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From Nov. 27 to Dec. 20, Stauffer Library will be open 24/7. Science—as well as common sense—tells us that sleep deprivation and toiling through the wee hours of the morning is not conducive to effective learning. But nonetheless, for university students, the all-nighter is conceptualized as a rite of passage, without which the university experience seems empty and devoid of that certain something special.Continue...

Despite Kingston’s recent onslaught of rainy, miserable days, the only thing out of the ordinary this
November is the temperature.Continue...

A workshop on wine-tasting’s fine art, part of the Student Team for Alumni Relations’ Backpack to Briefcase series, promises to teach students how to assess wines from around the world, as well as the dos and don’ts of business wine-tasting etiquette.Continue...

With exam period looming and essays accumulating, students may be looking for that extra boost of energy, that extra jolt to get them through a long night. Energy drinks are now readily available on campus, placed alongside other common beverages like Coke and Pepsi.Continue...

No warning sign of an eating disorder is an absolute guarantee, said Mike Condra, Health, Counselling and Disability Services director.

“Eating disorders are more of a challenge, the goal isn’t not to eat,” he said. “Roughly 15 per cent of people who develop anorexia, die from it. A significant number of people maintain those patterns, and are anorexia-like, for well into their adult life.”Continue...

For some, the word feminism conjures images of angry man-haters with a penchant for flannel and the biting need to critique patriarchal institutions. Why? I blame it on the rise of radical feminism throughout the 1960s to the ’80s.Continue...

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists , a New York Times bestseller by Neil Strauss, chronicles Strauss’ own undercover foray into the subculture of “pickup” and the larger “seduction community.” Strauss journeys headlong into the seduction community while taking notes as a fly-on-the-wall investigative journalist.Continue...

Wouldn’t it be cool to see a ghost, daydream about it, or at least watch a TV show about it? This is what the TV series, Ghostwriter , did for me and despite its short life, the show left an indelible mark on my TV-watching experience.Continue...

By now, the media has made it clear that eating a healthy diet, rich in fibre and nutrients, and low in fat and sugars, is important to overall health. And if you’re like me, you try to follow a balanced diet. Yet I’m finding lately that life can get in the way of healthy eating.Continue...