THE END OF the school year is a monumental time for everyone. Students finish off exams, professors finally get a break, and those of us who had a year-long contract with our workplace hand in transition reports. I’d like to dedicate this column to writing a short transition report for the new Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) [...]
THE FULCRUM AND La Rotonde hosted SANS, a journalism conference, last weekend. We had industry professionals impart their wisdom and we soaked it up like information-hungry sponges—I don’t pay this much attention in class. While I improved my writing and researching skills, there’s one thing anyone could have taken away from the conference: Get yourself out there. For journalists, that [...]
WHEN I GATHERED enough courage to walk through Café Nostalgica’s wide-open doors, I was in second year. When I first came to university, the café was presented as off-limits to me—it was just for graduate students, I was told. But as soon as I was served my first delicious cheese omelet, I realized I had found a new home. I [...]
LAST SUNDAY, THE Board of Administration (BOA) passed a motion changing the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) executive for 2013–14. Many significant constitutional changes were made—including to the executive positions—without any consultation of the new executive or students. Because students elect faculty representatives to the BOA, they don’t get much individual say in the tabled motions. The [...]
LAST YEAR THE Fulcrum examined whether part-time students are given the cold shoulder. I didn’t care for the subject at the time—I was a full-time student who got all the associated benefits and wasn’t interested in what I thought were “first-world problems.” I was naive. The fact is, part-time students are trampled on by every organization. Want a U-Pass? Go [...]
I USED TO live in a very corrupt country, one where funding for a politician’s new home in the Bahamas was more important than funding for health care. In Ukraine, politicians would rather spend the country’s money on a $1,000 bottle of champagne than help citizens and lower the class divide. That’s exactly why I came to Canada. But here [...]
IT’S BUDGET SEASON—a time for our governments to figure out where they want to spend cash and cut funding. The Harper government has made it clear jobs will be cut, which means Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has some damage control to do. Watson has already sprung into action. He recently introduced Invest Ottawa, a plan which will see local businesses [...]
EVERY TUESDAY, I get home past midnight. Without letting my dog out and sometimes forgetting to take off my shoes, I crash on the first comfortable-looking surface I see. I’m not tired because I was out at 1848’s Toonie Tuesday or writing a last-minute essay in the library. I’m exhausted because, along with an amazing team of student journalists, I [...]
I LOVE DANCING, but because of extremely demanding school and work lives, I barely get to go out and shake my booty. You can imagine my excitement when I realized I could combine work and a dance party as I followed Ottawa’s National Day of Action parade. The so-called protest started out on Morisset Terrace with the Student Federation of [...]
IN THE 2008–09 Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) elections, voter turnout was a record 27 per cent of the undergraduate student population, thanks to the Internet. The implementation of e-voting in 2009 increased accessibility and interest among the student population. When e-voting was discontinued last year, voter turnout was a low 11 per cent, showing how inferior [...]
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