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Celebration Week celebrates its 40th anniversary
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Celebrating its 40th anniversary, UMSU Celebration Week will run from Jan.25-29 at the Fort Garry campus and from Jan.20-22 at Bannatyne.
As with previous years, Celebration Week will host a number of different...
Online banking preferred method of tuition payment at U of M
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Over half of students at the University of Manitoba now use online banking to pay their tuition.
Sam Vagianos, assistant manager of the revenue, general and student accounting department of the University of Manitoba, said...
A critical analysis of facilitated communication
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Locked-in syndrome is a terrifying condition where an individual’s senses, such as sight, hearing and touch, are intact, but they are physically paralyzed — they hear, see and feel but they cannot respond. A...
Zoological investigations VII
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That’s right, I said “oxpecker,” and no, I am not just gearing you up for Valentine’s Day. Folks, I am talking about birds — vampiristic birds! What a way to get back into the...
Privacy vs safety
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Exhibitionists might just decide to fly more often, following an announcement by the federal government on Jan. 5, 2010, that, in order to increase security at Canadian airports, full body scanners would be pressed...
How do you like my third arm?
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If you’re one of those people who sit up at night, worrying about what radiation is doing to you, you might be worried about the new airport scanners described in the adjacent article. After...
