UWaterloo has a new rap

Waterloo rapper MC Baby Buddha didn’t go too far to find talent for his latest video. He went to the University of Waterloo which he considers to be the only university in the city. The video – posted to YouTube – features students, staff, faculty and administrators lip-syncing to MC Baby…

Former med student suing UCalgary for $5-mil

This will be a case to watch. There is not much detail in the initial report [http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=ba8908a0-d23e-4078-a0e5-7ef5efcb5f3e] by Canwest News Service – depending on the exact details – this case could change policies at Canadian medical schools.…

Getting caught with your hands in the cookie jar

One university president in the U.S. is repaying [http://chronicle.com/news/article/4843/u-of-central-arkansas-president-to-repay-300000-bonus] a $300,000 “bonus” after the state attorney general started looking into the payment.…

Look debate

For those of you who are tired of commenting on my writing (and/or poor grammar / spelling), Andrew Davis started a net neutrality debate today [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/07/15/against-net-neutrality-sort-of/] .…

PostYourTest.com - lets you do just that

Recently, lots of ink is getting devoted to new site PostYourTest.com [http://www.PostYourTest.com] in the American college press. The Penn State Daily Collegian is the latest paper to write about the site [http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2008/07/15/web_site_allows_students_to_sh.…

Reading Material: UOttawa president Allan Rock’s contract

I have to step out for an hour or two, so I won’t be able to process this until later this afternoon. For those of you interested, the University of Ottawa posted their new presidential contract for Allan Rock on their website this morning. [http://web5.uottawa.ca/admingov/…

TVOntario upgrading internet video player

This is exciting news for those of us who don’t watch television, preferring to get our programming over the tubes. TVOntario, the province’s publicly funded broadcaster, will be using Brightcove’s internet platform to offer better video-on-demand options. This according to a news release [http://www.newswire.ca/…