News
-
News
David Suzuki Tells JMSB Students to Rethink What They’re Learning
He’s best known as an environmentalist…
-
News
ASFA Elections Unique in More Ways Than One
Last week’s Arts and Science Federation of Associations’ elections set themselves apart from others in the past with the sudden resignation of a new executive, the election of a candidate by just one vote and the tied vote of two other councillors.
-
News
Math Error Prevents Fee-Levy Opt-Out Question From Getting on the Ballot
Twenty-nine cents have gotten in the way of a petition for all business students to stop funding six fee-levy groups.
-
News
ECA Adopts “More Enforceable Ban” On Disrespectful Chants
Following the controversy over “sexist, violent, and degrading” chants sometimes sung at engineering events, the Engineering and Computer Science Association created a Student Spirit Committee at its council meeting Monday night mandated to make a songbook “free of crudeness and obscenity.”
-
News
How the CSU Plans to Pay $42,000 in Back Taxes
The Concordia Student Union will pay off its $42,000 in overdue taxes partially using a somewhat off-the-books bank account holding interest amassed from fees collected over the years for a new student centre, according to CSU VP Finance Scott Carr.
-
News
Concordia’s Global Engineering Week to Discuss Sustainable Approaches to Engineering
With a name that conjures up images of globetrotting engineers bringing infrastructure to impoverished nations, one might imagine a week of events organized by Concordia’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders to be composed of lectures and seminars about engineering in developing countries.
-
News
CSU Electoral Officer Warns Pre-Campaigning Will Hurt More Than Help
Ahead of the upcoming Concordia Student Union general elections, which will include a vote on contentious fee-levy reforms, the CSU’s chief electoral officer is implementing new ways to deal with violations of election regulations.
-
News
Arts and Science Students Heading to the Polls
A bumper crop of candidates is running for the seven executive positions in the Arts and Science Federation of Associations’ elections taking place from March 4 to March 6.
-
News
Teaching and Research Assistants Rally for a Contract
Despite an outside temperature of minus-16 degrees Celsius, Concordia teaching and research assistants assembled Monday morning to voice their concerns as negotiations for a new collective agreement continued between their union—Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia—and the university.
-
News
ECA Speaks Out Against Disrespectful Chants
Less than a month after McMaster University suspended a student group over “sexist, violent and degrading material” in a songbook, Concordia’s Engineering and Computer Science Association took a similar stance on certain engineering chants they consider disrespectful and distasteful.