News
Aug 8

'I hate Rabaska'

U of O registration woes expressed on Facebook group

FILLED CLASSES, UNRECOGNIZED programs, and frozen computer screens were just a handful of the problems students endured this month while trying to register for their courses using the online registration program Rabaska. Alex Souligny, a third-year history student at the University of Ottawa, was one of many students unable to register for her mandatory courses. She said that registration this year was especially difficult to cope with. “It’s a scary thought, not being ‘recognized’ when trying to register for classes,”...

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Arts and Culture
Aug 9

Sex, condoms, and rock & roll

Rock band ONE brings safe sex to fans

SEX AND MUSIC have been intimate for generations: from the baby boomer mantra “Sex, drugs and rock and roll” to the Jonas Brothers and their...


Opinion
Aug 23

Point/counterpoint: Student activism—a right or a privilege?

EARLIER THIS SUMMER, four of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO)'s services—the Student Appeal Centre, the Women's Resource Centre, the Pride Centre, and Foot Patrol—allocated money from their budgets to pay for buses to take students to the G20 protests in Toronto. Is student activism a legitimate...

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