Reading Time: 2 minutesGrad House construction date pushed back LAST MARCH, THE Graduate Students’ Association (GSAÉD) passed a referendum to build the Grad House, a new grad student space on campus. The construction of the new space at the U of O was to start this November, but has been postponed until spring for financial reasons. “It will …
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Reading Time: 3 minutesU of O receives its highest ever international education ranking FOR THE FIRST time, the University of Ottawa has been placed among the top 200 higher educational institutions, by the recently released Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings for 2011–12. The University of Ottawa is currently the 185th best post-secondary school in the world, in …
Reading Time: 3 minutesBOA removes SAC, introduces funding changes THE BOARD OF Administration (BOA) met on Oct. 16 in the senate room of Tabaret Hall to determine the fate of motions brought forward by the ad hoc Constitutional Committee. These motions included large constitutional changes and modifications in policy. The meeting focused on the second reading of a …
Reading Time: 5 minutesWall Street movement comes to the capital HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE collected in Confederation Park to show their support for Occupy Ottawa on Oct. 15, as a part of the global Occupy Together movement. About 60 people broke out colourful tents for the first night, and an estimated 70 stayed in the park the second night. …
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew mobile app takes dating to another level WHO NEEDS LIQUID courage when you can have Electric Courage, a new mobile flirting app that promises to take people from “shy to fly” at nightclubs or bars, allowing users to easily introduce themselves to people they find attractive. All of the flirting and introductions are done …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat’s he building in there? The problem THOUGH TRADITIONAL MEDICINE has been around for thousands of years, only recently has modern science started showing interest in the craft. In the past, peoples, such as the Maya and Native Americans, practiced herbal medicine and developed an extensive knowledge of their environment. Today, many traditional healers wish to …
Reading Time: 2 minutesGetting over first-year homesickness IT HAPPENS TO first years, it happens to graduate students—you leave you parent’s place for the first time (or maybe the second or third) and you can’t help but miss home when you’re at university. It was really nice having a dishwasher and washing machine where you were living, and the …
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE LIBRARY IS great, the University Centre is bustling, and the cafés are divine, but come midterms, it can sometimes be hard to find a place on campus that isn’t swarming with studying students. If you want to find a new—and perhaps more isolated—place to hit the books, consider the following spaces on campus. Empty …
Reading Time: 3 minutesAS THE SCHOOL year begins and you realize your savings from your summer job won’t last forever, you might come to the conclusion that you’ll be broke for most of the year. But the Fulcrum’s here to keep you from resorting to eating to Kraft Dinner or Mr. Noodles to save money, and we’ll help …
