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From Where I Sit – I Wasn’t Ready

Five hundred words won’t allow me much time for a backstory, so here’s the scoop. In September, an aide at the local school asked me to come to the classroom as a guest artist. I needed more info about expectations, so I met with the teacher. She was tasked with teaching grades five/six and seven/eight… Read more »

Did You Know? – DegreeWorks

It takes a lot of planning to map out an academic career. But when You’re working with information in several different media, the process can be time-consuming and frustrating. However, the future is promising: AU has launched DegreeWorks, ?a comprehensive academic advising and degree audit solution? that communicates directly with AU’s internal student information system… Read more »

AUSU Update

AUSU e-newsletters a success AUSU has been piloting the use of e-newsletters to contact our student body over the last year. We began by sending these newsletters to students registered on our website, and after a very positive initial response, we are now sending e-newsletters to all students currently enrolled in any AU undergrad course,… Read more »

In Conversation – Missy Mazzoli

Missy Mazzoli is a New York composer who recently completed Song from the Uproar, an opera based on the life and writings of Isabelle Eberhardt, an eccentric 19th-century Swiss aristocrat who moved to Algeria and converted to Islam (read the Voice review of Mazzoli’s album here). Mazzoli’s compositions have been performed by the Kronos Quartet,… Read more »

The Mindful Bard – Pina: A film for Pina Bausch

Film: Pina: A film for Pina Bausch Director: Wim Wenders ?Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.? Pina Bausch A Physical Poem Whittled From the Core of Human Experience Ernest Sprott, my favourite English professor, once said, ?If you can’t put your thought into words, then perhaps It’s not a thought.? I believe he said this… Read more »

See Your Goals Through

As 2013 begins, it brings with it the fresh promise of new beginnings. Many of us have felt this magic and the accompanying desire to recharge and renew our lives. At first, our New Year’s resolutions seem amazing and life-changing; but as time passes, we often struggle to keep them, resulting in the notoriety of… Read more »

Click of the Wrist – New Year, New You

If You’re one of the millions of people who’ve created New Year’s resolutions?or at least some short or long-term goals to get you through 2013?you may be pulling your hair in frustration right about now. By mid-January, our enthusiasm for ?new year, new you? is starting to fade as the reality of life sets in…. Read more »

Write Stuff – Welcome to 1913

Happy New Year, and welcome to 1913! Sure, the calendar might say It’s 2013, but a recent headline about the Costa Book Awards makes it feel like we’re in a time warp. For the first time ever, all five Costa winners were women?and the underlying need to justify it reflects an even deeper problem. The… Read more »