Tagged: calgary herald

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Open your wallet (again)

Once again, Alberta’s universities are feeling the fiscal pinch. Mount Royal University, for example, is staring down the barrel of a $5.4-million shortfall in 2013-14, and it’s expected to be even worse the year...

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Social media in the classroom

Use of Twitter and Facebook becoming more prominent   Holly Triebwasser News Editor   In the days of Tweeting, Facebooking, Youtubing and Pinteresting, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that the use of...

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SAMRU fees among highest in Canada

Are students getting what they pay for?   William Conner Contributor   Alberta’s post-secondary Students’ Associations have some of the highest fees in the country, with SAIT Students’ Association and the Students’ Association of...

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Tory bias alleged at MRU

Alumni mag featured Redford right before election called   Rachael Frey News Editor   Mount Royal University has been accused of “sucking up to the Premier” in the days leading up to the election...

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Calgary Herald: During a difficult week, four MRU students shone

http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=bb33fcd8-27cf-45a1-8e5c-f79b6cdde642 For many observers, last week must have seemed like a rough week for Mount Royal University, and in particular, the Students’ Association of Mount Royal University. After all, the story — in print,...

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Civic election should fascinate students

by Zoey Duncan Municipal politics may not strike most Calgarians as riveting or glamorous, but the approach of the 2010 civic election is already highly anticipated by some. Participation in the municipal election is...

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Actively slacking

by Zoey Duncan Slacktivism: it’s not in most dictionaries but the more vernacularly inclined Urban Dictionary defines it as, “The act of participating in obviously pointless activities as an expedient alternative to actually expending...