No quorum at TCSA board meeting
Due to not meeting quorum at the Trent Central Student Association Board of Directors meeting on Sunday, October 5, the TCSA intends to schedule a special meeting over Reading Week. …
Trent Central Student Association (TCSA)
Student centre not worth the investment: GSA and TPSA
Both Trent graduate students and part- time students, who are very much a part of Trent despite their small population and sadly who are most often forgotten, voted down the …
The Hike Stops Here: Fighting the rising tide of tuition
Last year Trent Central Student Association president Braden Freer, who was at the time the vice president of campaigns and equity, approached the Trent University administration with a request to …
Comment: Let’s talk Safe, Sexy, and Consensual!
This year the TCSA, in partnership with Trent University’s Health Services, has launched an overarching campaign entitled Safe, Sexy and Consensual. For the TCSA, the goal is to promote safer …
Meet the candidates for the TCSA’s fall election
Calvin Beauchesne – Environment & Sustainability Commissioner I have felt passionate about environmental issues for as long as I can remember. Long before I came to university, I knew I …
What Trent students want to see in the TCSA’s student centre
Photo by Keila MacPherson (this is a proposed location of the student centre) Co-written with Christopher Thompson. Amidst all the talk and controversy over student centre, the fact still remains …
Comment: The elephant that nobody cares about
Am I the only one who doesn’t think this is funny? There seems to be a genuine phenomenon occurring at every level of democratic process that continues to make an …
Editorial: Student centre project requires meaningful consultation
The Trent University community is certainly no stranger to bureaucratic mismanagement, controversy, and general administrative unpleasantness. From the fiasco that was the 2002 closure of Peter Robinson College, to the …
Editorial: Give students a reason to vote
Students should understand how important it is to vote this municipal election. They should also not have to suffer another poorly thought out, paternalistic, and unilluminating “Vote or Die” style …
Editorial: TCSA AGM leaves many questions unanswered
At the TCSA’s annual general meeting, a bylaw was adopted stating that the union will henceforth be “prohibited” from removing the $95.01 student centre levy, altering its purpose in any …