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Laura Beeston
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NewsThe ASFA Report
It took two hours of debating and two rounds of voting, but the Arts and Science Federation of Associations narrowly passed its annual budget at an Oct. 14 meeting.
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OpinionsEditorial
Perhaps you’ve noticed the catchy new poster campaign proliferating in the hallways asking what you want your student centre to look like. The posters offer suggestions to entice your imagination: a lounge, a kitchen, a study space, maybe even a massage parlour…
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NewsGuerilla Gender Neutrality
Before Thanksgiving weekend, 12 single-person bathrooms on each floor of the EV building were quietly “gender neutralized” by a guerilla sign maker.
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NewsASFA Elections Under Way
As the Arts and Science Federation of Associations campaigning period for a VP Communications came to a close on Oct. 11, all parties are now hoping that students just show up to vote.
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NewsSisters not Statistics
Over a dozen placards with pictures of smiling, missing aboriginal women adorned the statue in Cabot Square on Oct. 4, looking into a 200-strong crowd that gathered for the fifth annual Sisters in Spirit march to honor the 582 recorded missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.
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NewsStriking Laws for Sex Work
An Ontario Superior Court Justice struck down three Canadian prostitution laws on Sept. 28, deeming them a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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NewsFight the Night
Clad in red and steadfast against spurts of pouring rain, 300 women gathered outside the Berri-UQAM Metro station on Sept. 24 for Take Back the Night, an annual march denouncing the violence and sexual exploitation of women.
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NewsASFA in Action
The Arts and Science Federation of Associations kicked off its first meeting on Sept. 16, getting down to business by voting on a byelection, referendum question and appointing council members to social committees.
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NewsOne for the Books
At the end of September, the Concordia University Archives will have some pretty big shoes to fill.
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NewsSex and Sensibility
On Sept. 1, a coalition of health and women’s groups called for the provincial government to implement a comprehensive sex education course in Quebec high schools after new findings suggested the rates of sexually transmitted infections have skyrocketed among youth since the Ministry of Education stopped offering classes in 2001.
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OpinionsCan’t (re)touch This
The oversaturated image of leggy, lean ladies that are the faces of the fashion industry may have met their match.
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Fringe ArtsAffection, Nostalgia and Craft
Denver-bound local artist Sara Guindon will hit up Headquarters Gallerie+Boutique for a farewell vernissage this Friday. Called Objects of Affection, the event will feature illustration, animation, lively dolls yand paper puppetry.
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NewsGreen Streets
The current state of downtown back lanes—often filled with garbage, broken shards of glass and other debris—is about to change for the residents and merchants of Hawarden Avenue and Souvenir Street. Things are about to get a whole lot greener.
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OpinionsA Rant en Route
We live in a city continually beset by the grind of downtown transit, but it might not be our fault.
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News
TAPthirst to fight bottled water on campus
By January 2011, Concordia could be the first bottled water-free campus in Quebec, if TAPthirst Concordia, a student group lobbying against the privatization of water, has their way.
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NewsTurning it in
Quietly over the summer session, Concordia’s Centre for Teaching and Learning Services has piloted an American-based anti-plagarism software called Turnitin in the university’s classrooms over the last three weeks.
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Opinions
Editorial: Disconnected understanding
Last week, 9,000 academics and delegates flocked to Concordia for the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, taking our downtown campus by scholarly storm. They attended over 1,500 events with an aim of “sharing groundbreaking research and examining the important social and cultural issues of the day,” according to Concordia’s humanities and social sciences website.
