This column focuses on a wide range of issues affecting post-secondary students. Students are encouraged to submit suggestions and educational topics they are concerned about, or personal experiences with courses or university situations they feel other students should know about. If suggest a topic or a course alert for Taking Notes, contact djabbour@ausu.org PSE an… Read more »
Women now earn six out of every ten university degrees. Yet, according to Lisa Belkin in the New York Times Magazine (October 26, 2003), the workplace has failed women and women are “rejecting the workplace.” In the U.S., it is estimated that between a quarter and a third of professional women are not in the… Read more »
In a recent “day from hell” I had Hilary’s car die for me not once, but twice in two different, busy Fort Saskatchewan highway intersections. The timing was bad, the locations worse. How instructive to see people’s reactions. The majority of people probably knew I didn’t choose this way to spend my day and simply… Read more »
My father has told me many stories of his youth. He quit school early, as did many of the children of his cohort, in order to enter the workforce. He was aged twelve through fifteen while World War Two raged in Europe, and a large proportion of working-class males were overseas fighting and falling in… Read more »
Proving that rock is far from dead, The Sylmarillion’s first release also affirms that the genre is a far more interesting beast than the one-trick-pony that’s galloped Can-rock staples like Nickelback to the realm of slick tour buses and multi-page riders. It’s easy to forget that there was a time when rock stations played everything… Read more »
You don’t understand, my teacher. You were the most beautiful of them all. That’s why I had to do it. That’s why I had to shake you up and down like you were a box of cracker jacks. I just had to know if you were real… I couldn’t leave you not knowing. Here is… Read more »
Vote online by visiting the AUSU home page and following the simple instructions on the front page. Learn more about your candidates. There are many sources of candidate information on the AUSU and Voice websites. To read brief statements from each candidate, and for links to candidate campaign posters and transcripts from the three candidate… Read more »
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AUSU needs two scrutineers for the 2004 AUSU elections. Applicants must be able to be present in the AUSU offices in downtown Edmonton from 9:00 am until 12:00 noon on Sunday, March 21st. Scrutineers will assist the Chief Returning officer in counting and verifying votes from the current AUSU council election. An honorarium of $20… Read more »
To read interviews with your AUSU council candidates, select the links next to each candidite’s name: Mac McInnis: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2647 Karl Low: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2648 Lisa Priebe: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2649 Simon Davenport: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2650 Zil-E-Huma Lodhi: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2651 Lonita Fraser: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2597 Melanie Gray: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2598 Stacey Steele: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2599 Cindy Stobbe: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2626 Joy Krys: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2627 Teresa Neuman: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2628 Shannon Maguire: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2629