STUDENT: Elizabeth Cousar Elizabeth Cousar, a student in AU’s Bachelor of Professional Arts-Communications program since April 2004, is enthusiastic about how Athabasca University is helping her to accomplish her goals. In our interview, she chatted about why distance education works for her, how to manage school, family, volunteer work, and a full-time job, and the… Read more »
JOB POSTING – ASSISTANT EDITOR, THE VOICE MAGAZINE The Voice Magazine is seeking a new Assistant Editor to handle all of the day to day duties of publishing The Voice Magazine each week. We publish 49 issues per year each Friday. Hours are flexible, but you must be able to devote 25-30 hours per week… Read more »
A buzzword in the environmental literature for the last decade and a half, fragmentation refers to one of the most significant problems affecting natural environments today. A process in which large, continuous areas of particular types of ecosystem (for example, forests) are carved up into small remnant patches, fragmentation results in remaining natural areas that… Read more »
Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan, by A. C. Grayling A year ago, I was living in Hamburg, where everyday I passed by a sculpture depicting mangled and burned corpses scorched into a charred wasteland. It was a memorial that portrayed the… Read more »
With the opening of Athabasca University’s new E-Commerce course, Project in E-Commerce (ECOM 420), AU business students will be able to experience the world of e-commerce in a previously unknown, “hands-on” way! This course enables students to delve into the e-commerce through self-directed research and experience the world of e-commerce in a way yet unknown… Read more »
As the adage goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away ? and now, the Big Apple is set to improve its own health, as New York City recently took a big step in the recent health controversy surrounding trans fats, voting to ban trans fat in restaurants. Although criticized by some as government… Read more »
I’ll tell you right upfront that I am an atheist. I am not one in the strongest sense of the term, but what a friend once termed a “passive atheist.” In the simplest terms, for me, this means that while I do not personally espouse belief in any sort of supreme being or power, nor… Read more »
MONTREAL (CUP) ? Concordia University’s Loyola campus was shut down Tuesday morning after police responded to a 911 call about a man wearing camouflage clothing carrying what looked like a suspicious package in the Richard J. Renaud Science Complex. Some 30 police cars surrounded the campus area minutes after the 9:30 a.m. call on Jan…. Read more »
BRANDON, Man. (CUP) — Does eliminating menstruation show the ultimate submission to man or is it the ultimate assertion of female strength? A heated debate along these lines has ensued since the introduction of new, continuous birth control drugs such as Anya. These pills eliminate even the ?withdrawal bleeding? of conventional birth control pills, causing… Read more »
Capricorn December 22 – January 19 Glyph (written symbol) for Capricorn is two straight lines that meet and are connected to a circle. This could be seen as the twisted horns of the goat, which is Capricorn’s symbol. Capricorn, the tenth house of the zodiac is a negative, cardinal earth sign. Capricorns are influenced by… Read more »