THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By Erik Labine January 19, 2012
The year was 2010 at the second annual Japan Space Elevator Technology and Engineering Competition. The University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team had sent a team of people there to compete. Their goal? To build and operate a robotic “climber” that can climb up and then back down 300 metres of cable faster than any other team.
It was no small task, to say the least, and the first attempt ended with the climber crashing back to Earth. But thanks to the ingenuity of the team, they got it repaired and won the competition; their final speed was four times faster than the next team, at a cool 57 kilometres an hour.
By Ishmael N. Daro January 17, 2012
At one time, buying and selling used textbooks was a simple process.
Most used books were sold through consignment at Browsers, operated by the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union. Your book would sit on the shelf and, if sold, the students’ union would take a cut of the profit. This proved wildly successful and generated hundreds of thousands in revenue for the USSU.
By Laura Alford January 17, 2012
Philosophy in the Community is a monthly discussion series organized by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan. At this month’s talk on Jan. 11, along with the free coffee, irony brewed thick when Eric Dayton presented the lecture, “Atheist Spirituality: An Oxymoron?” Dayton is the head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan and the Anglophone Editor of Dialogue, a quarterly journal published by the Canadian Philosophical Association.
The Sheaf sat down with him before the lecture to discuss the topic.
By Victoria Martinez January 13, 2012
Tomatoes, the iUsask iPhone application and pig virus vaccines. The Industry Liaison Office has turned original research on all three into a huge source of revenue for campus researchers and the university.
Last year alone, the ILO generated $5.7 million in research revenue for the University of Saskatchewan. Of that, roughly $2.75 million was paid out to inventors on campus and $1 million was injected back into the colleges where the licensed inventions were developed.
By Daryl Hofmann January 11, 2012
The Indigenous Students’ Council president Ryan Moccasin stepped down this week to instead focus on completing a degree in sociology and producing hip-hop music.
He was elected to the position in May 2011 and was expected to serve a yearlong term.
Replacing him is current ISC member of students’ council Jared Brown, who has represented the organization at University Students’ Council for the past two years. Brown adopted the role at a late afternoon meeting on Jan. 9, held in the basement of McLean Hall.
By Daryl Hofmann January 11, 2012
When police services in Canada conducted their annual public crackdown on drunk drivers over the recent holidays, many social media users shared checkstop locations and blew police cover.
Ontario’s Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere, or RIDE, program was regularly sabotaged. Many Twitter users announced checkstop locations throughout late December using the hashtags #RIDE and #checkstop, which triggered an online shitstorm between those tweeting locations, concerned citizens and members of the police.
By The Sheaf January 7, 2012
utgoing University of Saskatchewan President Peter MacKinnon was recently named an officer of the Order of Canada “for his contributions to education and for his commitment to innovation and research excellence.”
The announcement, which included 66 new appointments, was made by Gov. Gen. David Johnston on Dec. 30. MacKinnon, who will complete his tenure as U of S President at the end June, was the only selection from Saskatchewan this year.
By Canadian University Press January 6, 2012
Generation Y — the Facebook generation, the deeply indebted generation and the spoiled-rotten generation — loves to assume the worst. Students who can’t remain focused on a task for 10 minutes immediately jump to the conclusion that they suffer from attention deficit disorder. Those who prefer keeping their room tidy instead of roaming around in a boar’s nest of clothing and dishes say it’s due to an undiagnosed case of obsessive-compulsive disorder.