AU Students Struggle To Balance School And Family A recent poll on the AUSU front page presented some intriguing results about the pressures faced by AU students. The question was simple: What is the single greatest barrier to getting a university degree? One could easily anticipate the replies would mostly centre on the cost of… Read more »
Sorry folks, due to the timing of the contest (my bad!) and the large number of entries this year, you’ll have to wait until the new year for the official announcement of the contest winners. This year, we had more than twice the number of entries as last year, and the judges have been working… Read more »
Voice readers may be wondering when the results of this year’s writing contest will be released. This year, we had more than twice the number of entries as last year, and the judges have been working overtime to ensure that every one of them gets the attention they deserve. I hope to be able to… Read more »
A couple of weeks ago I wrote my member of parliament and Stephen Harper because I was outraged by how my party representative has used public funding and his political office to push for hate-based legislation. My resentment has grown as publicly funded newsletters and postcards have been sent to my home, urging me to… Read more »
As temperatures dip lower, and advertisers mount their annual Christmas season assault upon the shopping public, the parades of last summer may have become merely a distant memory. Certainly one of Edmonton’s most interesting and dazzling public spectacles of the summer was the Gay Pride Parade, held on June 19th, 2004. Aside from drag queens… Read more »
My second trip to Portugal was of a different nature than all the other trips I have made in my life. For the first time I didn’t go studying or on holiday, but to do some serious work. Or so I thought. I live in Ljubljana, a capital of Slovenia, which is a small country… Read more »
THE SECOND ANNUAL VOICE MAGAZINE WRITING CONTEST! $800 in scholarships to be awarded $400 each in the fiction and non-fiction categories Write for The Voice and win money for your education. The Voice is launching its second annual writing contest, with categories for both fiction, and non-fiction. Non-Fiction: In 2000 words or less, write about… Read more »
On November 22, Albertans will be going to the polls to elect a provincial government. This might seem like old hat for a province that has faced a federal and a municipal election in the past five months, but a provincial election is especially important for Athabasca students and others attending Alberta’s universities and colleges…. Read more »
THE SECOND ANNUAL VOICE MAGAZINE WRITING CONTEST! $800 in scholarships to be awarded $400 each in the fiction and non-fiction categories Write for The Voice and win money for your education. The Voice is launching its second annual writing contest, with categories for both fiction, and non-fiction. Non-Fiction: In 2000 words or less, write about… Read more »
First, I want to take a moment to wish everyone at AU a very happy and spooky Halloween. There will be no Halloween issue of the Voice this year, as I’ll be taking the week of my favourite holiday off! The next issue of The Voice will appear on November 3, and will include some… Read more »