Ariane Madden
SF-ood
March 12, 2012After a 50-year food fight, can changes to SFU food services really make the cut? By Ariane Madden Photos By Mark Burnham It's 5:21 p.m. on a Tuesday, and you suddenly find yourself running from Images Theatre to McKenzie Café in the hopes of grabbing a snack to tide yourself over until your evening tutorials are over and you can actually have dinner. Alas, you arrive at the cafeteria only to find that it’s entirely closed down and your only option is a squeamish-looking muffin at the nearby Renaissance stand. This little narrative seems to be a common one here at…
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University Briefs
March 12, 2012By Ariane Madden B.C. government to cut higher education funding The British Columbia government announced last week that it will be cutting $70 million in funding from advanced education. The cuts, which only amount to 2.2 per cent of…
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SSB and Shrum Chem faceoff
March 5, 2012By Ariane Madden Sustainability competition’s goal is to reduce energy consumption by five per cent, which could save up to $24,000 Starting March 5, the South Sciences Building and the Shrum Science Chemistry building will go head to head in…
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University Briefs
March 5, 2012By Ariane Madden Former Calgary student union president charged with robbery The former president of Mount Royal University’s student union was arrested and charged with bank robbery last week, only one month after resigning from her position. She allegedly…
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University Briefs
February 27, 2012By Ariane Madden UVic student’s tattoo joke goes viral A joke photo featuring the face of a University of Victoria student on his girlfriend’s arm resulted in hundreds of Facebook posts last week and was reposted to social news…
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This week in The Peak: 1983
February 27, 2012By Ariane Madden These events were recorded in The Peak during this week in 1983. Sociologist debunks cure for homosexuality at UBC talk Martin Weinberg, a research sociologist for Indiana University studying human sexuality and sexual behavior told an audience…
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University Briefs
February 20, 2012Western University referendum hacked Referendum questions for Western University’s student council elections were hacked on Valentine’s Day by a prankster student who asked voters to choose a new haircut for Justin Bieber, and renamed the vote to the “university…
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SFSS builds “think tank” for SUB consultations
February 20, 2012By Ariane Madden The space will be used to introduce the student union building and gain support from the student body. As part of an ongoing bid to garner student support for a future student union building through consultations called…
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University Briefs
February 7, 2012Yale students discover plastic-eating organism A group of students on an annual rainforest exhibition with Yale University, were able to cultivate a fungus capable of digesting polyurethane in low oxygen environments. The findings, published late last year in the…
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January 30, 2012By Ariane Madden Recovered UVic hardware comes with strange apology A piece of financially sensitive hardware that had been stolen from the University of Victoria’s administrative offices in early January has been revealed, along with a cryptic note that has…
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