Megan Dolski
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OpinionsShooting Ourselves in the Foot
I’m having a bit of a déjà vu moment. Three years ago I moved to Texas. On my first day at community college, my first class was public speaking and my first assignment was to give a persuasive speech.
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OpinionsEditorial
Let’s put aside the philosophical principle that post-secondary education should be a universal right for a moment, since it’s one of those things that you either agree with, or you don’t.
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Opinions6 a.m. Bar Closing Prone To Probems
Your best friend is un-gracefully draped over a toilet seat while your boyfriend is throwing up in yesterday’s grocery bag. Your stomach is filled with two-dollar peanut butter noodles—its four a.m. and after enjoying a solid night of debauchery, you’re home-sweet-home and triumphantly calling it quits.
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OpinionsMedia Concentrate
When the media becomes the subject of the news rather than the source of it, someone isn’t doing their job.
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OpinionsThe Coverage Conundrum
The movement against the stark inequality of our population, created by the capitalist and corporate system, is occupying everywhere these days—including the
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NewsActivism, Aboriginal Women & Alternative Ideas
Violence against aboriginal women is a problem in Canada, and according to Andrea Smith, it is not one that can be understood, studied or solved as an issue in and of itself.
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OpinionsNah’msayin?
Normally when you enter a coffee shop and order a medium coffee, the employee behind the counter reacts by saying “Sure” and proceeds to pour a medium amount of coffee into a medium-sized cup. However, if you walk into a Starbucks franchise with the exact same request, a slightly different scene unfolds.
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Fringe ArtsBuilding a Festival
On the seventh floor of a large industrial building in the Mile End, buried amidst an eclectic hodge-podge of businesses—including an Israeli MMA self-defence studio, a textile factory and, quite possibly, a porn studio—you will find a loft that is slightly smelly and packed with boxes of vitamin water, cases of beer and massive amounts of freshly printed t-shirts and programs. The room is bustling, as people work busily in pod-like formations scattered across the room.
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OpinionsEditorial
Whether you did so by dragging your feet, scurrying in confusedly or eagerly rushing through the doors, when you returned to school two weeks ago you were welcomed to (or back to) Concordia with barbeques, tabling fairs, music, food, free-flowing booze and friendly faces. And you have your student union to thank for that.
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Fringe ArtsNot Your Everyday Variety Show
Candyass Cabaret, making its debut this Friday at Café Cleopatra, is bringing some burlesque-esque old-school vaudeville style to Montreal.
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News“Just Too Dangerous”
The roads are safe—according to Jean Charest. Among those who aren’t so sure, however, are those who spend more time driving them than anyone else: the city’s taxi drivers. Montreal’s crumbling infrastructure and the construction aiming to fix it have combined to result in the clogging of several major traffic arteries across town.
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SportsThe Ride of Their Lives
This summer, two pairs of wheels, two pairs of tires, two pairs of pedals and two pairs of very strong quadriceps took Maria Millang and Vanessa Rondeau across the country.
On June 20, both Millang and Rondeau dipped the rear wheels of their bicycles into the Pacific Ocean in Victoria, BC. Last week, on Sept. 2, the two triumphantly rode their front wheels into the Atlantic Ocean at Signal Hill, NL. -
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OpinionsThe War On Our Future
This year has seen majorprotests on three separate con-tinents, opposing the plans ofthree separate governments, allboiling down to the same singleissue: affordable—or rather, increasingly unaffordable—post-secondary education.
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NewsHall Reno On Track
Students can finally say goodbye to the unpredictable escalators in the Hall Building as the first of four phases of renovations is set to wrap up by Sept. 12. “We are right on target, and I’m extremely pleased with how it’s going,” said John Fisher of Concordia’s Facilities Management department.
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NewsFighting Together
On June 17, postal and other unionized workers were joined by students as they protested for nearly four hours to show their support for CUPW members. The demonstration took place at 225 Bridge St., and was attended by an estimated 70 people.
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OpinionsEarth Day 2011
April is Earth Month, and next week on April 22, the world will be celebrating Earth Day for the forty-first time.
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OpinionsNah’msayin?
As a non-dinosaur, university student and living, breathing person in our society—you probably have an email address.
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What’s Next For Loyola?
Two former co-presidents of the Communications Guild are vying for executive responsibility of the Loyola Campus next year. Melissa Fuller is running as Your Concordia’s VP Loyola & Services
