Day of Purple aims memorialize GLBTQ suicides
If you’ve seen a lot of purple on campus this week, it’s no accident.
Various commemorations this week, mostly on Oct. 20, have invited people to wear purple to commemorate gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students who have killed themselves due to their sexual orientation being revealed.
Gropings spook UBC
The University of British Columbia’s RCMP detachment is cautioning female students not to walk alone at night after two sexual assaults occurred on campus within a month.
N.S. students move to stop automatic Chancellor appointment
Some students at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., have been protesting one of the school’s longest-standing traditions.
MUNSU in tax suit
The Memorial University of Newfoundland Students’ Union (MUNSU) has gone to court to avoid paying taxes the City of St. John’s want to collect from them, but from which MUNSU believes they are exempt.
MUN campus newspaper the Muse reported that while no exact figures are available for the amount MUNSU could be liable to pay due to privacy laws, the city could be seeking more than $500,000 in back taxes. This is an issue that has been inherited by the current administration and has been several years in the making, according to the Muse.
