SME Playwright Centre for Language and Literature professor Dave Brundage reports that Vern Thiessen has been hired on an SME (subject matter expert) contract, to help Dave develop English 402: Writing for Performance. Dave says that Vern has already found some promising sites; and they will be amalgamating these into a senior level course in… Read more »
New Governing Council Member Athabasca University is pleased to announce that the Lieutenant Governor in Council has appointed Joy Romero as a member of the Athabasca University Governing Council. Ms. Romero is presently the Director, Bitumen Production at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. in Calgary, where she resides. She has served in various leadership roles in… Read more »
Flipping channels one afternoon I bumped into Arnold Schwarzenegger in a fur outfit. Since much of Alberta was locked in sub zero temperatures and there were fires in the scenes I felt a bit warmer watching. I wondered if I’d previously missed Arnold in One Million Years B.C. but then I remembered he wasn’t in… Read more »
This week marks the conclusion of our original short novel, Forgotten Promise. Let us know what you thought, and if you would like to see this type of feature in the Voice again. We are still seeking student fiction for our upcoming fiction column. Send your stories, poems, plays, or any other short fiction to… Read more »
GOVERNMENT DISCOVERS STUDENTS IN DEBT! The Canada Millenium Scholarship Foundation has found (http://www.millenniumscholarships.ca/en/research/ekos.html) that 70% of students undertake some type of debt in order to further their education. Hardly news, but it certainly seems to be to the Federal Government. More interesting, however, is that the study goes much deeper into looking at what types… Read more »
Dear Sandra is on hiatus this week while Sandra takes a much deserved vacation. To keep the column relevant to you, Sandra needs more questions to answer! If you have a question that you would like Sandra to answer, write her at smoore@ausu.org The Voice does not collect information on people who send in questions,… Read more »
Since the advent of radio, books have seemed in danger of obsolescence. First radio plays, then television, and finally the Internet, have all presented both fact and fiction in an engaging, lively manner with which some feared books could not compete. However, to those who love the printed page, these media are nothing more than… Read more »
If you’re like many of the rest of us, your cupboards and storage areas are full of empty jars. Whenever the original contents are gone, we clean the jars out and put them away thinking we’ll find a use for them “one of these days”. The jars pile up until there are more jars than… Read more »
The conclusion of a continuing series about the Canadian Television talent competition, Popstars: The One. For part one of this series, see: http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=382 As the evening wore on, I jumped every time the phone rang, worried that it might be Amaya with another “missed plane” story. Fortunately no call came, and close to midnight we… Read more »
From March 11th to the 14th, 2003 I had the opportunity to be a part of the first ever National Forum On Post-Secondary Education hosted by the University of Manitoba’s Student Union (UMSU) in Winnipeg. 45 student delegates from all across Canada came to represent their various colleges, technical institutes, and universities in an attempt… Read more »