Have you had your eyes set on a potential partner for the longest time yet they’re unresponsive to your cues? Or maybe you’re in a relationship but you’re wondering what to do to show your affection. Since the dawn of civilization, cooking and dining has been a way for us to show appreciation—to celebrate and… Read more »
Congratulations, America! You thought your future was going to look like The Jetsons, or even StarTrek, but, sorry, no. If we had to pick a classic television series that matched the impending doom of American family life, we’d have to refer to the magnificent Addams Family. The Addams family was modelled on a peculiar seam… Read more »
Dear Barb: My sister and I each have two children. Mine are 10 and 12 and hers are 16 and 18. We have always had different ways of raising them: I am a very protective parent, while my sister is more relaxed. We’ve had an ongoing debate about whether a parent should shield their children… Read more »
2005: AU announces the advent of e-letters. This resource-friendly option allowed students to have their letters for course registration, withdrawal, exam, and grades, delivered through their myAU portal. “The process took more than a year, was worked on by eight staff members from the Registrar’s Office and Computing Services, and the program was extensively tested… Read more »
U of A Funding Boost for Science Global News: Science said, “The federal government is investing nearly $24 million towards research equipment at the University of Alberta. On Thursday, the government announced $23.8 million in funding.” These projects to be developed may lead to “ground-breaking results” in adapting forests to climate change and looking into heart… Read more »
Last week was our “soft opening.” We brought in this fancy new website, let people poke around and kick some tires, but didn’t really make a lot of hooplah about it, because we wanted to get some of the last kinks worked out. Like the discussion forums below, which are now separated by story, and… Read more »
AthaU Facebook Group Kimberly asks how student mothers stay organized when taking multiple courses; mothers and others respond with tips and tricks to get coursework—and everything else—done. Mícheál inquires whether anyone has managed to get into med school with a social science degree; responses indicate it’s a long shot at best. Other posts include Edmonton… Read more »
Grab a grand vocab—and romance it. I made a file of delightful words I named “Wordlist.” But crazy spellcheck named it “Wordlust.” Perfect, I thought—a play on love for words. My vocabulary shriveled. So, I stared down a dictionary nightly. I learned that words have multiple meanings that don’t mix or make sense. And whenever… Read more »
There is a debate over whether or not writer’s block is a thing. To which I say, “Of course it is,” as I sit staring at a blank screen. The debate should not be whether or not it is a thing but what is the cause of it. Sometimes it is something simple, for fiction… Read more »
A nightmare scene: our vibrant student minds reduced to a brainless blob! Who cast this malevolent spell? Perhaps it was nefarious alchemy wrought by the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure who stated with slitting simplicity that, prior to language, “thought is merely a vague shapeless mass” (de Saussure in Allan, 316). Language possesses us and subjects… Read more »