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Kelsey Litwin
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OpinionsNahm’sayin?:Gimme More Blanket Forts
Blanket forts, thank you for continuously cocooning me.
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NewsIncluding the Voices of Survivors
The CSU passed a motion at their last council meeting on Wednesday, March 8, demanding that the university take Quebec’s consultations on sexual violence seriously. They want to see the university actively involve individuals with something meaningful to contribute.
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NewsTeaching and Research Assistant Union Elect New President
The union already had a president and VP, and there are only three months left until the end of the current executive’s mandate. Nonetheless, Nader Jafari Nodoushan and Meysam Salari were stepping down from their positions ahead of schedule. Fifty-odd TAs, RAs, and invigilators had gathered in Concordia’s Hall building on a Monday evening to choose new ones.
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NewsÀ Nous la Malting
Fred Burrill, an anti-gentrification organizer and PhD student at Concordia, explained that at the workshop on Feb.10, a new neighbourhood committee—tentatively titled À nous la malting—was formed and they will be meeting in the coming weeks to develop a vision for the site.
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NewsCommunity Archives Open Up a Global Past
A few relics survived the Negro Community Centre’s deterioration. Now, they’re in Concordia’s hands.
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SportsConcordia Commits to Helping Student Olympians
It’s rare to find someone who grew up with a world-class athlete as a father. It sets a precedence of excellence—of always striving for the best and doing what it takes to get there.
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NewsTRAC Collective Agreement Going Off Course
The projected budget for TAs and RAs at JMSB is $546,000 for the 2016-2017 academic year. This is a decrease of almost 40 per cent from the 2014-2015 academic year, when the budget was $882,624.
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NewsConcordia Administration’s Pay, Broken Down
Concordia spent $5 million on the salaries of senior administrators in 2015-2016.
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OpinionsNahmsayin?
For those of us who are not graced with the coordination or balance needed to cruise on a longboard or skateboard, scooters can be a more comforting alternative.
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NewsConcordia Board of Governors Fail to Implement Cohort Pricing
The final vote count was 12 in favour, six against, and three abstentions, according to Norman Hébert Jr., the chair of the Board of Governors. To pass the motion, the Board needed a 60 per cent majority.
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NewsConcordia BoG Makes Cohort Pricing Proposal Public
The ConU Board of Governors will vote Wednesday on potential tuition hikes for students in certain deregulated programs.
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Special IssueMedicalization, Privatization and Stigmatization
The elimination of the Women’s Health Contribution Program, which was expected to save the government $2.85 million a year, hastened the downward spiral for access to women’s health care in Canada.
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NewsConcordia Fine Arts Class Draws on the Neurosciences
During the course, 20-odd Fine Arts students will attend monthly lectures and private tours, alternating between focusing on the use of art in the sciences and vice versa.
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NewsCSU By-Election: Your Guide to the Four Referendum Questions
The Concordia Student Union by-elections run this week from Nov. 15-17. Quorum for the by-election is 450 undergrad students.
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NewsCSU Council By-Elections
Seven students are running for the five available Arts and Sciences student council seats. There are three council seats for students from the John Molson School of Business and one person running. No students are running for the one Fine Arts council seat or for the two open independent council seats.
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NewsConcordia Research on Orgasms Puts the Female Experience First
The research takes both a clinical and historical approach to understand how females experience orgasms from multiple sites—the clitoris, the vagina, the nipples or the cervix, or others—and why that fact has been disregarded in older orgasm research.
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NewsFirst Peoples Studies Class Stands in Solidarity With Standing Rock
Stephen Karchut explained that in organizing the demonstration, it put what they were learning into practice, giving the material present-day context. “In the First Peoples Studies Program, we learn more about historical fact,” Karchut said. “We learn a lot about problems that arising for first peoples.”
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SportsShred Queens Fight Skateboard’s Status Quo
Hannah Sourbeer was bringing a group of teenage boys up Burke Mountain in Vermont, where she taught snowboarding lessons, when she told them that they’d be riding switch, meaning they were expected to lead with their non-dominant foot.
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Fringe ArtsArtist Leaves Original Works in Montreal Bus Stops
Like leaving items on the curb before moving day, hoping that somebody will provide your old bookcase with a loving home, Virani has been leaving his old works in bus shelters across Montreal with the goal of bringing his art to the public. It’s about making art accessible, said Virani.
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NewsCSU Opposes Rumoured International Tuition Hikes for Deregulated Programs
The Concordia Student Union is looking to hire a contracted student campaigner to advocate against possible tuition hikes for international students in deregulated programs.
