The future of colleges at Trent is closely tied to the fate of the Office of Student Affairs
This week Arthur covered the first of the Ashley Fellow lectures given by Don Markwell that celebrated colleges as a way to bring faculty and student together. While the Trent community discusses the possibilities and promises of college life at Trent, it is important to remember how the Trent college system has become what it is today and how faculty and staff were driven apart in the first place.
As one of the people who attended Peterborough’s torch run on December 15, hoping to offer a counterpoint to the uncritically embraced Olympic spectacle, I was surprised to discover the perspective taken by Evan Brockest in his article entitled “Security Tight During Peterborough Torch Relay.” My experience that night was significantly different from the portrayal in Arthur. I believe that the depiction of an oppressive police presence and of a public that was unreceptive to our protesting is both inaccurate and counter-productive.
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Monday, February 8th
9pm - 2am BEERS 4 QUEERZ OSSIA, 231 Hunter St. West Join the queers as OSSIA opens it’s doors on Monday nights, just for us. EVERY MONDAY NIGHT HEREAFTER at OSSIA! Come out, drink cheap beer (or really cheap soda and coffee) and enjoy queer company! Show up as an early bird around 9-10ish or drop by wheneva.
Citing the prevention of drug deals and assaults as motivating factors, the municipality of Peterborough agreed last week to provide complete funding for the installation of security cameras outside local downtown shelters.
Just over $15,000 worth of municipal funding has been released by the city to cover the costs of the cameras, with operators of the Brock Mission and the Youth Emergency Shelter (YES) each receiving financial contributions of approximately $8000.
Why five men were allowed to fall almost 130 feet from a faulty construction platform
Last December, Christmas Eve passed in Toronto as it always does; snowless, but still cold, the malls filled to the brim with frantic shoppers. But while most of us were trimming the tree, singing carols, and watching Miracle on 34th Street, the families of five Rexdale construction workers were devastated with the news of a ‘workplace accident’ that would cost them almost everything.
What drives Carnival is the music. Calypso is the medium through which social issues are addressed using satire and wit, not only to poke fun at the powers and politicians of the day, but also to raise issues of relevance in the everyday lives of the populace.
In 2008 Arthur reported that the University of Ottawa’s new president Allan Rock had responded to student protest against a Student Code of Conduct by announcing he would no longer be pursuing the code. This was an inspiring moment for students rights activists across Ontario. But, as Mike Fancie reports, students at the University of Ottawa are still under threat from an administration that continues to violate student rights. This article was originally published in The Leveller: Carleton’s Campus and Community Newspaper
The Trent Excalibur men’s and women’s volleyball teams took on the Seneca Sting on the evening of Wednesday, February 3, with mixed results. The Excalibur men were narrowly defeated in an intense match, 3-2, while the Trent women took the victory 3-0.
After attending the “Biology of Buildings” talk at the Camp Kawartha Environment Centre in mid-January this year, the image of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) came to mind. Together with people from the Peterborough community and Trent/Fleming students, we listened to Stephen Colette, a certified Building Biology Environmental Consultant and the owner of Your Healthy House, talk about how buildings can impact ones’ mood and health.
Don Markwell says the college system is going through a renaissance all over the world. With a new president, is the stage set to bring life back to Trent’s colleges?
Over sixty students, faculty, and other community members came together last Tuesday to talk about how they might do just that: come together, more often.
In his first of three lectures as Trent’s 2010 Ashley Fellow, Australian political economist Don Markwell praised the residential college system as, among other things, a way to make student-faculty interaction happen outside the classroom.
With Peterborough’s historic hall about to undergo year-long renovations, Arthur invites you on a trip through the past
I know Market Hall may seem like old news (try about a hundred years or so) to those local to the area, but I have it on good authority that some of you reading this have yet to grace its illustrious floors. And so, it is my sad job to inform you that you won’t get the chance to do so for a solid calendar year.
The report, conducted between May and August 2009 by Timothy Shah, Adam Wright, and Scott Baker assessed performance in education and research, operations, administration, and finance.
Beyonce will be wrapping up her South American tour with a performance in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, February 18. Her scheduled appearance has sparked some criticism.
Beyonce’s performance comes a mere two days after the country celebrates its greatest cultural spectacle – Carnival. The show is being sponsored by the Telecommunications Service of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT), a communications company that is fifty-one percent owned by the state.
National Bankruptcy Declared
Originally published for In These Times Magazine. www.inthesetimes.com
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS– It was all supposed to be different once Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo took over as the new president of Honduras. Human rights crisis finished. Dictatorship deterred. Even after a highly-contested election in November -- which most of the world refused to recognize and more than half of Hondurans didn’t participate in -- many both here and abroad still clung to the hope that a new executive officer might resolve what some experts have called a “one-sided civil war” because only the military-backed regime has employed violent means.
