I wrote a community editorial for Imprint about the choice between a UW-operated Tim Hortons and a Feds-operated Symposium café. The best part about the editorial is the way it was created. I put it up on a private wiki and worked with a few people on it. About eight or nine people reviewed it, suggested changes, and wrote bits and pieces. It was a quick collaboration that turned out well enough, and it shows how effective a wiki can be. If you think it is harsh, you should have seen the parts that weren't included.
Archive for November, 2003
Symposium: too risky for student fees
November 8th, 2003A poor effort and a poor result
November 8th, 2003So I got my ENGL 470A midterm back on Thursday. As I expected, I didn't do as well as I would have liked to. During the midterm I felt like I was rambling on about superficial similarities between the various texts that we've studied this term. Turns out that my intuition was correct: I got 81% on the midterm. Really, I think my mark should have been lower, around 75%. I need to work harder on my group seminar and essay.
Preston Manning talks about faith and politics
November 2nd, 2003On Friday, Preston Manning, former leader of the Reform Party and the Canadian Alliance, gave a talk entitled "The Interface Between Faith And Politics." His talk was the 2003-2004 Wintermeyer lecture, which is organized by the St. Jerome's Centre for Catholic Experience.
The talk was quite different from last year's Wintermeyer lecture, which was given by Joe Clark on the topic of faith in public life. Unlike Clark, Manning argued that faith should play an important role in the development of public policy.
