I realized after posting that I should apologize to former residents of Rochester & Rutherford. You are seen (studying too much in the library or back in your room), you exist.

Jules Knox College in Dunedin had a matron who students could access. Surely these students would benefit from having a matron too, instead of admin staff with pretentious titles who’ve done nothing to stop them from going hungry and now becoming ill. Fat lot of use hiring another assistant to the lucrative business owners will be.

‘Profit before people ‘ is one thing, but profit before children’s well-being is obscene. Sepuloni should never have knee-capped the Commissioner for Children when they have never needed one more.

Richard Christie. Ditto at Otago. Lots of spaghetti and shepherd’s pie straight from the kitchen, and we also got to eat the food of the no-shows, so we were never hungry. It’s mind boggling that in a country with good primary produce that students paying big bucks with big loans should be hungry, and food poisoning at exam time is dreadful.

I understand that College House is the only hall of residence with any independence left. The former Bishop Julius Hall was rebranded by a corrupt former board to ‘Arkady Hall’ in an attempt to build towards selling it to UniLodge like University Hall was. I understand alumni managed to block that attempt, but it’s only a matter of time.

I spent a year in Canterbury’s Uni Hall in the late 70s, the catering to a similar number of students was in-house and it delivered wholesome large meals, often seconds offered, only drawback being that menus were a little NZ-1970’s unimaginative.
This was well before the Dodger mutilated the economy but why it ever needed to be contracted to an international monster corporation is beyond me.