Students "loitering" on the footpath outside Otago Polytechnic to smoke "make it look like a British council estate", one staff member says.
The polytechnic went totally smoke-free on May 31 last year, but design department staff member Simon Swale said "tribes of smoking students" were now smoking on the footpath, particularly outside H block, on the corner of Union St East and Forth St.
It was a bad look for the polytechnic and the students left their Robinson cigarette ends all over the footpath, he said in an email to the staff subcommittee.
