Reading Time: 2 minutesBeginning in October 2010 with three founding members, Kappa Zeta Psi has grown to more than 50 members and this year they’ve announced plans to colonize with the Alpha Phi International Women’s Fraternity.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesMen’s basketball, swim team head into second semester strong Men’s basketball The Gee-Gees men’s basketball team had a successful winter break, winning all three of their games at the Wesmen Classic tournament at the University of Winnipeg to take the championship. The Gee-Gees, the number two ranked team in the country, defeated the tournament hosts …
Reading Time: 2 minutesFictional advice for getting your mind back at school Despite all of my efforts, the calendar turned to January and I grudgingly came back for yet another semester of school. Kraft Dinner, freezing cold walks to class, and silent floors of the library have replaced memories of expensive dinners, warm fires, and Christmas music. If …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe user-based app can help students avoid U-Pass and financial services lines. Users can post on the app how long certain lines are so that other users know which lines are free and which to avoid.
Reading Time: 2 minutesfter a few consecutive weeks of stuffing your body with a whole lot of cookies, ham, turkey and all the trimmings, it’s time to get back into the swing of another semester. The average student diet can often seem like a relief from our holiday extravagances. Often students come back to residence, apartments, and roommates …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe move toward university specialization and differentiation in Ontario shouldn’t be considered “a threat to the value of a degree,” according to University of Ottawa president Allan Rock.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHundreds of students along with their friends and family members gathered in the Huguette Labelle Hall to take in musical pieces performed by students from the School of Music on Dec. 4.
Reading Time: 4 minutesCafé Nostalgica has endured some growing pains since reopening this fall, as the popular student bar has found itself deep in debt and without a manager.
Reading Time: 4 minutesConsidering Franco-Ontarians are plenty in number but hugely underrepresented at universities throughout the province, it’s an important discussion to have.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBraving the winter cold, more than 50 student protesters assembled outside the Canadian Federation of Students’ (CFS) Annual General Meeting on Nov. 23.
Reading Time: 9 minutesCould the government be your ultimate dream job? More importantly, do you have what it takes to work for Canada’s largest employer?
Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa police have charged a cab driver for one count of sexual assault in connection with an incident that occurred inside a taxi earlier this month.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Senate approved the creation of a new graduate program in contemplative theology and spiritual mentoring for U of O and Saint Paul University students at its Sept. 23 meeting.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs the movement to oppose shale fracking on indigenous land in New Brunswick became heated, crowds in Ottawa gathered on Parliament Hill on Oct. 17–18 to show support for protestors out east.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite the University of Ottawa’s third consecutive year as one of the top 200 schools on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it has slipped by 14 positions from 171st to 185th.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere’s a new group of dopers in town, and they’re doing it for the grades For many university students, the demands of academic life are stressful to say the least. To cope, some of us turn to liquor, chocolate (or any other comfort food), coffee upon coffee, or cigarettes. Some of us take caffeine pills to …
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the University of Ottawa to receive a failing grade on freedom of speech—no matter the source—violates two principle notions of university life.
Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers who are trying to pinpoint causes for rampant cheating in high schools and universities are wasting their time.
Reading Time: 8 minutesThough pets can be great companions, there are many aspects of pet ownership that don’t seem daunting until you’re forced to deal with an animal you may have purchased on impulse.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSFUO executive member Brad Lafortune handed in his resignation Sept. 23 to pursue a master’s program in physiotherapy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has ranked the University of Ottawa among the worst in Canada in terms of freedom of expression.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa students and professors have expressed opposing opinions regarding the new Parti Québécois (PQ) charter of values and its ban on religious garments and symbols.
Reading Time: 7 minutesEven though I had never seen any before, I knew right away they were bed bugs.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI only know my experience and my case, but for me an abortion was the obvious answer.
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.
