Lawsuit pending in UWO arrest
New details have emerged about the mental state of the fourth-year student from the University of Western Ontario whose arrest last month went viral online in a YouTube video.
Campus police were called to deal with fourth-year student Irnes Zeljkovic after reports that he was acting disoriented and causing trouble in the Social Science Centre. According to a press release from the university, Zeljkovic went into an office and tried to force the professor to leave. Being unsuccessful, Zeljkovic then allegedly barricaded himself in a vacant room on the seventh floor.
Environmental business school opens at Waterloo
On Fri. Nov. 6, the University of Waterloo opened a new school that will focus on environmentally sustainable business and development, building on the university’s faculty of environment.
The School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) offers two undergraduate programs: a bachelor of environmental studies in environment and business, and a bachelor of environmental studies in international development.
“Our environment business program is a unique program in the world,” said Steven Young, interim director of SEED.
York opens on-campus psychology clinic
Students in York University’s psychology program will be able to help their peers, while getting hands-on experience, in a new psychology clinic and research centre on campus.
The new clinic, launched Oct. 28, strives to provide members of its community with effective mental health services while simultaneously offering training and experience to students.
No student levies for volunteer paper
University of Toronto’s University College Literary and Athletics Society (UC Lit) recently rejected the proposed budget of the Gargoyle, the University of Toronto’s campus rag. UC Lit expressed its concern that too much money delegated to the paper was being spent on alcohol, food and parties. The Gargoyle’s funding will be withheld from them until their budget is approved.
Psst, heard about the new website?
As of Nov. 6 Carleton is home to a new social networking site, “Gossip U,” that allows students to post anonymously on topics ranging from sports to campus gossip.
Justin Murray, the site’s creator and promoter, Graham Reid, site manager, and Patryk Dawidowski, who posts anonymously, said they wanted to “create an outlet for people to . . . socialize and network with other university students.”
