If Valentine's Day conjures images of chocolate, flowers and couples uncomfortably facing each other under candle light, it may be time for you to redefine the holiday. Sitcoms, movies and, dare I say it, Twilight have instilled within us that the ...

A new academic plan is in the works, and the chair of the plan's committee wants students' input. Provost David Graham announced the intention to create an academic plan at a fall senate meeting on Oct. 8, butlast week an official call was made for stu...

Israeli doctor Raz Somech, who has dedicated much of his life to working with Palestinian patients, expressed his hope last week that his work featured in the film Precious Life would show a side of Israel generally less known to the world. S...

At first they decided to keep it, then get rid of it, but now the Fine Arts Student Alliance has finally come to the decision that the title of VP finance will be preserved in its new constitution, with one small amendment: the position will be elected...

CASA presidential candidate Marianna Luciano will run unopposed in next week's elections, but according to chief returning officer Stephanie Laurin, applications for many positions have gone up. 'I would say actually say they're higher than the last co...

Concordia University needs to do damage control in order to assure that donors continue to give to the university in the wake of the dismissal of president Judith Woodsworth, says Shaun Lynch, a fundraising consultant and JMSB marketing professor. ...

While the number of executive candidates has decreased for this year's ASFA elections, the VP finance position has remained sought after and it is the only position with three candidates competing. Here are some candidate specs: Laura Gomez ...

Lest he be beaten by abstain votes or the election doesn't attain quorum, current ASFA and CSU councillor Alex Gordon will be ASFA's president next year. While he's confident that he will be in that position once polling closes, Gordon said he would ha...

While participation has consistently been an issue during ASFA elections, normally it has been at the hands of the voters. This year, only 12 students entered their candidacy for ASFA's spring election, a decrease of nearly 60 per cent from 2010. As a ...

A few weeks ago, over 100 students signed a petition calling on the CSU to hold a special general meeting on Feb. 14 to denounce tuition increases and deal with a few specific motions in relation to university governance and quorum issues. On Jan. 31 C...

A group of teaching and research assistants say they have not been paid since work began on Jan. 3. And since the deadline for their first paycheque passed on Jan. 27, their newly-formed union, Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia, will be fil...

About 40 people gathered at Dorchester Square on Saturday to protest the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission's ruling that would give Bell Canada the right to force small Internet service providers to impose a usage-based billing sc...

(CUP) and - Forbidding graduates of Quebec's French-language schools from attending English-language CEGEPs would only prevent students who already speak French from learning English, says the students' union at Dawson College. Last weekend, the Parti...

Royal wedding spawns royal condoms Many people in Canada and throughout the Commonwealth are excited for the upcoming wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William - but we didn't know people were this excited. Crown Jewels Condoms of Distinction, a B...

Bibles and beers in Kingston, Ontario It may be inappropriate, insensitive or blasphemous to some, but it's definitely a proven method of attracting attention. We're speaking, of course, about alcohol. The Caf and eacute; Church in Kingston, Ont. held ...

Frederick Lowy will make contract public In a Feb. 2 press release, Concordia's new president and vice-chancellor Frederick Lowy said he will be making his employment contract public as part of an effort to increase transparency and reverse what he c...

Before Elvis Costello released his debut album, My Aim Is True, in 1977, he had spent the better part of the 1970s working as a data entry clerk by day and performing in dive bars by night. After being hired as a songwriter by Stiff Records, Costello w...

The Canadian scene has been blessed with yet another orchestral pop-rock indie record. Degeneration Street's textured alternative rock mixes sounds of echo-y keyboards, folksy guitars, energetic beats and tops the whole concoction with distorted gu...

A veritable cacophony of joyous sounds greets the ears when listening to Spokes. Communally sung songs and a blending of instruments give warmth and heart to what could have been standard indie. The album is introduced by dreamy, pastoral tones that sw...

It's always a gamble for a lo-fi band to opt for higher production values. Stepping out of the veil of fuzz can reveal a band's weaknesses as much as it can accentuate complexities otherwise buried. Luckily, 19-year-old Dylan Baldi's hooks are strong e...