Building a Fifth Estate
Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication will officially launch a new research centre Nov. 9 aimed at expanding the media in places that have undergone dramatic change affecting media development.
The formal launch of Carleton’s Centre for Media and Transitional Societies (CMTS) is organized by professor Allan Thompson, who also spearheaded the Rwanda Initiative. CMTS plans to expand on the initiative, a program started in 2006 that has sent more than 50 Carleton students to Rwanda on media internships.
Fighting tuition fees
Carleton students are exiting the atrium and boarding buses headed to the Human Rights Memorial downtown Nov. 5 to rally for the reduction of student fees and for more government funding to be allocated to education.
The Drop Fees for a Poverty Free Ontario campaign will join students from across the province in solidarity to lobby and pressure the government against tuition increases.
Sick? Take note
The procedure for getting a doctor’s note is causing some confusion among Carleton students when it comes to determining at which point in their sickness they should seek a medical certificate for missing class.
Second-year psychology student Heather Montgomery got a brief bout of flu-like symptoms, causing her to miss her midterm exam on Nov. 3.
Sick Students Isolated
Both residence and off-campus students have been isolated in their rooms in response to the H1N1 influenza, according to David Sterritt, director of Housing and Conference Services.
Scott McNeil, who is in his third year of journalism, was one student who complied with the suggested isolation.
After going to the Carleton’s Health and Counselling Services with a high fever, McNeil said he was diagnosed with “some kind of flu.” McNeil was isolated for eight days over Halloween, from Oct. 28 - Nov. 4.
Student found dead
Carleton student Will Chabot MacLean, 27, died peacefully Oct. 28, according to an obituary published in the Louisville, Ky. newspaper the Courier-Journal.
MacLean was born in Louisville, but resided in Maniwaki, Que., the obituary said.
“You were always hilarious and never in a bad mood. We could all learn from that. We miss you dearly here in Louisvile [sic],” commented Todd Burks from Louisville, Ky., on the online version of the obituary.
