In Defense of One Direction
Dear reader, I can smell your cynicism from here. It’s the same turned-up-nose, too-good-for-it stuff I get with my roommates when I have the audacity to suggest that boy bands …
Volume 48
Discover Yourself At Trent
Dear First-Year Student, Congratulations on accepting your offer to attend Trent University, and please also accept my warmest welcome! You don’t know me, but I can guarantee that the next …
“Try A Real Education Next Time”? I Got A Real Education This Time
I’ve had the pleasure of attending Trent for the past three years, and I will soon have the pleasure of hanging my honours degree from Trent on my wall as …
TCSA talks biking, busing, and a new Student Car Share
You can leave your gas-guzzler behind this year because the TCSA and community partners have been hard at work finding ways to keep the Trent community on the move with …
Join the Growing Movement to Divest Trent from Fossil Fuels
Co-written with Nick Weissflog. As we launch into a new year, the campaign initiated by Sustainable Trent in March to divest Trent from fossil fuels is building strength and momentum. …
Tools of the Trade: Making Hardware Easy
The question of having the right tools to excel in your education used to be a simple one: got pencil and paper? Library card? Maybe a calculator? In the 21st …
OPIRG: Working Towards Environmental and Social Justice at Trent
Co-written with Matthew Davidson As life returns to campus after the quiet months of summer, so does student activism. Against the rising inequality and injustice in Canada, the student-based environmental …
Review: Caitlin Moran’s “How to Be A Woman”
I entered Chapters looking, as you might guess, for something to read. I was hoping to find something light-hearted. I hoped to find something witty, not heavily academic, but still …
Volunteer in the Vegetable Gardens
Co-written with Dan Legault Wow, it’s time to do this again. With the school year on our heels we also see the coming of the food harvest at the Trent …
Shout Out From Active Minds
Hey Everybody! My name is Jesse, and I am a liason for Active Minds at Trent (TAM), working as an Outreach Coordinator. I am so excited for this school year, …