Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a super easy smoothie and homemade granola bar combo that should help ease the pain of a tough day of classes.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesIf you look in the right places, you’ll find that “the town that fun forgot” is actually home to its fair share of ghastly ghost stories and haunted hot spots that are anything but boring.
Reading Time: 7 minutesU of O students talk about what it means to be asexual, and the challenges that come hand in hand with identifying with this misunderstood branch of human sexuality.
Reading Time: 9 minutesThroughout this current election, a number of politicians have jumped on board the electoral reform bandwagon, with a number of mainstream political parties promising this kind of change in their electoral platforms. But what is it about our current system that has three opposition parties calling foul?
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe battle between Uber and Ottawa cab drivers is far from over and, in order for a victor to emerge, at least one party has to be willing to compromise.
Reading Time: 7 minutesFor the last five years Budlakoti has been fighting to regain his Canadian citizenship, something that the government stripped away from him in 2010. To make matters worse, he is also at risk of being deported to India, despite the fact that he’s never been to India and their government doesn’t recognize him as a citizen either.
Reading Time: 7 minutesIf we accept the very believable premise that students constantly get away with academic fraud, what does that mean for professors?
Reading Time: 2 minutes1-No one cares
If you decide to slack off and not attend class, your professors and fellow classmates won’t care. What your peers will care about is the terrible habit you’ll make of constantly asking for notes for the classes you missed.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUniversity is a time of friskiness, exploration, and hot steamy sex. Never again in your life will you be surrounded by so many hot’n’ready singles, so enjoy your time here while it lasts. I know I sure have.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople shouldn’t refrain from exploring new alcoholic beverages simply because of the colour of a label.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesMove over newlyweds and expecting parents, your not the only ones who get to calls dibs on cool housewarming items anymore. Now students are getting in on the action with the emergence of dorm room gift registries, a service that allows them to map out gift preferences for their first year of university.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast year I elected to monitor a first-year University of Ottawa student for a 12-month period, in order to properly gauge the physical toll that the university lifestyle has on students. The results may surprise—and horrify—you. Look if you dare.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPhoto: Marta Kierkus Don’t be an introvert Most people will tell you that the biggest mistake they made in freshman year involves something that they did. However, my most shameful regret revolves around reluctance to do anything at all. During my first year, I was about as timid as a groundhog in February, never rising …
Reading Time: < 1 minute“School Spirit”, Kanye West
When you inevitably go through your “university is for suckers” phase.
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhy does the buying, storing, moving, and eventual disposal of stuff occupy such an important place in our lives? Better yet, is this obsession an economic issue or a psychological issue, or both?
Reading Time: 7 minutesHow student media can give young journalists an edge Photo Courtesy: Connect Euranet (CC) Peter Mansbridge has the kind of career that isn’t supposed to exist anymore. In mid-January 2015, at the Canadian University Press’ annual conference, he stood in front of hundreds of student journalists speaking about highlights from his career. He told them …
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhy the potential benefits of commercial and recreational drones are flying over our heads Illustration by Adam Gibbard Dippin’ Dots. Microwaves. Menstrual pads. The Internet. GPS. Cargo pants. Some of the wonders of modern life—and an unflattering fashion trend of the late ‘90s—all started as military innovation and were later adapted for commercial and …
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhile many acknowledge the importance of getting youth out to vote, there’s less consensus on why about half of all Canadians aged 18–24 don’t vote in federal elections.
Reading Time: 8 minutesIf you’re designing a building from scratch, and you have in mind that it should be for students, you design things differently
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn the wake of falling oil prices, can Canadians rely on Fort McMurray as a steady source of jobs and income?
Reading Time: 7 minutesI’m not sure I remember the very first time I experienced racism or discrimination.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are a few things one should keep in mind before diving in to the dirty talk.
