The president of UVic wants to chat
UVic’s new President, Jamie Cassels, plans on launching a campaign to create a two-sided dialogue between staff, students, community members, and the university. Cassel’s “Campus Conversations” will begin over the next few weeks, and will take place around campus as well as in the community to provide an opportunity to address some key issues.
The areas Cassel wishes to highlight are university priorities, strengths, and ways to improve the university. Although the locations of these conversations are unannounced, discussion has already begun on UVic’s website. As far as we know, there is no complimentary breakfast, so one point to Petter.
With files from The Martlet
U of C students help build solar house
As part of an Alberta-based team, the University of Calgary has designed and constructed an environmentally friendly solar house. Named Borealis, the house has twice the insulation value of a regular home and was built with 40 solar panels on its roof connected to the municipal grid.
In addition to powering the house, any extra unused power will be returned to the grid and go towards paying the power bill with its credits. Borealis will be entered in a competition put on by the U.S. Department of Energy that will take place in Irvine, California this October.
With files from The Gauntlet
UNB and St. Thomas initiate condom recall
The University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University officials are recalling free condoms given out during a welcome event, and advising students to throw them away. The Fredericton Sexual Assault Crisis Centre gave them out as a part of a plan to promote safe sex with messages attached promoting consent. These notes were attached with staples, potentially causing the condoms within the packages to be punctured.
Maggie Crain of the Crisis Centre stated, “Mistakenly, some of the staples pierced the air pocket that holds the condom.” Eighty of these compromised condoms were given out. The centre plans to try once more, but this time around, will use tape instead.
With files from CBC News
