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Music Review—Terra

Artist: Eric Alexandrakis Album: Terra: Music Is The Medicine Which Keeps My World Spinning In Harmony [Living With Post-Cancer Trauma Via Music’s Healing Powers]   Eric Alexandrakis has released a musical spoken word album, Terra: Music Is The Medicine Which Keeps My World Spinning In Harmony [Living With Post-Cancer Trauma Via Music’s Healing Powers].  The… Read more »

Dear Barb—The GrandParent Trap

Dear Barb: My fifteen-year-old son is going to be a father again! er Three months ago his fifteen-year-old girlfriend (at the time) gave birth to a baby girl.  I am a grandmother at 35, not what I planned for my life, or my sons’ life.  In fact, I am almost finished my degree at AU,… Read more »

Editorial—Bits and Bobs

I finally managed to finish the AUSU Council Meeting Report for September, less than a week before the next Council Meeting.  I’ll warn you right now it’s a large one because that’s the meeting that AUSU Council approved it’s brand new budget. As always, I like to be able to give students a “short” (it’s… Read more »

Student Sizzle—AU Social Media

AthaU Facebook Group Depends on what you’re studying for.  Responses to a student’s question about course study guides clarifies they are meant to lead you in your studies for the course, not to be used as exclusive exam-prep materials. Discord TutorialU.  In response to a student query in the #general channel about what to expect… Read more »

The Study Dude—Writing a Thesis Statement and Outline

You’ve been assigned your first paper, and it’s 10,000 words.  Your prof stressed that the thesis statement is critical for your success and that your paper structure needs to be sound.  And she wants you to include your outline.  But you don’t even know how to write a thesis statement.  What do you do? Over… Read more »

AUSU Update

This update is provided to The Voice by AUSU. Contact services@ausu.org with questions. Our fall annual Awards and Bursaries have doubled!! This means twice the awards available in the following categories: Academic Achievement       $1,000 ea. (6) AUSU Bursaries                    $1,000 ea. (10) Balanced Student Awards  $1,000 ea. (8) #Igo2AU Award                     $1,000 ea. (4)… Read more »

Scholarship of the Week

Scholarship name:  10 Words or Less Scholarship Sponsored by:  StudentScholarships.org Deadline:  Nov 30, 3021 Potential payout:  $500 Eligibility restriction:  Applicants must be students between the ages of 14-25, who will be  attending school in the Fall of 2022. What’s required:  Comment on any of the sponsor’s Facebook posts about why you deserve the scholarship, using… Read more »

Vintage Voice

You’d be forgiven for thinking that Global Handwashing Day, which occurs each October 15, is a new thing, but it began back in 2008.  Our prescient writers have been on the topic since before then.. Remember when SARS was stunning the world?  Zil-E-Huma Lodhi  summarizes what is known about a new virus spreading around the… Read more »

Fly on the Wall—Mollify Our Minds?

Class discussions express as much about participant egos as they do about the topic at hand.  Professors aren’t immune from becoming over-zealous about their pet topics and students, well, even the best of us can be carried away in flights of fancy as we expound our points of view.  But where loquacity lets off real… Read more »