Last week’s Student Legislative Council (SLC) meeting took place on Aug. 23. This week all 15 members of the SLC voted to support the “yes” position of the upcoming referendum question to support the sustainability of the Health and Dental Plans. Students may recall voting whether or not the
Last week’s Student Legislative Council (SLC) meeting took place on August 9. The main topic of discussion was on the SLC’s consultation of the University of Calgary Pilot Plan: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Teaching Awards. The Pilot Plan is a document that outlines the best practices
On June 23, 2022, a tweet was posted that shocked and outraged many in the online Persona 5 fandom community — the creative team behind a highly-anticipated fanzine titled Showtime announced that its head moderator, nicknamed “Ree,” had stolen $27,600 of the zine’s funds. Fanzines turning out to
Last week’s Student Legislative Council (SLC) meeting took place on June 28. The discussion was on the possibility of forming a Students’ Union (SU) Alumni Association. The discussion was led by former alumni Branden Cave, who was VP OpFi for the 74th SLC and President for the 75th SLC,
On March 21, the School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) hosted a town hall on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization (EdiD), where students were invited to provide their input on a draft of the EdiD Action Plan. The EdiD Action Plan describes a multi-year agenda towards addressing issues
This week's Student Legislative Council (SLC) meeting took place on Mar 22. This week’s topic of discussion was the Board of Governor’s pre-report presented by the SLC Board of Governors’ representative Frank Finley. The Board of Governors' pre-report is prepared to inform the
This week's Student Legislative Council (SLC) meeting took place on Mar 15. The main topic of discussion was the Students’ Union (SU) website. SLC discussed plans to update the SU website, which hasn’t undergone any significant changes since it was created in 2014. “It being eight years
March 8 marked International Women's Day, and YW Calgary, the largest women’s organization in Calgary, celebrated the occasion by hosting a virtual forum called The Walrus Leadership Forum: Fuelling the She-covery. The forum focused on the difficulties women have faced during the pandemic, and the efforts
The 2022 Students’ Union (SU) Presidential forum was held online on March 7, moderated by the current Vice-President Academic Renzo Pererya. Nicole Schmidt, the current SU president, answered questions from both Pererya and the audience that covered a variety of topics. Schmidt first had the opportunity to speak on
What does Black Excellence mean in the time of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)? Who gets to define excellence, and how is that affected by the rising consciousness of social justice issues such as the Black Lives Matter movement? These are questions that will be explored in “Black Excellence in