This year Carleton students living in residence are paying additional fees to fund a new residence building, yet to be constructed, to lodge more students.

But with the university’s housing department struggling as it is to accommodate the amount of students already living on campus, this is not the best time to build a new residence.

Many students have embraced the practice of “dumpster diving” as an alternative to other, more strenuous methods of obtaining food, such as trapping small rodents or harvesting crabapples in the Experimental Farm. Others are drawn to the practice for environmental reasons.

Whatever their motives might be, students need to take a moment — before they strap on their snorkels and dive headfirst into the nearest dumpster — to consider a few things.

Hello, Voicebox.I just want to let you know that I saw there is an Ottawa U advertisement  on the bus stop right in front of our gym at Carleton.

And I think it’s . . . not . . . I don’t like it. It’s like putting a Loblaws advertisement inside Metro store. Why would they put it on our property? OK, bye.

BLEEP!

I’m not going to lie — I’m disappointed in the Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA).

CUSA councillors are charged with the daunting responsibility of making objective decisions while carrying the weight of thousands of students’ opinions on their shoulders.

Can you always get it right? No. Should you always try? Yes, of course.

Hello Editor,

I am not sure how often your journalists have to report on gun-related matters . . . but if it happens again, let me know, I’d like to help them out!

I might not be much of a writer, and I speak a funny English, but I do know a thing or two about firearms.

As an example, stating that a discarded empty brass has been fired at some point in time makes about as much sense as saying that the discarded empty coffee cup used to have coffee in it.