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Alberta’s NDP is joining post-secondary students in a call to action for changes to UCP budget cuts, which they say will result in tuition hikes, reduced access to post-secondary education and less opportunity to diversify the province’s struggling economy.
In an outdoor event at the University of Calgary on Tuesday, NDP Leader Rachel Notley and NDP Advanced Education critic David Eggen joined students in calling for a reversal of $690-million in cuts to post-secondary, freezing tuition until the pandemic ends, stopping hikes to student loan interest rates and halting the move toward performance-based funding.
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SU election supplement 2021: Faculty of Arts representatives
Along with the responsibilities outlined for all SLC members, faculty representatives are accountable for responsibilities particular to their role including: Reporting to students of their faculty the policies, positions and programs of the SU, reporting to their faculty itself (e.g., Dean’s Council) the policies, positions and programs of the SU, representing student constituents of their faculty at SLC, representing student constituents of their faculty on university committees and reporting to the VP Academic on matters of academic importance within their faculty.
Fayo Abdi
In one of the few contested races, with many candidates vying for the top four spots, Fayo Abdi is looking for reelection in March.
Fine arts students: It’s getting harder for our work to stay up on Instagram
“Roller Girl 2” by Zaida Gerritson.
When Rita Bunrayong put her newly completed photo series, “Suffocation,” on her art Instagram account, her work got censored.
The offending photos a collection of nude self-portraits depict Bunrayong in a bathtub, and are another casualty of Instagram’s increasingly stringent restrictions on what they deem as unwanted nude or sexual content.
When Bunrayong tried to send the screenshot of the removal to the Martlet on Instagram, she instantly received another threatening notification. Instagram has technology that can identify content that has been previously removed, and remove it instantly if it reappears on the platform.
Everyone says you learn so much more from your mistakes than your successes will ever teach you. That being said, however inevitable a stressful and completely disoriented semester may seem, a little bit of guidance can set you on the right path for the rest of your university career. In an interview with The
Gauntlet, Rayane Issa, an executive member of the Faculty of Arts Students’ Association, and fourth-year Neuroscience and Political Science student at the University of Calgary, shares her top six secrets for making the most of your university experience. These tips may not complete your one-month overdue assignment, but if the university experience has been anything short of spectacular so far, they might drastically change that.