Marion Donovan was born October 15, 1917, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. and died November 4, 1998, in New York City. Donovan was an inventor who is best known for developing the first waterproof disposable diaper. She was one of only three women in her graduating class at Yale University, where she earned a Master’s Degree… Read more »
MacAndrew Clarke is the Government and Stakeholder Relations Officer for the Canadian Alliance of Student Association (CASA). After a recent conference, he was kind enough to take the time to have a brief interview with Scott Jacobsen about what he does and how it matters for the organization and for AUSU. What is your background… Read more »
I’m not touching the Chartlottetown thing. Theres nothing I can add that hasnt already been said by some pundit somewhere. About the only thing left is my own position, which is the obvious one. Free speech has limits, and the only time it’s acceptable to bring violence is when it’s to stop other violence from… Read more »
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AthaU Facebook Group New AU student Claudio has many questions about AU, and experienced students are chiming in with answers and helpful tips. Jennifer is stymied by a vaguely-worded assignment question for GOVN 450 and seeks student input while she waits for a tutor response. Lots of feedback to Manuela’s comments about the separate course… Read more »
Dear Barb: I have a dilemma; my best friend is dating a woman who is cheating on him. They have been together for almost a year and I never really liked her. I always thought she was a controlling gold-digger. I’ve told Richard how I feel about her and he didn’t take it well. I… Read more »
On Saturday night, we attended a sixty-fifth birthday party for our brother-in-law. It was a fun shindig because it happened at a wooded, eighty-acre parcel of land my sister and brother-in-law and her adult children bought a year ago. It has a collection of outbuildings and power pedestals for campers to plug into. With a… Read more »
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I first began texting Mustafa Mallabozan, a Kurdish musician from Kobany, in 2011 on a language-learning site. Id been using the site officially to learn other languages and unofficially to gather narratives from people in strife-torn Middle Eastern countries. I wasnt eager to learn Kurdish, but I did want first-person accounts of the Syrian war…. Read more »
