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w mM This Week [Opinion ARE YOU AWARE? With a wide va- ! riety of "insert issue here" awareness weeks all piling up this month, here's the editorial perspective on just what we really should be aware of. Page 10 Feature ALCOHOL IS EXPENSIVE. So why not go DIY for this Friday night? But be aware, homebrewing is a precise science, and you have to take care over every detail. Here are some instruc- [ tions. Page 12 Arts -,test take ' on fairy tales, puppets and all. But re- ! member that it isn't always for chil- | dren; it's just some good, clean, dirty [ clowns. Page 14 Science I COD MADE DIRT and dirt can't hurt. But this stuffsure tastes foul. As our web poll question suggested some time ago. ; there is quite a bit of lead in the soil of St. John's. Page 17 j Sports OXFAM was protesting sweatshop I labour on official Olympic goods this week, and our sports section has the story on what they plan to di | it. Page 20 Inside \News Opinion Feature Arts & Ent Science Sports Classifieds Distractions 1-8 10-11 12-13 14-16 17-18 19-21 23 24 The Muse Volume 54, Number 21 www.themuse.ca March 11, 2004 Private colleges victimize students - NDP By Nadya Bell Skipping out on your student loan is not a practice the government condones, but NDP leader Jack Harris says private college students do it all the time. Last Monday, Harris released default rates - the number of students with bad loans - for all post-second ary institutions in the province, indicating that 6o per cent of student loans in default since 2000 are from private, post-secondary institutions. In comparison, Memorial University has a relatively low default rate, at 16 per cent for the same period of time, and the College ofthe North Atlantic (CONA) is even lower at 15 per cent. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) representatives agree with the NDP interpretation ofthe statistics, as the two organizations frequently work together on developing post-secondary policy. However, representatives from the private college system question the statistics' accuracy. The federal government approved a policy last April which removes a school's loan accreditation, or de-designates them, if their default rates are above 45 per cent. Though yearly default rates for private colleges are 41 per cent, according to Harris's figures, he suggests the government should not approve private colleges for student loans, as they are § continued on page 7 The power of equality The members of Beaumont Hamel (above) and many other bands played at the MUN Oxfam Sweatshop fashion show, blowing the audience away with hard rock, notions of fair trade on the international market, and an equitable system of labour. See story, page 5. Halliburton gives MUN 'Landmark' donation By Katie Jackson and Jessica Montes Three-dimensional glasses may be back in style at the earth sciences department once Memorial uses its $i3.9-million US software donation from Landmark Graphics, a division of Halliburton. At a ceremony held last Friday at the R. Gushue Hall, Landmark Corporation announced it will present software and services valued at $i8.4-million Canadian to Memorial Uni rsity. The donation includes the promise of a soon-to-be constructed visualization theatre that will be built in the geophysics wing on the fourth floor of the Alexander Murray building. The announcement has not been Federal Conservative party candidate Stephen Harper visited the St. John's Holiday Inn last week. See story, page 4. universally accepted, as MUNSU VP External Thorn Duggan has raised concerns about the lack of approval procedure for accepting large donations at the university. A state-of-the-art visualization facility will provide an interactive approach to learning, using the software donation from Landmark to look at geological and drilling data. Researchers will be able to view three-dimensional images of Newfoundland's sea floor. The images will be shown on a curved screen, and researchers will be able to manipulate the images to gain a better understanding of offshore reservoirs and how they function. Among the presenters at Friday's Inco is not the only multinational corporation causing a stir on campus, $ continued on page 3 as Halliburton has added its name to the list of Memorial's benefactors. Students study nursing in Nicaragua By Sheena Goodyear In the middle of February, Alicia Hennebury and Janine Churchill, two third-year nursing students from Memorial University, traveled to Managua, Nicaragua. But this was no vacation. They were there to take part in an international nursing conference on distance education as the Canadian student representatives. The conference was organized as part of the Primary Health Care Nurse Education project. This is a partnership between Memorial University, the Universidad Politecina de Nicaragua School of Nursing (UPOLI), and the Telehealth and Education Technology Resource Agency. It involves the universities aiding each other in the development of nursing education programs in Canada and Nicaragua. "I think going to the conference was a benefit, not only for them, but a benefit for me and [Hennebury] too, because we got to learn a lot about in- f continued on page 2 n around for years, taying for more. -till
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Title | The Muse, vol. 54, no. 21 (11 March 2004) |
Date | 11 March 2004 |
Description | The Muse, vol. 54, no. 21 (11 March 2004) |
Type | Text |
Resource Type | Newspaper |
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Language | eng |
Collection | The Muse |
Sponsor | Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
Source | Paper text held in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
Repository | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries. Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
PDF File | (19.10MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/muse/TheMusevol54no2111March2004.pdf |
Date created | 2018-04-13 |
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Title | Cover |
Description | The Muse, vol. 54, no. 21 (11 March 2004) |
Type | Text |
Resource Type | Newspaper |
PDF File | (19.10MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/muse/TheMusevol54no2111March2004.pdf |
Transcript | w mM This Week [Opinion ARE YOU AWARE? With a wide va- ! riety of "insert issue here" awareness weeks all piling up this month, here's the editorial perspective on just what we really should be aware of. Page 10 Feature ALCOHOL IS EXPENSIVE. So why not go DIY for this Friday night? But be aware, homebrewing is a precise science, and you have to take care over every detail. Here are some instruc- [ tions. Page 12 Arts -,test take ' on fairy tales, puppets and all. But re- ! member that it isn't always for chil- | dren; it's just some good, clean, dirty [ clowns. Page 14 Science I COD MADE DIRT and dirt can't hurt. But this stuffsure tastes foul. As our web poll question suggested some time ago. ; there is quite a bit of lead in the soil of St. John's. Page 17 j Sports OXFAM was protesting sweatshop I labour on official Olympic goods this week, and our sports section has the story on what they plan to di | it. Page 20 Inside \News Opinion Feature Arts & Ent Science Sports Classifieds Distractions 1-8 10-11 12-13 14-16 17-18 19-21 23 24 The Muse Volume 54, Number 21 www.themuse.ca March 11, 2004 Private colleges victimize students - NDP By Nadya Bell Skipping out on your student loan is not a practice the government condones, but NDP leader Jack Harris says private college students do it all the time. Last Monday, Harris released default rates - the number of students with bad loans - for all post-second ary institutions in the province, indicating that 6o per cent of student loans in default since 2000 are from private, post-secondary institutions. In comparison, Memorial University has a relatively low default rate, at 16 per cent for the same period of time, and the College ofthe North Atlantic (CONA) is even lower at 15 per cent. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) representatives agree with the NDP interpretation ofthe statistics, as the two organizations frequently work together on developing post-secondary policy. However, representatives from the private college system question the statistics' accuracy. The federal government approved a policy last April which removes a school's loan accreditation, or de-designates them, if their default rates are above 45 per cent. Though yearly default rates for private colleges are 41 per cent, according to Harris's figures, he suggests the government should not approve private colleges for student loans, as they are § continued on page 7 The power of equality The members of Beaumont Hamel (above) and many other bands played at the MUN Oxfam Sweatshop fashion show, blowing the audience away with hard rock, notions of fair trade on the international market, and an equitable system of labour. See story, page 5. Halliburton gives MUN 'Landmark' donation By Katie Jackson and Jessica Montes Three-dimensional glasses may be back in style at the earth sciences department once Memorial uses its $i3.9-million US software donation from Landmark Graphics, a division of Halliburton. At a ceremony held last Friday at the R. Gushue Hall, Landmark Corporation announced it will present software and services valued at $i8.4-million Canadian to Memorial Uni rsity. The donation includes the promise of a soon-to-be constructed visualization theatre that will be built in the geophysics wing on the fourth floor of the Alexander Murray building. The announcement has not been Federal Conservative party candidate Stephen Harper visited the St. John's Holiday Inn last week. See story, page 4. universally accepted, as MUNSU VP External Thorn Duggan has raised concerns about the lack of approval procedure for accepting large donations at the university. A state-of-the-art visualization facility will provide an interactive approach to learning, using the software donation from Landmark to look at geological and drilling data. Researchers will be able to view three-dimensional images of Newfoundland's sea floor. The images will be shown on a curved screen, and researchers will be able to manipulate the images to gain a better understanding of offshore reservoirs and how they function. Among the presenters at Friday's Inco is not the only multinational corporation causing a stir on campus, $ continued on page 3 as Halliburton has added its name to the list of Memorial's benefactors. Students study nursing in Nicaragua By Sheena Goodyear In the middle of February, Alicia Hennebury and Janine Churchill, two third-year nursing students from Memorial University, traveled to Managua, Nicaragua. But this was no vacation. They were there to take part in an international nursing conference on distance education as the Canadian student representatives. The conference was organized as part of the Primary Health Care Nurse Education project. This is a partnership between Memorial University, the Universidad Politecina de Nicaragua School of Nursing (UPOLI), and the Telehealth and Education Technology Resource Agency. It involves the universities aiding each other in the development of nursing education programs in Canada and Nicaragua. "I think going to the conference was a benefit, not only for them, but a benefit for me and [Hennebury] too, because we got to learn a lot about in- f continued on page 2 n around for years, taying for more. -till |
Date created | 2018-04-13 |