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The debt owed by a Victoria University Students Association officer who made thousands of dollars worth of phone calls to a psychic hotline has been repaid in full, the association president says.
Acting women's rights officer Clelia Opie was dumped from her position when it emerged she had been making calls to 0900 numbers from phones in the student union building, racking up a bill of nearly $6000, the student magazine Salient has reported.
Her predilection for fortune telling was exposed after a bizarre evening at the student union offices when another association member went on an alcohol-fuelled graffiti-scribbling rampage.
Ms Opie was on the phone making lengthy expensive calls to 0900 numbers and refused requests from suspicious association officers to hang up.
Association president Geoff Hayward described the fallout from the evening as the worst day of his presidency.
Ms Opie was removed from her post - which she had been co-opted into after an elected member resigned - three weeks later.
Mr Hayward said yesterday that all the money had been repaid, and the matter was closed.
- NZPA
