Thanks to the handful of people who responded (including emails) to my recent post [http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/05/11/student-politicians-and-blackberries/] inquiring about students’ union providing Blackberries to their executives. The devices are not cheap, and neither are data plans. This makes it hard to justify student unions…
A student at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island claims [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUEHuAdYSUJsskSLC5ZwdU9rONmAD90N22IO0] she’s been suspended for hitting Thomas Friedman [http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/], a *New York Times *columnist, with a pie while Friedman was delivering a Earth Day speak at the university. Clearly, pieing someone…
Which student organization hurts the Canadian Federation of Students* the most? The answer to the question is (drum roll) the Canadian Federation of Students.* Let me explain. The CFS/CFS-S/CFS-NFLD/CFS-NS/CFS-NB/CFS-QC/CFS-ON/CFS-MB/CFS-SK/CFS-AB/CFS-BC* will consider reforms to their membership bylaws at their upcoming semi-annual…
* I could write a shocking headline for this story: “City Council supports creation of student pub! [http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/9311/1/university+pub+supported]“ * It appears President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is finally going to be stripped [http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/05/…
Now, this is how to protest! On Monday, a student paid his $1,037 tuition in nickels and dimes. Teale Phelps Bondaroff wheeled [http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/05/12/cgy-payment-protest.html] a cart filled with 90kg of coin into the University of Calgary student accounts office to…
I could not have said it better myself: http://the-peak.ca/article/3531…
Both have a bad habit of shutting down speakers from the other side. This week, it’s pro-life uninviting [http://chronicle.com/news/article/4472/roman-catholic-college-disinvites-pro-choice-speaker] a state senator who’s view they don’t agree with.…
The Peak, Simon Fraser University’s student newspaper, printed its first summer issue [http://www.the-peak.ca/images/peak/pdf/peak_issue_1369.pdf] last week. I have to admit I’m jealous of the paper, since SFU student politics always offer interesting stories. The new volume has a strong…