Protest divides students, turns campus into “battleground”- Week should reflect hope for peace, not hate speech
- Shoulda stuck with crosswords
- Alternatives available for animal lovers
- Science kids care about politics too
- Week intended to stir debate, voice opinions
- IAW about politics, not racial divide
- Students in need, OSAP falling short
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Dear readers, Look! The Gazette covers OSAP-related issues in various capacities, such as this front-page feature story from a couple years ago, for example: http://www.gazette.uwo.ca/article.cfm?section=FrontPage&articleID=1164 Also, please keep in mind that we are a diverse editorial board from diverse backgrounds, with diverse opinions and outlooks -- just like this student body. Thanks for reading. - Lauren Pelley Senior Editor
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I have been living on less than $225 a month on groceries for the past 5 years and for 2 of those years I'm not even a student anymore, just frugal. Between my fiancee and I we average $150 a month each well which is well under the $225 each that OSAP would give us.
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You can get a part-time job, walk to school and by cheap clothes.
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Hi Phil, I'm a full time university student, I contribute 40+ hours a week to the Gazette, I pay my way through school and I have a social life. I also contributed to this editorial and every single other editorial our paper has produced. And I'm not the only one in our office who does this. Your
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Thanks Stuart, So according to this site "The editorial board is comprised of editors and volunteers from the Gazette. Opinion articles written by the editorial board receive contributions from multiple Gazette writers and represent the paper's position on an issue." Now my head is really spinning if this was a team effort. Yikes. The editorial board needs
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It made sense having the briefing session because that's where the debate truly was. In them we talked about everything under the sun, even the feasible of an arcade in the UCC, suggested by Ray Park, modeled after the University of Waterloo's. As for the 'Save tvWestern' thing... the students were concerned about saving their programming and
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