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NewsConcordia Senate Backs Down
Just weeks after demanding that the chair of the Board of Governors resign, the faculty and students on Concordia’s Senate softened their tone last on Feb. 19, agreeing to defer an investigation of the university’s leadership crisis to a committee of experts.
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NewsBoard Outsources Scrutiny
Tempers flared at the Board of Governors’ Feb. 17 meeting as two-dozen irritated faculty members openly challenged the sitting chair and heckled Concordia’s interim president. The jeers were met by poorly veiled threats from long-sitting governors.
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NewsFresh Eyes on an Old House
You’ve probably seen that Heritage Minute spot on TV where Baldwin and Lafontaine fight for responsible government in the 1800s. You know—responsible government, where our elected representatives run the country instead of it being run by the Queen.
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NewsUdeM Development Approved
A motion passed by City Council last week approving the construction of the controversial Outremont campus for the Université de Montréal has “terribly upset” community groups in Parc-Extension.
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News“The Frontrunner”
Months after the student centre referendum question overwhelmingly failed last November, university administration and the Concordia Student Union opened up to student media on Feb. 22 to disclose a more detailed plan moving forward.
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News‘Only a Stroke’
It all started with a headache.
It wasn’t your typical drank-too-much-the-previous-night headache. The night before had been spent working on an assignment in that all too familiar last-minute crunch. Still, a headache wasn’t something to stress about—a few heavy doses of Advil and it should have been a thing of the past. -
NewsThe Man Behind The Curtain
Forty-eight hours before Concordia’s undergraduates overwhelmingly rejected a $43 million bid to place the long-planned student centre in the Faubourg,
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NewsA Legacy of Hope
Civil rights activist and proponent of non-violence Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of eradicating the “three evils” of poverty, racism and militarism while he was alive.
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News‘A Decade of Activism’
For Americans who lived through it, the 60s was a decade of tremendous change and tragedy. While the Vietnam War raged, civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Robert Kennedy were murdered.
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NewsSustainable Concordia Withdraws Fee Levy Request
Citing a need for more preparation, Sustainable Concordia withdrew its proposal for a 400-per-cent increase in the funding it receives from students at last Wednesday’s Concordia Student Union Council meeting.
