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Early on in my career I learnt that for many, ahem, supposedly serious newspaper journalists, the term âgossipâ is something of a dirty word.
And yet just about every cracking scoop â from politics to football â usually starts with loose lips spilling the beans on something salacious and newsworthy that someone, somewhere is trying to hide.
Gossip fodder: James Packer and his first fiancee, the former model Kate Fischer, were together for five years.
Credit:Vince Caligiuri
And gossips, along with whistleblowers, snitches, moles, insiders, âwell-placed sourcesâ or whatever else you want to call them, have played a critical role in how thousands of stories have made it onto
Print Edition: February 27, 2013
Students in a lower-level arts course last Tuesday were shocked when a student allegedly withdrew an air soft pistol in the middle of class.
One of the students present, who wished to remain anonymous, described how the scene unfolded.
“Just the way that he did it was nuts,” he said.
For their assignment on gender bias in society, students were asked to think of a boy’s toy, a girl’s toy and a toy they would consider gender-neutral.
The student in question raised his hand and asked the instructor when students would be presenting on the toys they had selected. The instructor said that students were not required to present, but when pressed by the student, agreed to allow him to offer a brief presentation.
Print Edition: April 10, 2013
A pro-life presentation at UFV scheduled to take place tonight has been postponed by the university. Members of Life Link, the student club responsible for the event, contend that it has been cancelled by the administration.
The group invited Michael Schouten of WeNeedALaw.ca to speak in favour of a law banning sex-selective abortions in Canada.
In an April 8 press release, Life Link president Ashley Bulthuis framed the dispute as a censorship issue, asking “[w]hy has the university suddenly disregarded its commitment to free speech in regards to the gendercide and abortion issues?”
Last year’s Life Link president Rebecca Groen echoed these sentiments, citing a successful debate the club held last year with attendance of over 100 students as evidence that the university’s security concerns are not legitimate.
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Print Edition: October 31, 2012
Soon you may not have to stand in the never-ending lineup at the bookstore – provided you have a strong internet connection.
As part of their Families First Agenda, the BC government has announced they will be offering select textbooks online for free, possibly as early as the 2013/2014 school year.
These so-called open textbooks will be available for reading online, or in a printable version offered at a fraction of the cost of the currently published versions.
This is good news for students, depending on the courses they take; the BC government will offer the textbooks for what they have decided are the top 40 courses in BC.