THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By Erin Matthews March 16, 2020
It seems that a steady stream of information can end up drowning us.
By Liam Fitz-Gerald September 19, 2015
There’s nothing wrong with having your professor on Facebook or other social media outlets, but there is a time and a place to do so.
By The Sheaf February 16, 2014
Worldwide, we’d be wise to start actively participating in causes that we support as opposed to halfheartedly showing our support over social media.
By The Sheaf November 24, 2013
Unlike other Facebook pages, USask Confessions is an empowering outlet that enables patrons to voice their opinions while acting as a space for online connections with others.
By Anna-Lilja Dawson March 20, 2013
Over the past month University of Saskatchewan students have divulged their thoughts and secrets to anyone online who will read them — and they’ve been doing so free from judgement and ridicule.
By Bryn Becker September 11, 2012
Everyone’s favourite University of Saskatchewan Facebook group, “Stupid Things Overheard at the U of S,” is growing up. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still pretty stupid. But it’s our stupid.
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 Ishmael N. Daro October 13, 2011
There was a time when most email addresses included references to princesses, sparkles or surfing. Perhaps you remember this time, when MSN Messenger was king and MySpace was still a pedophile’s best friend.
People’s online identities are no longer divorced from their offline lives. Our university NSIDs use our initials and it’s likely that the email on your resume is something that identifies you by name — something that surferpunk88@hotmail.com never quite did.