Scarfie

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Nickname for a student of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Derived from the cold local climate and the tradition of wearing gold and blue striped scarves^[1]. Although current students rarely wear the bright scarves, it is a commonly used name for the students in national press ^[2] and by the University - including by the Otago University Students' Association's "Scarfie" magazine^[3]. In plural form, it was the title of a 1999 film about a group of Otago students who discover a large crop of marajuana in their basement.