For scholarships available through the Athabasca University Students’ Union, see the AUSU website at www.ausu.org Athabasca University Awards and Scholarship Information The Office of the Registrar would like to advise students of pending deadlines for scholarships and awards: Award Name: Bursary Program for Indigenous Students Website: http://www.athabascau.ca/html/depts/registry/studawrd.htm#is Value: $varies Program: School of Business programs Basic… Read more »

Contributed By AU’s The Insider ADETA Fall Workshop – “Keeping it Simple for the Learner” – October 1 – Olds, Alberta. Details: http://www.adeta.org/ AU Learning Services Conference – October 3 & 4, 2003 – Edmonton, Crowne Plaza Chateau Lacombe. Details: http://intra.athabascau.ca/lso/LS.php?task=conference NAWeb 2003 – Ninth Annual Conference on Web-based Teaching and Learning – October 18-21… Read more »

We love to hear from you! Send your letters to voice@ausu.org, and please indicate if we may publish your letter in the Voice. I felt like poisoning a monk. — Umberto Eco (1932 – ), on why he wrote the novel “The Name of the Rose.”

This is the first Voice Annual Reader Survey in years! Your input is vital to help the Voice maintain relevance to its diverse audience, and it is also necessary in order to show that The Voice is read and enjoyed by AU students. At this time, we have no demographics on Voice readers. In order… Read more »

THIS WEEK WORTH THE LOSS – UPDATE on the progress of AUSU councillor Nicholas Palamarchuk, six months after radical weight loss surgery. RECIPES FOR STUDENTS – Tired of KD? Here are some more quick and simple dishes you can prepare on a student budget. LEARNING NOTES – Course alert. What you need to know before… Read more »

We love to hear from you! Send your questions or comments to voice@ausu.org, and please indicate if we may print your letter It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. — Voltaire

This week The Voice launches its first Annual Reader Survey in years! Your input is vital to help the Voice maintain relevance to its diverse audience, and it is also necessary in order to show that The Voice is read and enjoyed by AU students. At this time, we have no demographics on Voice readers…. Read more »

THIS WEEK VOICE WRITING CONTEST CLOSES MIDNIGHT, OCTOBER 15, MST Thank you to the many AU students who took the time to enter their works into the first Voice Writing Contest. The entries will be sent to the judging panel this week, and winners should be announced by The 10th of November. The quality of… Read more »

Dear Sandra, My fiancé wants to have our wedding at a lake resort and have the ceremony at a nearby botanical gardens, with about 75 guests. My parents are pressuring us to have the wedding in my home town, at the church and complete with 500 guests. I am torn between both pleasing my fiancé… Read more »