*The Christian Science Monitor *has a great piece [http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0703/p01s01-uspo.html] laying out the situations in Arizona, Nebraska, and Colorado where a group called the American Civil Rights Institute is campaigning for ballot initiatives to ban affirmative action in those three states. What I find…
Dion could really use this lesson [http://winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/2008/07/11/6125556-sun.html] – seriously, does he think his explanation actually works?…
Nearly two months ago, Quebec’s L’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ) voted [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asse-solidarite.qc.ca%2Fspip.php%3Farticle1036%26lang%3Dfr&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=fr&tl=en] to boycott Isreali goods and called for sanctions against…
The president of the University of Louisville in Kentucky turned down [http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=8656838&nav=menu31_2] a pay raise and bonus worth over $100,000 due to state budget cuts that the university is absorbing. Yes, you read that right—he turned down…
One of my favourite things to do as an undergraduate student is attending guest lectures. When I was at the University of Manitoba, I attended at least two a month. (They were well advertised) One of the perks of my Maclean’s gig is that I get news releases from…
They’re at it again. [http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2008/07/10/6114496-sun.html]…
My home university has a new president and I am taking bets on how long before the University of Manitoba Students’ Union starts attacking him. Dr. David Barnard started his first day by attending [http://umanitoba.ca/news/blogs/blog/2008/07/02/news-release-dr-david-barnard-begins-term-as-11th-president-of-the-university-of-manitoba/] two “informal gathering” at the Winnipeg…
The announcement isn’t new funding but it’s just as important. The city of Winnipeg is shutting [http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4196275p-4787671c.html] one block of Spence street, which divides the UWinnipeg campus, to vehicle traffic for good. This may not seem like much, but it will…