Announcement tomorrow on student financial aid
UPDATE: Here’s the details of the announcement: Feds to work with provinces on student loansSummary: Nothing new here, more talks, more potential plans, no student loan interest relief. The following went out on the wire late yesterday afternoon:———————————————————————————–May 20, 2008 16:10 ET Media Advisory: Human Resources and Social Development Canada…
When students vote, they can get results
A 21-year old University of New Brunswick student recently won a seat on Fredericton’s next city council, according to The Chronicle Herald. The student won in an area with high town-gown tensions. If the situation in Fredericton is similar to other university towns, this means student voter turnout…
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…