Senate highlights
A Senate meeting was held on March 2 in the Senate chambers. Richard Sigurdson, dean of the faculty of arts, chaired the meeting in place…
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In the month of February, Security Services reported one incident where items were taken from a vehicle. Several lockers were also broken into in the…
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MLA expenses soon available online Manitobans should be able to find expense reports for their MLA’s by the end of April, the Manitoba Legislative Assembly…
Regenerative medicine program at U of M first of its kind in Western Canada
Researchers in the field of regenerative medicine at the University of Manitoba will soon be able to conduct their work in a new facility, following…
Israeli Apartheid Week 2011 to take place at the U of M and U of W
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), an annual international series of events, will be running for the sixth consecutive year on campuses across the globe. Although the…
Five students will live outside for five days to address homelessness
Five students can be found sleeping just outside University Center for five consecutive days, from March 15-18 in support of Five Days for the Homeless,…
UMSU tries to combat student voter apathy
Voter turnout for the University of Manitoba’s student elections has been averaging about 11 per cent over the past decade, meaning 11 per cent of…
Several other complaints crop up during 3-slate election
Several other complaints cropped during the past week of campaigning, including one indicating that volunteers for Clean Slate were campaigning in the hallways of 102…
UMSU election candidate impersonated in email account
On the afternoon of Wednesday, March 2, Jason van Rooy, the chief returning officer (CRO) for the 2011 UMSU election, posted an irregular ruling on…
UMSU election Get More slate loses vice-president external candidate
Disagreements in the Get More camp manifested in vice-presidential (external) candidate, Chantal Shivanna Ramraj leaving the slate to run independently. Ramraj stated that she decided…