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The Otago University Students' Association (OUSA) has decided Radio One will not be sold. But it says other assets may have to be pruned to keep the association solvent.

A self-imposed spell in a "prison cell" ended for Otago University Students Association president Logan Edgar yesterday, when he emerged from a cage where he has lived for almost two days.

Is Logan Edgar the clown prince of student politics at the University of Otago?

Representatives from the 112 clubs and societies at the University of Otago pitched their causes to students at the Union Hall yesterday.

Radio One is due to resume broadcasting programmes today, after a week spent off the air in protest at a proposal it be sold.

"Ambient" noise broadcast on student station Radio One during the weekend was the sound of protest, as the independent media organisation rallies against a proposal by its owner, the Otago University Students' Association, to sell the station.

Unruly students facing expulsion under the University of Otago's code of conduct may soon have peer representatives to hear their case, after a referendum vote called for the Otago University Students' Association to drop its ongoing opposition to the code.

Voting for the next Otago University Students' Association president has started with the four candidates urging undergraduates to rise above apathy and hit the polling booths.

University Students Association president Harriet Geoghegan says the association is in good heart and will not be damaged by her early resignation.

Uncertainty over the future has forced the Otago University Students Association (OUSA) to bring in a business consultant to plug the gap left by the resignation of its general manager.

ACT New Zealand Party MP Heather Roy took a shot on Saturday at student opposition to her Bill requiring voluntary membership of students' associations.

The Otago University Students Association executive has voted to seek downgraded "associate membership" of the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations (NZUSA), in a move which could badly damage the national student body.

The gaping hole in the hallway floor may be a hazard, the four rats in the lounge may be disgusting, and the graffiti-covered walls could make your nana blush, but for five flatmates on Union St West, their flat is simply home.

Between them, the Otago University Students' Association and the Otago Polytechnic Students' Association collected more than $3.7 million this year from almost 30,000 members, but their revenue base could dry up overnight if Act New Zealand's Voluntary Student Membership Bill is passed. Tertiary education reporter Allison Rudd investigates whether the associations would survive.

Otago University Students Association (OUSA) will use its van to make a mercy dash to Christchurch later this week, carrying water and tinned food to help students in the quake-affected city.

The Otago University Students' Association (OUSA) is considering a mercy dash to Christchurch to help students in the quake-affected city.