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February 24, 2009 - The Otago University Students Association (The school, located in Dunedin, is New Zealand's oldest university) toga parade descended into chaos, leaving Dunedin's main street littered with eggs, garbage and glass, car and shop windows smashed and participants injured.
Three teenagers were arrested on minor disorder charges.
A breakdown in communication is believed to have resulted in hundreds of first-year students assembling an hour earlier than the official 7.30pm start, which may have fuelled the trouble, OUSA president Edwin Darlow said last night.
He believed students' pent-up energy following the cancellation of Orientation events because of wet weather may have contributed.
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