In high school science classes, the moment when we chose lab partners was crucial. It meant deciding whether to pair off with a buddy who may or may not have technical competence with petri dishes, electron microscopes, and Bunsen burners, or to strike out on a perilous journey across the classroom in an attempt to… Read more »
The Returning Student Award is AUSU’s newest student award, and was first offered in May 2009. The award is ?intended to recognize the courage of students who return to university after two or more years away from formal schooling,? with preference given to those students who ?have been away from formal education for longer periods,?… Read more »
Cynthia Sayer is a New York-based jazz banjo phenomenon whose latest album, Attractions, on Plunk Records, was recently reviewed in The Voice. She recently took the time to talk with Wanda Waterman St. Louis about her childhood, jazz banjo, and why she decided against a legal career. The Childhood My early childhood was in Massachusetts,… Read more »
Book: New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness Publisher: Between the Lines Publication date: 2009 Eds. Karen Dubinsky, Catherine Krull, Susan Lord, Sean Mills, and Scott Rutherford The Other ?60s ?From Brazil to Vietnam, from the Dominican Republic to Algeria, from Mali to Indonesia, from Bolivia to Greece, US fleets, air… Read more »
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Dear Barb: I am a single mother of a 12-year-old daughter. We have always been really close, until recently. Melissa has changed so much over the last few months. She is hanging around with a new crowd of girls that I don’t approve of. She has always been rather modest in her dress but now… Read more »
While most AU students enjoy the flexibility of distance education and the freedom it gives them from the confines of scheduled classes, there are also inherent difficulties in the process. For example, when learning French by distance education, how are students to cope with distance education’s lack of face-to-face interaction? ?An essential aspect of language… Read more »
New 2010 AUSU Handbook/Planners The new AUSU Handbook/Planners are in the final stages of creation, and should be available within the next couple of months. We had great response on it being full colour, so we’ll be doing that once more. Also, numerous suggestions for improvements have been heard and we’re fitting in what we… Read more »
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At Home: Blind sled dog ready to retire It’s not unusual that Isobel, a husky-cross sled dog, is ready for retirement. She’s nine years old, a standard age for sled-dog retirement. What is unusual is that Isobel is blind?and She’s been running that way for the past five years. As the CBC reports, Isobel ?staggered… Read more »