Dogs and Tasers used to break up student party
Police in Middletown, Conn. used dogs and tasers to break up an year-end party involving Wesleyan University students. Alison Go at USNewssummarizes the story. She notes reports that a student was sent to hospital for treatment of multiple dog bites. The students are accusing the police of using…
Brantford – The Education City?
I think there’s an interesting post-secondary education story in Brantford Ontario. The city, known as *The Telephone City, *is located 93km west and has a population of around 90,000. The city is not a suburb of Toronto and is poorly linked by public transit to Toronto. The city…
The Blackberry follow-up
Thanks to the handful of people who responded (including emails) to my recent post inquiring about students’ union providing Blackberries to their executives. The devices are not cheap, and neither are data plans. This makes it hard to justify student unions owning multiple devices. Despite this, all the…
Should pieing be a suspension worthy offence?
A student at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island claims she’s been suspended for hitting Thomas Friedman, a *New York Times *columnist, with a pie while Friedman was delivering a Earth Day speak at the university. Clearly, pieing someone is not appropriate behaviour. This is especially true on…
The CFS is its own worst enemy
Which student organization hurts the Canadian Federation of Students* the most? The answer to the question is (drum roll) the Canadian Federation of Students.* Let me explain. The CFS/CFS-S/CFS-NFLD/CFS-NS/CFS-NB/CFS-QC/CFS-ON/CFS-MB/CFS-SK/CFS-AB/CFS-BC* will consider reforms to their membership bylaws at their upcoming semi-annual national general meeting. I believe this is a…
Tuesday links to go with coffee
I could write a shocking headline for this story: “City Council supports creation of student pub!“ It appears President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is finally going to be stripped of his honorary University of Massachusetts degree. UMass president Jack M. Wilson is backing calls by state representative Kevin…
Nickel and diming the university
Now, this is how to protest! On Monday, a student paid his $1,037 tuition in nickels and dimes. Teale Phelps Bondaroff wheeled a cart filled with 90kg of coin into the University of Calgary student accounts office to protest a recent change to payment policy. Students at the…
Peak Opinions Editor on UofT 14
I could not have said it better myself: http://the-peak.ca/article/3531…
Pro-choice, pro-life have some things in common
Both have a bad habit of shutting down speakers from the other side. This week, it’s pro-life uninviting a state senator who’s view they don’t agree with.…
Simon Fraser student politics is always interesting
The Peak, Simon Fraser University’s student newspaper, printed its first summer issue last week. I have to admit I’m jealous of the paper, since SFU student politics always offer interesting stories. The new volume has a strong opinion editor, the one and only J.J.McCullough who has been Editor-in-Chief…