April 8, 2013 5:44 pm
Webber and his colleagues developed an experiment involving university undergraduate students where they tested the students’ propensity to kill insects depending on three distinct conditions: the presence of social validation, social invalidation or no support or disagreement at all
April 8, 2013 5:05 pm
Russell, who estimates that as a child she was abused over 400 times, understands that the process of overcoming abuse can be extremely difficult. By writing about her own past, she hopes to help those who are dealing with abuse of any kind.
April 8, 2013 4:54 pm
The provincial government has opted to maintain the tuition freeze for students at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) and College of the North Atlantic.
April 8, 2013 4:34 pm
Last week, the Newfoundland and Labrador government brought down a budget that saw many cuts across the board, including job cuts in the province ranging from 1,200 to 2,000.
April 8, 2013 4:12 pm
At 63-years-old, Shellard is used to living life at a normal pace — except for the days that he spends running into burning buildings to fight fires as a paid on-call firefighter (POC).
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz has just released a new collection of short stories titled This Is How You Lose Her, which he read from at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) last weekend. The Strand sat down with him to discuss his new work.
I didn’t think much of you the first time we met. I was young and ignorant and you were just amongst the other 26 letters hidden somewhere in the middle, quiet and passive. I apologize now for the way I neglected you. Remembering all of those hours wasted with vowels — those damn popular vowels.
In October 2011, 85 per cent of students who voted said yes to a redistribution of $10.35 from their tuition to help fund and support a new radio station. Despite an attempt to reclaim the 88.1 FM frequency, which included what Ryerson President Sheldon Levy called “a huge amount of work,” Radio Ryerson lost the bid.