Reading Time: 7 minutesNursing students, in a program and field in which on-site learning and application are necessary, are suffering from the lack of needed in-person training and placements due to the fluctuating public health mandates. The lack of consistency and the harsh exposure to the COVID-19 health crisis has caused a decrease in students’ faith and optimism in nursing and their futures within the field.
Reading Time: 7 minutesA new integrated health care centre and the hiring of two additional counsellors are examples of the initiatives that have been taken since the President’s Advisory Committee on Mental Health and Wellness published its report in 2020.
Reading Time: 6 minutes“For health and safety, I still have some misgivings. I am still a bit concerned,” said U of O associate professor Veldon Coburn on the return to campus plan.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa has welcomed incoming international exchange students despite the cancellation of outgoing exchanges. Arriving in Ottawa in early January, these students have not had the ordinary exchange experience.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The club has allowed me to make new and lasting friendships,” said Hannah Vigneux, a first-year English student at the U of O.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“In this period of constant change, I greatly appreciated the generosity of those who took the time to share with us their problems and their experiences at the University,” wrote the U of O’s Ombudsperson in the office’s 11th annual report.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhether your roommates are your friends, strangers, or even family members, living with another person is always going to result in compromise and (hopefully) mutual respect… or is it?
Reading Time: 3 minutesStarting her on ice career in the small Ontario town of Ayr, Katherine Birkby is now playing her third season in the garnet and gray.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOutdoor rinks are a great way to exercise, socialize, and get outside while social distancing. Here are some of the best outdoor rinks for U of O students.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa is severely lacking a 1000-level course on the Sandy Hill housing market.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA full return to campus life has been delayed until Jan. 31. It is possible it could be further delayed.
Reading Time: 5 minutes“I’m also just immensely frustrated with the pandemic for taking away another part of what I envisioned as my ideal twenties,” wrote fourth-year student Avia Amon.
Reading Time: 6 minutesFollowing the release of part one back in April 2021, there were many more professors that were commended and praised by students — this piece highlights their great work.
Reading Time: 7 minutesMental health is something that affects everyone. For men in sports, there are barriers surrounding the subject.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“If people want to be happy, they’ll need to have good relationships in the real world as well,” said U of O professor Wonsook Lee
Reading Time: 6 minutesAs the year comes to an end, we decided to look back on significant stories the Fulcrum published in 2021. Instead of simply republishing the stories, we thought we’d do something different and offer readers a behind-the-scenes look at how some of the year’s biggest stories came to be.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“Scholars must remain vigilant whenever academic freedom collides with diversity. The former can be compromised by EDI activists, who in turn will only be pacified once their demands to censor ‘offensive’ remarks or ‘dangerous’ ideas are met by university administrators,” writes University of Ottawa school of sociological and anthropological studies professor Stuart Chambers.
Reading Time: 5 minutesMany undergraduate students possess a voracious need to learn. They devour books, sit on the edge of our seats during interesting lectures — and have a need to channel this need into research. But how?
Reading Time: 5 minutesGraduation marks the end of a chapter in a person’s life. With this chapter over, many graduates are eagerly anticipating the next one, because, unlike textbooks, we cannot flip through the pages of life to see how long the next one will be.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“We remain hopeful that the defendants will now engage us in meaningful settlement discussions,” said Sean Brown, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs and a senior partner at Flaherty McCarthy LLP, to the Fulcrum.
Reading Time: 4 minutes “It’ll be my first time living away from home on my own. But all of the exciting parts of that are taken away, because I’m worried about if I’ll find a place,” said second-year student Erin Peter.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The University is still planning for an increased level of activities on campus coming January 2022, including a return of the vast majority of administrative and support staff,” says the University of Ottawa.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe U of O president’s report to the Senate did not provide the same updates in both languages when it came to the University’s reception of the academic freedom report. The updates in French were much more extensive, and the message very different — these updates should have been the same in both languages to not keep unilingual members of the U of O community in the dark.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA first step in an extensive process of bilingual revitalization, francophone affairs commissioner Lia Bosquet believes that outlining language rights in the syllabus will increase accessibility to all classes on campus.
Reading Time: 4 minutesMallon discusses what to expect at a dig, dino myths and why dinos were so big Jordan Mallon is a research scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature here in Ottawa. He mainly studies horned dinosaur evolution and dinosaur paleoecology which is the study of past ecology. This week Mallon interviewed with the Fulcrum to …
