From Vancouver Island, Stacey Hutchings, the newest AUSU Vice President of External and Student affairs, has lived in Calgary for the last five years. Born to military parents, she’s been as far east as Shawville, Quebec but has spent most of her life between Vancouver Island and Fort St. John, where she worked as a… Read more »
In anthropology, the term cultural relativism refers to how we find identity and value through our culture, a culture which is not immune to rapid transformation. When looking back at history we see formative events triggering cultural adaptations, but is it possible to analyze these changes while they are happening? If we look back to… Read more »
In the world of anthropology, the term “Indigenous” encapsulates much more than the traditional meaning of earliest known inhabitants of an area. It explores the earliest ways of group life, the methods of survival across areas and the interactions with those environments. Mankind’s history is cruel; in the past 150 years we have seen many… Read more »
We’re in the middle of summer now, and with one of our regular writers running in the AUSU Byelection, others on holidays, this issue of the Voice Magazine is running a little thinner than many. Also, it seems this week has been rather slow on the news front. Sure, there’s the usual rumblings about US… Read more »
Beard era circa 2020 implies new formulations of the phrase: does the carpet match the drapes? Prescient though this giggled query may be, it connotes timeless equivocations whereby what’s outside (or above) is taken to signify what’s inside (or below). Sure, we mouth slogans that it’s what’s inside that counts, but superficial aesthetic judgments are… Read more »
You’ve got just a few more hours to throw your hat into the ring for the AUSU Council by-election. If you’ve been thinking about it, now’s the time. If you’re reading this after Friday, the time has passed. This week, for our feature article we’re interviewing another couple of recent graduands from AU. It can… Read more »
In recent years, AU has slowly begun implementing the use of digital e-textbooks for many courses. Although many students welcome this change, the move has also proved controversial. Initially, AU began a concerted effort to move online in 2002, of which Athabasca University’s eText Initiative is a continued strategy. Over the years, other initiatives included… Read more »
The word Swami is a title that is awarded to masters and spiritual teachers, and the Sanskrit meaning of the word is “he who is one with his self.” In the early 1970’s a famous Yogi by the name of Swami Rama left a group of American scientists speechless as he proceeded to do the… Read more »
