After being the exclusive cold beverage provider on campus for 12 years, Coca-Cola’s contract with the University of Saskatchewan has expired.

Although Campus Safety does not respond directly to copyright holders, it is in the university’s interest to stop illegal file sharing on its network when it occurs. In 2009, they had to send over 100 notices to students to stop their file sharing activities.

Browsers may start to look very different in the next year. Plans to change Browsers to a primarily fair trade coffee shop have been set in motion in recent weeks.

The 2009-10 University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union executive may not have been the most radical student government ever, but nobody could accuse them of being vacuous.

The University of Saskatchewan is in the midst of adopting an open access publishing policy, which could see students using free textbooks available online or printing those same texts for less than $25 at the U of S Bookstore.

The University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union’s 2010-11 operating budget predicts a deficit of $415,514, although VP operations and finance Scott Hitchings insists it is a “planned, one-year deficit.”

Sarah Hoffman, head of the philosophy department, recently gave a talk entitled “Pornography: Speech and Meaning” as part of the Sexualities and Gender Discussion Series 2010, an attempt to debunk certain feminist theories about pornography.

Students can expect a tuition increase of about five per cent in the coming year, say University of Saskatchewan administrators.

Despite two contested positions, voter turnout to the 2010 University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union elections was nearly the same as last year, when all positions were won by acclamation.

Lawmakers in Uganda are currently considering the passage of an Anti-Homosexual Bill that would criminalize homosexuality and make it punishable by death. However, Western governments need to step lightly if they want to exert pressure on Uganda to abandon this bill.

Saskatchewan finance minister Rod Gantefoer presented the budget March 24, announcing significant cuts to the civil service that will see a decrease of about 1,800 positions over four years.

Chaos erupted on the night of March 23 as hundreds of protesters clashed with police to prevent Ann Coulter, the radically conservative U.S. pundit, from speaking on the University of Ottawa campus.

The 2010 USSU executive elections are over. Here are the results.

Could all those Tim Hortons cups be converted into biofuel? Two University of Manitoba professors are looking for bacteria that can eat cellulose chains directly, breaking them into smaller sugars and eventually into hydrogen or ethanol.

Kate is 21 years old. She’s part of a growing trend. Kate recently posted an ad on Craigslist searching for another female to team up with her. She wrote that she was looking for another girl to participate in sexual acts with her in order to pay for food, rent and tuition.

On March 25 and 26, a Global Vision Junior Team Canada workshop will be in Saskatoon looking for representatives to attend the G8 and G20 summits this summer. Anyone looking to meet the finance minister of Japan?

The Saskatchewan Party is in belt tightening mode on the 2010-2011 budget, but with resource revenues steadily improving from last year’s figure, opposition leader Dwain Lingenfelter says it’s no time to cut services.

If the campus group Better than Bottled Water has its way, the sale of bottled water on campus could be on its way out.