Book: Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls, Melinda Tankard Reist, ed. Publisher: Spinifex Press Publication date: 2009 The Care and Grooming of an Object From a neighbouring shrubbery emerged a nurse, leading by the hand a small boy, who howled as he went. An anxious-looking little girl trotted at her heels. ?What’s the matter??… Read more »
AUSU Election! It’s here! The Election for your 2010-2012 Council. AUSU is looking for interested individuals who believe they can speak for the students of AU. To be eligible, you need to have completed at least one course, and be currently enrolled in a course. Self-nominations will be accepted until February 15th. Voting starts on… Read more »
Dear Barb: I am 28 years old and have always lived at home with my parents. I have three sisters and they are all married and have families. I have a girlfriend, but it is not a serious relationship. I’ve never wanted to move out of my parents? home, even though all my friends have… Read more »
If you want to be simultaneously touched and horrified, read Lisa Genova’s Still Alice. It is a first novel by Genova, who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard. It takes the unique position of writing from the perspective of a 50-year-old woman with early onset Alzheimer’s. Dr. Alice Howland is a psychology professor at… Read more »
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CD: Miller-Kelton, Goodbye Cindy Label: East Tompkins Music, 2009 Soundtrack to an Examined Life, with Tracks that Bear Up Under Repeated Playings on Endless Road Trips ?She was the girl who ruined Sunday She laughed too much but never smiled I see her out there talking sentence structure I don’t understand!? Reilley Forman, from ?The… Read more »
In a year of losses, challenges, setbacks, and bloody bad luck, there’s something restorative in the good that still exists ?out there.? So, indulge me, dear reader, while I document some blessings that are easy to take for granted. I do this for me but I hope there’s a payoff for you as well. Based… Read more »
AUSU Election! It’s here! The Election for your 2010-2012 Council. AUSU is looking for interested individuals who believe they can speak for the students of AU. To be eligible, you need to have completed at least one course, and be currently enrolled in a course. Self-nominations will be accepted until February 15th. Voting starts on… Read more »
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?Jazz legends like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie introduced Arabic flavours in compositions such as ?Night in Tunisia,? ?Caravan,? and ?Nardis? . . . These are songs that are still played everywhere and are famous all over the world.? Jan Wouter Oostenrijk Malika Zarra was born in southern Morocco but was… Read more »