Celebrating Arabic Cultures
Sword dancers, flag bearers and musicians helped celebrate Arabic culture at an event hosted by a new Carleton student group.
Salam Group hosted the Arabic cultural event Nov. 6, showcasing different cultures of Arab countries through poetry, music and food.
“The basic idea of Salam Group is to unite all 22 Arab countries, to leave politics and religion aside, and celebrate the diverse culture within each country,” said Ahmed Kasim Rashid, the president of Salam Group.
HOT collaboration
Carleton’s human-oriented technology (HOT) lab and AMITA, a public safety and emergency management solutions firm, have collaborated to develop a technology to aid emergency response in the event of a disaster at the upcoming Olympic Games.
The first responders to an emergency use the software to input information about the nature of the disaster, the number of casualties and the different types of injuries. The data would be sent directly to the B.C. ambulance services and paramedics.
Taking the streets
“Education is a right! We will not give up the fight!” shouted hundreds of Carleton students as they boarded buses headed downtown on Nov. 5 for the Drop Fees for a Poverty Free Ontario rally.
The campaign, spearheaded by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), joined students from universities across the province to lobby the government for the reduction of tuition fees.
Carleton Club You May Not Have Heard Of: Cossacks Club
People hear about Eastern Europe and only think about Russia, said Yulian Ihnatyuk, president and co-founder of The Cossacks, a new club at Carleton.
He said he wants to educate others and enlighten them about all the other countries found in Eastern Europe.
The Cossacks is a new Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA)-certified club that has been introduced at Carleton this year. It calls for people of Eastern European decent, and those with a general interest in Eastern Europe, to join and share.
Hot soup and cold dips for United Way campaign
That would be this year’s United Way campaign, for which Carleton has hosted such events as a delectable soup cook-off and a frisky polar bear dip.
The Sprott School of Business held its third annual soup kitchen in Dunton Tower Nov. 11. The event featured more than 20 different soups, chilies, stews and chowders, some donated by local restaurants and others contributed by Sprott faculty, staff and students.
