Reading Time: 2 minutes“Riding a unicycle just seems impossible,” said Jérémie Gaudreau, fourth-year mechanical engineering student at the University of Ottawa. “I still think it’s impossible.”
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSince the release of their self-titled album in 2012, the band—made up of Erin Saoirse Adair and University of Ottawa students Angela Schleihauf and Amelia Leclair—have received media attention for their song “Apartheid.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes1848 has reopened after a summer of construction and the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) is now looking to make improvements to one of its other businesses, Pivik.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDear Di, I think I may be asexual. I have never really had any sexual feelings towards anyone before and I also don’t feel the need to masturbate, ever. I think there’s something wrong with me. Help! —Might not be Human Dear MNBH, The number of times people have told me there’s something wrong …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA professors and academic librarians have reached a four-year labour deal that will create dozens of new tenure-track positions and salary increases.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than a dozen post-secondary institutions across Canada have begun a move to leave the Canadian Federation of Students.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ontario Civil Liberties Association is asking the University of Ottawa to stop funding a private defamation lawsuit filed by professor Joanne St. Lewis against former professor Denis Rancourt.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE ROYAL CANADIAN Mounted Police (RCMP) have laid charges in connection with the death of Emerson Curran.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMEET NATASHA WATCHAM-ROY: fifth-year health sciences student and member of the women’s rugby team. This summer she travelled to Kazan, Russia to compete with fellow Gee-Gee Sarah Meng in the FISU 2013 Summer Universiade, where she helped secure a bronze medal against Great Britain.
Reading Time: 5 minutesSometimes you need a good short-cut in life; I’m here to help KayCie Gravelle | Fulcrum Staff If you’ve ever been on the Internet there’s a good chance you’ve seen at least a few (or 80) lists that show you how to “Hack Your Life”. Everything from the bazillion ways you can use bread clips …
Reading Time: 2 minutesDear Di, Is there any sort of restriction on the size of the strap-on couples can use? My girlfriend and I have watched many videos online to give us ideas on how to enjoy them to the max, but some videos show extremely large strap-ons! Are they real and more importantly, are they safe? How …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Fulcrum’s resident sexpert introduces herself and starts prepping you for an exciting year
Reading Time: 2 minutes You can make the most of your first week at the University of Ottawa by participating in as many events as you possibly can.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn his first year at Carleton University, Watson was sad and anxious when his parents dropped him off, but he was also excited to be on his own
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE ARKELLS ARE SET to headline this year’s Fedstock, one of the largest and loudest student-organized concerts each year. The event will take place Sept. 1 at Confederation Park and is open to all University of Ottawa students for $15 and included in the cost of all 101 Week kits. Patrick Marquis, vp social of …
Reading Time: 2 minutesONE OF OTTAWA’S most colourful parades took place on Aug. 25, wrapping up the weeklong Capital Pride Festival. For the first time in nearly a decade, the parade route stretched down Bank Street, through Ottawa’s gay village, and ended at Marion Dewar Plaza at City Hall.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe study was performed at two Level 1 trauma centers and involved 37 consecutive patients over the age of 60 with SCIs related to C-spine fractures. Daneshvar determined the mortality rate and the risk factors for negative outcomes explained.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGrowing numbers of applicants and a lack of on-campus space have been a growing problem that has forced Housing Service to place first-year students in Sandy Hill homes that the service owns and manages; however, this solution is no longer a viable option.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOTTAWA’S PUBLIC TRANSIT will be hectic until 2018, according to Mayor Jim Watson. This year’s university move-in weekend will provide new and returning students with first-hand experience of the discord expected in the downtown core with the construction of the new Light Rail Transit (LRT) line.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the problems lies with the University of Ottawa’s Food Services. Despite admirable attempts to improve, there has been little success in bringing about enough change to campus eating facilities. / There’s a time and place to cultivate your love for cooking, but your first year of university might not be it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMr. Swift’s proposed policy would make sure that future generations are free from past hindrances caused by such suspected autistic people as Beethoven, Mozart, Dickenson, Yeats, Einstein, Darwin, and Isaac Newton—all of whom contributed very little to the world, but who must have bothered people like this one pissed off mother with the “noise polluting whaling” they made.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteADULTHOOD IS FILLED with responsibilities: bills, deadlines, and worrying about long-term plans. But for one night a month, the Canadian Museum of Nature offers an opportunity to indulge your inner six-year-old with a drink in hand. On Aug. 18, the museum held their monthly Nature Nocturne event, this time with a Star Wars theme. Attendees …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe poor experiences could teach us some valuable lessons for a future workplace, as we will surely face bosses we feel are unjust or unqualified and there will be no way for us to switch to another/ It is vital for students to have access to reviews on Rate My Professors in order to make the most informed decisions about their education.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt might be new compared to similar festivals across Canada, but this year’s second annual National Capital Craft Beer Week was a resounding success
Reading Time: 2 minutes“What’s a proud Gee-Gee? A person who takes inspiration from knowing they are part of a community, and can share in the community’s victories and losses to become something more,” said Daniel Stojanovic, a fourth-year health sciences student.
