December 2010

International Briefs

Low graduation rates at for-profit colleges: study A report on graduation rates found that only 22 per cent of first-time, full-time students at for-profit colleges…


Help those in need

Early efforts to help the homeless and the hungry have kicked into high gear once again as the Christmas season approaches. Those on the front…


News Briefs

Two new Rhodes Scholars for the U of M Two students at the University of Manitoba set to graduate this spring have won prestigious Rhodes…






UMSU wants to bring pub back to campus

The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) presented a proposal for a student owned-and-operated pub to the university administration on Nov. 16. UMSU’s full-time office…


Thank Goodness for modern medicine

Medicine can be described as a wealth of knowledge that has grown over time. Only time, innovation and experimentation have given us what we know…


Cubes everywhere!

The year is 1919, and the greatest minds of academia have unraveled the very secret of matter! In a triumph of logic, the arrangement of…