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Bison Cheerleaders’ most succesful year could be their last
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Despite having their most successful year to date, this may be the last semester that the Bison cheerleaders ever compete.
As soon as official confirmation for funding is received, the Frank Kennedy Centre is...
Students rally to end poverty in Manitoba
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Hundreds of students from campuses across Winnipeg were out on the steps of the Manitoba Legislative Building on Nov. 4 to rally for poverty reduction in the province.
The rally was part of the Target...
Financial constraints leave some students homeless
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With apartment vacancy rates in Winnipeg dropping below one per cent over the summer, some U of M students are facing a dire shortage of affordable housing.
In some extreme cases, students have admitted...
Science opinions
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The following article was selected as the winner of a contest held by Christina Penner in her technical writing for computer scientists course, which teaches students how to write relevant and understandable papers directed...
Science briefs
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Bad driving — damn genetics!
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that people with a genetic variation may be predisposed to being bad drivers.
The gene variation in question reduces the amount...
Zoological investigations
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While my long-term goal as a volunteer science writer does include developing a ravenous cult following the size of Winnipeg, I am not yet so megalomaniacal as to expect that just five articles spanning...
