[Image-1] Mount Allison University’s women’s and gender studies program, already underfunded and over-enrolled, is effectively facing extinction due to secretive budget cuts. On Monday night, acting director of women’s and gender studies Lisa Dawn Hamilton emailed students to say the budget for next year’s program had been reduced to zero. Hamilton didn’t get back to […]
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NSCAD’s board approves tuition hike by email vote
[Image-1] It just became more expensive to be an arts student in Halifax. The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design has approved a three-year tuition increase for students. Combined with NSCAD’s annual three percent cost-of-living increase, undergraduate tuition could rise as much as 36 percent by 2018. A press release from NSCAD’s board of […]
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UPDATED: King’s College asks to increase tuition and chill
[Image-1] Prices may be going up at the University of King’s College, but not until 2017. Yesterday, the liberal arts university’s board of governors approved a request to ask the provincial government for a $1,000 tuition increase, phased in over three years. The decision passed 10-8, according to a release by King’s Students’ Union. In […]
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Leaving Wonderland has arrived
Some of the themes in Leaving Wonderland may be ripped from the headlines, but there is nothing sensationalized about Shelley’s Thompson’s heart-touching play. This story of grief and growth is firmly rooted in truths about the complexity of relationships. The story begins with a college professor and successful author named Jane (Geneviève Steele) berating two […]
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An arts degree: The sharpest tool in your belt
[Image-1] When it comes to applying to medical school, an applied sciences or biochemistry degree might seem natural as an undergrad choice. However, that’s not the case for everyone. What a student might need is a sharp mind—articulate and creative, but critical of the facts. For Adam Cameron, the edge he needs to get into […]
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Updated: Antique cross RETURNED to King’s
[Image-1] As reported by the CBC, the altar cross was returned to King’s chapel this week by a young man of about 19 years of age with a tote bag full of laundry. Amen. An “ancient and irreplaceable” altar cross is missing and presumed stolen from the University of King’s College chapel. According to a […]
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Doctor Enns strips down comics
Captain America as war propaganda. Class divisions between Archie and Veronica. The secret gay life of Batman and Robin. This is a taste of the topics that are part of a new English course called Cartoons and Comics, in its third week at Dalhousie University. Some readings are taken right from the pages of Marvel, […]