Universities serve to challenge our viewpoints, our ideas and our potential to learn and evolve. 

Freedom of speech and the preservation of educational discourse are things that need to be protected on university campuses. However, this protection won’t come about by promoting fear and intimidation.  

On Dec. 15, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has the opportunity to choose an Indigenous judge for the Supreme Court of Canada.

Despite holding the position of Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Ottawa Centre Liberal MP Catherine McKenna has been given the name “Climate Barbie” on social media by other government officials and news organizations.

Despite its virtues, living in a more socially interconnected world has made us more susceptible to basing our self-worth on the opinions of others.

In a time of distrust between news outlets and their readers, newspapers have a responsibility to clearly label their content as either fact or opinion. 

Even though re-evaluating how we approach final evaluations can have some real value at universities, we need to consider everything that would need to be altered before we throw out the old system.

It’s one thing to argue for warning ahead of sensitive subjects and materials, but to call for them to be shut out entirely isn’t conducive to a university education. 

University has transformed from an educational institution of career preparation to a place of self-exploration and discovery.

With or without the law on their side, young Canadians already use recreational marijuana. Still, when marijuana legalization comes into effect, Canadian universities need to have a policy in place to regulate its open use on school grounds.

Each generation is different from the last in some ways, but loyalty to their work place isn’t necessarily one of them.

Going after a student for breaching a student code of conduct without taking the broader social context of their comments into is a serious misstep for any university istration.

Though providing preemptive resources for incoming students is a great step towards shedding light on the serious issue of mental health on campus, the efforts can’t stop there.

Since their conception in the Middle Ages, universities have been to the benefit of a particularly fortunate — and therefore limited — group.

While #MeToo is currently trending and well intentioned, it isn’t doing anything radically different than the hashtags that have come before it.

The tradition of holding homecoming weekends gathers thousands of partiers together at universities across the country year after year.

Just because something is good for men, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad for women.

Sports will always be competitive at their core, but often its spiritual aspect is overlooked.