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UMSU is now following you on twitter!
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Candidates in this year’s University of Manitoba Students’ Union election might be able to make use of a new tool in their campaign: Facebook.
Jason van Rooy, the current chief returning officer (CRO) for the...
UMSU notes
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The University of Manitoba Student’s Union (UMSU) met on Jan. 27, 2010.
Representatives from Housing and Student Life, Paul Babiak and Vadim Levin, gave a presentation to promote the upcoming Inter-Residence Challenge...
Wise Guys employee not notified of lounge’s closure
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Losing your job is typically not a pleasant experience for anyone to go through, but imagine having to find out your job no longer exists through Facebook.
That’s what happened to Jocelyn Diamond, a former...
Introducing Skullspace
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Straddling the grey space between programming club, science lab and artist’s collective, SkullSpace is Winnipeg’s first and only hackerspace. Founded by three University of Manitoba alumni, the space hopes to create a sense of...
Science Opinions
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There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the “discovery” of supposedly arsenic-based bacteria that NASA published in early December. Even respectable media outlets have touted the find as a “redefinition” of what constitutes life...
Can you pass me my external E. coli drive?
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If you think you’ve joined the ranks and have become a fellow data hoarder with your stash of several external hard drives and possess the compulsive need to triple-back things up, imagine how the...
A dark night for bats
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Given the scale and diversity of most animal populations, it is a rare thing to talk about extinction on the same time scale we might use for the life span of an automobile. However,...