Nicole Strum inspires Brunton audience Classes are back, and so are performances. The music department kicked off the new semester with its first performance last Wednesday evening in Brunton Auditorium. The featured performer was Nicole Strum, a part-time lecturer at Mount Allison. Strum performed contemporary saxophone arrangements featuring works from several masters of the genre. […]
Exhibit makes second stop in national tour, explores presence and place of objects in our lives In co-curator Jay Wilson’s words, The Closer Together Things Are “is about nearness. It started with this idea of there being slight away-ness which is something, as a designer, [he’d] always thought was really interesting.” This exhibition at the […]
As kids, every night was family dinner. My sister and I would take turns setting the table. In respectful Korean tradition, we would anxiously wait until the adults at the table (seniority first!) ate their first bite before my sister and I dug into our meal. Kimchi, bone marrow soup, pine nut porridge and hokkaidon […]
With the polarizing, cynical headspace that characterizes 2018, I can’t imagine a film more out of place, or sorely needed, than Lady Bird. On the surface it’s just another adolescent coming-of-age tale. There aren’t any tricks here – there’s no gimmick to Lady Bird unless you count sincere direction and snappy, evocative writing as a […]
Artist and owner Darin Bavis shares his space with fellow tattoo and fine artist Matt Ursa, handcrafted skateboards and a cycle of local art Following Earth Fine Craft’s closure last October, the small York Street storefront has been reopened as Kraken Ink, a tattoo parlour and flexible artistic space. Owner Darin Bavis has been part […]
MASU and the Wellness Centre hold event to reinforce safe partying on and off campus Binge drinking is consuming five or more standard drinks in the span of two hours for men, and three drinks in the span of two hours for women. This behaviour is common on university campuses, and Mount Allison is no […]
Dalhousie’s visiting chair of Jewish studies blends global and personal histories of Jewish life in Canada On Monday evening, Dr. Erin Corber illuminated historical Canadian-Jewish narratives with personal stories. Her talk, called Canada’s Jews: The National Mosaic of a Global People, brought the vibrance and importance of Jewish people in Canada’s history to life by […]
Emilie Brousseau is a fourth-year honours student in the department of biochemistry. “My research focuses on quantifying the number of ribosomes per cell in three different marine picocyanobacterial strains which are exposed to various light levels: Prochlorococcus MIT9313, Prochlorococcus MED4 and Synechococcus WH8102. Both Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are major contributors to the global oxygen production. […]
From the archives brings you old news today. As time passes, the news we report on changes, as does the way we report on it. Conversely, we’ve been covering some of the same issues since 1872. While today Aramark holds exclusive vendor’s rights on campus, in 1996 the main players were Marriott Mount Allison and […]
Professor Christl Verduyn recognized for her work in Canadian Studies as a professor and author On Dec. 29, 2017, Mount Allison professor Dr. Christl Verduyn was appointed to the Order of Canada. The Order of Canada’s website says that it recognizes Canadians in any field of work who have demonstrated “outstanding achievement, dedication to the […]