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AU E-LETTERS ARE HERE!

AU has launched an exciting new initiative to assist students and more efficiently utilize AU resources. “Electronic letters (e-letters) is a new feature that will enable undergraduate students to view certain letters online – registration, withdrawal, extension, exam, and final grade, to name a few. The process took more than a year, was worked on… Read more »

International News Desk – Space Tourism No Joke

In December 2005, a brand new reality TV show hit the UK airwaves entitled Space Cadets. Hailed as “the biggest prank in television history; the biggest hoax in space,” (Channel 4) the program tricked an entire group of people into believing they were undergoing a bona fide space tourism training program in Russia, followed by… Read more »

The Good Life – Just My Cup of Tea

So the holiday season is over, and the reality of the New Year has landed upon us. The extreme emotions of Christmas, running the whole spectrum from exhilaration and joy to panic and angst, have finally subsided. Now we are faced with the emotional lull of the year’s early months, a time when the snow… Read more »

Different, But Equal

Driving home from work the other day, I couldn’t help but be caught up in a radio caller’s indignant rant against the idea of an alternative high school diploma. If students go out into the world armed with a trades-oriented certificate, the caller argued, employers will consider it as a “lite” diploma, a poor cousin… Read more »

Turning the Pages – Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Well, I did very little (for me) reading over the holidays. I only read seven novels that I can think of. Well, actually there were two or three others that I left at my Mom’s, but I didn’t bring them home to write about). Thank goodness I can get right to writing reviews, because I… Read more »

AU at the Olympics

When the Olympics get underway next month in Italy there will be a number of AU students competing. Once such competitor is Sandra Keith(http://www.sports.sympatico.msn.ca/TopStories/Articles/sandrakeith), biathlete and Bachelor of Commerce student, who is currently in Europe undergoing final preparations: How long have you been competing in biathlon? I started cross-country skiing when I was two years… Read more »