Well. We’ve got a lot of stuff to cover this week folks, so let’s get to it. First, if you haven’t already heard about it, AUSU Council has lost two members. There’s a little bit of detail in the “Council Connection” article this week, but right here I’ll just say that only one of them… Read more »
The AUSU Council meeting for August 9, 2016, was supposed to be two-hours long, however, it went on to be over three-hours. Despite being a very lengthy meeting, it was productive and interesting. It went beyond the normal two-hour period because there were no Council meetings in July due to various holidays making it harder… Read more »
It is mid-August and already the geese are flying over. Can it possibly be that summer is nearly gone? It doesn’t seem entirely possible and yet the leaves are changing and the geese are honking. When I completed my undergrad degree in the beginning of the year I had allotted myself a definitive amount of… Read more »
You ever have one of those weeks where you just couldn’t get your head on straight? That’s been this week for me. Things have been exceptionally busy around here, and yet for all that busy-ness, very little seems to have gotten done. It’s mostly been trying to deal with the small fires as they crop… Read more »
Like the predictable man-walks-into-a-bar joke, the “news” that AU might be closing seems to reappear with tiresome frequency. And like the reaction to a tired old joke, students who have heard it before tend to sigh and roll their eyes. Each time the not-so-new news breaks about threats to AU, new students break into a… Read more »
I have always loved reading, it seemed natural then to study literature in university. Some of these works were difficult and, with time constraints, seemed nearly impossible to get through. For me, this was Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray. It’s long and complex, and, in my strain to get through it, I missed a few… Read more »
“Believe in yourself, and you can do anything,” we say. “She thought she could, so she did.” It’s good to dream?essential, really. Without dreams, we get stuck. Without dreams, we can’t move forward. But sometimes the opposite is true. As important as it is to dream, It’s equally important to realize when an unrealistic dream… Read more »