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Editorial

TristanLaPointe — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:03:23 -0500

Disconnected understanding

Last week, 9,000 academics and delegates flocked to Concordia for the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, taking our downtown campus by scholarly storm. They...

Pushing the right buttons

TristanLaPointe — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:00:14 -0500

Is technology replacing human intimacy?

The value of intimacy By Mitra Kaboli I am in a dry spell of Saharan proportions. I hate my life because I am not getting laid and it is making me an angry...

To draw or not to draw

TristanLaPointe — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:37:23 -0500

The Link looks at the draw Muhammad debate

Everybody Draw Muhammad Day, held on May 20, spawned a clash of ideals. The day was initiated by the censorship of an episode of American television show, South Park titled...

Editorial cartoon

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:34:09 -0500

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Con U Gripes: Student movement must broaden its scope

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:07:49 -0500

Support for Quebec’s low tuition rates is virtually non-existent and Concordia’s weak student movement will flounder if it does not drastically magnify its activism. But if...

Word on the street

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:04:59 -0500

What do you think about food on campus?

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To Anglos: a challenge for summer

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:01:20 -0500

French is the key to making the most out of Montreal

If you’re one of the lucky ones sticking around Montreal for sweltering summer days of sangria on terraces, never-ending circuits of festivals, parties in parks and sweaty...

The Final Public Diaries of Beisan Zubi

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:59:00 -0500

Earlier in the semester I came to the realization that, at 24 years old and having spent six years on my undergraduate degree, I have spent a quarter of my entire life at...

Putting the private in public

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:57:28 -0500

Student space is monopolizing

Often when speaking about the decline of post-secondary education, we use the analogy that the university has become little more than a diploma factory. I’d like to challenge...

Editorial: when logic doesn't add up

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:53:34 -0500

“In the provinces with the highest tuition, there is the highest [university] attendance.” This statement, uttered by Concordia President Judith Woodsworth in...