This post was written Saturday October 18, 2008. McMaster University continues to update parents and students on their news page at http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca There was a fire at Hamilton’s McMaster University overnight. There were no serious injuries and the damage is being assessed. The fire occurred in…
The War on Fun continues as cowardly university administrators decide anything truly fun is too dangerous for young adults. Earlier this fall, I noted [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/09/08/ban-on-corn-eating-contest-partially-lifted-at-uiowa/] the University of Iowa’s attack on its traditional corn eating contest. Now, Quinnipec University is leading…
A two-and-a-half week faculty strike at Manitoba’s Brandon University ended yesterday evening and students will be returning to classes Friday after the university and its faculty association reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday. Neither side is releasing details of the agreement pending ratification. According to the union, the major…
First-year enrolment at Ontario’s 24 public colleges increased 5.6 per cent this September compared to overall enrolment at the beginning of the 2007 academic year. The total number of first-year students at Ontario’s colleges is now 95,805. “Students clearly recognize the tremendous value of the education…
The Canadian Federation of Students will not like this article [http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/Local/article/125353] in the Calgary edition of Metro. The article describes how graduate students at the University of Calgary are concerned that the CFS will engage in a lawsuit to attempt to keep the…
Here’s the link to my follow-up housing piece printed in this week’s Silhouette. [http://thesil.ca/?p=632]…
Cheques for Ontario’s new Textbook and Technology Grant are in the mail. This means next weekend will involved travelling from kegger to kegger as we celebrate the government’s committment to bribing students with meanless grants.…
Last year, the City of Oshawa launched what I consider to be an anti-student campaign which began with a series of municipal law enforcement raids [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2007/10/31/police-raid-student-houses-in-oshawa/] to harass students. These cumulated in the passing of Canada’s strongest anti-student housing bylaw. This…