Open your wallet (again)
Once again, Alberta’s universities are feeling the fiscal pinch. Mount Royal University, for example, is staring down the barrel of a $5.4-million shortfall in 2013-14, and it’s expected to be even worse the year...
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Social media in the classroom
Use of Twitter and Facebook becoming more prominent Holly Triebwasser News Editor In the days of Tweeting, Facebooking, Youtubing and Pinteresting, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that the use of...
SAMRU fees among highest in Canada
Are students getting what they pay for? William Conner Contributor Alberta’s post-secondary Students’ Associations have some of the highest fees in the country, with SAIT Students’ Association and the Students’ Association of...
Former SAMRU president pleads guilty to bank robbery
The former president of the Students’ Association of Mount Royal University plead guilty to charges of bank robbery in court Aug. 1, Bryan Weismiller reported for the Calgary Herald. Meghan Melnyk spoke to...
Alberta announces ‘externship’ for grads to get work experience abroad
Just graduated and can’t decide between an internship and travelling abroad? An “externship” might be the perfect solution. The Alberta government has announced a new initiative starting this fall in which they will...
Tory bias alleged at MRU
Alumni mag featured Redford right before election called Rachael Frey News Editor Mount Royal University has been accused of “sucking up to the Premier” in the days leading up to the election...
Calgary Herald: During a difficult week, four MRU students shone
http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=bb33fcd8-27cf-45a1-8e5c-f79b6cdde642 For many observers, last week must have seemed like a rough week for Mount Royal University, and in particular, the Students’ Association of Mount Royal University. After all, the story — in print,...
HPR kicks off Calgary’s year as Canada’s cultural capital
International arts festival runs until Jan. 28 Nathan Ross Staff Writer Last year it was announced that Calgary would share the title of “cultural capital of Canada” in 2012 with the Niagara...
Civic election should fascinate students
by Zoey Duncan Municipal politics may not strike most Calgarians as riveting or glamorous, but the approach of the 2010 civic election is already highly anticipated by some. Participation in the municipal election is...
Actively slacking
by Zoey Duncan Slacktivism: it’s not in most dictionaries but the more vernacularly inclined Urban Dictionary defines it as, “The act of participating in obviously pointless activities as an expedient alternative to actually expending...
