Editorial
What we want to see from the USC
When this month ends, Adam Fearnall’s term as president of the University Students’ Council will end with it. Incoming president Pat Whelan has spent the past month shadowing Fearnall, preparing for the takeover. The Fearnall administration had its ups and ... Read More »
Becoming the lord of your land
Moving season is less than a month away for students, and while it can be an exciting time, it’s also a time when students need to be vigilant about renting. While most landlords are honest and not looking to take ... Read More »
Future of Lance deserves more than cursory glance
The Lance, the weekly student newspaper for the University of Windsor, was informed quite suddenly last week they had published their last issue, after the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance voted to temporarily cease the printing of the publication before ... Read More »
Hazing not to be confused with tradition
When engineering students from Ryerson University asked members of their class to strip, lay on a frozen pond and crawl across the ice, they were told it was part of a larger tradition. What they weren’t told was that a ... Read More »
Hiring changes hard on sophs
The Orientation Planning Committee has implemented one of the most ill-conceived and poorly applied changes to the soph application process to date. Their attempt to improve soph selection, which had been criticized as cliquey and biased, has gaping holes in ... Read More »
Fee increase warrants discussion
After many hours of debate Wednesday night, the University Students’ Council narrowly defeated a motion to impose a three-year freeze on increasing the $77.46 base student fee. Instead, council approved a motion to implement regular audits of USC operations and ... Read More »
Keep calm and don’t riot
We’re approaching the one-year anniversary of the St. Patrick’s Day Fleming Drive riots and the city of London is anxiously holding their breath, hoping this year doesn’t produce a sequel. But after flaming cars and countless arrests, the London police ... Read More »
Affiliate agreement hurts everyone
Facing an unexpected yearly loss of $450,000 due to last year’s affiliate agreement, the University Students’ Council is scrambling to make ends meet by turning to cost-cutting measures and maximizing service efficiencies. Fortunately, the gaping fiscal hole is an easy ... Read More »
Study drug blame doesn’t Adderall up
As students in an institute of higher learning, we face standards that often create performance anxiety. When assignments pile up, essays overlap and midterms begin sneaking up on you, students look for additional help. The kind of additional help we’re ... Read More »
Prickly over parking prices
London is gearing up to host the World Figure Skating Championships, and along with the increased hype will also come an increased price for parking downtown. But it’s not the City increasing parking rates—it’s Impark. The private company plans to ... Read More »
Solving USC gender gap not that simple
For a campus whose female population comprises more than half of its student body, it is a problematic statistic that only 10 per cent of the University Students’ Council presidents have been women. Though there are no formal barriers preventing ... Read More »
No place like home office
Employees at Yahoo! were shouting anything but when reading the internal memo sent from their new CEO, Marissa Mayer, which banned working from home. While the memo has people debating the merits of working in an office opposed to home, ... Read More »
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