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Lost During Registration? You’re Not Alone (and Here’s What I Learned) Advice Column Student Success 

Lost During Registration? You’re Not Alone (and Here’s What I Learned)

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We were all once Vanier outsiders, simply awaiting to become Insiders on that fateful day: Registration. I felt as if taking that one step would finally make me a Cheetah, a part of something bigger than myself. However, when I eventually opened my laptop and began my course choices, I realized that I felt even more of an outsider. I had no idea how it worked: which classes I could or should take, what a course code was, what difference there was between majors and programs, etc. Starting college brings…

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Know Your IPESA (Institutional Policy on Student Achievement) About 

Know Your IPESA (Institutional Policy on Student Achievement)

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From pop quizzes to plagiarism, (IPESA) defines the rules and roles of students, teachers, and collegial institutes. It is a policy which adheres to standards of regulation set by Québec’s Ministère de L’Enseignement Superieur. In the context of academic institutions, this policy connects us, the students, to our teachers and aims to make the evaluation process as equitable as possible through roles and responsibilities on both ends. In short, it is there to ensure fairness, inclusivity, and clarity. A policy is a formal document which: Colleges lacked a mechanism to…

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Sounds from the Music Department Arts Voices 

Sounds from the Music Department

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The music department is jam-packed with talented musicians. From bassists to drummers, to jazz players to rock players, the music department houses them all! Amongst these students are Cedric Ryder and Arvin Nazm. The two young men are students in the music program who have agreed to share their background in music with us. Here is what they have to say: ‘’For my entire life I’ve been surrounded by music and musicians. My dad, Clinton Ryder, is a professional Bassist, and my stepmother is a professional violinist. Both have influenced…

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The Folks Behind the Scenes Campus 

The Folks Behind the Scenes

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Vanier College is comprised of an array of staff that all work hard to make the school operate properly. For this month’s issue, we are featuring the security team that work 24/7 at Vanier College. Let’s hear what Prevention and Security Officer, Robert James Taylor, has to say about his position and how important the security team is. What are your job responsibilities? ‘’As the Prevention and Security Officer for Vanier College, my role covers a very wide range of responsibilities. Day to day, I oversee all the activities of…

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Vanier College Gardens About Campus Environment 

Vanier College Gardens

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Over the summer, the Vanier Gardens were busy working on the wonderful environment that they have nurtured over the years with the help of staff members and students. A Vanier student employee, Soumaya Al Asadi, shares information and what it is like to be part of the Vanier Gardens through her own experience as well as her role and occupation. Get to know the team and some of their tasks: “The team is composed of our head gardener, Mark Reynolds, and two lovely gardeners, Myriam Mansour and Rosemarie Brodeur. As…

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The Automation of Writing, A Step Closer to the Devolution of Academic Writing Features 

The Automation of Writing, A Step Closer to the Devolution of Academic Writing

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Have you ever stumbled upon ads and publicities about that AI tool that can do just about anything for you? Interestingly, there are articles featuring how its capabilities greatly outweigh its inadequacies. One of the popular things it can do is to write an essay. Without naming the app, one practically already knows what this article is referring to. What is intriguing about this AI tool is that anyone can use it in an extensive universe of possibilities. Imagine the joy of commanding it to build a personal skincare routine…

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The Women’s and Gender Studies is facing budget cuts Campus 

The Women’s and Gender Studies is facing budget cuts

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Earlier in the school year, it was announced that the Women’s and Gender Studies Major, which has been at Vanier for almost 50 years, would face budget cuts. What that entails is that teachers who are coordinating the major will receive only one class release (they get to teach one less class than is the usual requirement) instead of two, as was usually the case. The administration argues for equity as the justification for this decision by emphasizing that other majors, such as the Indigenous Studies and Sustainability Majors, which…

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New Dean in the House; Meet Vanier’s New Staff Member Campus 

New Dean in the House; Meet Vanier’s New Staff Member

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As of August 1st 2023, Vanier will be welcoming Sandrina Joseph, the new Academic Dean. For context, this position in the college is a very important one as it entails overseeing every academic and administrative operation within the College. The Academic Dean acts as the liaison between students, faculty, other staff members, and administrators. The position further entails serving as a public representation to outsiders. John McMahon has announced that this decision was approved by the Vanier College Board of Directors who followed recommendations from the Board Selection Committee and…

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Ruminations of a Jaded Optimist Arts 

Ruminations of a Jaded Optimist

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Though I am an optimist I can still fall prey to the sad truths of this world. I feel sadness and grief for those around me, marveling in the great cruelty, ignorance and unfairness of this world. How does one remain hopeful? I feel helpless. I feel powerless against things so strong as nature. Yet do not misunderstand me, it is not Mother Nature with whom I wish to quarrel, but the possible nature of man. Greed, ignorance, arrogance and lust for power are my true enemies. How do you…

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Unthinkable Thoughts Arts 

Unthinkable Thoughts

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These thoughts, these scribbles, these notes and screams, the replies, the agonizing questions, the cursing, the bleeding words, and the cutting sentences, all of which lie in me. Like a bomb ready to explode, but left burning at the top of its fuse, feeling like it’s gonna implode but never getting to. The bomb that needs to be ripped open, the one that needs to break, shatter, burn just to have fulfilled the need of what it is: a bomb. These thoughts, all they are are thoughts so why can…

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