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AUSU This Month

Are you in Need of Financial Assistance? AUSU Can Help You AUSU has many financial assistance, emergency and computer bursaries available to help students in need. Every year AUSU will give away 10 financial assistance bursaries, $6000 in emergency bursaries and $4800 in computer bursaries. Visit our website at http://www.ausu.org/services/scholarships.php to find out if you… Read more »

Dear Barb – Meeting someone special

Dear Barb; I love your column Barb. I would love, though, to be able to ask for relationship advice but that would require a relationship. How does one go about meeting the opposite sex when you are so busy with school and work and there isn’t much time for play? Nameless in Seattle Good question,… Read more »

Lost & Found – Row Upon Row

Every year I wear a poppy pinned to my jacket. When he was a child, my father would hide under a big wooden kitchen table while his stepfather, probably moved by demons he could never comprehend, mercilessly kicked at him with work-boots and tried to thrash him with the buckle of his belt. When he… Read more »

Dear Barb – Saving for a home

Dear Barb; I have just graduated from university and will be starting a new job next week. I want to save for a house, but I’m not sure where to begin. During my university years I did some budgeting, but it really wasn’t very effective. My question is how can I learn to budget wisely?… Read more »

Lost & Found – Bad Tidings

When I was six years old the thing with the open sores and the razor sharp teeth lived in the shadows at the back of my closet. At night, unable to sleep but too afraid to open my eyes, I would lie in bed and listening to it rustling about, waiting for an opportunity when… Read more »

Canadian Fedwatch! News Across the Nation

Elections, Elections Everywhere The US Election is over and once again George W. Bush has received the presidency. While this seems to be the wrong choice to most of the rest of the world (http://217.160.163.211/globalvote2004/), it’s the one that Americans have made and, unlike in the 2000 elections, they have done so quite clearly. Not… Read more »

Primetime Update

WHAT’S NEW ON PRIMETIME THE APPRENTICE 2 Thursday, Sept. 9th, 2004 Last week teams got the reshuffle and then were forced to clean up dog poop. Mosaic lost the task and Apex got to spend time with mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg. Stacy was told that she bitched too much instead of stepping… Read more »

From Where I Sit – All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Farming

For over 20 years I’ve studied at the School of the Land at a campus near Andrew. The program name was Farming 101. The tuition was high. The courses were self-paced and tough. Electives like marketing, business, bookkeeping, computer literacy, risk management, succession planning and more rounded out the offerings. Entrance requirements are rigid, which… Read more »