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
Unfortunately, I completely missed attending last week’s AUSU Council meeting. No excuses, I just completely forgot about it. I think I was looking up stuff about optimizing PDF files for Google searches. (The reason may become clear later this year.) Fortunately for me, and you, Barb Lehtiniemi was not so absent-minded, and her Council Connection… Read more »
If I’m being honest, I have to admit that some issues of The Voice Magazine just aren’t as good as others. Sometimes, I find myself looking at the articles going into the magazine on a given week and thinking to myself, is this really going to interest AU students? Not that I think we’ve done… Read more »
Recently, I found an excerpt from a book by AU President Peter MacKinnon in University Affairs. In it, he suggest that the idea of universities being self-governing bodies can easily be undermined by faculty labour unions, as they seek to make changes for their members that push into the governance of the university, an area… Read more »
So. Bill C-51. Titled simply as Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015. It’s now onto its second reading in our parliament, after which it moves on to committee for amendments, then back for a third reading, after which it moves on to the Senate for their rubber stamp, and then the Governor General, for his. The Conservative Party… Read more »
For some people, this Friday the thirteenth brings along some unpleasant feelings. Not because it’s supposedly bad luck so much as because it means tomorrow is the 14th of February and they’ve suddenly realized they’ve made no plans whatsoever for Valentine’s Day. Needless to say, I expect I’ll be making amends the rest of the… Read more »
The big story in the news this morning is the Supreme Court’s announcement that while the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives Canadians a Right to Life, it does not impose upon Canadians a Duty to Live. The context, of course, is the issue of assisted suicide. In brief, the BC Civil Liberties Association… Read more »
Most of the time, I tend to agree with the opinions my writers have. That’s generally what happens when you’ve got a bunch of university-educated people trying to write smart, well-researched articles. There’s not often a lot that can be objected to, but this week is a bit different. If you take a look at… Read more »
So this week my attention has been on the economic news coming out. The Bank of Canada has supposedly “shocked” investors by lowering the overnight rate a quarter of a percent. If you don’t already know, the overnight rate is the rate at which banks borrow money to lend to people like you and me… Read more »
It’s been quite a week for layoffs. In case you haven’t heard, Target has given a surprise announcement that they’ll be closing all their stores across Canada. Every single one. That means over 17,000 people are losing their jobs and will be talking to Employment Insurance Canada. On the same day, Sony announced that it… Read more »
An unhappy coincidence, the week after we reprint my first editorial about terrorism, we have the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Where, in case you’ve been avoiding all other news media, 11 people were gunned down by two individuals inside the publishing offices of a newspaper that printed controversial cartoon depictions of the prophet… Read more »