Enweying/FPHL/Gzowski College celebrates 10th anniversary
Enweying building, home of The First Peoples House of Leaning and Peter Gzowski College, will celebrate its 10th anniversary on the weekend of February 7. The celebration will honour Peter …
Volume 49 Issue 16
Trent Riverside Rail Jam’s rails jammed
The Trent Rail Jam event that began in 2009 and ran each year until 2013 will not be taking place this year, largely because it is not currently financially viable. …
Trent students rally to support fossil fuel divestment
Article co-written with Jack Smye. Photos by Keila MacPherson. Divestment Week, organized by OPRIG and Sustainable Trent, culminated with a rally during the Board of Governors meeting on Friday. The …
Speed reading t-bones slow reading: Golf balls, metaphors pile up
“I guess I missed that,” said Tracy, an upper-year Trent student who had mentioned one of her English course novels, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. I had read the …
Dr. Wayne Roberts discusses food opportunity at World Issues Cafe
Were you amidst the crowd that filled downtown Peterborough from January 23-25 for the ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival? If you weren’t, then boy oh boy, you missed out on …
A booklover’s guide to Peterborough bookstores: Week 3
Mark Jokinen’s Bookstore (George St. between King and Sherbrooke): Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain, a semi-autobiographical novel about a man who gets a reprieve from his cancer diagnosis and then travels …
Overview of the 2014-15 TCSA annual general meeting
The following are briefs from the Trent Central Student Association Annual General Meeting that was held on Thursday, January 29, 2015. Illegal Agenda Item Removed Item nine, the by-law amendments …
President’s by-law amendments declared illegal at general meeting
A significant series of proposed Trent Central Student Association (TCSA) bylaw amendments, which would have seen a complete restructuring of governance of Trent’s largest student union, were removed from the …
Membership votes to rescind boycott of Israeli apartheid
At the annual general meeting (AGM) held January 29, Trent Central Student Association (TCSA) members voted to rescind the “Boycott and Divestment from Israeli Apartheid” policy resolution. The policy was …
TCSA holds open consultations for student centre project
Photos by Keila MacPherson The entire stakeholder of the Trent community – students, staff, faculty and alumni – was successfully engaged by a series of ‘stakeholder consultations’, an opportunity that …