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Music Review – Stephanie Braganza

Artist: Stephanie Braganza Single: “When We Last Kissed” feat. Drega The thing I love most about songs included in the Electronic Dance Music, Pop, and R&B genres are that they are often incredibly catchy, energizing, and uplifting. Stephanie Braganza’s latest single “When We Last Kissed” featuring Drega is all of these, and includes such intoxicating… Read more »

In Conversation with Vinyette, Part II

Vinyette is a rock quartet based in New York City, their music reminiscent of the grunge exuberance of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. There recent single, “Charlie,” is a hard-driving rock protest song about love?with an American-style gypsy?gone bad, a paean of praise to the charms of the lost love at the same time as… Read more »

The Mindful Bard – Anoushka Shankar

Artist: Anoushka Shankar Album: Home “To us, music can be a spiritual discipline on the path to self-realisation, for we follow the traditional teaching that sound is God?Nada Brahma: By this process individual consciousness can be elevated to a realm of awareness where the revelation of the true meaning of the universe?its eternal and unchanging… Read more »

The Fit Student – Practices for Coming to Peace with Yourself

Most everyone wants to feel calm, purpose-driven, and peaceful under any circumstance. While not always achievable, you can change your brain to accept more frequent bouts of calmness. You can retrain your mind to calm down during life’s pressures. You can retrain your mind to show patience at any sign of tension. You can even… Read more »

Minds We Meet – Interviewing Students Like You!

Kristin Jimmy is an AU student from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Originally from Nova Scotia, Kristin has just completed the final course for her Bachelor of General Studies degree from AU. Congrats, Kristin! The Voice Magazine recently interviewed Kristin about school, horseback riding, and northern living. Whereabouts do you live? I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I’m originally… Read more »

Primal Numbers – Fairy Dust and Facials

Want to reduce your wrinkles and renew your cells? Get the shiniest, healthiest hair on the block? Countless skin care and cosmetics brands promise to do all that and more. They’ll regenerate, prime, micro-sculpt, brighten, and lift, all with the aid of anti-oxidants and other wondrous ingredients. Trouble is, there’s not much science to back… Read more »

The Travelling Student – Parking’s a Beach

My name is Philip Kirkbride. I’m a college graduate from Ontario studying at AU. I’ve always wanted to do an exchange program or study abroad but never found the right time to do so. This is the story of how Athabasca University has allowed me to create my own study abroad program. In the last… Read more »

AUSU Update

This space is provided free to AUSU: The Voice does not create or edit this content. Contact ausu@ausu.org with questions or comments about this page. IMPORTANT DATES – Aug 5-24: AUSU By-election campaign period – Aug 10: Last day to register for courses starting Sept 1 – Aug 21-24: General Election Voting Period – Sept… Read more »

International News Desk – At Home and Abroad

At Home: Students Seeking Bankruptcy Advice The CIBC has found that nearly half of all students worry about being able to cover both loans and living expenses, and a Calgary bankruptcy advisor is seeing more students coming to his office because of high levels of debt, according to a recent article on CBC. With over… Read more »

Editorial – The Corruption Party of Canada

No, this isn’t about any of the parties currently running. I was just thinking lately about how some of the rules regarding campaign financing for our election are poorly thought out. As I’m sure You’re aware, when you donate to a political party, you receive up to 75% of that donation back as a tax… Read more »