Grass skirts, two bananas and thanking Winston Peters

Inside the emails to senior University of Otago management

A while ago I was contacted by a person about an announcement concerning a brand change. There appeared to be a bit of nervousness about the move.

I couldn’t really see what the fuss was about, and I chalked the story up (hence the Otago reporter byline below).

New Māori name and symbol proposed for the University of Otago

Otago reporter 15:00, Mar 15 2023

That story is here.

Surely people aren’t that fussed by a new Māori name and tohu (symbol)? Surely!

I. Was. Wrong.

People were fussed, they were really fussed indeed.