Reading Time: 2 minutesCRIME PREVENTION OTTAWA, in collaboration with the Ottawa Hospital, has broadened the scope of its “don’t be that guy” ad campaign, which seeks to tackle issues of sexual violence amongst young adults.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE UNION REPRESENTING support staff at the University of Ottawa will hold a strike mandate vote Sept. 16 and 17 following collective agreement negotiations with the university since June 2012.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMore than a dozen post-secondary institutions across Canada have begun a move to leave the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), according to a media release.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA UNIVERSITY OF Ottawa club is aiming to raise money and awareness for the Syrian people in light of the country’s ongoing crisis.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA administration has teamed up with the Student Academic Success Service (SASS), the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, and the vice president of academics in an attempt to help French-speaking students from predominantly English-speaking regions better adapt to university-level French courses.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCAMPUSGRIDS, A NEW social network created by four University of Ottawa students, aims to help students find clubs, events, and businesses.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA FIGHT BETWEEN police and bar patrons at Tequila Jacks in the ByWard Market resulted in charges against two 21-year-old men. Police responded to a disturbance on Clarence Street at about midnight on Sept. 6 to find a man assaulting security staff with a metal lineup pole, according to police.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa students honoured for their achievements Daniel LeRoy | Fulcrum Staff UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA students Leah Stuart-Sheppard and Julia Koulik have received recognition in past months for their efforts and excellence in research. As per Allan Rock’s Vision 2020, his strategic plan for the university to be achieved by the year 2020, the …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 25-year-old University of Ottawa law graduate recently brought forward an application to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to change the rules of succession so that a potential heir’s religion would not be a factor.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Student Federation of the Univeristy of Ottawa (SFUO) Board of Administration (BOA) abolished its promotions committee at its monthly meeting Aug. 25.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA law professor Amir Attaran claimed that Minister of Justice and Attorney General Peter MacKay misled the Canadian public with his comments regarding Justin Trudeau’s recent admission to smoking marijuana as a sitting Member of Parliament (MP).
Reading Time: 2 minutesA MEMBER OF Provincial Parliament in southwestern Ontario is lobbying the University of Ottawa to put a new campus in his riding.
Reading Time: 2 minutes1848 has reopened after a summer of construction and the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) is now looking to make improvements to one of its other businesses, Pivik.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA professors and academic librarians have reached a four-year labour deal that will create dozens of new tenure-track positions and salary increases.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe study was performed at two Level 1 trauma centers and involved 37 consecutive patients over the age of 60 with SCIs related to C-spine fractures. Daneshvar determined the mortality rate and the risk factors for negative outcomes explained.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGrowing numbers of applicants and a lack of on-campus space have been a growing problem that has forced Housing Service to place first-year students in Sandy Hill homes that the service owns and manages; however, this solution is no longer a viable option.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOTTAWA’S PUBLIC TRANSIT will be hectic until 2018, according to Mayor Jim Watson. This year’s university move-in weekend will provide new and returning students with first-hand experience of the discord expected in the downtown core with the construction of the new Light Rail Transit (LRT) line.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA COMMITTEE MADE up of members of Food Services, Housing Service, the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO), and more is deliberating on how to improve the U of O’s food services. “As campus stands right now, Food Services are unable to keep up with demand,” said Patrick Genest, director of Food Services. …
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo Bixi Bike stations have been installed on the University of Ottawa campus: one on Waller Street outside Hagen Hall and one outside of the Minto Sports Complex on King Edward Street.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOntario has begun screening newborns for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), commonly known as bubble boy disease, which weakens newborns’ immune systems, rendering them unable to fight off even mild infections.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudent’s U-Pass concern finally resolved, SFUO issues refund Jane Lytvynenko | Fulcrum Staff Five months after submitting a request to refund her U-Pass fee, Julie Corrigan, a PhD student at the University of Ottawa, got her cheque in the mail. Corrigan, who went abroad to do research, exchanged 33 emails and many phone calls with …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) has set up a depression research centre to help alleviate the challenges faced by health-care practitioners while maintaining an emphasis on total care
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents were caught off guard on the morning of Feb. 12 when they went to pick up their weekly copy of La Rotonde and found newsstands empty.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a tight presidential race, Anne-Marie Roy was elected leader of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) for the 2013–2014 term.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn one of the closest races of the night, the Student Action coalition scored another victory as Christopher Hynes beat out Together Ensemble candidate Marilyn Tourangeau and independent candidate Chris Clarke for the vp university affairs position.
