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  • Athletes Honoured at Year End Ceremony

    Last Thursday, Evan Fleming and Stephanie Tabbert of TrentUniversity’s varsity athletic program were awarded the Arthur Cup, theuniversity’s most prestigious award for student-athlete graduates.  The Arthur Cup is awarded to graduates who...
  • Take me home

    Take me home To the foggy and mysterious valley of Sapa Where the colony is only history Where flowers are blossoming and children cheering Where the wine is drunk with twenty straws Where the love is bought with music ...
  • Incoming Editorial: Change of Management

    Each incoming editor understands that Arthur has continued, over theyears, to disseminate the knowledge of our University’s unique past, acentral part of the paper’s role within our community. James Burrowsand I began our editorial platform wi...
  • Open Letter to Bonnie Patterson, President of Trent University and David Morton, Chair of the Board

    On behalf of the faculty association membership, I am writing to register our concerns about the current budget exercise. For several weeks now the administration of this University has been making claims and presenting models and assumptions that incl...
  • Dam Construction Continues Amid Concern About Environment, Accountability

    Construction of the hydroelectric dam north of Champlain College hasbeen progressing steadily but many questions posed by the communityabout the viability, sustainability and ecological impact of thedevelopment remain unanswered.  This week Arthur wa...
  • Internotional

    Four years ago, many of us came to Trent as INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. This psychological tag was created before our arrival to Canada, with brochures that outlined the incredibly wonderful, tasteful and somewhat exotic advantages of being an ‘inter...
  • The Year of the International?

    Is it just me, or did the International community shine brighter than ever this year? Let’s start with September: every night during the holy month of Ramadan, the Muslim Association and a handful of volunteers from the Trent and Peterboro...
  • Trent Has Lost Millions in Recession

    Questionable investments in now bankrupt Lehman Brothers, Wachovia and Washington Mutual has some reconsidering investment managment strategy Trent has lost millions of dollars out of its four investment fundssince December 2007, documents obtained by Art...
  • Traill Cabinet Restructures

    Social and Political Committees take the place of consolidated cabinet; no levy to be collected Last week, Traill College Cabinet accepted a recommendation to make significant alterations to their organizational structure. Beginning next year, the...
  • Safe Schools Act Questioned in Wake of PCVS Expulsions

    In December 2008, a 17-year old student was expelled from the Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School (PCVS) in the downtown core over allegations that he, in concert with four others, was involved  in the consumption and sale of marijuana...
  • Trent’s New President Emphasizes Need for ‘Pure” Research

    Trent’s incoming president is attempting to position himself as an administrator who promotes ‘pure’ research.  Earlier this month Trent’s soon to be President and Vice-Chancellor sat down with us in the Seasoned Spoon in...
  • Board of Governors Ratifies New Collective Agreement for CUPE 3908 Unit 2

    After eight months of bargaining and neg-otiations, a new agreement reached by CUPE 3908 Unit 2 and Trent University was ratified last Friday, March 27. The new collective agreement that was passed increases pay by 3% a year for the 470 student...
  • Women’s Studies Sent Back to the Kitchen

    As the current economic crisis continues to tighten its hold onpost-secondary institutions, we begin to see what kind of toll thiswill take on academic departments within Universities. The Women’s Studies department at the University of Guelph has b...
  • The Trent International Students’ Association presents...”Global Village: Sharing without boundaries

    The Trent International Students’ Association (TISA) is one of thelargest associations at Trent University. TISA was established in the1980s to represent all the international student bodies at Trent, byhelping the international students share their...
  • Keep your eyes wide open, it’s morning

    It’s twilight, so close your eyes to the world of illusions where tempest of tests and trials bend the celestial trees. ...