In 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
In 1980, André Picard wrote about the origins and fate of the first Panda game trophy: a three-foot-tall stuffed Panda dubbed Pedro.
The mandatory attendance debate was already raging in the 1950s.
“If we do not straighten out out priorities soon, there may be nothing left on our planet to protect,” said David Suzuki.
On 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.
The 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 …
HAS 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?
With 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.
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.
Sadly only four out of 15 still exist…
Before condemning underaged students’ actions, the SFUO should think about the “consequences” of its own.
In July of 2011, students wishing to access the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa website were greeted by the Nyan Cat.
The Fulcrum, which was supposed to move temporarily to 631 King Edward Avenue for two years, has occupied the offices for now over 33 years.
Editors 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).
The academic hall is still an elaborate lecture hall, and not a theatre built for university level drama…
Di 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.
Have 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.
The Fulcrum was first published in 1942, here is the article that graced the first ever issue’s cover.
With 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.
Steve 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.”
In 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.
The 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.
Live 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
From 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.
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.
