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The University of Manitoba and the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) have officially kicked off a campus wide event aimed at getting students involved with art and music. The program, called the Collaboration...

This past Thursday, Nov. 12, the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) held its Semi-Annual General Meeting at the Bannatyne campus. The meeting covered a wide range of topics and issues, focused on current and...

Universities across the world are facing a slew of phishing scams, with both students and staff falling victim to spammers who trick individuals into divulging personal information, mainly university web mail usernames and passwords. Steve...

The Pew Internet and American Life Project, which released a report on Nov. 4, 2009, said that since 1985 the amount of close friendships people claim to have has drastically decreased. Based on the General...

With the click of a button, students, faculty and staff at universities across Canada can now report their illness-related absences online. Universities in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary currently have systems up and running. At...

With H1N1 causing all the hype in the news these days it’s easy to overlook other vaccination projects — especially when the vaccine is for a tree. While the final impact of H1N1 remains...

As an only child, sharing was something that I did only under the most serious of threats, like the loss of television privileges for a week. In those terrible instances in which I was...