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Ten years ago, Valerie Millette began volunteering for Meals on Wheels.
“I’d like to say I woke up one day and decided to save the world,” said Millette. “But that’s just not the truth.” -
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Crazy Like A Box
Media democracy will now be available at the push of a button.
Hit the bright red knob, speak into the camera and you’re online. Concordia University Television’s Box Populous is a virtual soapbox, where students can record what’s on their mind into an arcade-style console on the seventh floor of the university’s Hall building.
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President Lucas Takes Office
Heather Lucas has already made her mark on the Concordia Student Union’s presidential office.
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Quebec gets peek at president’s tuition plan
If Concordia President Judith Woodsworth has her way, your tuition might start an eight-year climb in 2012 that will bring it to the Canadian average of $5,000 a year.
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TAPthirst to fight bottled water on campus
By January 2011, Concordia could be the first bottled water-free campus in Quebec, if TAPthirst Concordia, a student group lobbying against the privatization of water, has their way.
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K’naan coming to Concordia
The quest for a proper venue is finally over.
After an exhaustive search for a site to host Concordia University’s orientation concert, the Concordia Student Union has secured a spot in its own backyard. The concert, which features Canadian artists K’naan and Chromeo, will take place outdoors at the Loyola Quad on Sept. 9. -
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Student Union loans $45,000 to volunteer program
Prince Ralph Osei’s last presidential decree in office was approved on the evening of Aug. 23 as the Concordia Student Union Council endorsed a $45,000 loan to the Concordia Volunteer Abroad Program.
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G20 Protesters in Court
Franc Lévesque-Nichol woke up in the middle of a police raid. Like so many other G20 protesters, Lévesque-Nichol spent the early hours of June 28 sleeping in a University of Toronto Gymnasium.
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CSU President Resigns
Two weeks before student return to start classes, Concordia Student Union President Prince Ralph Osei has resigned.
Headed to a scholarship in Europe, the former president leaves behind an election platform unfilled and an orientation uncompleted.
With Osei’s departure, nearly half of the CSU executive will be unelected. -
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Can you dig it?
Piles of dirt. Small shards of broken pottery. Piecing chunks of mystery objects together like the world’s most complex jigsaw puzzle, but without the luxury of a box cover to show you what the final product should look like.
Real archeology is a far cry from it’s swashbuckling depictions in popular culture. Indiana Jones spent more time shooting Nazis than cataloguing layers of sediment and Brendan Frasier’s The Mummy dealt more with the supernatural powers of artifacts than their historical context.