STUDENTS INVADED THE University of Ottawa President Allan Rock’s office on April 12 in a protest against the recent tuition fee hike. The university’s Board of Governors (BOG) voted in favour of the 5 per cent increase via email proxy on April 6. At first, two girls entered the secure portion of Tabaret Hall, where President Rock’s office is located. [...]
IT WAS MARCH 19 when the Gee-Gees women’s basketball team’s season finally came to an end. The 2012 Ontario University Athletics (OUA) champions walked off the court for the last time this year not in their hometown, but in Calgary, following their bronze-medal win at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Final-8 championships. For long-time coach Andy Sparks, it was a lesser [...]
GONE ARE THE days when people could have a beer and a cigarette on a patio or light a smoke under the stars in a park. As of April 2, Ottawans cannot smoke on patios or in parks as a part of the city’s new anti-smoking bylaw. Although tickets won’t be handed out until July 2, officers will be issuing [...]
TO GET TO the Board of Governors (BOG) meeting on April 2, members had to first step over a human red carpet—six students covered by a red cloth. Approximately 30 students came to the meeting to protest a proposed five per cent tuition hike, ultimately causing BOG members to leave and cast their votes via email. The meeting began with [...]
“ONCE YOU DO it, you won’t want to stop.” This phrase can often be heard from athletes competing in extreme sports, and Fannie Desforges is no different. This fourth-year hockey forward spent the weekend of March 15–18 speeding down icy hills and landing high-speed jumps in Quebec City as part of the Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championships. In the [...]
APPROXIMATELY 200,000 STUDENTS gathered in Montreal on March 22 to protest a proposed 75 per cent tuition hike for Quebec students. Forty-six of the protesters were from the University of Ottawa. The Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) sent a bus full of students to the protest following a motion approved by the Board of Administration (BOA) meeting [...]
THE COUNCIL OF Undergraduate Affairs, a subcommittee of the University Senate, passed a policy to give professors the power to control what electronic devices are allowed in the classroom. Complaints by students and professors initiated the year-long examination into the issue of electronic interruptions. Exceptions for students with disabilities, who need certain aids, are included in the policy. The electronic [...]
THE END OF the school year is a monumental time for everyone. Students finish off exams, professors finally get a break, and those of us who had a year-long contract with our workplace hand in transition reports. I’d like to dedicate this column to writing a short transition report for the new Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) [...]
FOR THE BETTER part of a year, I have had the pleasure of writing on one of my favourite topics: Fitness. Don’t be fooled, however—I am by no means a fitness expert. I once gave myself a concussion during a pre-workout stretch, I have yet to master the downward dog, and I absolutely loathe the shoulder press. I’d like to [...]
THE JUNOS HAVE come and gone another year. Awards have been handed out—some artists have been left snubbed and others left shining trophies. But one thing that seemed to trail behind the glitz glamour of the awards ceremony was the music itself. As I found myself waiting to take my seat in the press box at Scotiabank Place on April [...]
THE FULCRUM GETS a bad rap from time to time. As the campus media, we are mandated to report on what goes down at the University of Ottawa. You know, the good, the bad, the ugly. It’s our job to be hard ass on both the university administration and the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO), reporting accurately, [...]
THE FULCRUM GETS a bad rap from time to time. As the campus media, we are mandated to report on what goes down at the University of Ottawa. You know, the good, the bad, the ugly. It’s our job to be hard ass on both the university administration and the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO), reporting accurately, [...]
ARE YOU PREPARED to give up $13,000 during your golden years? Prime Minister Stephen Harper thinks you are. That’s what the average Canadian will have to give up thanks to the federal budget introduced by the Conservative Party last week. The budget cuts retirement benefits by raising the age of eligibility for Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement [...]
NOT SO MANY years ago, this university had no club to unite provincial or federal Young Liberals. Liberals were present, but were an unknown, scattered entity of independently strong individuals. Today, this is not the case, as Liberals wander the halls of our university united, and are prouder, smarter, and stronger in the face of adversity. At our annual general [...]
A RECENT STUDY by the British chapter of home improvement powerhouse Dulux made a shocking discovery about the amount of sex English citizens have on an annual basis. According to the study, which surveyed 2,000 couples across the country, the average English couple gets down and dirty only 42 times a year—that’s right, less than once a week. Clearly this [...]
WOULDN’T IT BE horrible to have your train ticket paid for? Or what about your cab fare? Free bottles of champagne, anyone? Everything I’ve listed doesn’t seem to fit into the low spectrum of life, now does it? Well, these are the occurrences that Samantha Brick, a Daily Mirror columnist, experiences practically every day. But, according to Brick, these perks [...]
ON MARCH 26, the Ontario Court of Appeal struck down several laws they judged placed unconstitutional restrictions upon the ability of prostitutes to protect themselves while practicing their trade. The groundbreaking ruling will allow prostitutes to organize themselves in brothels and hire bodyguards or other employees to improve the safety of their work environments. Now, I’m of the apparently radical [...]
THROUGHOUT THE FOUR and a half years it took me to complete my English degree, one of the things I was most consistently ridiculed for by my peers was my passion for fantasy literature. Despite the eye rolling and snarky comments, I still consider “fairie” lit, as it was dubbed by the Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. [...]
Neglect or tragic accident? TWO YOUNG ALBERTA girls were rushed to hospital last week following a scary turn of events on their family’s rural property. The children, aged three and five, were wandering the property when they meandered onto a small ditch of frozen water. The ice on the surface of the ditch gave way, and the two girls fell [...]
WITH CONVOCATION JUST around the corner, many University of Ottawa students are finally finding an opportunity to reflect on what their time at this institution has meant. This week, in a special ode to the U of O, graduating students share their stories and advice for those who still have time at this university to take advantage of. Success is [...]
AS OF APRIL 2, the wise City of Ottawa has chosen to implement changes to local bylaws to provide more of what they are calling “smoke-free spaces.” These changes have made it so no one can smoke a cigarette on any outdoor municipal properties (parks, beaches, sports fields), the ByWard or Parkdale Market stands, and on any outdoor restaurant or [...]
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