Opinions
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OpinionsBehind the Scenes of ASFA’s Launch Week
As an international student, I promise myself to live every experience that university has to offer me—one of them being “Frosh Week.”
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OpinionsJust Shut The Fuck Up
This week, I betrayed friends. I was wrong, and stubborn about it. I was not an ally, and I am deeply remorseful.
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OpinionsOn Oct. 19, Canadians Need to Vote for a Universal Childcare Program
Most undergraduate students probably don’t consider affordable childcare to be a top issue in this federal election campaign. Faced with a challenging labour market, out-of-control housing prices and unstable employment, we are, on average, taking longer to finish school, enter into established relationships and have children of our own.
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OpinionsEditorial: No Question, a TA is a TA
TRAC’s record is slowly straightening out. Led by a new executive team—featuring some familiar faces—the Teaching and Research Assistants of Concordia held its first general assembly of the year on Wednesday.
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OpinionsBehind the Scenes of ASFA’s Launch Week
I naively applied to be a Launch leader, not really knowing what the job entailed, but thought it would be a great opportunity to meet new people and have some fun. What resulted was a chaotic week filled with many highs and lows, which felt more like a high school experience than a university orientation.
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OpinionsNah’msayin: These Fucking Bottle Dinguses Better Watch the Fuck Out
These fucking haughty clerks will glower from behind their shitty little countertops, suddenly sitting atop porcelain thrones of judgment, and let me nicely sort and lay out all my bottles and cans before them, before saying, really spitting, at me that, “No, no, absolutely we do not take your bottles, it is just too difficult, too much work for me, no incentive for me, why don’t you just take them somewhere else.”
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OpinionsNothing to be Proud of
Like many Concordia students, alumni and Montrealers, I have watched Concordia administration’s klutzy moves as they learn to do the political equivalent of a backward tango in heels
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OpinionsEditorial: You Can’t Rebrand Budget Cuts
It’s the beginning of another school year and apparently Concordia’s student body can expect to greet their first week of classes with a brand new sense of unity. This according to Concordia’s Stingers rebrand, an in-process series of efforts to revitalize our university’s modest athletic department.
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OpinionsHALLUCINATE, PUKE, REPEAT
Waiting for a shamanic ceremony is almost like waiting for Kanye West to take the stage. Will he provide his audience with an expensive rant or will he wow us with his repertoire? Or, I wondered, would it in fact be more like Kate Bush leading a vomit-ridden séance?

