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An ethnographic study from Stanford University researchers will purportedly show that the nonprofit Urban Alchemy dramatically lowers crime rates on streets where its community ambassadors are stationed in San Francisco. The results were touted by the nonprofit’s founder Lena Miller and by Mayor London Breed last week.
Letter to the Editor: Privatizing the bookstore would be disastrous The university is looking to sell the University of Calgary bookstore to Follett, an American corporation worth $2.7 billion. Bringing in a private corporation to sell textbooks to students would be kneecapping the student body at its most vulnerable during a pandemic, a recession and yearly tuition hikes. Currently, textbooks are sold to students as close to at-cost as possible, keeping prices affordable. However, we all know that textbooks are still unaffordable, which is why the bookstore has three cost-saving programs ...
New YYC Ethnography Lab provides experiential insight into lived experiences Grounded through a ‘learn by doing’ experiential approach, the YYC Ethnography Lab is a new, student-driven, interdisciplinary University of Calgary initiative centering around ethnographic research methods. The Lab provides workshops, speaker series, resources and experiential learning and research opportunities for U of C students free of charge to enhance and go beyond academia. Brandon Eby, the undergraduate coordinator, and Pedrom Nasiri, the graduate coordinator, explain what ethnography is and how the i...