Suspended nursing student seeks appeal
University of Manitoba Nursing Students’ Association president Arij Al Khafagi is currently appealing her suspension. Al Khafagi was suspended after university officials deemed social media…
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Exam schedule posted just shy of exam period
University of Manitoba students are up in arms over the delay in the fall term exam schedule. Second-year biochemistry student Benzeta Adun said, “as an…
Faculty of engineering hosts Polytech shooting memorial
The Price faculty of engineering is hosting a memorial this Wednesday for those lost in the 1989 École Polytechnique shooting. The event is a collaboration…
Nursing student suspended
Fourth-year nursing student Arij Al Khafagi is facing academic discipline following what lobbyists say were social media posts “expressing her opposition to Israel’s extreme violence…
Eckhardt-Gramatté music library’s name under review
The legacy of Ferdinand Eckhardt, a former director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, has come under scrutiny after an article published in the Walrus on…
Babysitter directory launched to help parents on campus
A new babysitter directory has been created with the aim of addressing the needs of U of M students and faculty who must bring children…
U of M partnership with UCN reaches 25-year milestone
This fall, the Rady faculty of health sciences’ college of nursing is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its partnership with the University College of the…
Menstrual product audit planned for U of M washrooms
As menstrual equity projects spread across the country, the University of Manitoba project, Period Poverty and Equity on Campus and Beyond, is undertaking an audit…
The trap of inclusivity
Society is awful — homophobic, transphobic, racist, ableist, misogynistic, imperialistic and classist too. With this horrible cloud clogging up our social stratosphere, institutions jostling to…
The harms of the University of Manitoba’s land acknowledgement
The University of Manitoba’s land acknowledgement appears more akin to settler faux-innocence than reconciliation. I want to emphasize the critical importance of land acknowledgements. They…