Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn 1962 Bob Winter wrote a letter to the editor where he determined “If our students can read, some of their questions must have been answered”
Live from the archives
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 1980, André Picard wrote about the origins and fate of the first Panda game trophy: a three-foot-tall stuffed Panda dubbed Pedro.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe mandatory attendance debate was already raging in the 1950s.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“If we do not straighten out out priorities soon, there may be nothing left on our planet to protect,” said David Suzuki.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Oct. 16, 2001, the Ottawa police and fire departments responded to a morning call from a tenant in a building near the corner of Goulburn Avenue and Somerset Street in Sandy Hill. Why? Tenants believed they had found anthrax in their mailbox.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Fulcrum chatted with Zappa following a show at the Ottawa Civic Centre in late 1975 Content Warning: Some language may be seen as offensive. This interview was recorded on Dec. 6, 1975. The transcript was published in the Fulcrum’s Jan. 15, 1976 issue. In December of 1975, the Fulcrum’s Dick Landau interviewed Frank Zappa …
Reading Time: 2 minutesHAS IT EVER amazed you how quickly children seem to recover from injuries? Tumbles and falls are just part of everyday play. But it’s not what it’s like for adults — or grandparents for that matter. Falling or breaking a bone can be a dangerous event, because injuries are not easily healed.
Why is that?
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: 4 minutes In 1987, a tragedy saw a guard rail collapse at Lansdowne Park, many students were injured including one female student who spent 20 days in a coma and broke her neck.
Reading Time: 5 minutesSadly only four out of 15 still exist…
Reading Time: 3 minutesBefore condemning underaged students’ actions, the SFUO should think about the “consequences” of its own.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn July of 2011, students wishing to access the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa website were greeted by the Nyan Cat.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Fulcrum, which was supposed to move temporarily to 631 King Edward Avenue for two years, has occupied the offices for now over 33 years.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEditors of the Fulcrum watched nervously as the student union Board of Administration voted unanimously, with one abstention, on Jan. 9, 2004, to transfer ownership of the paper to the newly created Fulcrum Publishing Society (FPS).
Reading Time: 11 minutesThe academic hall is still an elaborate lecture hall, and not a theatre built for university level drama…
Reading Time: 11 minutesDi Daniels, the Fulcrum’s longest standing employee, has written a number of Dear Di’s over the years. Here is a compilation honouring her best efforts.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you ever wondered why the Fulcrum is independent from the University of Ottawa Students’ Union? If so, the answer lies in this week’s Live from the Archives.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Fulcrum was first published in 1942, here is the article that graced the first ever issue’s cover.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the 2020 U.S. presidential election still undecided more than 40 hours after the end of polling in most states, the Fulcrum decided to look back this week on the 2011 SFUO election that took more than a night to determine all the winning candidates.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSteve Johnson on winning the OUA title in 2014: “It truly was a team effort,” he said. “We are more of a team this year than perhaps other years. Other years we may have had more individual talent, but collectively this team has really performed well all season.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 1951, the Fulcrum was head-on facing bankruptcy due to the SFUO’s mismanagement of its budget. Douglas Roche was tasked with writing the Fulcrum’s obituary, but in the end, the Fulcrum survived and carried on despite the federation’s financial challenges.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Medical School Building opened its doors in 1954. Now named the Vanier Hall the Fulcrum was on the scene to report on the opening of the then “state of the art” building.
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: 6 minutesFrom the 1983 University of Ottawa Grand-Prix to the 2017 disaster that was FEDStock here are some interesting stories about frosh’s of the past.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Live from the Archives this week goes back to 2011 when Jane Lytvynenko (a Fulcrum contributor at the time now Buzzfeed’s misinformation reporter) wrote about students barricading themselves in the SFUO office to protest the disqualification of a candidate for VP finance due to his campaign producing misinformation.
