MUNSU aims to improve visibility

Emma Ornholt

Memorial University’s student union has high hopes for the coming school year.

G20 accredited student journalist assaulted by police

Emilio Comay del Junco and Will Vanderbilt

Stephen Davis was kicked, thrown against a wall and searched by five police officers at the G20 in Toronto.

Passengers stay afloat

Two new ferries for Argentia and Port aux Basques announced

Andrew Furneaux

Newfoundland and Labrador are getting two new ferries for the crossings from Port aux Basques and Argentia to North Sydney, Nova Scotia.

The unforgiving river

Search for three Labrador college students continues

Kenny Sharpe

The search for three young college students in Labrador has switched from rescue to recovery following an incident on the Muskrat Falls region of the Churchill River.

Calling it quits at Memorial

With pressure being applied, will MUN become entirely smoke-free?

Kenny Sharpe

The College of the North Atlantic recently called it quits and banned smoking on 17 of its campuses. Will MUN be next?

Gay20 Summit

Toronto pride and G20 summit coincide, busy summer in St. John’s

Kenny Sharpe

Leaders from the world’s 20 richest countries will be meeting in the heart of Toronto’s financial district on June 26 and 27 for this year’s G20 summit, the same time that the city kicks off its gay pride week. Michael Ain, Marketing and Communications manager of Pride Toronto, says the world will be watching its leaders and Canada’s largest gay...

Pouring money into education

Provincial budget focuses on education, youth, future

Kenny Sharpe

The latest provincial budget for Newfoundland and Labrador was delivered this week with Premiere Danny Williams and his conservatives spending more the $7-billion, with nearly $1.5-billion of that going into education, making it the largest budget in this province’s history. Of the funding allocated to education $88-million will go towards student residences. $18-million will help construct a delayed 500 room...

Grad funding reinstated

Provincial budget helps fellowship funding, lessens stress for Golfman

Chelsea Howard

Funding for graduate studies at Memorial did not look promising as of two weeks ago, with a projected shortfall of $2-million. It was expected that prospective graduate students at MUN would bear the brunt of this budgetary crisis. However, this week’s provincial budget will spare them that crisis. “We are doing this in order to make sure that we don’t...

Homeless on the rock

Students campaign to raise awareness about homeless youth in St. John’s

Kenny Sharpe

Several college students from St. John’s are about to embark on a five-day campaign to increase awareness about the issue of youth homelessness in Newfoundland and Labrador. Sleep Out 120 is a five-day, 120-hour long campaign beginning on April 5. Nine students from Eastern College in St. John’s will spend five nights sleeping and living on the streets, networking with...

Have your crossword and Sudoku too

Memorial-based pastime business draws national opportunity

Kenny Sharpe

While there are plenty of procrastinating tools available to students, Jason Oakley is stepping up and offering students at two Canadian universities study-time distractions such as crosswords, Sudoku puzzles, and the classic Spot the Difference. Oakley, a graduating business student at Memorial, is the owner and creator of Recess!, a weekly page of time-passing games. Recess! is the company and...

Spotting sea monsters

Creatures of the deep caught in net; carcass later sinks

Kenny Sharpe

Normally when they wash up they have no bones, no cartilage, and they reek. The latest unidentified sea monster to surface the seas surrounding this province is being considered by a team of biologists here at Memorial. Longtime Lance Cove fisherman, John Marsh, was called to help his boat mates to free what they thought to be a dead whale...

Getting a MA without a BA

Dean of graduate studies says Memorial not heading in direction of “flexible admissions”

Ben Wolthers

Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC has a new admissions policy for their graduate programs. Now, students with no bachelor’s degree are being admitted. The road to admissions into a university graduate program is a long one, traditionally characterized by formal education. The new program is known as “flexible admissions.” Under this program, students wishing to be admitted to their...

NSERC grants extend ocean researchers’ reach

Memorial researcher says ocean management more important than ever

Chelsea Howard

Federal funding has recently been released to aid oceans-based research at universities around Canada. The funding will provide opportunities for Canadian students to conduct more comprehensive studies in terms of developing tools to better manage the world’s oceans. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded $581,500 for this incentive. The grant will, among other things,...

Young PhD candidate no n00b

MUN student Matt White explores gender gaps within the gaming world

Emma Ornholt

Matthew White doesn’t just love video games, they’ve become his livelihood. The 23-year-old education PhD candidate — one of the three youngest in the country — has formulated his thesis around the educational abilities of role-playing games (RPGs). White sees these types of games as learning tools, as especially in recent years gaming has started to be absorbed into the...

Incoming MUNSU Board of Directors established

Transparency, accountability major goals for 2010-11

Ryan Belbin

Bar taps dispensing green beer and speakers playing Irish music paused on St. Patrick’s Day at the Breezeway, as the results for the 2010 MUNSU General Election were announced. At the end of a year that saw the Memorial University of Newfoundland Students’ Union (MUNSU) come under critical fire after financial scandals, there was excitement in the Breezeway as students...