The Foundation Year Program has been losing students at a rapid rate, going from two drop outs in 2009/10 to 18 in this last year. Sabina Wex talked to students to find out why.
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Review: Twelfth Night
The KTS production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, directed by Bryn Shaffer, is a wonderful blend of playful melodrama and intense longing. The cast breathes life into a classic.
Nearly all of Alex Hall’s west wing is currently being rebuilt. With entirely new ceilings and walls, along with better insulation, and electrical and heating systems, students should expect to see a “brand new building” when they return.
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Review: Melancholy Play
With the hype around the phrase ‘Why are you like an almond?’, I was expecting Melancholy Play not to meet the expectations it had set up for itself.
King’s student Jessica Durling has started a petition to ask the Nova Scotia government to change the regulations surrounding the change of sex designation on birth certificates of transgender people.
This past fall, Daniel Brandes taught Heidegger from the front of the KTS Red Room with a mug and books on the table before him. At the back, every Monday, sat classics professor Eli Diamond.
Thomas McCallum, a textbook picture of a small town Nova Scotian singer-songwriter, prescribes to a certain Woody Guthrie quote: “There are folk singers, and there are people who sing folk songs.” McCallum just released his first EP on Jan. 20, partly for personal expression and partly to springboard into a freewheeling musical career.
After a group of women led by Bethany Hindmarsh submitted a letter to KSU council about King’s-based fraternity Kappa Alpha on Jan. 26, people on both sides found themselves under a sometimes uncomfortable spotlight.
Thomas Goessaert has never served on the KSU, but says that his outsider status would offer a fresh perspective. Michaela Sam’s been with the KSU every year she’s been at King’s.
The Wardroom will have a surprise on tap this fall. Along with its usual assortment of local brews, the King’s pub will feature a new drink for students to enjoy. But this is no ordinary beer.