Born and (mostly) raised in Calgary, Karl has been taking courses on and off at AU since 1999. At one point, he changed his major from Computing Science to Computing Science because the new program requirements fit what he’d already taken better. Since then, he switched to English and graduated (w/Great Distinction he likes to add) proving along the way that it is entirely possible to complete an entire AU course within a three week period. If only he had done this at the beginning of the course instead of in the last extension.
This is not something he advises unless you are desperate, masochistic, or, ideally, both.
He is currently the managing editor of The Voice Magazine, where he tries to put his education to use helping other students as they provide content for The Voice
There’s just a few more days to put your nomination in if you want to be a candidate in the AUSU by-election, but maybe you’re a bit nervous about the idea of being on Council, wonder if you have the time, or aren’t sure what might be required. In that case, you’ll want to check… Read more »
In case you weren’t already aware, AUSU’s by-election is currently in motion. Right now, candidates are coming forward to be placed on the ballot and run for AUSU. What does being an AUSU councillor mean? What does it get you? There’s an article currently in the works to help answer those questions, but among the… Read more »
I got in touch with AUSU’s president, Karen Fletcher, to ask her about the recent change in AU’s President, including as to what your student representatives on the board knew about the whole affair, and what happens now. In her response, she noted that “despite being board members, with full voting seats, students were not… Read more »
You’ve probably already heard that AU has a new President, with the board unceremoniously announcing the dumping of Dr. Peter Scott late Wednesday afternoon. The new President is Dr. Alex Clark, who, previous to this, was AU’s Dean of Health Sciences. No new hiring process was conducted, and the change in leadership apparently came as… Read more »
Dear Barb: I am a middle-aged woman who is married with three adult children. I work long hours in a busy, fast-paced environment, so I do not have a lot of extra time. Any free time that I do have I like to spend it with my family and friends. However, I have a work… Read more »
I had hoped last week, as the symptoms I’d been feeling didn’t seem to be worsening (and in fact, certain muscle aches had eased off), that I’d be getting better within a day or so and be able to continue on as normal. Instead, this thing morphed into a longer term flu or very nasty… Read more »
I’m sick. It’s been coming on since yesterday, muscle pain and headache, that I was hoping was just a minor thing, but today it seems to have ramped up more than usual. Still, we have some interesting stuff going on, so I wanted to make sure I got The Voice Magazine up today, at least… Read more »
It’s been five years since the first brand new issue of The Voice Magazine landed on a Friday the 13th. I was reminded of this because of the Vintage Voice column, which likes to dig out little bits and pieces of The Voice Magazine history. Having almost our entire history online and available to read… Read more »
Creating the Best Of editions is always a bit of a fun task. It gives me an excuse to spend a lot of time going through old editions of the Voice Magazine, remembering things that happened, both in the world at large and with the various Voice writers, over the course of the year. On… Read more »
Like AUSU, The Voice Magazine shuts down around the holiday season, and the way that this year plays out, that means that there’ll be no magazine coming out next week, or the week after that. In other words, this is the last magazine of the year. Already. We’ll be back on January 6th, and to… Read more »