U of T students vote ‘yes’ to Pan Am pool
A 62.2 per cent majority in a student referendum pushed the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus (UTSC) one step closer to being a host site for the 2015 Pan American Games.
From March 17-19, 2,337 students voted in the referendum on raising tuition fees to fund the construction of a $140 million athletics centre, comprising two Olympic-sized pools and a diving tank. The students’ contribution is expected to cover $22 million.
UPDATE: Ann Coulter speech at U of O cancelled for security reasons
Organizers cancelled a scheduled speech by conservative pundit Ann Coulter Tuesday night amid fears of violence breaking out at the event.
“There was a risk there could be physical violence,” said Canadian conservative activist Ezra Levant, who was set to open for Coulter.
Athabasca U course trains journalists for war-zones
Twenty-one days of desert heat, three different journalistic perspectives and a one-of-a-kind course entitled Conflict Zone Journalism is now providing Athabasca University students in Calgary with a realistic take on war-zone reporting.
Evelyn Ellerman said she began this course in May 2009 hoping students would feel as strongly as she did about the positive aspects this course had to offer.
OSAP rations leave students hungry for more
Students are starving, or so says the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance. This week, the student group launched a program to highlight what it says is an inadequacy of the Ontario Student Assistance Program’s allowance for food.
U of Winnipeg goes for gold with green building design
The University of Winnipeg is gunning for a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold certification with its new Science Complex and Richardson College for the Environment.
The lab, which is scheduled for completion in March 2011, is expected to be one of the most energy efficient lab in North America.
