Reading Time: < 1 minuteAll vacant seats filled except for the Faculty of Medicine, Telfer School of Management.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe platforms show that while each candidate has their own concerns, certain issues traverse faculties.Transparency is a large focus in many of the candidates’ platforms—this comes after concerns were raised about transparency and democracy in the student federation at the first two BOA meetings of the academic year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter decrying the university’s lack of support for fair trade coffee, students took their disagreements outside. Across campus, spontaneous melees erupted as students hurled beverage cups at one another.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“We got this nomination because of the highly collaborative effort we all put into this production. We worked hard, but always with a tremendous amount of pleasure.”—André Perrier, director of Les Reines.
Reading Time: 17 minutesA collection of responses to the Fulcrum’s and La Rotonde’s coverage of the Vet’s Tour story.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDebating whether or not the U of O’s decision to cancel these subscriptions is a good or bad idea is really beside the point. The main issue here is the process by which the decision is made in the first place.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome consensual fun I had with friends is being compared to the sexual violence committed by Donald Trump, all because La Rotonde believes it has a right to report on the sexual activities of its students, and not real issues that they face.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast month, the University of Ottawa released a strategy to cut costs by reducing spending on subscriptions to thousands of online and print journals and databases to meet the balance of $1.527 million by Dec. 2016.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gees absolutely obliterated last place Bishop’s on-route to a 75-0 victory, closing the regular season 7-0.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA report by La Rotonde was released on Oct. 17 detailing incidents of a highly sexual nature as part of a bar crawl event called Vet’s Tour, hosted by the Science Students’ Association at the University of Ottawa.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAmong her many accomplishments, Roya Shams, an Afghani refugee and University of Ottawa student, is starting her own charity to help underprivileged children in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom the opening kickoff, Western stole the momentum immediately and scored touchdowns on their first two drives.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This app is state of the art technology. It has buttons, pictures, and at least three doohickeys.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes“My parents graduated summa cum laude from ByTowne Clown College. I guess I have some big shoes to fill.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa has recently formed a three-year partnership with the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) to implement a new entrepreneurship-based co-operative education program for students.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA University of Ottawa staff member in his 18th season with the Gee-Gees has been suspended from his position after his arrest due to charges of human trafficking and child luring.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA recent study published by researchers at Mount Royal University in Alberta has found no correlation between the evaluations and prof performance. That’s not surprising, considering how flawed the current SET system is.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMoody’s Investors Service, which provides credit ratings and risk analyses to organizations around the world, released a report on Sept. 29 that characterizes the University of Ottawa’s recent debt issuance as “stable.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ridgebacks spoiled the Gees’ Oct. 7 home opener by a 3–0 margin.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe ninth-ranked Gee-Gees football team rebounded and made light work of the York Lions in a 54–20 win.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNathalie Des Rosiers, the current dean of the Faculty of Law’s common law section, and former general counsel at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, has announced that she intends to run for the Ontario Liberal Party nomination in the Ottawa-Vanier riding.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn case you haven’t heard the news, most cases of campus sexual harassment are committed by university professors. At least, this is the allegation levelled by Angelina Chapin in her Ottawa Citizen op-ed titled “Universities need to focus on harassment, not just on sex assault.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesReportedly, factors that lead to the U of O’s demotion on the global stage include the total lack of culturally appropriated yoga, hummus-free cafeterias, and Iced Capps at the campus Tim Horton’s.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently, the federal government announced that it will regulate e-cigarettes within the coming year. While regulation is an important step, it must be done properly.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Drumpf, a third-year business student, thinks the system is broken, and that he is the only one that can make things better.
