Universities are already riddled with institutional barriers given their entry price — textbooks only exacerbate this issue.
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People fail to realize that, although there are no CO2 emissions being produced by electric cars while driving, they produce plenty in other stages of their lifecycle.
There I was, sitting in a dark basement in a fold-up chair, gazing into a webcam placed at an angle so low that, if it actually boasted of good camera quality, would be able to serve as a scope of my nostrils.
Zoom, Adobe Connect, MS Teams, Skype — there are too many to count!
Denouncing a pumpkin spice latté as “basic” is an evolved form of not liking the colour pink, saying that hanging out with boys is less drama, and feeling a little bit guilty for loving romantic comedies.
Another virus spreading in our neighbourhoods: ignorance and unchecked privilege.
I finished getting diagnosed with alopecia areata, depression and severe anxiety disorder, and a mystery disease, hopped in my car with tears in my eyes, and tossed my fanny pack and bucket hat back on — I had a game of socially distanced freeze dance to lead.
In the coverage of this type of crime, it’s always “a woman was drugged,” and never “someone drugged a woman.” It’s a subtle turn of phrase but it completely shifts the placement of agency in the sentence — it becomes passive, the subject is that it happened, not how. A crime without a criminal.
The Vote on Campus initiative served to expand accessible voting for young voters. This was especially beneficial for students voting for their home riding rather than the riding of their university. In the absence of this program, many are confused about how to vote — where does one register, and how does one navigate voting from afar?
From the nutritionally greasy to the ethically slimy, the U of O has become a commercialized wasteland, and we fear how this will impact students on campus.
From a beer robbery, to a car crash, to a trip around town for a rental car, to arguments with different people in the U of O community — that’s how my life’s going.
Like the Rube Goldberg machine, where every part of the apparatus is essential to its final outcome, every sphere of your life is essential, too.
To lose the campus walk-in, is to lose the one place on campus where students in crisis could go for immediate support — no online forms, phone intakes, or months of waiting.
Alack, I long for the advertised 24/7 dining hall.
When I step into the voting booth to pick between the leaders I saw at the federal debate I will invoke some of the few words of the night that truly resonated with me. “Oh shoot,” by Marek McLeod.
With a summer littered with forest fires, air quality advisories, and heat warnings, climate change has everyone on the hot seat
Five months ago I wrote about the season I lost to the pandemic. Today, I’m writing about the season in front of me: the season we compete again.
Sonder is the humbling realization that, despite all your efforts to master the main character cocktail, everyone is the main character of their own lives.
The same people who said my name sounded like a taco and made Islamophobic comments back in middle school are now posting infographics—how ironic.
“The reason in question is that if all parties in a discussion have the freedom to speak their ideas without punishment, this prevents proponents of reprehensible ideas from becoming martyrs,” writes Quinn Sam, a second-year political science and economy student.
Although Justice Grant Huscroft clearly showed that the provincial government contravened the “University Acts” by infringing on universities’ autonomy with the SCI, is this really the final nail in the coffin for the policy, or will the government be stubborn and drag taxpayers in an even longer battle with Ontario’s university students?
“The current political system does not easily allow for homelessness to be an issue that gains much attention or commitment from elected officials. This is largely disheartening and reflects poorly upon voters and politicians but it also has the upside of partly keeping bad rhetoric out of the discourse,” writes Quinn Sam, a student entering his second year studying political science and economy at the University of Ottawa.
As I wrap up my undergraduate program at a large Canadian university, I would be hard-pressed to give you a coherent answer to an admittedly straightforward question.
What is university?
“As a soon-to-be graduating nursing student, I’ve come to realize that health sciences programs, although intensive, unquestionably fail to address humans’ interconnectedness with animals and nature, known as the One Health approach. Never once in my classes have we addressed how human health and well-being are intrinsically related to that of the environment,” writes fourth-year University of Ottawa nursing student, Maëla Séguin.
I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to work with during the pandemic.
