Students, start your engines: A short history of the Undie 500By the end it was was best known for the drunken brawls that marked its conclusion each year, but for a time the Undie 500 was a (relatively) innocent Christchurch-to-Dunedin lark.By Chelle Fitzgerald | 10th January, 2021Guest writer
Students, start your engines: A short history of the Undie 500By the end it was was best known for the drunken brawls that marked its conclusion each year, but for a time the Undie 500 was a (relatively) innocent Christchurch-to-Dunedin lark.By Chelle Fitzgerald | 1st March, 2020Guest writer
What it’s like to be sober at New Zealand’s drunkest universityBeing a student means exam panic, crappy flats and getting wasted, a lot. But what about the non-drinkers? Chelle Fitzgerald talks to Otago University students who gave up booze.By Chelle Fitzgerald | 7th September, 2019Guest writer
Beset by debt: What happens when you have a student loan and leave NZMoving overseas post-graduation? Be prepared for your friendly interest-free student loan to become an out-of-control debt monster, writes Chelle Fitzgerald. By Chelle Fitzgerald | 21st May, 2019Guest writer
A brief history of Dunedin’s wildest student riotsStudents and police who were present at the three most famous Dunedin riots of the last 30 years share what they remember about how it all went down.By Chelle Fitzgerald | 28th April, 2019Guest writer
Summer reissue: Celebrating the heyday of Dunedin student pubsChelle Fitzgerald looks back on the student pubs Dunedin has loved and lost, and talks to Marc Ellis, the celebrity sportsman who tried to resuscitate one of the city's most infamous student hangouts.By Chelle Fitzgerald | 26th December, 2018Guest writer
Dollar drinks on the dancefloor: the heyday of Dunedin student pubsIt's true: once upon a time students regularly drank in bars.By Chelle Fitzgerald | 20th May, 2018Guest writer