welfare@ousa.org.nz***]. *Competition is open to flats in any state! It’s what you’ve made of it that matters. Prizes for best and worst student flat, along with the runners-up and spot prizes. The best flat wins a flat shop to the value of $150 at New World Supermarket. The worst flat wins five hours’ worth of professional cleaning services. Enter now and be in the running for Dunedin’s Next Top Flat. Love, Sara Claire Top Model Host and Owner of 62 Model Managment Welfare Officer PS Happy 85th Birthday Critic! From the OUSA Exec **Mayoral candidates will be the judges. Don’t be fearful, though, as it’ll be the other way round come voting day when you decide who stays and who goes from the Next Top Model House Dunedin City Council. *** “...Do you wanna be on top [the best or worst]?” If so, tell us why via SARA [E]MAIL – welfare@ousa.org.nz – by this Friday. Possible reasons for your place being the best flat could include that you have a cleaning roster so functional no one’s fallen-out over it all year. The worst flat might have been trashed by a wasted ‘friend’/no one’s owned up to that spew in the corner from Re-O/passive-aggressive Post-It notes have become the only way of communicating ...
Kia ora, Welcome back to the last quarter of the year. So, let’s break it down. This means: • 6 weeks of lectures; • 4.5 weeks of exams; • 4 weeks of writing for Honours students with the October 1 due date; • 8 weeks for the lucky honours dudes with the November 1 due date; • 9 weeks until the end of the academic year; • and 16 weeks until Christmas (more importantly, 17 weeks until New Year’s). And – what does this mean??? It means: • It’s time for you to catch up on last semester’s lectures that you were ‘going to catch up on during semester break’. • It’s time to do that assignment that’s due at the end of the week that you were ‘going to catch up on during semester break’. • It’s time to set new, realistic goals of a) going to class, b) doing lecture notes after class and c) getting on to those assignments sooner rather than later. • Sticking to your new goals. • And it time to start prepping for exams – find your study space, find your method of study – whether you’re a visual, kinaesthetic, verbal, find your study group, just make sure you start prepping before it is too late! Now feel free to cut this out, copy it in to your diary, re-write it in your own words, print it out and put it above your head – you’ll thank me in the long run. On to more glorious news, it’s time to publicly and formally thank and congratulate our 2011 candidates. Our successful candidates are: • Ariana Te Wake - Tumuaki / President • Rimutere Wharakura - Kaituhi / Secretary • Courtney Heke-McColgan - Kaitiaki Putea / Treasurer • Lisa Pohatu - Kaiwhakahaere / General Executive • Keistin Woodman and - Kaiwhakahaere / General Executive • Rewiri Newton - Kaiwhakahaere / General Executive The votes were few and far between for our kaiwhakahaere/general exec members. However Te Rito and Te Roopu Maori would also like to thank Abbey Corbett for submitting her nomination and inform tauira that we feel we are in a secure place to increasing our governance, which will be mean Abbey will have a position in 2011. Te Rito would also like to thank all the tauira who took time out of their busy schedule. We had a record number of votes this year and I guess we can thank our friend Facebook for that. And I should really apologise. I said in an email that if you voted you wouldn’t get another email bombarding you to vote but … I lied. So I, Fallyn Flavell, apologise for lying to you, please forgive me. On that note, welcome back, have a great semester, and more importantly set those goals and achieve them. 41