Research and Communications Assistant
The Council of Alberta University Students (CAUS) represents 70,000 university students to the government and other stakeholders, and we are looking for someone to join our team in Edmonton for the summer to help our efforts to improve the affordability, accessibility and quality of post-secondary education in Alberta.
The Research and Communications Assistant will undertake two projects over the course of the summer developed with feedback from student leaders from across the province.
The Research and Communications Assistant must have a high school diploma and either be enrolled in a post-secondary institution or have received a degree or diploma from a post-secondary institution. The position will involve occasional travel.
The position is conditional on receiving a STEP grant from the Government of Alberta and is full-time for the summer of 2009 and will pay $12 an hour. The deadline for applications is March 23, 2009 via e-mail at duncan@caus.net. Further information is available online at www.caus.net. CAUS is an equal opportunity employer.
Archive for February, 2009
Introductions and Head to Head
Well Folks, 
It’s that time of year again. If you hadn’t noticed, there are a whole bunch of posters plastered around this University, trying to get you to support candidates in their bid to rule the ULSU! Cue dramatic music!
Who will be the next crew? Guess what, it is all up to you ( Ha, that rhymes. (I wish I could do that all the time!)).
So come on out to the Atrium on Wednesday, February 25th, at Noon, and meet the candidates. This is our annual Town Hall, where all prospective candidates will tell you why they want to be on the next ULSU Council.
Then, it gets really exciting. Thursday, February 26th, again at Noon in the Atrium, come on out for the Executive Candidate Debates! Now, you may ask, “Who are 3/4 candidates going to debate, when they are acclaimed?”. Well, have no fear, except for the VP Internal position, all other candidates will be up against myself, and the current VP Admin, Brodie Pattenden. And my goodness, is Brodie a ferocious debater!
For more information about the ULSU Elections, or to find out about the candidates, visit WWW.ULSU.CA
Adam Vossepoel
President
Boys and Girls, Guys and Dolls….
We have gathered up the nominations for the ULSU Last Lecture series to take place March 25th 7pm.
Here is your opportunity to vote for the professor you would most like to give their hypothetical Last Lecture. They are listed alphabetically with faculty/dept alongside their name. Please vote either using the comment box (you can use a fake name if you so please…) or by e-mail me at su.academic@uleth.ca.
You can vote for up to three professors, numbering from 1-3 with 1. being your first choice, 2. being your second and 3. being your third.
Voting will close Friday February. 27th at noon. Tell your friends, tell your classmates, tell everyone!
Nominated professors:
Craig Milner – Management – Human Resources
Chris Kukucha – Arts and Science – Political Science
Dennis Fitzpatrick – Arts and Science – Chemistry/ BioChem
Jim Byrne – Arts and Science – Geography
Kent Peacock – Arts and Science – Philosophy
Robin Bright – Education
Happy voting!
That Rock n’ Roll part…
Ba bam.
I think that would sum up the last week and 1/2 nicely.
Sex, Drugs, Rock n’ Roll was a kickin’-smash-good-time-bear-hug of a week and I give a giant high five to all who came out to the events and checked out the ULSU Tunnel of Love.
Huge props to Calm asa Coma, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald and Chad VanGaalen for the amazing show they played on Thursday. It was a killer time and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves.
If you didn’t make it out, or just want to enjoy some good ‘ole memories take a gander at these beauts (courtesy of the amazing skills of the one and only Michael Warf photography)
With an almost clairvoyance on how we got to the wonderful little situation that we are currently in, a 15 year old Calvin & Hobbes comic strip breaks today’s financial situation into its most basic form:
Courtesy of reddit.com, here is an alternative dialogue:
Calvin (to Susie): Look at this glass of lemonade. You’ll be able to sell it for 50 cents tomorrow, but I’ll sell it to you for 25 cents today.
Susie: I don’t have the money.
Calvin: That’s okay, I’ll loan you the money because you’ll be able to pay me back with some interest… say… 35 cents. The lemonade will surely be worth 50 cents tomorrow… You can even drink part of it and sell the rest and you’ll still be able to pay me back.
Susie: Well, I guess… you’ve been selling lemonade for so long, you should know
Calvin: Here ya go.
Random kids: wow, what an easy way to make dough… we’ll take some of your lemonade too on exactly those terms.
Random kid: If I can get another kid to loan me money against the value of this lemonade a week from now, I can invest it in lemons today and be a millionaire by the time the day is through. Who knew getting rich is so easy?
(meanwhile just in eyeshot)
Moe 1 to Moe 2: I bet Susie and those kids won’t be able to sell that lemonade tomorrow.
Moe 2: You’re on.
Calvin to Moe 2: Say Moe 2, I just sold a bunch of glasses of lemonade and will get paid at least 35 cents tomorrow after they sell part of it to pay me back, can I borrow some money to buy more lemons. I sure am glad lemonade’s a fungible commodity.
Moe 2: Sure, I’ll be making some dough when Susie and them won’t be able to pay you back, so I feel comfortable loaning you more money now.
Mom: Geez, look how much lemonade Calvin is selling… and if the Moes are still lending him money, it must be a good model. If I want to sell any lemonade I better do like he does or I’ll lose my market share.
(next day)
Susie: Gee, I drank only a sip of that lemonade, and now no one wants to buy it. I won’t be able to pay Calvin back all the way. at least I got a sip… I’ll pay him for that.
Calvin: Where’s my money?
Susie: I couldn’t sell your lemonade. But here’s 15 cents… it’s all I can pay.
Calvin: WHAT!?! But it’s so valuable… it’s worth at least 50 cents.
Susie: sorry, I know… I thought I would be able to make a fortune.
Calvin: Crap, me too. Well I’ll have to take back what’s left.
Susie: I don’t think anyone else will want it.
Moe 2 (to Calvin): Where’s my money?
Calvin: I don’t have it. Here’s some lemonade.
Moe 2: Don’t have it? day-old lemonade? yuck.
Moe 2 (to Moe 1): see he doesn’t have it, pay up.
Moe 1: I don’t have any money, I was betting with those other kids that they’d be able to sell their lemonade, that was the only way I’d be able to pay you.
Moe 2: no money?
Moe 1: no money?
Calvin: Well I’d have some if you let me borrow some more.
Moe 2, Moe 1 and Calvin fall into a dust storm of fighting… Calvin narrowly escapes the fray
Mom: Geez things are looking hairy out there. I sure loaned out a lot of lemonade… crap, I don’t think I’m ever getting paid back from those kids. and now they’ll all come whining to me about how they didn’t get money or lemonade… Maybe Calvin’s system isn’t working out so hot, but If he has to shut down his lemonade stand, nobody will have lemonade ever.
Mom (to Calvin): Here, Calvin… this is 2 dollars. Buy some lemons and sugar.
Susie: I lost all my lemonade too, and my quarter, now I can’t buy anything.
Mom (to Susie): Here Susie, this is 2 dollars, you should be able to plant a lemon tree with this, and you’ll have all the lemonade you want. You can help me with chores if you want more.
(Mom continues paying out to all the neighborhood kids and the bullies for the blunder she and Calvin made.)
Mom: What the hell am I gonna do with all this day-old lemonade?
Dad: Where’d all our friggin money go? and What’s with all this day-old lemonade. And why are you in the lemonade business to begin with?
Mom: What matters is that all the neighborhood kids have been made whole.
Dad: WTF, sweetie… made whole. They bought lemonade for free and then treated it as if it was worth a fortune and created an intricate web of bets and loans and ran the neighborhood economy into the ground.. and your answer is to dole out the cash?
Mom: Well, we have to keep them occupied somehow or else they’ll be in their houses bugging their parents and breaking things.
Dad: Well I guess you’re right. We can’t just do nothing
Calvin: MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY!
Hobbes: Maybe you should try to just.. you know.. sell lemonade.
Calvin: But how am I supposed to make money doing that? I’m gonna sit on this wad of cash until Mom gets out of my hair, and then take Susie for all she has.
Brodie
VP Admin
Sex, Drugs,Rock n’ Roll week kicked off with Dan Savage last night.
A hilarious event, Savage did his very best Savage Love live and kept the audience rolling with laughter with his frank, open and honest comments and advice to people’s sex, love and relationship advice. As well as burning yours truly several, very public times. I suppose I deserved it…
Missed the show? Do not fret! We will be posting the podcast to the show here on the blog as well as to the ULeth itunes site so you can keep the memory alive for years to come. Cannot wait? Need more Savage Love RIGHT NOW? Well, check out his weekly article and podcast at The Stranger online. Also, check out his slog, it’s hilarious and he posts on where he is and what he is doing and a bevy of others things you will probably be interested in.
Keeping on the sex train, don’t forget to check out the Tunnel of Love in the Uhall Atrium. Full of good honest sex information to keep you happy and healthy. Here until tomorrow evening, you have less then 48 hours to enter into ULSU’s Tunnel of Love. C’mon, are you really going to pass that up?
Tonight the ULSU and the ULFC will be hosting a screening of Rust Never Sleeps in L1060 (in the 24 hr study area, don’t worry, there will be signs) at 6pm.
Tomorrow, Jim Hilsenteger comes to speak about the consequences of the war on drugs and lead an open forum for YOU to discuss your thoughts. Atrium at noon.
Thursday, Chad VanGaalen and Michael Bernard Fitzgerald w/ Calm asa Coma are rockin’ out in The Zoo Ballrooms. Doors open at 8pm, tickets are $12.00 at the doors and $10.00 in advance at Rockermans Service Center and Blueprint entertainment.
Check it!
Jenn Prosser, VP Academic
Ok, first sit down. This is pretty big news. 
Advance tickets are now available for ULSU presents: Chad VanGaalen, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald w/ Calm asa Coma February 12th 2009. Advance they are $10.00 and you can get ‘em at Blueprint Entertainment or Rockerman’s Service Center (located in the SUB food court). That’s right, you save two bucks and get to feel special!
A ticket guarantee’s you door entry if the show sells out, so its kinda like water wings for your indie rock swimming pool of lust.
Same rules still apply: limit of one guest per UofL student, all attendees must purchase a ticket and it is an all ages show.
So, go out and get ‘em! Quantites limited, first come first serve baby.
Love,
The ULSU
Edmonton, AB – The Government of Alberta announced today that it would be tabling the Post-Secondary Learning Amendment Act, 2009 that would open the door to Mount Royal College and Grant MacEwan College to become universities.
“The news of another Alberta university is exciting, but there will be many challenges for any new university and their students to face,” explained Beverly Eastham, chair of the Council of Alberta University Students (CAUS), which represents students at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary and University of Lethbridge. “A new university has that much farther to go than the currently established universities to meet the goals of being accessible, affordable and of the highest quality.”
Any new university will have a busy year to prepare for their first cohort of students as a university come September. In addition to preparing curricula and degree proposals for approval by the government, the new university will have to ensure that prospective students are aware of the changes, and help to ensure that a vacuum is not left by those looking for a college environment in Alberta. It is essential that pains be taken to ensure that the enrolment levels of other institutions do not drop off in September and thus negatively effect those universities. The addition of another university is good news for prospective students looking at their post-secondary options, however, the concern of providing quality as well as accessibility to Alberta students is prevalent. Besides access to space, it is crucial for the necessary infrastructure to be in place to ensure that a degree from any of Alberta’s universities is recognized world wide.
“Perhaps the most pressing concern is to ensuring that funding is put in place for students attending such an institution. A degree coming from an Alberta university should be recognized globally as one of the best – ongoing funding for all post secondary institutions needs to be increased to meet our shared goals,” concluded Eastham.
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The Council of Alberta University Students (CAUS) represents the interests of students at the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge.
For more information contact:
Beverly Eastham
CAUS Chair
tel: 780-492-4236
cell: 780-237-1707
Duncan Wojtaszek
CAUS Executive Director
tel: 780-437-4531
cell: 780-297-4531
Remember back in October when I wrote to you, lamenting the awkward arrangement of paper recycling receptacles at our school? I know that I was not alone in this because paper recycling was a concern that many students brought up last year while I was campaigning. Well, we will soon be able to put those dark days behind us! Yesterday I spoke with Ms. Jaeger who is the head of caretaking services and she agreed to adopt my suggestions which included:
- Move one of the two receptacles located at the copy centre in section D level 6 to section C level 6.
- Move one of the two receptacles located outside of D528 to level 6, B section.
- Move one of the two receptacles located at the copy centre in the 9th level of the library to the bottom of the stairs where it is more visible.
- Add a new receptacle in the Coulee Junction seating area.
This means that the will be more receptacles on level 6 of Uhall, a new arrangement of receptacles in the library, and a new receptacle in Coulee Junction. Now you will never have an excuse to throw your papers in the garbage again. Ms. Jaeger told me that caretaking services will be making these changes this month, so be on the lookout for more convenient recycling receptacles.
I also spoke to Ms. Jaeger about setting up a compost receptacle for students in the food court. She informed me that it would be possible so long as we create a compost awareness and information campaign. This means that it could happen, but that it’s up to us to prove that we will dispose of our food waste without contaminating receptacles with animal products and plastics.
- Kendall Yamagishi, Arts and Science Faculty representative
Monday, Feb. 9th 2009, 7pm PE250: Dan Savage presents “Savage Love Live” 
Boldly covering everything and anything related to sex and relationships, Dan Savage answers questions about virginity, orgasms, monogamy, and more. Not just an LGBT speaker, Dan Savage creates a space for all students to honestly discuss “taboo” topics. With the audience driving the discussion, the program can touch on any subject – from sexual problems to gay marriage to child-raising to sex education to the current political scene.
Tuesday Feb. 10th 2009 6pm L1060: The ULSU and ULFC presents a screening of “Rust Never Sleeps”
A Concert experience of Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Best time you can having watching a concert, on the medium screen, in a classroom. Bring your party hats.
Wednesday Feb. 11th 2009, at noon in UHall Atrium: “The Unintended Consequences of the War on Drugs”
The war on drugs: highly publicized and highly taxed, are we really getting what we pay for? Jim Hilsenteger asks that very question in his explorations through the legality of drug use and the huge industry behind it. Following the presentation there will be an open forum for all who want to participate to discuss drug use in our society and what it means to them. This is an opportunity for students and community members alike to come out and open up the discussion on the war on drugs.
Thursday Feb. 12th 2009, doors open at 8pm in the Ballrooms (next 
door to The Zoo): ULSU presents Chad VanGaalen, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald and Calm asa Coma!
Throw on your favorite cardigan, huge scarf, skinny jeans and finger point dance with us all night long! $12.00 at the door and you are golden.
