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 Daryl Hofmann October 15, 2011
Not 24 hours after the 2011 Saskatchewan provincial election officially got underway, Premier Brad Wall made his first campaign promise addressing the costs of post-secondary education.
Late Oct. 10, Wall made his formal visit to the Lieutenant-Governor asking him to dissolve legislature and issue the writ of election. By early Oct. 11, Wall introduced the Saskatchewan Party’s plan to help potential post-secondary students, if re-elected.
By Ishmael N. Daro October 14, 2011
The University of Saskatchewan will have 150 more physics students on campus from Oct. 13 to 16 as part of the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference.
This will be the 47th year of CUPC, hosted annually since 1965. The U of S has only played host to the conference once before, in 1993. Stephen Wolfram is the creator of the Mathematica programming language and the website Wolfram Alpha, which is billed as a “computational knowledge engine.” Although Wolfram Alpha looks like a search engine, its results are quite different.
By Nicole Barrington October 14, 2011
Kirk Hall was filled to the brim on Oct. 7 with both students and professionals for a lecture regarding water policy reform.
The speaker was Rob Sandford, a member of the expert Forum for Leadership on Water, or FLOW. His address focused on the implications of climate change and its economic cost in relation to Canadian water resources.
By Tannara Yelland October 13, 2011
Research by a Native Studies professor and medical anthropologist at the University of Saskatchewan shows the province’s child welfare system is in dire shape.
Recent research by U of S professor Caroline Tait looks into the realities of the child welfare system in Saskatchewan, providing a sobering picture of a vital government program. The research resulted in a documentary on child welfare entitled Child Welfare: the State as Parent, which was launched at the U of S on Oct. 7.
By Dorian Geiger October 12, 2011
Pulling “the sword from the stone” has just become a reality for
By Ishmael N. Daro October 12, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement that recently made headlines in New York is gaining traction across the globe. Similar protests have now been staged or are planned in dozens of cities including London, Boston, Seattle, Toronto — and now Saskatoon.
An Occupy Saskatoon march is planned for Oct. 15, starting at the University of Saskatchewan Law Building and ending at River Landing. The march takes place at noon and the River Landing gathering at 1:00 p.m.
By Tannara Yelland October 8, 2011
The university teacher-student dynamic can be a strange one: on one hand, students are students, and should reasonably be expected to act accordingly, deferring to professors as superiors and as more knowledgeable.
On the other hand, students know they pay a good chunk of their professors’ salary, and this can sometimes lead to students feeling as though they deserve more equal footing with their instructors.
By Canadian University Press October 7, 2011
Ontario’s Liberals just missed out on securing a third consecutive majority on Oct. 6, winning 53 out of the 54 ridings needed to form a majority. They will be Ontario’s first minority government since 1985.