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The candidates in the 2010 Carleton Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) elections kicked off their campaignsMarch 16.

Among these candidates is Kourosh Khosravi Faramini, a master’s of applied science student who is running for the position of vice-president (finance).  If elected,Faramini said he will speed up the processing of GSA grants.

Post-secondary students in Ontario may have to deal with the highest tuition fees in the country, but Alberta’s 125,000 students have their own heap of problems that are leaving them in the red years after graduation – if they graduate, that is.

The province has the third highest average tuition in Canada, at $5,520 for undergraduate students in 2009-2010, the lowest participation rate in its post-secondary school system, and the highest college and university dropout rate.

Though the second day of the Rideau River Residence Association (RRRA) election campaign leading up to the March 8 vote began as a race between the slates “Vote For Us” and the “ABC Party,” it ended with “Vote For Us” running unopposed.

The drop-out of the “ABC Party,” consisting of Cody Chenier, Luke Phelps and Adam Norton, was announced late in the day and was the result of an internal party vote.

In 2005, Carleton alumnus Samuel Benoit’s mentor took him to the premier of a CBC documentary featuring the Otesha Project and its founders. Benoit became interested with the Otesha Project, and joined their mailing list.

“I never had the opportunity to volunteer directly or go on tour, but I’d always kind of followed it and I would run into the founders at different events, and when a job came up on their newsletter in April, just as I was doing exams I applied,” Benoit says.

RE:  “It’s the stakeholders’ say,” Jan. 28 – Feb. 3, 2010