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Volume 28 Issue 9
Photo by Jacob Serebrin
100 fewer students apply for 2010-2011 undergraduate incourse bursaries than last year Financial Aid and Awards Office would like to see more donations, while CSU VP finance thinks application process should be shorter Jacques Gallant Assistant news editor With the Oct. 17 deadline for applying for the incourse bursary program now passed, leaving the Financial Aid and Awards Office with 800 applications to consider, the FAAO director says she would like to see more money and more interested students. The 20-year-old program for undergraduate students who are not in their first year of study doled out over $443,000 in 2009 in the form of about 429 bursaries. The numbers are almost the same this year, FAAO director Laura Stanbra said. Last year, the awards, which average $1,000, were up for grabs among close to 900 applicants, a number that sank by 100 this year. ‘’It is not a serious decrease this year as the number does fluctuate every year,’’ says Stanbra. ‘’But even if the number of applicants exceeds the number of bursaries, we could always do with
more applications.’’ She explained that the FAAO worked on a six-week marketing campaign for the program, which included notices on the MyConcordia Portal, sending out mass emails and placing ads in campus newspapers. But the message still hasn’t gotten through to all, with some students at the Sir George Williams campus completely unaware of what the in-course bursary program was. While two students indicated that they were aware of it, they did not fill out the application form as they deemed it too long. The length of the application process is indeed a problem, according to CSU VP finance Zhuo Ling, himself a former in-course bursary applicant. ‘’It is very long and tedious and it could become a barrier for some students,’’ he said. In future, Ling suggests that the FAAO link the incourse bursary application with the newly-implemented co-curricular transcript, which keeps track of a student’s extracurricular activities while at Concordia. ‘’That would eliminate at least three questions on the form and save students some time,’’ he said. Stanbra acknowledges that filling out the form is much more than a five-minute thing, but explains the number of questions is necessary in ensuring that money goes to the right students. ‘’We’re handing out over $400,000 a year for this program. It’s a lot of money, so we need to have a
Indifference is the enemy: Elie Wiesel Wiesel uses his own experiences to discuss memory, suffering and forgiveness Evan LePage and Emily White News & life editors “Thank you for being who you are.” This is how Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel opened his speech to Concordia students last Tuesday, before showing the audience who he is in a discussion of his life experiences and his efforts to always stand up against human suffering. Wiesel began his speech with a discussion of memory, emphasizing the need to “keep memory alive.” This message was reiterated throughout the lecture, with Wiesel noting that if the world was always ready to learn from history, there would not have been genocides like the one in Rwanda. Another central theme in Wiesel’s discussion was combating indifference, which he said “enables evil to be triumphant.” Referencing the
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