Scholarship name: The Dalton Camp Award Sponsored by: Friends of Canadian Broadcasting Deadline: December 1, 2016 Potential payout: $10,000, with a second award of $2500 limited to post-secondary students What’s required: A 2000-word essay on the link between democracy and the media in Canada. “Essays should be creative, engaging and provocative and be written in… Read more »
My husband turned to me one evening and said, “Do you know that some of our favourite albums turn 25 years old this year?” “Oh yeah? Name them,” I replied. He proceeded to rattle off a list straight from our iTunes playlist. Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes. Pearl Jam, Ten. REM, Out of Time. Niravana, Nevermind…. Read more »
Do you go crazy when drafting papers? Worse yet, does zilch about your essay’s structure stand-out as special? All my life, my intros and conclusions fizzled. And my paper structures? Complex yet homely. Downright homely. That is, until now. You see, I discovered tricks for structuring essays. Tricks that trigger critical thinking. But beware: critical… Read more »
Now that you’re in university you’re expected to lay aside childish things, to take life a little more seriously, and to apply yourself to the pursuit of higher knowledge. The problem is that every so often all the seriousness weighs so heavily it clogs your neural pathways. If you don’t consciously inject a little stupidity… Read more »
Want to know what other students think about an AU course You’re contemplating taking? Check out AUSU’s Course Evaluations! Launched one year ago, the AUSU Course Evaluation tool allows students to provide info to other students on AU undergraduate courses. Students can add their own evaluations on the Course Evaluations page and view summarized evaluations… Read more »
Only a few more days remain until the United States has its election. And despite all the brouhaha That’s been brewing in the media, I expect the results will be fairly routine. Despite sometimes close national polling, state by state polling shows that Hillary Clinton’s advantage in the electoral college is almost assured. My own… Read more »
Before my time, and before the first television sets found their ways into our homes in the 1950s, radio was king. Guglielmo Marconi’s invention of the radio in Italy in 1895 led to more advances in the use of the technology. By 1906, Canadian inventor, Reginald Fessenden did the first public broadcast. Canada’s first national… Read more »
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Dear Barb: My mother and I have not always gotten along and now that we are both getting older I really wish things were different between us. I love her, but I’ve been so involved in my own life that I never think about what she is going through. As my kids are growing up… Read more »
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