Canadian History PSA: Sir Arthur Currie
As you may have noticed, posters pertaining to Canadian history have recently been placed around campus. These posters are a part of a public awareness campaign being put on by students in HIST 2783,...
View ArticleThe Athenaeum – Now Hiring
The Athenaeum- Position Availability for the 2016/2017 Academic Year For Inquiries Contact: Andrew Haskett, Editor-in-Chief, the Athenaeum: eic@acadiau.ca Deadline for Applications is March 21st, 2016....
View ArticleYou Are My Heart: A Lifetime with The Hip.
“We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger” Today feels as though the air has been sucked out of the nation. Last night I stood in a massive crowd wearing one of my Hip shirts and my...
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2016 Acadia Students’ Union By-Election – Your Candidates
Oliver Jacobs Hey! I’m Oliver Jacob and I am a first year student from Arnprior, Ontario studying a Bachelor of Arts with Double Major in Political Science and French. I have been heavily involved in...
View ArticleSex Trafficking and Data Mining
Harvard Computer Science graduate Chris White has recently applied data mining tools to make huge leaps in eradicating sex trafficking. In September 2010, Dr. White travelled to Afghanistan to bust an...
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Habit Formation
“A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.” ― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Personally, I am a creature of habit, as are most people to some degree or another. This...
View ArticleThe Importance of a Field Course
A pre-med’s journey into the real world In my mind, I am the type of biology major who knows they are going to medical school. I am the type of biology major who has this deep, profound interest in...
View ArticleWill the Moon Belong to China?
American and Soviet forces have dominated space activity for the last couple of decades, and China will soon join them. The solar system represents a political and economic source of power. The...
View ArticleOver the Hills
“Olkinyei in Maasai” is the name of a shrubby tree that grows behind the Mara plains, a place so beautiful and fast that it feels like the end of the world. I stand on a property that my parents told...
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Books Start Here
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: MARCH 17, 7-9pm Books Start Here events raise awareness about Nova Scotia’s publishing industry Stakeholders in the Nova Scotia book trade have launched the Books Start Here...
View ArticleRob Ford, Scandalized Former Toronto Mayor, Dead at 46 – the Athenaeum
Toronto, Ontario – Robert Bruce Ford, born May 28, 1969 in Etobicoke, died Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 at the Mount Sinai Hospital, aged 46, following a lengthy 18 month battle with cancer. He leaves...
View ArticleDenying global warming is beyond dangerously blind ignorance
The internet allows anyone, even those who don’t know the first thing about what they are writing, to advocate their pet hypotheses. Sadly, erroneous ideas are too easily repeated as though facts by...
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Girls in Technology
Hayly Thackeray watched the feature documentary with excitement. She sat in the audience at a girls-in-technology event in the Annapolis Valley. The room was full of excited viewers; however, Hayly...
View ArticleDaggers at Xagħra Circle
3,500 BC no metals native to this ground but people who built their lives in stone know stars and sea, know the scope of the world from here 2,500 BC Tarxien Cemetery comes strangely to life when metal...
View ArticleWing Tipped Hammer
Don’t drop the hammer in the lake chilled inexperienced hands seem to think otherwise. Just, don’t drop the hammer in the lake honey. Shivering maple leaves were strewn upon the dock in autumn, and had...
View ArticleReligion of the Player
Our temple is the arena. Our shrine is the ice. Our skates, are the Holy texts. Our equipment is our prayer robes. The moment those doors open, as the cold air caresses the face, mysterious magic...
View ArticleOde to my Bed
Comfy sheets and blankets galore underneath the window sill, I cannot await you furthermore I just left you and still – I crave for you to hold me, to feel your warm embrace, I miss the way we used to...
View ArticleDark(er) Girls and Doors
My mother’s friend sips on her coffee, her eyes don’t leave my face. she warns as she looks at me, quietly, without saying a word, because at that age you must have heard warnings about smooth talking...
View ArticleAcadia Researcher Finding a Way to Make Nova Scotia Roads Safer for People...
Those familiar with Nova Scotia’s seemingly endless stretches of highway are likely accustomed to the sight of roadkill. But now, Acadia Master’s candidate Stephanie White is researching a way to make...
View ArticleThe Feminist Killjoy and a Narrative so Crucial to Today’s Culture
Recently, I have become uncomfortable with my comfortable existence. After reflecting on the discourse of my life, I have realized that I had become content with the social norms that have been...
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