Here come the mid-October keggers!
Cheques for Ontario’s new Textbook and Technology Grant are in the mail. This means next weekend will involved travelling from kegger to kegger as we celebrate the government’s committment to bribing students with meanless grants.…
The spread of anti-student bylaws
Last year, the City of Oshawa launched what I consider to be an anti-student campaign which began with a series of municipal law enforcement raids to harass students. These cumulated in the passing of Canada’s strongest anti-student housing bylaw. This year, many other communities are looking at passing…
Federal Election X: The campus debate
Every university in the country has held or will hold a federal election debate featuring the local candidates. I’ve attended many student union run election debates. Some have went well, but many have turned sour due to a poorly chosen moderator, usually a student union politician. Generally, the…
I’m finally getting with the times
and using Twitter…. http://twitter.com/JoeyColeman I’m going to experiment with Twitter for the next few weeks. I expect I’ll use it to share what I’m reading. Any suggestions on what you want to see; comments are always open.…
Tentative agreement reached in UWindsor strike
The University of Windsor and it’s strike faculty have reached a tentative agreement, according to the web sites of the respective parties. No further details have been released. Both faculty and the Board of Governors must vote to accept the agreement; if they do so, students will return…
This is going to get good: Check out In The Classroom
We here at Maclean’s On Campus have launched another blog. *In the Classroom*will feature some of Canada’s best professors and researchers who are engaged in addressing issues pertaining to the delivery and quality of undergraduate education. I know two of the names involved with the blog; Dr. Joe…
23,000 students want day planners
The York Federation of Students is celebrating it’s latest scheme; figuring out how to get 23,000 students to sign a petition asking the government give money to lower tuition. Instead of just asking students to sign the petition; The Excaliburreports that students had to sign the petition in…
There should be a degree just for navigating bureaucracy
Seriously, the greatest challenge of being an university student is navigating the endless bureaucracy of the institution.…
Not being on hold
I’m dealing with my university today to sort out an account hold that was put in place when I missed the tuition payment deadline. (My own fault, I forgot to process the payment in time) I called the registar’s office and, as usual, sat on hold for a…
Thinking of college?
I’m assuming this is more common than what I think; I never heard of one when I was in high school. Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge’s Conestoga College is holding a college fair with twenty-three colleges from across Ontario. The open house is next Tuesday evening and parking is free.…