The Fulcrum was first published in 1942, here is the article that graced the first ever issue’s cover.
Live from the Archives
At the height of the “War on Terror” in 2003, the Fuclrum’s editorial board wrote a touching editorial on the need to cherish Canadian veterans from past and present wars.
With the 2020 U.S. presidential election still undecided more than 40 hours after the end of polling in most states, the Fulcrum decided to look back this week on the 2011 SFUO election that took more than a night to determine all the winning candidates.
Steve Johnson on winning the OUA title in 2014: “It truly was a team effort,” he said. “We are more of a team this year than perhaps other years. Other years we may have had more individual talent, but collectively this team has really performed well all season.”
In 1951, the Fulcrum was head-on facing bankruptcy due to the SFUO’s mismanagement of its budget. Douglas Roche was tasked with writing the Fulcrum’s obituary, but in the end, the Fulcrum survived and carried on despite the federation’s financial challenges.
The Medical School Building opened its doors in 1954. Now named the Vanier Hall the Fulcrum was on the scene to report on the opening of the then “state of the art” building.
In 1992, it wasn’t COVID-19 that was responsible for the cancellation of Gee-Gees varsity sports programming it was meningitis as the city of Ottawa fought an outbreak that left at least six dead and led to the decision to vaccinate approximately 155 000 children in the National Capital Region.
Live from the Archives this week goes back to 2014 when the U of O received a failing grade in the yearly free expression index and a “free speech wall” was erected to try and help the school reputation but subsequently painted over by the Revolutionary Student Movement
From the 1983 University of Ottawa Grand-Prix to the 2017 disaster that was FEDStock here are some interesting stories about frosh’s of the past.
Live from the Archives this week goes back to 2011 when Jane Lytvynenko (a Fulcrum contributor at the time now Buzzfeed’s misinformation reporter) wrote about students barricading themselves in the SFUO office to protest the disqualification of a candidate for VP finance due to his campaign producing misinformation.
Live from the archives this week goes back to 2002 when the SFUO pulled the plugged on its struggling bar “The Nox” after losing hundreds of thousands of dollars due to high rent and strong off-campus competition notably by Father’s and Sons. The Nox was replaced by the 1848 student bar a couple of years later.
Live from the archives this week goes back to 1987 when graduate students had enough of the SFUO and voted almost unanimously in favour of separating from the student federation.
This week we go back to 1996, when boy bands, Britpop and Gangsta Rap ruled the airwaves and the University of Ottawa accepted donations from questionable sources.
