Convocation
This year’s Spring convocation promises to be a large one with close to 5,000 students graduating in six ceremonies with six honourary degrees and six staff members being admitted to the Order of the University of Calgary. All ceremonies take place in the Jack Simpson Gymnasium with doors opening one hour prior to the ceremony.
Monday, June 7 at 2 p.m.: The Faculty of Social Sciences with Honourary Degree recipient Maria Eriksen and Jane Kelly being admitted to the Order of the University of Calgary.
Tuesday, June 8 at 9:30 a.m.: The Faculties of Engineering and Kinesiology with Honourary Degree recipient Ekkehard Ramm and Eileen Nesbitt being admitted to the Order of the University of Calgary.
Tuesday, June 8 at 2 p.m.: The Faculties of Communication and Culture, Fine Arts/Kinesiology-BA and Humanities with Honourary Degree recipient Romeo Dallaire and Allan Bell being admitted to the Order of the University of Calgary.
Wednesday, June 9 at 2 p.m.: The Haskayne School of Business and Faculty of Social Work with Honourary Degree recipient Charlie Fischer and Heather Travers being admitted to the Order of the University of Calgary.
Thursday, June 10 at 9:30 a.m.: Faculty of Science with Honourary Degree recipient Arthur Carty and Harvey Buckmaster being admitted to the Order of the University of Calgary.
Thursday, June 10 at 2 p.m.: The faculty of Education and Nursing with Honourary Degree recipient Thomas Wood and Barbara Philpot being admitted to the Order of the University of Calgary.
Tribunal Report
The official Students’ Union Tribunal decision was released in late May, a month after the hearing was held. The decision overturned the earlier SU Review Board’s decision in favor of Phil Barski’s petition to throw out the 2004 SU General election.
Barski, a failed SU presidential candidate, filed the petition to overturn the election results alleging computer error in the on-line voting system. The error potentially could have allowed some voters to cast more than one ballot, or denied the vote to others.
Although the Tribunal decision acknowledged evidence of three students unable to vote, therefore violating an SU Election bylaw, it further declared that “the Respondent [Barski] did not establish enough evidence of actual voting errors (versus possible voting errors) to… find that the election results were materially affected.”
Dr. David Swann
Dr. David Swann, Associate Clinical Professor of Community Medicine at the U of C, and an outspoken critic of American foreign policy in Iraq will be speaking at 7:30 p.m. on Wed., June 19 at the Parkdale United Church. Dr. Swann has traveled to Iraq multiple times, and will speak on the prospects for the region and its connection to regional and global politics.