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NewsECA 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.”
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NewsHow 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.
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NewsConcordia’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.
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NewsCSU 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.
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NewsArts 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.
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NewsTeaching 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.
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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.
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CSU Owes $42,000 in Back Taxes
You can’t put a price on fun, but the Concordia Student Union is finding out the hard way that you can tax it.
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NewsTalking with the CASA President-elect
John Molson business students had the option to make 2014-2015 a “Good” year, but if last month’s Commerce and Administration Students’ Association elections are any indication, voters believe Michael Richardson will give them a great one.
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NewsActivist Chris Crass Talks Feminism for Men
Feminism isn’t just for women—but how do you bring guys into the fold?
