As the start of student Orientation looms next week, Otago University Students' Association staff and volunteers were busy yesterday delivering nearly 4000 "college packs" to Dunedin colleges of residence.
Members of Otago Combined Christian Groups, a collaborative Christian organisation, worked intensively helping to put the packs together, and then OUSA staff and volunteers delivered about 3800 of them to colleges of residence.
The "packs" consist of green carry bags, filled with OUSA and Orientation-linked information, year planner charts, leaflets and fliers, and some free products provided by Dunedin firms, including bottles of ginger beer and large cookies.
OUSA communications co-ordinator Alasdair Johnston said the packs provided first-year students, many of them from the North Island, with a guide and a welcome to OUSA, and information about Orientation.
Care had been taken in selecting material for the packs, so newcomers to Dunedin were given helpful guides but not overloaded with information, he said.
