Ellen stood anxiously at the bus stop, her eyes darting nervously back and forth. She searched the streets for the shiny black car with the tinted windows. Not wanting to draw attention to herself, she attempted to move with ease. Panic shook her body, as she stepped nearer to the curb and gazed down the… Read more »

Now that you have had a week to consider the reasons to quit smoking that I presented you with in my last article, “Five Good Reasons to Quit Smoking”, you may have decided that you want to quit. The next step in the process is to determine how you are going to stop using a… Read more »

Imagine yourself placed in a class full of high-school pupils; you are to be as one of them. Would you feel out of place? What if you were pushing forty and you were to become a student in a class full of twenty year-olds? Do you think you could fit in? Would you try to?… Read more »

Last week I received a phone call that made me stop and think about what I’ve been writing here for The Voice. Although I’ve tried to write on a wide range of topics that I think will be of interest to student readers, many of my articles tend to be about things happening within my… Read more »

Po’Girl Po’Girl Jericho Beach Music Ingredients: 2 voices with great harmony 1 part Lilith Fair folk 1 part Mississippi Blues 1 generous helping of slow jazz A pinch of old-fashioned banjo tunes Mix with some strong soul roots and simmer slowly over a steady heat. Sprinkle in some harmonica, clarinet and a bit of mandolin… Read more »

Unless Carol Shields Random House Canada 321 pages, $35.95 ISBN: 0-679-31179-3 “Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re clear about your direction, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in darkness, down to despair” (p. 224). Reta Winters finds herself in the unfortunate state of… Read more »

AU Alumni: Maggie Davidson Tell us about where you live: Spruce Grove, Alberta When did you graduate from AU, and what was your program? I graduated in June 2003, with a BA in Psychology Did you complete the program you started, or did your goals change as you progressed through your degree? I started out… Read more »

So it seems our country’s two conservative political parties are looking to tie the knot, a sort of same-sex marriage I suppose one can say. There will even be a name change to go with it. The long cycle of flirting followed by the courtship, has got them to where they are now, both ready… Read more »

‘Christopher Reeve and I have narrower heads, like deer’ VICTORIA (CUP) — Are my brown eyes set too widely across my face? Are my eyebrows, thick and black, too bushy? Is my nose too big, too crooked? These questions jostle inside my skull as I sit across from Kelly Ann Andrews one chill January morning…. Read more »

On September 17, 2003 the Voice published an article written by me entitled “Conventional Vis-Ã?-Vis Distance University Education (http://www.ausu.org/voice/archives/articledisplay.php?ART=2015).” In it, I explored some of the differences between on-campus, class-based university education and distance university education from my personal student-perspective. I’d like to augment that article with some further insight procured after nearly two months… Read more »