Carleton’s gym services are at their busiest in January as students work towards their New Year’s resolutions – but it’s a trend that doesn’t last, and one Carleton professor denounces resolutions entirely.

Many Carleton students are taking part in this age-old practice to set goals for 2010, setting goals to lose weight, quit smoking, or do better in school, and the facilities on campus that would help students to reach these goals are seeing the impact.

Sustainable development, architecture and design were abuzz at a Carleton presentation Jan. 6, as professors Stephen Fai and Sheryl Boyle of the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism presented the innovative Batawa project’s progress since it began last summer.

Partnered with the Batawa Development Corporation, 27 architecture and industrial design students have been working on development plans and new designs for a shut-down shoe factory and new housing plans in Batawa, Ont.

United States Ambassador David Jacobson visited Carleton Jan. 5, despite the fact that the timing of the event conflicted with the IIHF World Junior’s hockey final.

Jacobson said he would keep his comments brief in light of thegame, which saw Canada and the U.S. facing off for the top spot - and coincided perfectly with the event for which he was visiting the school.

Jacobson's visit, fresh off a trip to Afghanistan, was to celebrate the opening of Carleton's new Centre for American Studies.

The future may be an expensive one for Canadian students, warns Carleton professor Ian Lee, the MBA Director at the Sprott School of Business. Lee said he believes tuition fees for students in Canada, and especially Ontario, will rise in the next few years as the Canadian government is forced to relinquish financial control over education to schools and private businesses to stave off its growing healthcare debt. 

More than 3,000 police officers from across North America assembled in the Carleton Fieldhouse Jan. 7 to show their respects for a slain Ottawa police officer.