All posts by Cheryl Stone
Budget leaves tuition break in place
Ontario students will keep their tuition grants and see some small cuts, but that’s about it. Yesterday, the Ontario Government presented their budget to the Legislative Assembly. The budget, which maintains the 30-per-cent-off-tuition grant given to students in January, will ... Read More »
Crowd catches the country wave
Performance: 4.5/5 Openers: 4/5 Setlist: 4/5 Crowd: 3/5 Worth the cash: 4/5 The Wave looked more like a barn dance Thursday night as Dean Brody took the stage on his Dirt Roads Scholar tour. The show opened with bluegrass team ... Read More »
Minding the neighbours
For many students, warmer temperatures mean beer on patios, dancing in the streets and ticking off the neighbours who just don’t get it. Most of these neighbours are permanent residents, and the city is looking into student housing initiatives that ... Read More »
New health and wellness coordinator position
The University Students’ Council is tying together all of its awareness campaigns together under one banner. The future position of the health and wellness coordinator will oversee health and safety-based awareness campaigns that the USC runs. Additionally, the coordinator will ... Read More »
Councillor calls on businesses to hire
A councillor hopes re-learning how to count will aid the city’s job growth. Paul Hubert, Ward 8 councillor, wants council to start counting jobs with his Hire 1 program. The goal of the program is to have small and medium ... Read More »
USC voting resumes
According to Eliot Hong, communications officer for the University Students’ Council, the voteusc.ca website is ready to handle student voters again. “Western [Information Technology Services] has rigorously updated their site security and spent reading week testing the system out,” he ... Read More »
Grass referendum growing
Students are one step closer to having to foot the bill for the multipurpose fields. Last week, the finance standing committee voted to have the elections committee create a referendum question about a potential levy to improve the multipurpose fields ... Read More »
USC in View: The executives speak out
I wish “Financially Mistaken with Jen Valadao” was as publicized as “Politically Incorrect with Andrew Forgione.” Big Purple Couch had the vice-president finance of the University Students’ Council take the candidates to task with the help of the rest of ... Read More »
USC to investigate last week’s protest
A complaint has been filed with the Clubs Governance Committee over the actions of pro-Palestinian protesters at an Israel on Campus event last week. The University Students’ Council has fielded many complaints in regard to the protest and is filing ... Read More »
Fearnall has Facebook problems
Adam Fearnall has had to play hide and seek on Facebook in the middle of his presidential campaign. The University Students’ Council presidential candidate had to take down his former Facebook group, “Adam Fearnall for USC President,” after the page ... Read More »
Nurse numbers growing
Mom was wrong—you shouldn’t have become a doctor. You should have gone to school for nursing. A report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information found there were 931 regulated nurses per 100,000 Canadians. The field as a whole ... Read More »
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