Reading Time: 4 minutesIncoming students are eager to meet new people despite the current pandemic conditions, but how difficult is it really?
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union agreed to a $22,000 partnership with MIXRonline, to host two 101 Week activities. UOSU used the platform to encourage students to meet, socialize and replace the experiences students would normally have during a typical 101 Week.
Reading Time: 4 minutesTake a (mildly unhinged) journey with me into the digital back-to-school concert experience.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLive from the Archives this week goes back to 2014 when the U of O received a failing grade in the yearly free expression index and a “free speech wall” was erected to try and help the school reputation but subsequently painted over by the Revolutionary Student Movement
Reading Time: 3 minutesMillions of people have demanded that racial bigotry be extracted from important institutions like the police and health-care system, but how can we dismantle systematic racism in the long-term? Let’s look at our education systems.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Sept.9, students in CSI 4139, Design of Secure Systems, joined their class using YouTube live streams only to see their private information leaked on YouTube.
Reading Time: 5 minutesAs the academic accommodations granted during the winter 2020 term were based on the context of being a student during the COVID-19 pandemic, one can only wonder why the same exceptions are not being granted when the reality of the situation has not changed.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn Sept. 14, 2020, the Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) announced the cancellation of all sanctioned sports programming for the fall semester.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo University of Ottawa students, Eve Staszczyszyn and Livia Han have worked with students from the University of Waterloo BETS Program and the Queen’s Center for Advanced Computing to develop Wellness World; a portal aimed to combat the mental health crisis centered around the U of O community.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn the first official day back to school, Myriem Sahouli tweeted her concern and frustration to @uOttawa an @uOCampus that she has been trying to book an appointment with the University of Ottawa’s Health Services (UOHS) for weeks and all she receives is a busy signal.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEditorial: The student body should be informed when there are cases of COVID-19 on campus by the University.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOIAF 2020 features a new Netflix-sponsored Student Pass and films from around the world
Reading Time: 2 minutesCanadian musician to open new collaborative space for young Black artists
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is something incredibly unsettling about seeing pumpkin spice products so soon. Probably because it’s not autumn yet, and it’s far too early to break out the pumpkin spice.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTo motivate students, one theatre professor has made bubonic plague-era masks mandatory for all of her classes.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA variety of activities, speeches and games helped the UOSU and the University of Ottawa student body fundraise close to $4,000 dollars to help raise awareness for cystic fibrosis. Shinerama month continues throughout September.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen students think of tough exams there is one particular entry that takes the cake. It’s the William Lowell Putnam Competition, a grueling six hour mathematics exam with extremely difficult conceptual problems in which the top math students at the world’s best universities compete in.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union hosted an event called STEMinism to provide advice and help to women and non-binary individuals studying in a STEM degree. The Fulcrum was there and here’s what we learned!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteApplications are now open for performers from the National Capital region who wish to perform in the Fulcrum’s new live music series called the Fulc Sessions. The Fulc Sessions will be a live concert series that will take place in our basement at the Fulcrum offices at 631 King Edward, Ave.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre has been soliciting political cartoons about the impact and discourse sparked by COVID-19, in a campaign aptly named #COVICATURE
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union commissioners will have a new reduced “Executive Benefits Policy” after a review by UOSU’s Executive Oversight Committee.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring quarantine, I had the pleasure of flirting with various people over text, dating apps, and snapchat. These flirtatious conversations stemmed from boredom, but ended with me promising these people I’d hangout with them or go on dates when lockdown ended. But now that things are opening up, I don’t actually want to see any of these people. What do I do?
Reading Time: 2 minutesA student has tested positive for COVID-19 at the University of Ottawa’s 45 Mann residence. The student is receiving health care and self-isolating.
Reading Time: 6 minutesWherever you are this school year, check out the influential faces at U of O driving the discourse at the University.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy partner and I are both incoming first years at the University of Ottawa, we’re both fans of kinky, public fornication. As someone more familiar with campus, could you tell me where the best spots to shag are on campus?
