Law faculty hosts, alumni and guests from across Aotearoa New Zealand and around the globe gathered for three days of reminiscing, reuniting, and sharing legal expertise and insights at University of Otago Law celebrations at the weekend.
Looks like we won’t get an Albany St crossing any time soon
The DCC stood remarkably stone-faced last week as the University effectively got on their knees and begged for them to stop taking infrastructure funding away from the tertiary precinct.
The DCC has delayed the tertiary precinct upgrade. The plan has gone from $20 million over the next few years to $1 million all the way down the road in 2030. Kids that were born in 2012 will be freshers that year.
In an effort to avoid aid arriving by the time current students will have kids of their own, the University went to the recent council meetings to try plead their case, and ask the DCC to bring forward construction. University Chancellor Dr Royden Somerville presented in front of the council, and used his five minutes to lay out the benefits of funding an upgrade to the tertiary precinct.