Orientation 2009

A TV3 cameraman who was caught up in last month's student toga parade in Dunedin has rejected suggestions that reports faeces were thrown at participants were made up.

A ball of wasabi, raw egg and pig eyes, liver, kidney, heart, lung and tongue. Breakfast anyone?

Bad weather, poor crowd turnouts and the cancellation of events have marred this year's Otago University Students Association Orientation Week, with organisers pledging to be better prepared next year.

Supersized sumo wrestling anyone? How about a spot of bouncy boxing?

There were plenty of spills at the Captain Cook garden bar last night, but few of the liquid variety.

The annual clocktower race went off with a chime and a squeal of excitement at noon yesterday.

The Fresher Competition got physical yesterday as competitors ran, aerobicised, danced and jostled their way to the final day of the week-long event.

Parents of first-year students leaving home for the first time can breathe easy about them behaving and eating their greens in a hall of residence.

Angry George St retailers, who spent hours removing egg, blood, vomit and faeces from shop-fronts yesterday, are calling for the annual student toga parade in Dunedin to be cancelled and for the students association to pick up the cleaning bill.

A group of first-year university students who took part in Tuesday's toga parade say they tolerated violence from others during the event because they "thought it was the tradition and that it was exactly how it usually was".