This week, I got the Council Meeting report from the last AUSU Council meeting completed, with some light reporting on the newly approved budget and upcoming AUSU fee increase. Initially I was thinking of going through category by category noting significant differences, but in looking through, most of the changes except the one I singled… Read more »
Library Chat Tues, Sep 5, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page Who, me? Cheat?: ChatGPT and Generative AI Tues, Sep 5, 12:30 to 1:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Write Site, AU… Read more »
The Voice Magazine recently had a chance to chat with Aman Sahi (she/her), a Bachelor of Psychology student who hopes to become a registered psychologist currently residing in Airdrie, Alberta. Originally from India, having moved to Canada ten years ago with her husband, Aman has spent the last seven years in Airdrie. This future psychologist… Read more »
The meeting came to order at 6:03 with VP External Manmeet Kaur, Councillor Karen Fletcher, and Indigenous Circle Council Voice Rylee Feschuk absent with regrets. The agenda was amended to add an item regarding the Executive Compensation Review Committee (ECRC). This is the committee AUSU establishes to review the AUSU executive compensation, comparing it to… Read more »
PARTICIPANTS NEEDED FOR RESEARCH ON INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE SURVIVORS’ EXPERIENCES Have you ever been subjected to violence by an intimate partner? Did a law enforcement officer respond to an incident of abuse? Are you 18 years of age or older? We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study of intimate partner violence… Read more »
Karl Marx reveals himself as quite the psychologist when we research him that way; he divides needs and wants as one would computer fonts, some based on the essence of our humanity as creative beings and some, for lack of a better word, as essentially oppressed by nonsensical cultural wing-dings. To Marx, social reality makes… Read more »
Thomas was a portrait painter by vocation. Until he met Ellen. He’d been commissioned to paint her portrait for her 18th birthday, and that painting marked the end of his portrait career. It’s more complicated than that. He did paint her portrait. Over the course of many sittings, Thomas and Ellen fell in love. She… Read more »
Scholarship name: William M Farley Memorial Award Sponsored by: Canadian Western Agribition Deadline: October 1, 2023 Potential payout: $1500 Eligibility restriction: Applicants must be passionate about agriculture and have participated in CWA as a participant or volunteer themselves or with their family, be enrolled in any academic program in a post-secondary educational institution, and be… Read more »
Society’s seemingly singular understanding of how one can damage their liver and get diagnosed with fatty liver disease might be attributed to the popular belief that if a person does not indulge in the dangers of drugs and alcohol, then indulging in life’s simple pleasures courtesy of sweets and pastries should be okay. The reality… Read more »
A person’s “identity” can be one of the most complicated aspects of a person and even more so in pluralistic societies that are a melting pot of identities. Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home is a book that explores the idea of identity in a globalized world, focusing on exploring early Ukrainian Canadians and their connection… Read more »