Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa women’s rugby team lit up Matt Anthony field on Sept. 23, soundly beating the McGill Martlets 116–0. According to the U of O, this is a team record for highest-scoring game, and their first game to break 100 points.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAccording to LeSwank, funding for season three of the show came from profits from the recent Everybody Hates Everybody (EHE) Festival. The festival featured a controversial “pay to play” policy, where the SFUO selected artists to perform based on how many tickets they could sell.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBorder protection agencies need to understand that everything is accessible by the touch of a finger, and yes, this can be a security risk, but phones are also so integrated into people’s lives that accessing them is a huge breach of privacy.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThough the Gees lost in heartbreaking fashion, they can rest in the knowledge that they played hard in a gutsy game, and almost came out on top.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether through NAFTA, trade deals with other levels of government, or some combination of the two, Canada shouldn’t try and ditch its largest trading partner.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGroup projects aren’t the most effective way to teach course material for most classes, reward those students who know more people in the class, thus being able to pick better group members, and most importantly, fail to test if the individual team members actually understand the course content.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs the winner of the university’s annual Concerto Competition, Nicholas Richard, a originally from Fredericton, New Brunswick, will get a chance to showcase not only his talents, but also the sound of the bassoon—an often neglected instrument in the orchestra.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll the coffee and tea in the Dining Hall is fair trade, and the campus offers about ten varieties of fair trade chocolate bars, purchased from the fair-trade worker co-op La Siembra, the makers of Camino chocolate.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe club was founded in 2012 to get students and youth involved in Parks Canada programs and raise awareness of Canada’s many national parks and heritage sites. It aims to provide students with a range of opportunities to experience and connect with the country’s unique history.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBirding is no longer just the retiree pastime it used to be. As birding makes use of new apps and encourages gamification, it is quickly being embraced by Millennials everywhere.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFogel’s latest research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, looks at the connection between sleep and memory. If you’re a student, athlete, or musician then it’s a study you won’t want to forget.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Monday, Sept. 25 the University of Ottawa’s Board of Governors (BOG) met to discuss its latest financial numbers, the university’s academic ranking, and more.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn Wednesday, Sept. 20, a 20-year-old man, identified as University of Ottawa student Hamza Serhan, was shot in broad daylight and found outside an Ottawa Community Housing Property at 1500 Caldwell Ave. by Ottawa Police at 3:20 p.m.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFennell started the game out strong, answering several of the first questions correctly, but ended up placing third. However, he says that it was a positive experience with a unique U of O connection.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa men’s hockey team is heading into its second year since the re-establishment of their hockey program.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith so many new players, the Gee-Gees will have some growing to do early in the year. But with the right combination of veterans, recruits, and transfers, they have the potential to compete with the perennial powerhouses in the RSEQ, McGill and Université de Montréal.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa women’s soccer team is off to a roaring start this year, with 5–1–1 record lifting the Gees to second in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) East standings.
Reading Time: 8 minutes“With my own research, we’ve gone in and said we can’t just talk about the negative, we have to see what’s the positive, because if there’s nothing good about this, why are people doing it as much as they are? There’s obviously something good about it.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a startling, albeit strategic move, Richard Benson, head coach of the University of Ottawa’s men’s football team elected to field 12 panda bears in this year’s edition of the annual Panda Game against Carleton University.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEven though the headliner attracted 500 people at most, and the local acts had twenty people show up for their sets, all the acts gave it their all. They all embodied Probably Raymond’s mantra to keep running—to make the most of it for the committed crowds who are there, and maybe make some new fans out of them.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDay two of the Everybody Loves Everybody music festival—organized by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa—was a successful hip-hop night featuring local artists and major names Pusha T and 6lack.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn initiative like Team Up Speak Up is a great way for the U of O to help raise awareness of concussions. Concussions are a dangerous health risk to athletes, and it’s important that when an athlete suffers a concussion, they are able to get help right away.
Reading Time: 8 minutesOn average, there are five advisors taking appointments at a time, two advisors at the front desk, and two advisors taking phone calls. For an undergraduate body of over 9,000 students, it is not humanly possible for two operators to field incoming calls from every student. This system is made to fail.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLoïc Kayembe, a University of Ottawa Faculty of Social Sciences student and starting defensive end for the Gee-Gees football team, passed away on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 24.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe national ban on trans fats will come into effect on September 15, 2018. Trans fats are typically added to foods to increase their shelf life, and can have various negative side effects.
