Trent offers full scholarships
With the economy in a downward spiral, the last thing students need to worry about is paying their tuition. Trent University is trying to make this a little easier by offering full first-year scholarships to bright new students.
U of A atheist challenges eng tradition
In November, University of Alberta engineering student Ian Bushfield successfully lobbied to get the chancellor’s convocation speech reworded to have less religious connotation. Now, a month away from receiving his engineering degree, he is refusing to sign the obligation for engineers because it contains the word God.
“I can’t find it in good faith,” Bushfield said. “I am disagreeing with part of it, and it takes away from the rest.”