Posts from March 11, 2010

Invading pythons threaten the Florida Everglades

The Burmese python, one of the six largest snakes in the world, was first brought into the U.S. as a pet but now threatens to take over the Everglades. In Asia, where the Burmese python is a threatened species, they are captured as pets and killed for their skins and organs to be used in […]

Rebel prof not done yet

Denis Rancourt, a former tenured University of Ottawa professor who was fired last year after giving everyone in his fourth-year physics class an A+, wants his job back. Rancourt hopes to win a labour law arbitration case against the university so he can recover his job and laboratory. “The truth is my dismissal was a […]

News and crime in brief

York student suspended for anti-Semitic postings Salman Hossain, a student at York University, has been suspended from school for posting anti-Semitic messages online. Hossain, a former U of T student, is also currently under investigation by the OPP Hate Crimes and Extremism unit for writing online material promoting genocide against Jews. The Canadian Jewish Congress […]

Gimme GC

Graduate Constituency I—Humanities and Social Sciences: 4 candidates, 1 seat Olivier Sorin, the incumbent candidate, said that one of his accomplishments was improving communication between students and admin by setting up regular meetings with deans and vice-deans. His goals for next year are to increase support for first-time TAs. Sorin said he was putting the […]

Ontario wants more students

Ontario plans to add 20,000 post-secondary students this year as part of its ambitious five-year plan, announced lieutenant governor David Onley in the Throne Speech Monday, opening the second session of the province’s 29th parliament. “That’s the equivalent of a whole new University of Guelph,” read the speech. “Every qualified Ontarian who wants to go […]

Where art meets activism

Between designing Grammy-winning album covers, Stefan Sagmeister, the media darling of the graphic design world, teaches at the School of Visual Arts. The course spends an entire semester exploring the parameters of the question, “Is it possible to touch someone’s heart with design?” The pursuit, Sagmeister says, has yielded extraordinary results. One student realized that […]

Campus Stage: As Five Years Pass

Upon entering the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, you’re greeted by an elaborately painted clown dressed in drag. You’re handed a sealed envelope containing hand-drawn postcards and photographs depicting exchanges between the playwright, Federico Garcia Lorca and the play’s main character, the Young Man. You sit down and the play begins. It’s an appropriate beginning to […]

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