The Healthy Living Centre on campus knows it’s been a long, cold winter, and everyone is starting to go a little stir crazy. To combat the winter blues, the HLC is setting up a Cabin Fever Escape Day!
Read moreCNIB Gift Wrap Wrap-Up
In the 2016 holiday season, CNIB hosted the gift wrap station in the mall. From December 2nd-24th, 2016, more than 200 volunteers worked cheerfully to raise $14,825 for CNIB by wrapping a total of 3404 gifts. Shopper’s Mall was the title sponsor of the fundraiser, and generously provided the venue and the gift wrap supplies.
Read moreAlumni Chapter Sports Night
The Westman Alumni Chapter are inviting all BU alumni to a special night with the Bobcats on January 20th at 6:00pm. The Alumni Night is a social and networking opportunity for a chance to meet athletes and get a prime spot to view the best sport in town.
Read moreWestman Multicultural Festival Returns to Brandon
Canada prides itself on being a multicultural country. Brandon, too, prides itself on being multicultural, as does Brandon University. What better way is there to celebrate such diversity than to experience some of the cultures that make up our own various levels of community?
Read morePodcast Review: The Message
When you hear the words General Electric (GE), what comes to mind is most likely images of fridges, stoves, washers, or dryers. GE is not typically associated with the production of chart topping podcasts that will have you losing sleep so you can listen to one more episode.
Read moreQ-Mail: Of All Places…
Dear Glow Cloud: Why did you pick BU to inhabit? Aren’t there more thrilling locations for an omnipresent being? - Curious Cat
Read moreStudy Tips: Office Lens
Occasionally we all miss classes. Sometimes our cars don’t start, the buses don’t run, and it is far too cold to walk to the University, even if it is only 6 blocks. Lucky for us, information has never been more accessible to us than it is today.
Read moreBizzare Holidays This Week…
Here’s a countdown of some of the weirdest holidays happening this week, and what you can do to celebrate them if you’re feeling particularly festive.
Read moreCanadian University Press: National Journalism Conference
I was fortunate enough to be selected to go to the Canadian University Press (CUP) NASH Conference from January 4th to 8th. I missed the first few days of classes, but ultimately, the experience I got was well worth having to now read The Iliad in two days.
Read moreSchool of Music Performance Schedule
Everyone likes to take some time to listen to music, the only thing that varies is the type of music that you listen to. Why not branch out your tastes a bit and check out one of the performances put on by the School of Music and support local musicians?
Read morePodcast Review: Sword and Scale
Another week, another podcast review. The success of true crime television has now expanded to the podcast world. If you wander over and check iTunes top charts at least five of the top ten podcasts fall into the category of true crime.
Read moreQ-Mail: Dating Advice
Dear Glow Cloud: In your opinion, which of the Hogwarts founders in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books would give the best dating advice?
Read moreTry It For Free at the HLC
If you’ve been meaning to check out some of the clubs or fitness classes at the Healthy Living Centre then now is your time to do so. This week, January 9th through the 15th, the Healthy Living Centre is offering free admittance to all of their fitness classes and clubs in an effort to draw in members who might like to take the class, but aren’t quite sure if they would enjoy it or not.
Read moreStudy Tips: Wunderlist
I for one find it impossible to remember everything that I need to accomplish in a day. Previous experiences have shown that trying to remember everything without making a list is a terrible, terrible idea, with terrible, terrible consequences. This is where the lifesaving application Wunderlist comes to the rescue.
Read moreBizarre Holidays This Week…
Here’s a countdown of some of the weirdest holidays happening this week, and what you can do to celebrate them if you’re feeling particularly festive.
Read moreFeature Club: Political Science Club
This week’s featured club is the Political Science club, or Poli Sci for short. Brandon University’s Poli Sci club is registered with BUSU as a nonpartisan club. This means that under no circumstances do they advocate for a political stance one way or another.
Read moreCareer Planning and Placement Workshops
Whether you’re looking for a new job now, or anticipate that you’ll be looking for a new job in the near future or after you graduate, the Career Planning and Placement Office has everything you need to make sure that your application stands out amongst the many others competing against it.
Read moreSERC: Talking With Kids
BDSM is a wide-ranging set of acts which are outside of culturally accepted forms of sexual expression and turn-ons. It is based on consent, respect, trust, and communication. It can include new sensations (feathers, blind folding, biting, etc), role playing, and impact play (striking the body in controlled ways).
Read moreBook Review: The Tulip Factory
So you’ve got a bit of a pessimistic outlook on your love life, or on love in general. In light of that outlook, you may want to read a love story every now and again, I admit that this is one of my guilty pleasures, but because you’re on the pessimistic side sometimes the happily-ever-after ending can get on your nerves. You just want something real, right?
Read morePodcast Review: lif-e. af/ter
Over the Christmas holidays I had a chance to find a few new podcasts, to the detriment of my regular podcast rotation. While searching the iTunes top charts for something new I discovered lif-e. af/ter. This science fiction-esque podcasts follows the life of Ross after the death of his wife, Charlie. Ross is a low-level employee at the FBI, and eight months after the death of his wife, he continues to console himself by listening to all her old posts from an audio-based social media site.
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