Finding a sense of community and connection has proven itself to be challenging during the pandemic, but this year’s Drama Studies Society (DSS) aims to bring students together through their shared love of theatre. The goals of the DSS are simple and important: introducing Mount Allison students to the drama studies program, hosting social events […]
Day: November 12, 2020
In mid-October, the JEA Crake Foundation awarded three students with $1000 internships. “They were wonderful applications, really exciting, very diverse and lots of different disciplines that were being connected,” said Dr. Glen Nichols, the chair of the committee that awarded the internships. The recipients are Ashlyn Skater, Chloe Mantrom and Megan Glauser. Ashlyn Skater, a […]
On October 16th, the cast recording of Grace McLean’s off-Broadway musical, In The Green, was released. The album can only be described as an hour-long spiritual ascension that will leave you with absolutely no idea what is happening, but you won’t care. It tells the story of Hildegard von Bingen, one of the most important […]
Montreal- based musician Backxwash has been in the news for a while now, thanks to her album God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It making big waves on Bandcamp and earning the album a nomination for the 2020 Polaris Music Prize. The shortlist of nominees for the 15th annual Polaris […]
What is Alex Trebek? On Saturday, November 7, beloved host of “Jeopardy!” Alex Trebek, passed away at the age of 80 of pancreatic cancer, which he revealed to be diagnosed with back in March 2019. It was announced by the “Jeopardy!” twitter that he passed peacefully at home surrounded by family and friends. Trebek had […]
Confirming that the Ocean really is just that big. We know far more about outer space than we do about the Earth’s oceans. This was reinforced this week by the discovery of a giant coral reef off the coast of Australia. And by big, I mean taller than the Eiffel Tower, taller even than the […]
Members from across the country convene to discuss COVID-19 struggles, new leadership, and diversity in their radio stations. Mount Allison’s campus radio station—known officially as CHMA 106.9fm or colloquially as the voice of the marshes—is one of only 3 members of Canada’s National Campus and Community Radio Association hailing from New Brunswick and thus representing […]
Project Green Light aims to educate students on proper waste sorting procedures on campus. Last year, Enactus Mount Allison conducted a survey on students in residence and their waste-sorting habits. The results indicated a serious problem. “Out of about 260 participants in residence, about 60% of students did not know how to sort waste on […]
The New Brunswick division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE-NB) is looking for renewed interest in the unionization of student employees at Mount Allison. Dr. Geoff Martin, is leading the search for renewed student interest as the on-site CUPE contact, to revive the unionization campaign for student employees in the hopes of creating […]