Across the country, 13 student groups are petitioning for referendums on membership in the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). Currently, leaving the CFS requires jumping through multiple hoops. The federation has even sued several student groups who have tried. As if this is not concerning enough, Carleton’s Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) will be introducing a motion to the CFS to restrict students’ ability to hold referendums on their continued membership in the federation.

Girl 1: Pedophiles are notoriously out of date.
Girl 2: Yeah.
Girl 1: So 20 years from now pedophiles will be dressed like Kanye?

OOO

Girl 1: A placebo — isn't that a baby or something?
Girl 2: No — that's a placenta.

OOO

Girl 1: What is the plural form for penis?
Girl 2: Why do you need a plural form? Most people only have one.
Girl 1: But I seem to be talking about penises? Peni? Penises? A lot.
 

We recently witnessed another reduce tuition fees campaign.

We need to understand that we live in a world of scarce resources. Even in the so-called system today there are inefficiencies, but at least we do not want to add to this.

Even though many students graduate in huge debt, we cannot make education any closer or really close to free. The reason is because the government is already heavily subsidizing universities and passing these savings on to students.

“Do you feel it?”

I have a flexible copper band between my fingers, a bracelet removed from the wrist of Rick Duhr, an instructor at the Ottawa Pagan Schola. Duhr is a no-nonsense kind of guy and he’s staring at me expectantly, waiting for my response.

It’s a busy Sunday morning, and I’m sitting in a corner of a crowded Starbucks in the St. Laurent shopping centre, trying intently to feel an electric current Duhr says is running counter clockwise through my body.

“If you are stressing about NanoWrimo, you need to stop, possibly kill off a character and create a new plot line,” Jennifer Wong says, a second-year engineering student who is currently at 15,000 words.

While many Carleton students were out celebrating Halloween, others waited for the stroke of midnight on November 1 to begin their adventure to write a 175-page, 50,000-word novel for National Novel Writing Month (NanoWrimo)