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NewsConU Inc. Author Speaks With The Link
According to Concordia’s administration, David Bernans is a risk to be assessed.
Making headlines after the university’s Risk Assessment Committee banned him from holding a book reading on campus in 2006, the author of Con U Inc. and North of 9/11 will speak on Wednesday as part of a week-long “Ask Why” awareness campaign organized by various student groups. -
News‘Concordia Is Unique,’ Says Administration
Despite finishing 11th out of 12 comprehensive universities in the latest Maclean’s University Rankings, Concordia’s administration is not in damage-control mode. The problem is Maclean’s, they argue, not Concordia.
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NewsOrgans and Operating Systems
Several weeks ago in the Montreal General Hospital, 68-year-old Gilles Lefort was put to sleep and had his prostate cancer successfully removed—by robots.
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NewsAn Affordability Issue: Property CEO
Adding two hours onto the Arts and Science Federation of Associations’ Council meeting on Nov. 11, Jonathan Wener, the chairman and CEO of one of the largest property firms in the city, told councillors that a proposed student union building was worth the price students would pay for it.
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News‘There Is No Perfect Solution But It Will Be the Best Solution’
A week before the $50 million student union building, the largest project in the Concordia Student Union’s history, is presented to students by referendum, The Link sat down with CSU VP External & Projects Adrien Severyns.
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NewsEscalator Project Awaits Green Light
Students enjoying a three-month break from the years of construction that took place outside Concordia’s Hall building should prepare for a series of major renovations within it. A $15 million proposal to gut and replace the Hall building’s infamously defective escalators awaits approval from Concordia’s Board of Governors.
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Culture Night Crackdown
The Concordia Student Union will be scaling down its “all you can drink” culture nights, citing safety concerns as a factor behind the decision.
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NewsMore Construction on Campus
Two Concordia buildings will undergo intensive repairs this spring.
A $14 million project to reclad the university’s GM Building will begin this March and likely last until the end of 2011. Renovations on the western wall of the Faubourg Tower are also slated for March and will last until November. -
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Chatting with TED
TEDxConcordia, an independently organized offshoot of the global conference series on technology, entertainment and design, is coming to Concordia on Feb. 12.
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NewsBergeron Resigns
Projet Montreal leader Richard Bergeron resigned from the city’s executive committee last Thursday after refusing to support the Ministère du Transport de Québec’s $3 billion plan to overhaul the Turcot interchange.
