Tim Boudreau

Topics covered include: Tuition hike in the cards; Mount appoints new director of university advancement; The Mount may be "movin' on up" in the NSCHE funding formula, thanks to new study; University mounts new logo; MSVU enrolment at an all-time high; Student Union elections; New study "spills milk" and upsets MUN, Memorial ties for last on national efficiency study; Ontario universities will face doubled enrolment in 2003; Students against sweatshops; Wing Commander (film); Cruel Intentions (film); Miller Stain Limit (band); Nunsense II: The Second Coming - Mount performance; Signal Hill at the Lower Deck; Millennium Cabaret - gay bar in Halifax

Topics covered include: SU withholding funding from Picaro until accountability contract signed; Student union looking to amend role of status of women officer; Business Society dinner; African Heritage Month; Dr. Margrit Eichler; Master's program on the-horizon for child and youth studies; Lewd, harassing male caught red handed on SMU campus; Universities in Alta., Ont. and N.B. get slick donation from Imperial Oil; Acadia looking to set up shop on the Rock; Before and after Swissair; Eating Disorder Awareness Week; Stress relief; Summer employment programs available for Mount students; Expense of Spirit; Stepmom (film); DJs; The Best Little Boy in the World Turns 25; Ian MacRae, Nadia MacDonald - Athlete Profiles

Topics covered include: Introduction of drinking to residence and the increasing on campus male population; ITS to focus on eight key areas next year; Nunavut: Our land North of 60, New Canadian territory a reality; Feminist reproductive politics towards the millennium - Dr. Maureen McNeil's recent lecture; Students criticize Newfoundland employment program; UPEI upset with Maclean's survey; Financial services rendered ably - Sharon Davis; Annual Awards Night Banquet; Saturday Night in Halifax City - Club hoppin' with the masters of the top dancebars in town; The Matrix (film); Millennium Cabaret (bar); Athletics student awards; Quebec sweeps senior women's hockey nationals; Sicaro controversy responses

Topics covered include: More than 15 grand worth of electronics stolen from Mount; The Picaro's accountability contract-so far so good; Council passes constitutional changes; New online scholarship database free to students; NSCAD on strike; Open Campus Days; Student leaders want province to allot a lot of cash towards education; Campus security to beef-up measures; Brain drain to sunny south a hoax-Statistics Canada; Federal bill recognizing same-sex spouses defeated; 30 Hour Famine; United Arab Emirates; Campus Sound Explosion's Battle of the Bands on Feb. 3; Cher; She's All That (film); Athlete Profile - Anna Rhymer

Topics covered include: Robbery suspect talks about why security banned him from campus; Enlightening blackness: A panel of African-Canadian students discuss their experience at the Mount; Student Union elections; 12 entrepreneurs graduate from program at Centre for Women in Business; Biblical amounts of water and no Moses in sight - Birch five suffers through water crisis; MUN takes engineers to court; APEC protesters may have to cover Ottawa's legal tab; Quebec women's group organizes Y2K march to take on the world; Gorillas in the midst - Playboy drew an interesting crowd at Dal; Chapters grad opening at Mic Mac Mall; 19th Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference; Caritas Day; Tale of two cities - Halifax and Dartmouth; Wide Mouth Mason (band); Networking; Mystics and Mounties are champs: Highlights of the ACAA championships; Mount basketball program boasts all local talent; Women's basketball team misses play-offs;

Topics covered include: Mount students still haven't received health cards; Arabic community calls Hollywood's The Siege racist; Mount security to set up emergency intercom in Birches; MSVU came ninth in this year's Maclean's survey; Students feel election results mean change for Bermuda; Critics blast market-driven mandate of new U of T bio-tech program; University of Regina considers police studies program; Acadia University profs call for president's resignation; Halifax Explosion; Breathing as stress relief; Week of reflection - December 6 Montreal massacre; Lack of queer group at Mount; The Waterboy (film); Bruce Guthro; Alanis Morrisette

Topics covered include: Tuition hike doesn't turn students awav from Mount: Enrolment up this year thanks to aggressive marketing; Bermudian students having tough time getting home to vote; Student union proposes Rosaria 105 become "society suite; Department chairs worry not enough full-timers at the Mount; Students want co-op fee decreased for those who find their own placements, university says No Way; APEC-protesters picked the RCMP complaints process and they're stuck with it: Scott; Arts degrees not useless, study says; The art gallery, a large but unknown privilege for the Mount community; War and remembrance: Personal reflections; Broadway comes to Halifax; Pleasantville (film); The Siege (film); A Night at the Roxbury (film); Korn (band); Mystics Soccer Team in Final Overtime Thriller

Topics covered include: New mascot for MSVU (parody); Security at MSVU (parody); Vinnies Pub (parody); The Meadows (parody); New logo (parody); Picaro staff (parody); Bill Clinton (parody); Student Union (parody); Sicaro Awards (parody); Controversy about this Edition of the Sicaro - Response from Student Union and Response from Editor of Picaro

Topics covered include: Picaro publishing standards and controversy; New faces elected.to student union - James Tilley, Matte Stevenson, Melissa Melanson; Mount hosts PR forum to learn from Swissair tragedy; New health-plan firm may save Mount students money; Mount and NSCHE to reassess provincial funding formula; Students across Canada protest tuition fee hikes; University of Manitoba student newspaper threatened with shut-down; Rohypnol: The Date-Rape Drug; Fall '98 Convocation; Dracula (chamber musical); The Politics of Class and Gender Revealed in The House of Bernarda Alba; MSVU Art Gallery; Mount Dethrones King's Mystics Take Over First Place

Topics covered include: Major Changes Made to Life in Residence; Dr. Pauline A. Jones death; Referendum on the school's continued affiliation with the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS); Forecasted Mount Enrollment Up This Year; Another "Smash and Grab" in Rosaria Parking Lot; Career Fair To Provide Students With Job Possibilities; No More Manus Cont'd; Women March to Take Back the Streets of Halifax; Everything You Hate About the Student Loans Process, And Then Some; World Cup '98; An eclectic collection of performance dance; "Angels of Lightening" Light up The Sir James Dunn Theatre; Mount Mystics are at the Top of ACAA Rankings