In the news – February 8
CAMPUS PRESS BC-CFS chair downplays leaked campaign document by DAVID KARP, Canadian University Press Security called during raucous RSU debate, The Eyeopener Editorial: Blessed be the qualified, The Gauntlet Proposed Lister Hall changes curbed by protest by NATALIE CLIMENHAGA, The GatewayNapping Your Way to an “A” by CLIFFORD…
Soundwave vs. Dollansky
[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6klaUw997Qo&rel=1) “We do not inherit this Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from Megatron!” – Soundwave…
Federal government to amend Canada Student Loans Act
The federal government tabled Bill C-40 in the House of Commons Monday. The Bill will amend both the Canada Students Loans Act and Canada Student Financial Assistance Act to give full-time student status to actively deployed reservists for the purposes of student loans. “Student reservists will appreciate this…
McMaster University Library best in North America
McMaster University’s library has been named the top academic library in North America by the American Library Association. The Association of College and Research Libraries gave McMaster its “Excellence in Academic Libraries Award” for 2008. The award is in recognition of user-centered innovations and services recently implemented by…
Mount Allison gets $3-mil for student centre
The New Brunswick government announced Tuesday that it will be giving Mount Allison University three million dollars towards the construction of a student centre. “I am pleased to announce an investment of more than $3 million towards Mount Allison’s new student centre,” Ed Doherty, Minister of Post-Secondary Education…
MSU election is a mess – as per usual
The McMaster Students’ Union election has been nothing short of a disaster again this year after only four school days of campaigning prior to voting taking place. (The two days of voting did allow campaigning and one day prior to voting was lost due to snow) The elections…
Vote for me
“Annoyed with student politicians earnestly trying to convince you that the world will descend into anarchy if they aren’t elected? Does anarchy sound worth a try?” If you agree, you might have wanted to vote last month for the student politician who authored of those words: Fire Hydrant.…
Laptop containing private student data stolen
Memorial University informed its students that a professor’s stolen laptop contained private information about students in two classes. The professor returned from an out-of-province trip to discover his private residence had been broken into and his personal laptop stolen. The theft occurred between January 15 – 18, 2008.…
University slogans make art
The UWaterloo Daily Bulletin reports on an interesting exhibition at the UW art gallery. The exhibit by Cathy Busby takes university recruitment slogans and makes art out of them. Looks really cool. There is a photo gallery on flickr as well.…
So much for being a ’student’ movement
There is a lot of information contained in the CFS’s leaked war paper’s to wage a "shock and awe" campaign against BC campuses pushing for independence from the so-called "student movement" as the CFS likes to call themselves. The "Volunteers" tab is interesting to read. Line 9 is…