Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re not suffering from those issues, there is definitely no reason to pop any of the pills your pals are pushing.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Fulcrum asked a couple of our contributors to look back and tell us what they thought the top five albums of 2012 were.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Elections Office of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) has released the names of those running for positions on the SFUO executive Board of Administrations (BOA), and Senate.
Reading Time: 6 minutesRead up on all the action of the seventh annual Capital Hoops Classic here!
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s totally different than [playing in an] association, because you can actually see people on campus, and we’re around each other most days of the week. There’s that whole mentality of student athletes. We understand that we’re balancing school and sports.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all know that obesity and type-2 diabetes are nearly epidemic in Canada and the United States but our ample aliments lead to an abundance of ailments.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is definitely not what your guidance counsellors in high school told you would happen. So what the heck are you supposed to do?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 90 University kitchen has been closed to the public in an effort by the University of Ottawa’s Housing Service to provide residents of the complex with greater access to the facilities.
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn Jan. 8, the Fulcrum sat down with the president to get his take on the university’s accomplishments in 2012 and his plans for the future.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAccording to the results of a survey by the Universitas Indonesia (UI), the U of O is currently the 14th most sustainable university in the world.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThroughout January, volunteers and employees at the Health Promotion division of the University of Ottawa’s Health Services have been offering free fair-trade hot chocolate at various locations on campus.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you thought opera couldn’t be sexy, think again. The University of Ottawa Opera Company and its chamber orchestra performed a modernized version of Mozart’s Così fan tutte throughout January.
Reading Time: 2 minutes… the lie that has been perpetuated is that if you go to university, you’ll get a well-paying, white-collar job—as opposed to your non-degree-holding counterparts. The magazine says that according to statistics, a person with a degree should make $1.3 million dollars more throughout their career than someone without one. But as Maclean’s pointed out, that just isn’t happening.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMore widespread and contagious than any virus since the plague, this epidemic spreads not through contact, but by words. This danger is the overuse of the word “literally.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Jan. 16, Edward Inch, a fifth-year chemistry student, took the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) to small-claims court to have his incidental fees reimbursed. Inch believes he shouldn’t have to pay those fees because he feels the SFUO is a political organization. Inch argued he shouldn’t be forced to give his money to an organiztion he’d prefer not to associate with.
Reading Time: 3 minutesYour dick is not the size of a baby’s head, so it’s not too big to fit inside a vag. I’ll give it to you though, giving birth is not necessarily a comfortable experience; so yes, your girth might be causing some gargantuan issues in the sack.
Reading Time: 10 minutes“Ideally, I’d have a PhD, I’d be a professor, my research would be fantastic, it wouldn’t suffer; but I’d also be able to have a family. I’d be married, I’d have children, and somehow my career wouldn’t have to take a hit because I took time off to have a kid—but my family also wouldn’t suffer after I go back to work after giving birth,” she said. “I wonder if it’s really possible to have all of those things.”
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week’s reviews include the much-anticipated sophomore effort from A$AP Rocky and the controversial 9/11 film Zero Dark Thirty.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe camera’s on you! We’ve turned the lens on students to take a look at who’s wearing what on campus.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSparks Street BIA executive director Les Gagne hopes to liven up the social potential of the pedestrian street and make it a more permanent tourist attraction by installing a 300-metre zip line.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe bottom line is that if students are going to be doing it anyway, they might as well make it safe—and fun.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen it comes to relationship advice, Di Daniels isn’t the only Fulcrum writer who can dish it out. Recently, two editors got into a friendly debate about whether or not couples should be friends before dating. Neither editor was willing to budge, so they took to the opinions section to duke it out.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBut the proposed changes to the political system have been lost in the commotion of an unusually exciting political scene over the holidays, including developments in the F-35 program and the Idle No More movement.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStudents at the University of Ottawa are invited to come up with ideas to improve the school now that the annual Good Ideas contest is soon to be underway.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA student who sued the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa to have his incidental fees reimbursed because of had his case dismissed in court Wednesday.
