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I spent 24 hours in a bagel shop. Here’s what I learned.

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The longest top-row word that can be typed on a typewriter is 'rupturewort', a type of plant, and Peru is the only country that can be typed on one row of a keyboard.

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SPORTS

Tennis matchmaking app fosters love of the game

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ARTS

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Carleton alumna embraces ‘weirdness and uniqueness’ with Oddball Art

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LATEST ARTICLES

Celebrating Arabic Cultures

Sword dancers, flag bearers and musicians helped celebrate Arabic culture at an event hosted by a new Carleton student group.

Salam Group hosted the Arabic cultural event Nov. 6, showcasing different cultures of Arab countries through poetry, music and food.

“The basic idea of Salam Group is to unite all 22 Arab countries, to leave politics and religion aside, and celebrate the diverse culture within each country,” said Ahmed Kasim Rashid, the president of Salam Group.

HOT collaboration

Carleton’s human-oriented technology (HOT) lab and AMITA, a public safety and emergency management solutions firm, have collaborated to develop a technology to aid emergency response in the event of a disaster at the upcoming Olympic Games.

The first responders to an emergency use the software to input information about the nature of the disaster, the number of casualties and the different types of injuries. The data would be sent directly to the B.C. ambulance services and paramedics.

Taking the streets

“Education is a right! We will not give up the fight!” shouted hundreds of Carleton students as they boarded buses headed downtown on Nov. 5 for the Drop Fees for a Poverty Free Ontario rally.

The campaign, spearheaded by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), joined students from universities across the province to lobby the government for the reduction of tuition fees.

Carleton Club You May Not Have Heard Of: Cossacks Club

People hear about Eastern Europe and only think about Russia, said Yulian Ihnatyuk, president and co-founder of The Cossacks, a new club at Carleton.

He said he wants to educate others and enlighten them about all the other countries found in Eastern Europe.   

The Cossacks is a new Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA)-certified club that has been introduced at Carleton this year. It calls for people of Eastern European decent, and those with a general interest in Eastern Europe, to join and share.   

Review of Library Voices’ new album

Hunting Ghosts and Other Collected Shorts

 
Library Voices
Young Soul Records

3/5 Stars

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