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Carleton announced, July 28, that Hassan Diab, an Ottawa professor who was released on bail after being arrested in connection with the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue, will be replaced immediately in his teaching duties of a summer Carleton course.

Carleton University welcomed the Emperor and Empress of Japan on July 6 to honour the 80th anniversary of the founding of diplomatic relations between Canada and Japan.

The Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA) voted to oppose a piece of federal government legislation that allows pay equity to be the subject bargaining – which it said could negatively impact women’s equality in the workplace.

Kandace Price, a co-ordinator at the CUSA Womyn’s Centre, who was not present at the meeting due to illness, put the motion forward at the June 25 meeting. Brittany Smyth acted as Price’s proxy.

Former Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA) science councillor, Donnie Northrup, who resigned after last year’s Shinerama controversy, regained a spot on council as a Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS) councillor.

Northrup, along with Graham Perrin and Heather Murley, last year’s Chief Electoral Officer for the CUSA elections, were acclaimed as FASS councillors by council at a June 25 CUSA meeting. All three seats remained vacant after the 2009 CUSA general election.

The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) praised a recent federal government announcement of financial assistance measures for students that include new student grant and repayment assistance programs.

The measures are “a new era of student financial assistance,” said Katherine Giroux-Bougard, national chairperson of the CFS when the Canadian government made the announcement on June 22.