Author Kaavya Viswanathan, the Harvard undergrad who penned How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, got caught. Viswanathan stands accused of plagiarizing passages from Megan McCafferty’s books, Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings. As a result, she lost a book deal with Little Brown and Company valued at $500,000. So far, she… Read more »
S.L.A.P. Update Leg 2 is named Flood & Grande Mountain Slugfest. It is 27 km with a net elevation gain of 500ft and a total elevation change of over 6000ft. It is characterized by long sustained climbing with steep scramble and, just to make it “fun”, a swamp trek. The trail from Flood Mountain to… Read more »
A new feature has been added to the MyAU student portal – the option to order transcripts through an online, interactive form. What is most useful about this new system is that students are also asked to preview their transcript before placing their order by opening up draft copy in the Adobe Acrobat pdf reader…. Read more »
MONCTON (CUP) — Farewell to God – My reasons for rejecting the Christian faith is controversial both in title and overall message. Written by Charles Templeton, it describes his personal journey in discovering his beliefs and the challenges he endured along the way. By the time he was thirty, he was advocating his Christian beliefs… Read more »
S.L.A.P. Update Each leg of the race has a “personality” profile; the first is the “Downtown Jaunt.” Heather, who hails from Calgary and moved to the Foothills only recently, will run this portion for the team. The race adopts the dark Greek myth of Charon, hence the name Canadian Death Race. Accordingly, relay racers must… Read more »
It’s finally spring, the time of year when the outdoor enthusiast in all of us is just bursting with energy to go, when those heavy winter clothes can at last be shed, and when nature’s call ceases neither night nor day. For many of us, our own gardens are our nearest and dearest sources of… Read more »
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. ~ Rachel Carson April 26, 1777 – Sybil Ludington, became an American Revolution heroine at the age of 16, when she rode 40 miles through… Read more »
MONTREAL (CUP) — It’s probably fair to say that most of us haven’t travelled around the world, but your closet has. While you’ll surely find blouses from China, shoes from Brazil, coats from the Philippines, scarves from India and t-shirts from El Salvador, you’ll be hard-pressed to find something made here. In an era filled… Read more »
MONTREAL (CUP)– Before Max Stern fled Germany for being Jewish in 1937, over 250 works of art belonging to his father’s art gallery in Dusseldorf, the Julius Stern Art Gallery, were confiscated or sold by force by the Gestapo. When Stern immigrated to Montreal after leaving Britain for being German, he re-established himself as a… Read more »
EDMONTON (CUP) — In southern Nepal there was a 15-year-old boy named Ram Bahadur Bomjon who had apparently been meditating, without food or water, for over ten months. Despite the fact that that’s impossible, and he was screened from public view every night, he was believed by many to be another Buddha. Many claimed a… Read more »