On January 31, 2018, Halifax removed the statue of its controversial founder and Nova Scotia Governor Edward Cornwallis. The Halifax Regional Council had voted the day before to immediately remove the statue and place it in storage until the Council […]
Rachel McNally
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Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, the 2017/2018 Acadia Reads pick, gives readers a glimpse into the struggles, mind, body, and soul of protagonist Elizabeth. The ways that Elizabeth views food and her body is abysmal. […]
Let’s talk about getting tested. I know what you might be thinking. You would definitely know if that guy you brought home had chlamydia… like for sure you would have noticed if something was off. And that girl was way […]
You read a book and looked around the room to check if anyone is reading over your shoulder. Goootchaaa. It will happen even though you know very well that you’re in the back seat of a bus, at home alone […]
Everyone has a different experience when it comes to Sex Culture on campus. Since most students start out their experience at Acadia living on residence, the array of sex topics cannot be avoided. This can be morbidly overwhelming, especially for […]
“I mean, sometimes…. I even apologize when people bump into me”. If I had a loonie for every time that I have overheard a Canadian throw this anecdote in the face of any non-Canadian, then I would be as […]
*This article was written with information provided by Mohammed Shameer Iqbal. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has had a continuously changing definition over the past 50 years. An overarching approach to AI is any machine that is non-human but still able […]
Author’s note: This article is written and reported in my capacity as Features Editor for The Ath. I do not endorse the comments found within. The Athenaeum reached out to sources in order to verify the allegations found within an […]
Authors note: This article is written and reported in my capacity as Features Editor for The Ath. I do not endorse the comments found within. The Athenaeum reached out to sources in order to verify the allegations found within an […]
The Honest Truth Behind the 2018 ASU General Election We live in a world where election corruption and lying are a way of life in politics. But who would have ever thought that this same lying and the corruption would […]
Every February, members of the Acadia Students’ Union elect their new representatives on the Students’ Representative Council (SRC). There are 23 members of SRC, five designated as Executives. The five Executives- President, Vice President Academic & External (VPAE), Vice President […]
Excellence. Engagement. Enlightenment. These three words will be at the centre of Acadia’s newest strategic plan. Tentatively titled Acadia 2025, President Ricketts presented the framework of the plan on March 14th in Huggins Science Hall. The goal of the plan […]
Sitting in the corner of the Acadia Room in the KC Irving Environmental Science Centre, I looked up. As the dying rays of light cut through the room something shimmered on the wall opposite. My interest piqued, I stood up […]
Love, loyalty, and social constraints are a quintessential topic of discussion, regardless of the era. The Acadia Theatre Company (ATC) is commencing preparations for the winter semester’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s famous play, A Doll’s House. Simon Stephens, a playwright, […]
It is not a secret that Canada’s justice system, like the American system, favors the white man. Incarceration rates upon the Indigenous population in Canada resembles those of the African American diaspora in the USA. The recent case on the […]