Last May, when I got the call that I’d been made Assistant Sports Editor at The Journal, I was elated. Since then, the most frequent comment I get when I tell people about my job is that I must get to meet a lot of hot guys.
Universities don’t have to choose between honouring historical injustices and protecting the communities still affected by these histories today — they have the power to do both.
Graduation should be full of hopes and aspirations, but for many of us, the rugged and sometimes perilous landscape of the twenty-first century job market make graduation caps and gowns look a lot like uniforms of mourning.
The right to freely broadcast your political beliefs in the ‘safe space’ of a university doesn’t mean you can’t be held able when those beliefs may generate unsafe spaces for other students.
Frustration over the hiring of more university instead of departmental faculty is clear, but it’s hard to draw the parallel when the exact purpose of these positions is blurry.
Alongside the annual commemorations of those lost, the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center also marks something new: the first year that high school freshmen will be reading about 9/11 as a piece of history they weren’t alive for.
Rape culture on university campuses consists of much more than the act of sexual assault. But when “No means yes and yes means anal,” appeared on a Western student’s off-campus home, the immediate response was to write it off.
It’s a difficult subject to talk about, but the contentiousness of physician-assisted death may be all the more reason to normalize education around it.
We’ve all seen a PETA video on Facebook documenting the cruelty that animals sometimes face at the hands of zoos. It makes sense to be angry about their treatment.
For University s, $9,000 may seem like dispensable money. But for many students, it’s a year’s worth of rent, one year’s tuition or a dent in our student loans.
Although the AMS is commendable for their willingness to take ability for the hazing that sent two TAPS employees to the hospital, the real test of their ability will be the actions following.
When a cut to outside-faculty credit allotment left many Arts and Science students with questions during course enrolment, a transparent answer from their former student leaders was noticeably absent.
When students of colour open their textbooks to read about Canadian history and culture, they shouldn’t have to look to just one chapter to see themselves, if they’re reflected at all.
Children are becoming increasingly influenced by media and are almost constantly engaged with TV or its other forms. This should be seen as an opportunity to educate, not exploit.
The Olympic Games create historical memories, writing the world’s best athletes into sports folklore. But after the final ceremony, when the athletes have left and people flock to their outbound flights, what’s left for the host?
