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Research Subjects Wanted

Distance and Open Education Effects on Accessibility for First Generation Learners – Research Subjects Wanted Participants must be: ? first generation post-secondary distance education students or alumni ? fluent in English ? at least 18 years old Respondents who complete our survey will be entered to win $150. To participate or for information, email: survey@leximortis.com… Read more »

Music To Eat Lunch To – Mecca Normal – The Observer

Release Date: 2006 Label: Kill Rock Stars Tracks: 12 Rating: 10 Ever listened to the Velvet Underground, the more psychedelic Jefferson Airplane songs, or Janis Joplin? Mecca Normal is the modern Canadian culmination of that particular sound, known to some as the ?riot grrl? genre. It’s feminist, political, personal, and everything mundane wrapped up in… Read more »

Education News – New ‘Maple Leaf Major’

In Toronto, Ryerson University students have a rich array of resources to enhance their education: a world-class city as an example for urban-planning studies; arts facilities to enrich art and design studies. In Charlottetown, students at the University of Prince Edward Island enjoy the perfect setting to study environmental sciences, and have access to small… Read more »

From Where I Sit – It’s All About Focus

Have you ever noticed that the moment you buy a red car you see nothing but red cars just like yours everywhere? Or if I said “Don’t think about the colour blue,” that’s all you would see or think about? With millions of sensory stimuli bombarding us daily, we need to be able to ignore… Read more »

Letter To The Editor Re: “Ban The Trans”

We love to hear from you! Send your questions and comments to voice@ausu.org, and please indicate if we may publish your letter. Re: “Ban the Trans: These Sorry Lipids Should Go Away” by Rob Fursiewicz, v15 i03 (2007-01-19) In his article, Rob Fursiewicz calls the trans fat regulation critics? Big Brother slippery-slope argument ?fallacious.? What… Read more »

Click On This – Music Mania & Bizzartery

Music Mania TuneFind http://www.tunefind.com/ Find songs you’ve heard on television or in movies. The Vinyl Villain http://thevinylvillain.blogspot.com/ Dust off those old platters and share them with the world. Pink Floyd – Echoes http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/echoes/ Listen to Floyd online; just click a square! Worst Lyrics of All Time http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid14634.aspx While I have seen worse than some of… Read more »

Career Choices – Expanding Your Horizons

As a student at Mount Royal College completing the last year of my Psychology degree at Athabasca University, I recently attended an AU workshop called “Career as a Process and Not an Event.” Organized by Anita Spence, our Academic Advisor, and facilitated by Shannon Yates, a tutor in AU’s Centre for Psychology, this workshop left… Read more »

Music To Eat Lunch To – Machine Head: The Blackening

Release Date: March 2007 Label: Roadrunner Tracks: 8 Rating: 7 Machine Head formed in 1992 and since the release of their very first album the band has faced harsh censorship and criticism of videos and lyrical content that just won’t stop reflecting current events: the single “Davidian” was pulled from MTV after complaints of its… Read more »