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Primal Numbers – Here Comes the Sun

Maybe it’s just that we endure long months of winter, or maybe it’s that we have cloudy coasts. But the potential of solar power doesn’t seem to have taken off. The argument has been that it’s hard to convert to solar when the sun won’t come out to play. But now that’s all about to… Read more »

The Study Dude – Rhetorical Devices, Part II

There is nothing more that The Study Dude wants for you than to write the speech that elevates the world into a new thought paradigm. Well, in these articles, as The Study Dude, I’ll try to give you the study tips you need to help make your learning easier. I’ll also give you straight and… Read more »

The Travelling Student – Kookaburra

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 »

The Writer’s Toolbox – The Ears Have It

You’ve been through that essay?or novel’so many times that your eyes start to glaze over in the first paragraph. Now It’s time for the final read-through, and You’re sure there are typos you’ll catch?or you would catch, if you weren’t so burned out. So where can you turn if you can’t trust your own eyes?… Read more »

Editorial – A Selection of Goodness

Have you ever had one of those weeks where time completely gets away from you? Where no matter how you try you don’t seem to be able to get anything done and deadlines don’t so much loom as charge? That was this week for me. The fault goes, in part, to the Alberta Election. For… Read more »

The Study Dude – Rhetorical Devices

There is nothing more that The Study Dude wants for you than to fight the tyranny in life with a solid rhetorical device. Well, in these articles, as The Study Dude, I’ll try to give you the study tips you need to help make your learning easier. I’ll also give you straight and honest opinions… 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 ?May 8: Last business day to register for courses starting June 1 ?May 13: AUSU General Council Meeting ?May 27: AUSU Annual General Meeting ?June 10: Deadline to… Read more »

Maghreb Voices – The Tunisian Cafe, Part II

“Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen La Boheme Salon de Thé in Manouba has become our second home, our watering hole, our workplace, and our conference centre, the place where we meet friends, celebrate milestones, hammer… Read more »

Student Sizzle! – AU Social Media

AUSU Student Forums In the General Student Chat forum, user “barrywheeler” solicits thoughts from other students about AU switching exams over to online-only. What if you can’t type as quickly as others? AthaU Facebook Group Tamra posts that a former president of AUSU’s student council and former writer for The Voice Magazine, Debbie Jabbour (NDP),… Read more »