Study group or organized cheating forum? That’s the question facing the engineering faculty appeals committee at Ryerson University after a student there was charged with academic misconduct for running an online study group. As the Toronto Star reported, the first-year student administered a Facebook group that was ostensibly a place where chemistry students ?swapped tips… Read more »
I’m a little choked another winter has come and (almost) gone without us having had a sun-soaked getaway. We’d been kicking around the idea of returning to a different part of Mexico or perhaps checking out the Dominican Republic, Cuba, or Jamaica. We looked over the Journal?s Saturday travel section, checked online sites, and talked… Read more »
On Saturday, March 8, the lines lit up for the 15th annual AUSU Annual General Meeting! Including council, a total of 22 AUSU members dialled in, and the topics ranged from budget issues to online course evaluations. After the agenda and 2007 AGM minutes were approved, the floor was opened for members to discuss the… Read more »
In June, AU’s Florene Ypma (a course materials editor at AU Central) will join over 200 other cyclists as they cycle across country to battle poverty. The goal is to raise $1.5 million to help aid the world’s poor. The group’s nine-week tour will begin June 28 in Seattle, Washington, and end in Jersey City,… Read more »
Are you an AU grad student? If you are, do you know about all the services and information available to you through the Athabasca University Graduate Students’ Association (AUGSA)? Created in 2007, the AUGSA is ?dedicated to serving its students worldwide, by promoting a global community and acting as a liaison between students and the… Read more »
At Home: P.E.I. pop can bust A man in Prince Edward Island lost close to 10,000 cans of pop to a seizure by the provincial environmental agency in charge of upholding the pop can laws there. To date, this is the largest pop can bust in the history of P.E.I. In 1984 Prince Edward Island… Read more »
Next time you visit Athabasca University’s home page, check out the ?I Stand Out? banner at the top of the page. The banner features photos of AU students in their home towns. But did you know the banner is interactive? Click on the banner and you’ll enter a mini site. Along with links to courses,… Read more »
Release date: November 2007 Label: Fat Wreck Chords Tracks: 24 Rating: 10 ?Hi my name’s Mike . . . and I’m an alcoholic.? ?Hi Mike!? Enter NOFX with the latest live recording: They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live, and you’ve got all the usual Fat Mike, El Hefe, and Eric Melvin dialogue mixed with musical improvisation,… Read more »
EDMONTON (CUP) — A national shortage of computer science graduates has the industry scrambling to find employees, but fewer and fewer women are taking part in those programs. Today, only half as many women as in the 1970s are completing computer science degrees, and academics are trying to figure out why. ?Twenty years ago, more… Read more »
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