VICTORIA (CUP) ? British Columbia’s provincial NDP released their plan to make education more affordable on January 24, but the governing Liberals aren’t keen to listen. With the average BC student debt upon graduation of a four-year program at $27,000, NDP Advanced Education critic Rob Fleming hopes to help students lower their debt upon graduation…. Read more »
When students arrive to write their exams at the Calgary or Edmonton Learning Centres, they’re often surprised to find that all belongings?including valuables such as laptops?must be left outside the exam area. Until a couple of years ago, this wasn’t a problem: AU provided locks for securing valuables. But too often, students never returned the… Read more »
I like to make lists. It started a long time ago with a little personal game a friend of mine was very fond of, and escalated bizarrely. Here, for your pleasure, are some collections of lists about all manner of things. 30 Things You Can Do With a Dollar I’ve often wondered what people did… Read more »
Circle April 5 on your calendar, and plan to come out and support AU’s own Bonnie Nahornick as she shaves her head (for the fourth time!) in aid of two good causes: the event will raise funds for the Alzheimer Society, and Bonnie’s hair will be donated to Wigs for Kids. Her co-worker Aretha Smith… Read more »
The entries are in and the judging is underway, and we’ll be announcing the winners of the 2008 Voice writing contest soon! Entrants were allowed to submit in both the fiction and non-fiction categories. First-place winners will each receive one AU undergraduate course. We received some remarkable submissions this year and our judges are hard… Read more »
WINNIPEG (CUP) ? Environmentally concerned students from across the Prairies gathered at the University of Saskatchewan for the region’s first Sustainable Campuses Conference, hosted by the Sierra Youth Coalition, to shine a light on how students can influence climate change. ?Fundamentally, we have to look at climate change as a human rights issue,? said Rosa… Read more »
The past week has been a time of surprises. Perhaps the most amazing news is on the AUSU election front. As the AUSU website has announced, nominations opened January 9?and the response has been unprecedented. In past elections, the usual number of candidates has been around 15. So far (and with nominations still open) the… Read more »
Circle April 5 on your calendar, and plan to come out and support AU’s own Bonnie Nahornick as she shaves her head (for the fourth time!) in aid of two good causes: the event will raise funds for the Alzheimer Society, and Bonnie’s hair will be donated to Wigs for Kids. Her co-worker Aretha Smith… Read more »
At Home: Passerby finds baby abandoned in Toronto stairwell A woman in a Toronto parking garage thought she was walking by a doll abandoned in a freezing stairwell?until the bundle started to cry. The tiny figure turned out to be an eight-month-old baby girl, and police have now released photos showing an adult deliberately leaving… Read more »
Amid the snow and slush of winter, It’s easy to feel as if You’re in the only place on earth dealing with cold, ice, and freezing winds. Here are astonishing pictures of wild weather?and its aftermath?from around the world that might make you feel a little better. Unless, of course, you live in one of… Read more »