A Page From a First Year’s Diary

October 1, 2013

Dear Diary,

I can’t believe it!  I’m finally at YORK! And it’s AMAZING!

I can’t get stop thinking about how I haven’t seen mom for over a month!  It’s like heaven!  No one nagging me about clothes on my floor, or to my laundry or to do my homework, or to even take a bath.  I’ve been taking showers (every other day, not every day). Continue reading

You and Your Money

The banks at Yorkfest, what they gave, and what they have
Rahman Mohamed

So you were at Clubs Day for Yorkfest on September 18 and got free give-ways?  Nothing topped The YFS Liberation of a Generation in a bag – including a folding clipboard holding coupons, a single serving Rubicon Passion Fruit and Mango juice agenda, free T-shirt and more. The only thing that came close was the Toronto Star Campus Survival Pack – Krave, Axe Chicken Alfredo, Frost mints, Nivea Lip care, Dentyne, and coupons.

Then there were the banks – offering give-ways while advertising student accounts. So which of the Yorkfest Banks has the best student account for a York student? Continue reading

York Students (and Vari Hall) Drowning in Debt

YFS building a wall
Rahman Mohamed

Xpressions Against Oppression (XAO), a campaign launched by the York Federation of Students (YFS) aimed to bring social change by tapping into revolutionary feelings of empathy through various forms of resistance, began to take action against growing Student Loans On Tuesday, October 1 by starting the Wall of Debt in Vari Hall at York University.

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