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Adam Kovac
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OpinionsNah’msayin?
The word “suck” gets tossed about a lot these days. It’s almost as versatile as the word “fuck,” and almost as much fun, too. However, there is one context where the word “suck” just isn’t cutting it—and that is in describing the shittiness of awful music.
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News“Richard Dawkins Is an Idiot”
During a break at the press conference before the Second Global Conference on World’s Religions after 9/11, The Link managed to sneak in a few questions with best-selling author, public speaker and physician Deepak Chopra.
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NewsFixing a Financial Fiasco
Called “un-auditable” by an accounting firm due to shoddy inventory-keeping practices, big changes are coming to CUSACorp, the for-profit wing of the Concordia Student Union
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NewsNavy Blues
Most days, when Concordia Student Union VP Advocacy Morgan Pudwell walks through the Hall Building towards the CSU offices, the posters that surround her are from your average student group, promoting their usual student events.
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Special IssueWho’s Who at Con U ?
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Csu PresidentThe Concordia Student Union’s President Lex Gill was the head of the Your Concordia slate in the 2011 CSU elections, one of the more contentious in student council history. Gill entered office on a platform of fighting tuition hikes, fiscal responsibility and some much-needed T&A (that’s transparency and accountability, you perverts). As a CSU councillor last year, she developed a bit of a reputation as a rabble-rouser—so much so, in fact, that the Mirror named her one of the top 10 loudest activists in Montreal this year. Gill’s job is to serve the interests of students, and it’s your job to make sure she does. (For you graduate students with issues, however, Gill can’t help you. You’ll need to go see Robert Sonin, the president of the Graduate Students’ Association.)
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NewsOverhauling the Board
When the Concordia Board of Governors meets for the first time this school year on Sept. 28, odds are good that when they vote on whether to adopt a series of bylaw changes, they decide to reduce the size of the Board from 40 voting members to 25.
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NewsMissing MUNACA
The area in front of McGill’s Roddick Gates were even busier than usual on Sept. 1, as students mingled with members of the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association’s as they picketed during day one of the union’s strike.
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NewsParty Planning 101
Throwing a two-week long party for over 30,000 students filled with concerts, speeches (and, of course, beer) doesn’t come cheap. The final budget for this year’s Orientation is due to come in at over a quarter million dollars.
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NewsCommemorating a Tragedy
Older and grayer, survivors, friends and family of those who perished in the second-worst fire in Montreal’s history came back to the site of the Blue Bird Café, where an act of arson claimed 37 lives almost four decades ago.
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NewsBuzz Kill
Despite hopes that the long-awaited Hive Café would be ready for Orientation Week, Concordians will have to wait a little longer to use the only student-run food service on the Loyola campus. After over a year of planning, it was discovered that the electrical consumption of the café would exceed the capabilities of the building and would therefore prevent it from opening until at least October, according to Concordia Student Union VP Services & Loyola Melissa Fuller.
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NewsRemembering Layton
Though his death has sent shock waves through the federal government, former New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton’s death was equally shocking to those who supported the NDP at the grassroots level.
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NewsBlowin’ Up the Budget
If you think running the Concordia Student Union comes cheap, you might want to take a look at this year’s CSU budget. With a preliminary budget of almost $5 million, most of which comes from student fees, your money gets spent in a lot of ways.
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NewsBeer Buzz
In years past, students’ ability to get their drink on at our campus watering hole was tragically limited, as Reggie’s Bar had an exclusive contract with Molson. With the expiry of that contract earlier this summer, samplers of suds may see a long due diversification in their choice of chilled chugging beverages.
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Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
Quebec’s hospitals are facing a 10 per cent reduction in services from their medical residents after the union representing the young doctors held a general assembly to announce a strike, set to begin Sept. 12. “[Our salaries] are 32 per cent behind the Canadian average,” said Charles Dussault, president of Fédération des médecins résidents du Québec in an interview with The Link.
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NewsThree Years Later
Three years since police shot unarmed teenager Fredy Villanueva, his death still resonates in Montreal North, where over 100 people gathered for a memorial rally and march on August 7.
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NewsFull Forum
Though the report presented by the External Governance Committee was over 40 pages long, the focus of much of the talk at an open forum held to discuss the report’s recommendations for Concordia was just a three word snippet: “culture of contempt.”
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NewsTo Be Continued
The final meeting of the 2011-2012 Concordia Student Union Council adjourned after a little more than an hour on May 30, as only five voting members were able to attend.
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NewsThe Saga Ends
The last chapter in this year’s Concordia Student Union election has finally been written, as the disqualified Action slate was reinstated at May 11’s special Council meeting.
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NewsA Year in Review
“This year has not been without its bumps in the road, but we have overcome. As a result, we have succeeded in being an executive that serves the students with a passion to truly give the best we can,” said Concordia Student Union President Heather Lucas during her president’s report at the CSU’s Annual General Meeting May 9.
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NewsYour Concordia, After All
The month-long drama as to who would run the Concordia Student Union next year has come to an end, as the Your Concordia slate successfully appealed their disqualification from last month’s CSU elections Wednesday.
