Toga Toga Toga. You’re singing it in your head aren’t you? The good ol’ Toga party will once again be the opening event to our Orientation festivities. And she’s gonna be a doozy. This year, we’re rolling with a “Rock my Toga” event. See what I did there? Rolling with rock… Rock n Roll. Yeah…
Continue ReadingHow it works is that students or staff bring down the prescribed UC I.D. to reception at the Riccarton Club and sign up for membership thereby meeting the requirements of their club licence. In case you’ve never frequented the Riccarton Club: The Riccarton Club Inc offers a range of facilities…
Continue ReadingYou can find us these days in the James Hight library on the bottom floor, South East side. Our official address is: UCSA,Room 123,James Hight Building,University Drive,Christchurch 8041.PO Box 31311,Ilam,Christchurch 8444.
Continue ReadingThis is your chance - the position of student representative on the University Council is vacant and open for applications! The University Council is the governing body of the University and has the final say on all decisions made. Membership of the Council comprises a wide variety of people from…
Continue ReadingTuesday 8th November 2011 Cup and Show week is an institution on the Canterbury social calendar and the party’s on this year, bigger, brighter and better than ever! So what better excuse is there for the ladies to glam it up and the men to look sharp than at the Cup Day races. Take a break from…
Continue ReadingWell, do we have the job for you! Introducing the UCSA Coordinating Editor, where you get to produce an array of student-oriented content for print and online outlets, and be in charge of your very own* 32-page magazine every week! (* Technically it’s not yours, but if you want to walk around and…
Continue ReadingFebruary University begins on the 21st, to the traditional fanfare. Canterbury Cards and Hard Cards are collected, as students return to a campus that is now smoke-free and a suburb with a liquor ban in place. UC Live has been decommissioned. On the 22nd, the earth screams and falls apart in a…
Continue ReadingNetball Arts vs Commerce: 14-16Eng vs Arts: 13-13Law vs Commerce: 15-17Law vs Arts: 22-20Forestry vs Eng: 7-11 Commerce were declared the overall champions. Football Law vs Science: 1-1Eng vs Law: 1-2Science vs Eng: 1-1 Rugby Scores for rugby were swiftly forgotten, but Engineering took out…
Continue ReadingAmidst student protests at tertiary institutes around the country, the Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill passed its third reading last week and received its Royal assent, thereby passing into law. The law comes into effect as of 1st January 2012, introducing a purely voluntary…
Continue ReadingUniversity of Canterbury Sports Person of the Year Sophie Devine This is a consecutive win for Sophie, having also received the award in 2010. She is a representative of the Black Sticks New Zealand women’s hockey team, as well as a representative of the White Ferns New Zealand women’s cricket…
Continue ReadingYou know that feeling in the morning, when you wake up and you’re so warm in bed that the last thing you can imagine is going for a run? Hell, some days, even the shower seems a bit of an ask… Weak. In Kenya, some women get up at 5am just to get water. Ghana is even more hardcore; they get up…
Continue ReadingThe judges delivering such plaudits for The Laon as: “Rock epic style!”“Retro keytar!”“Modern mix on classic – an identifiable sound.” They were also praised for their opening song, playing the New Zealand National Anthem electric guitar and keytar-style, before jamming their own tunes.In…
Continue ReadingThe 23-year-old, third-year geography student from Gore is taking over the reins from former leader and face of earthquake recovery effort Sam Johnson, who decided to step down from the top spot. Johnson, who created the army after last year’s September earthquake, said he only decided to resign…
Continue ReadingThe battle came after students invited Key up to the mechanical engineering suite with a sign taped to the lab’s window: “John mate, come up for a yarn with your country’s future engineers”. Key complied, and after some discussion of his time as a Canterbury student in the early 1980s, a student…
Continue ReadingAttended by a cavalcade of special guests including the Prime Minister, the earthquake recovery minister, the CERA chief executive, the mayor, and university representatives, the awards were established to recognise people who had embodied the University’s goal of being an institution of “people…
Continue ReadingUC student grade point averages over the first semester this year were slightly up on the same time last year, according to research by the Psychology department. An analysis of grades of students in PSYC105 showed that, while average final exam marks were down slightly on those achieved last…
Continue ReadingA number of amendments to the Bill and compromises had been proposed by politicians and student leaders alike, but none were adopted. Meanwhile, representatives of Te Mana Akonga (National Maori Students’ Association) lodged a Treaty of Waitangi claim against the bill, requesting an urgent…
Continue ReadingThe proposal, dated last Thursday, aims to establish a framework for how compulsory fees for student services are administered, so as to ensure transparency and accountability to students. It directs that student service fees may be applied to advocacy and legal advice, careers information…
Continue ReadingHundreds of academic, general, and technical staff positions at the University of Canterbury may be lost over the next three years as a result of budget shortfalls. The news came last week after an internal University document forecasting the University’s finances over the next ten years was…
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