Is it worth while to skip class?
While the New Year’s resolution of many students may have been to stop skipping class so frequently, a recent university graduate has created a website that helps students decide whether they can afford to skip any given class.
Epic list of verbal fails
Modern English is full of fail and some words must be banished, according to one Michigan university.
Lake Superior State University (LSSU) in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., released its 36th annual list of banned words for 2011, and criticized sayings they said had been reduced to redundancy.
For the last 35 years, LSSU has published an annual list of abhorred words and phrases submitted by hundreds of students, employees and ordinary citizens. This year over a thousand people participated.
Syphilis struggle in Alberta
An unabated outbreak of syphilis in Alberta has the provincial government admitting it has a problem. In a recent report, Alberta Health and Wellness stressed there is an “urgent need” to reduce syphilis rates in all segments of the population, and university students are considered a risk group.
Dr. André Corriveau, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, who created the report, said he hopes it will mobilize the province to address the outbreak.
Ottawa students sue over U-Pass
Nine students from the University of Ottawa have sued their student union, arguing that the implementation of the mandatory transit pass (U-Pass) is unconstitutional.
The nine complainants all live within walking distance of the school and claim that the pass is useless to them.
They are suing the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) in small claims court for $6,022.57.
