“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.
Zoë Mason
As 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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
On Oct. 22, the Fulcrum’s Facebook page was unpublished for, allegedly, breaking Facebook’s page policies. Which policies? We couldn’t tell you. Since then, our editor-in-chief has launched two appeals to Facebook, but we still have yet to hear back from the social media giant.
The U of O required the plaintiffs’ counsel to withdraw their request to have notification posted on the University webpage and amend several common issues as conditions for their consent to the certification of the lawsuit.
Five U of O students teamed up to bring eco-friendly and accessible menstrual products to campus — and this is just the beginning.
Commentary: In the wake of the University of Toronto’s divestment announcement, a precedent has been set in this province by its biggest university. Will the U of O finally follow suit?
The challenges and opportunities presented by the task of converting commercial spaces to residential ones.
“What I actually found on Russell Ave was closer to a small riot,” said first-year student Greg Coleman.
The grounds of the motion for the proposed class proceeding allege, “[t]he University of Ottawa received at least two complaints in or about 1995 by former patients of Nadon, regarding his inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature. The University of Ottawa failed to take appropriate steps to prevent the improper conduct from occurring again, including requiring the dismissal of Nadon from the UOHS.”
In the coverage of this type of crime, it’s always “a woman was drugged,” and never “someone drugged a woman.” It’s a subtle turn of phrase but it completely shifts the placement of agency in the sentence — it becomes passive, the subject is that it happened, not how. A crime without a criminal.
To lose the campus walk-in, is to lose the one place on campus where students in crisis could go for immediate support — no online forms, phone intakes, or months of waiting.
Many women are not aware of just how prevalent — and deadly — cardiovascular diseases are. According to Dr. Coutinho, heart disease and cardiovascular disease kill five times more women than breast cancer and twice as many women as all cancers combined globally each year.
The particular demands of the practical arts complicate the already-complex process of reinstating in-person learning at the U of O
The University of Ottawa’s administration will email 615 ballots to undergraduate students who previously did not receive a ballot to vote in the BOG undergraduate student representative election and partial U of O Senate elections that took place on June 2 to 4.
The University of Ottawa’s senatorial election will take place from June 2 to June 4 via online ballots. Here’s a look at the races for the different faculties of the University of Ottawa.
In a year riddled with crises, the attention of university administrations is understandably divided. But as the global COVID-19 pandemic has wracked the student population with isolation and grief, it’s now more important than ever that the university’s efforts to address the mental health crisis are not lost.
Second-year student Camelia Skaf says that she’s been handcuffed twice on campus since February after Ottawa police were called by Protection Services. Skaf says that her experiences highlight a lack of mental health training in the university’s Protection Services.
Five students with mental health issues point to gaps in the school’s mental health system, including staggeringly long wait times, poor training of professors, and a lack of specialized counsellors.
Students are calling on the University of Ottawa to remove an anti-psychiatry exhibit on campus that was set up just days after the university finished celebrating their annual wellness week.
Women’s rights, sexual abuse, LGBTQ+ visibility, racism, chronic illness: the Fulcrum has not strayed away from contentious issues this decade. Read here the best that the decade has had to offer.
Last weekend, five Fulcrum editors took part in a collaboration with the Gee-Gees cheerleading team. We were invited to a cheerleading practice where coach Nailah Taylor and her team taught us basic cheerleading maneuvers. It wasn’t all pretty but fun was had by all — here’s what the different editors had to say about their experiences.
From health to academics to social life, university students with chronic illnesses have to prioritize things a little differently. Take a look inside their lives and find out what the university is and isn’t doing to help.
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