Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat’s making it so hard for students to get a good night’s sleep? Could it be packed schedules, or is technology playing a bigger role than we realize?
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile the Union pledged an annual budget of $175,000 for scholarships and bursaries in 2022, the current program has experienced a decrease of $45,000 in its current iteration.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie adaptation of Casey McQuinston’s novel inexplicably sidesteps all that made it revolutionary
Reading Time: 3 minutesApple will be switching from intel based systems to its own Apple silicon, giving them full control over the manufacturing process. This could lead to better deals for students, and a better performing laptop overall.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe hit the streets of the U of O campus to ask students what key issues they’re focusing on ahead of the federal vote on Oct. 21. Some common topics included the climate crisis, affordable education, and boosting the Canadian economy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis new wave of private residences is defined by their high-end amenities including fitness centres, study rooms, game lounges and planned social events. But responses to the business model from students have been mixed.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“As a young Black woman immersed in Ottawa’s entrepreneurship community, I haven’t seen a significant amount of diversity—across all levels—in the people being invited to speak about growing a business in Canada.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s some first-years’ nightmare, and another’s wet dream.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudent and university politics don’t stop just because the school year does.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne thing we’ve learned from the lone successful GA—students are more likely to show up if they feel like their presence will make some kind of impact.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s a lot to keep track of. Luckily, you can pick the issues you want to see the most change in, and get all the information you need relatively easily.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAnyone who keeps up with the media in Ottawa woke up to a most unwelcome surprise on last Monday, Nov. 27. Nearly 40 community publications across Canada were closed and nearly 300 jobs lost in the blink of an eye. In Ottawa alone, that meant the closing of eight community newspapers. The move came with …
Reading Time: 2 minutesA new study space isn’t sexy, and it doesn’t have a flashy appeal. You could even make the case that it’s something the university administration should provide, and not the SFUO. All of those things are true, but a new study space is the kind of boring, unappealing piece of infrastructure that can actually improve the lives of students on campus.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLoïc Kayembe, a University of Ottawa Faculty of Social Sciences student and starting defensive end for the Gee-Gees football team, passed away on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 24.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudent representatives make progress with motions amid clash of tempers Monday’s meeting of the University of Ottawa’s Board of Governors (BOG), which took place in Tabaret Hall, got off to an uneasy start, receiving a surprise visit from CTV cameras before it even started. CTV interviewed leaders of the undergraduate and graduate student unions, but …
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Okay sure, their articles about spying microwaves and political handshake courses were on point, but what they wrote about people tampering with the SFUO election? Ridiculous!”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ottawa Police Service has confirmed with the Fulcrum that they responded to a medical emergency call on campus at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14, involving a deceased male.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fear that the GA won’t meet quorum shouldn’t discourage you from bringing motions forward—they can pass either way.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you want your voice to be represented at the highest levels of the SFUO, voting for an effective faculty director is the quickest and easiest way to do it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is not to say that the university should mandate that all classes must use open textbooks, as that would be untenable at this point. However, there are concrete steps that can be taken.
Reading Time: 2 minutes$200k donation from university will fund both grad and undergrads The referendum question to bring a third refugee student to the University of Ottawa was passed during the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) elections, but uncertainty as to whether this would actually happen arose at the most recent Board of Administration (BOA) …
Reading Time: 2 minutesMillennial voters, of which students are a large part, represent over 20 per cent of the population. Every vote is important, especially since this election is shaping up to be one of the closest in recent history.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis quick and delicious quinoa salad recipe combines flavours from Greece to Morocco.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs most students are wiling away their summers with part-time jobs and extra classes, Muskoka singer-songwriter, Drew Taylor, has been working hard on releasing her first EP, The Flood which came out on July 3.
Reading Time: 7 minutesHow student media can give young journalists an edge Photo Courtesy: Connect Euranet (CC) Peter Mansbridge has the kind of career that isn’t supposed to exist anymore. In mid-January 2015, at the Canadian University Press’ annual conference, he stood in front of hundreds of student journalists speaking about highlights from his career. He told them …
