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NewsCounting Sheep? Don’t Neglect a Routine Sleep Schedule
For Dr. Colleen Carney, too many students are following the trends of greater adulthood by neglecting a routine sleep schedule. Students are prioritizing their own academic success, altering their bodies’ internal clocks. According to Carney, this lack of routine is a main cause for chronic insomnia, which is a disorder closely linked to depression.
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NewsEight Years Stagnant, CSU Website Redone in One Weekend by IT Guy
The Concordia Student Union’s almost decade-old website will be officially replaced this semester for the first time since the software running it became obsolete in 2007, CSU IT Coordinator Filip Pietruszewski told The Link.
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NewsInvigilators Vote Yes to Unionization
In a vote held in November and December, Concordia’s exam supervisors opted to officially organize as a union group under the auspices of Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia.
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NewsMontreal Assembles for Charlie Hebdo
More than a thousand people attended a vigil Wednesday evening following the shootings at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, gathering outside France’s consulate in downtown Montreal.
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NewsFirst Phase of Webster Renovation Begins
The library’s transformation project began this month, after over a year of planning, and is scheduled for completion by fall 2017.
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NewsConcordia Teaching Assistant Union Put in Trusteeship
According to documents obtained by The Link, the union for Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia (TRAC) has been put into trusteeship by its parent union Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC).
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NewsStudents Say Yes to BDS
Referendum results indicated only 7 per cent of Concordia students voted in the by-elections, with the YES ballot succeeding by only a 209-vote margin.
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NewsProtesters March in Solidarity with Michael Brown
Approximately 300 people gathered in Phillips Square to protest police brutality and racial profiling in the wake of recent events in Ferguson, Missouri on Saturday night.
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NewsConcordia Leans Green
The people that control Concordia’s biggest investment fund, creatively named the Concordia University Foundation, are reserving a portion of that money for companies that care about the environment.
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NewsCSU By-Election Results
Unlike the BDS issue, some referendum questions did receive a count and tally after the Concordia Student Union’s by-election last week. Notably, the referenda for creating new student housing, a daycare centre and the approval for the CSU to pay back the Hive Café Solidarity Cooperative start up loan through a specific fund all passed.
