Reading Time: 3 minutesBecoming a university student-athlete is not an easy feat. Luckily, some Gee-Gees have some advice on how to earn a spot on a university roster.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe clinic came to be when PBSC uOttawa reached out to Kind Space to create placements for students to volunteer, says Carling Miller, the executive director of Kind Space. Miller shared with the Fulcrum that the idea for the collaborative clinic “was great because we [Kind Space] didn’t have the capacity before to try and organize putting one together on our own.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf your fear of needles and injections has stopped you from getting vaccinated, this might be the event for you.
Reading Time: 8 minutesNeed to complete an HIV test but feel uncomfortable at the doctor? Can’t access a clinic? Patrick O’Byrne and the team behind GetaKit have you covered.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWith the score at 13-12 in the third quarter, the Golden Gaels offense was able to capitalize on two fumbles and an interception deep in Gee-Gees territory to run away with the game.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere’s a look at the best poems the Fulcrum received for its fiction issue.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“You are at the heart of student life” — El Himri reflects on her role as clubs and services commissioner of UOSU and speaks to what her predecessor should know.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is an important distinction between governance and politics. By governance, I mean the administration of the union, the fulfillment of its obligations. In terms of governance, the UOSU seems to be doing alright. By politics, I mean the human aspect, the making-people-care. In terms of politics, the UOSU seems to be doing much worse.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe U of O men’s rugby team has qualified for the playoffs.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite efforts, turnout remained low for this by-election, with Sana Almansour receiving just 1,278 votes out of a possible 36,855 voting members. Chloe Bergeron and Harneet Cheema were each only eligible to be voted in by members of the faculty they were vying to represent.
Reading Time: 6 minutesListen up as we review a bunch of Oasis classics!
Reading Time: 3 minutes“There are three types of people: those on the top, those on the bottom, and those who fall.”
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s worth the effort: satisfaction guaranteed.
Reading Time: 5 minutesOttessa Moshfegh’s works usually expose and gently pull apart the same themes: feelings of deep, seemingly incurable loneliness, usually from a female perspective. Her works feature women in incredibly unique situations but somehow manage to make them accessible and universally applicable.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn short, pseudoscience is presented like science, but lacks the same rigour that science undergoes. As a result, it makes the two extremely difficult to discern.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith rumours of a potential code of conduct in late 2014/early 2015, the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) was gearing up for a fight.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTheatre: this is an “until death do us part” situation, and I’m not going anywhere. I’m here for you through the rough patch.
Reading Time: 3 minutes “I had a project where I was working in northern Canada. Those areas had beautiful northern lights, where the green and red colours filled the entire sky,” said the U of O researcher in an interview.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt has recently been brought to my attention that I’m a serial friendzoner — a phenomenon to which I was previously none the wiser.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversities are already riddled with institutional barriers given their entry price — textbooks only exacerbate this issue.
Reading Time: 9 minutes“We’re leading consultations with the student body and with different stakeholders and will relay those comments to HRO. And I would be surprised that this was the last UOSU has to say on this file, given the nature of the document that was presented,” said UOSU president Tim Gulliver.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough not specifically stating it was due to COVID-19, varsity athletics indicated the postponement was for precautionary measures related to health and safety protocols.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Perfectionism is a maladaptive personality trait: it’s associated with anxiety and depression, and other things like academic burnout,” said U of O professor Tracy Vaillancourt.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa’s Heart Institute released false data which was quickly picked up by vaccine hesitant groups to validate false beliefs that the COVID-19 vaccines are highly deadly.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStarr mainly studies plant systematics, which is the science that names, discovers and determines evolutionary relationships of organisms
