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Drinking water before you exercise, especially in the two hours preceding a workout, is essential to staying hydrated.

The best bars on or near campus to fill your stomach and wet your whistle Photos by Tina Wallace Whether you’re looking for filling fare, frosty beers, or new friends, all these pubs will have you making great memories while spending those pinched pennies. Café Nostalgica: 601 Cumberland St. Newly renovated Nostalgica reopened this fall …

Beverages to warm you up and calm you down Photos by Tina Wallace As much as we’d like to pretend summer isn’t over, the chilly weather has arrived. Here are three drinks—one non-alcoholic, two alcoholic—that should help you cope with the transition and keep you warm during the cold fall and winter months. Cinnamon Hot …

Dear Di, I have a rather gruesome question for you. I heard from a friend that she knows a girl who was going down on an uncircumcised penis and she pulled the foreskin so far back that it ripped right off. Is this actually possible, and if it is, what are some tips to avoid …

There’s a new group of dopers in town, and they’re doing it for the grades For many university students, the demands of academic life are stressful to say the least. To cope, some of us turn to liquor, chocolate (or any other comfort food), coffee upon coffee, or cigarettes. Some of us take caffeine pills to …

Dear Di, Someone was telling me the other day that it’s bad to have sex in the bathtub or pool. I knew that already, but what I didn’t know is apparently you can die from it. Is this true? I find it hard to believe, but if it is true… what a way to go. …

Dear Di, I was watching the movie Bridesmaids and it got me wondering why anyone would bleach their asshole. I also don’t really know what it is to be honest. Are we talking Clorox near a sphincter? Ouch! —Bleached Butt, What Dear BBW, Ever wonder why porn stars have assholes similar to the colour of …

What’s most important is that you prepare yourself for all the possible headaches that come with extensive travelling.

Journalists and psychologists have started talking about FOMO as a new type of social disorder—a consequence of the social media age.

With new friends, fierce parties, tiny showers, and greasy hangover breakfasts, rez life is sure to form some of your fondest first-year memories.

Let’s face it: studying is probably the least amount of fun you’ll have in university, so you might as well make the most of it by finding the ideal place to get down to business. Thankfully, the university campus is abundant in ideal study hotspots—as long as you know where to look.

Completing a doctorate can’t be that different, can it? The Fulcrum sat down with U of O grad students to find out.

The African-Canadian teen filed a complaint against the Ottawa Police Services, bringing them to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Aiken said the only reason he was pulled over was because he is black—essentially, he believed the police officer in question was profiling him based on his race.

Sometimes people just need a reminder to take a few moments to appreciate life around them. They’re moments to learn more about patience, compassion, and responsibility. Those moments can last a lifetime. And people—young people, especially—can learn a lot from individuals with developmental disabilities.

“Just the discussion that a man can be sexually abused—that was never talked about in school, that’s something that never came up. The men were the abusers. And we know that’s the case most often, but the role of man as ‘victim’ is not something that’s ever talked about,” he explained.

“A lot of the time when you’re in jail, you get selfish,” my dad said to me. “The selfish feeling is that you wish you could see your family. You miss them so much and you just want that comfort. In actuality, I had to think of your feelings too. I wasn’t worried about you missing me, or whatever else, but actually fearing for me. Had you guys come to Millhaven and seen that shit, it would’ve scared you. It would’ve kept you up at night. It was the smell—it all smelled like metal.”

Here, the Fulcrum looks at dietary choices, like eating organic, local, and seasonal, and seeks to understand how the snacks and meals we choose impact the world around us.

Recycling bins seem to be everywhere at the University of Ottawa—you can sort and dispose of paper, metals, plastic, and glass on nearly every floor of every building. But what about compost bins?

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