UPEI Student Union
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The UPEI Student Union provides many services and amenities to the full-time student population at the University of Prince Edward Island
through a mandatory student fee collected by the university. The campus pub, The Wave, employs in excess of 100 students and hosts many local and touring live music performances. UPEI Student Union Council sits bi-weekly throughout the academic semester.
Many faculties and departments have formed student societies which actively organize social activities on and off campus throughout the year. Social activities are also organized within the student residences on campus.
The UPEI Student Union publishes a student newspaper called The Cadre
, which was unsuccessfully renamed Panther Post in 2009. The paper gained attention by becoming one of the first Canadian publications to print the controversial Muhammad cartoons
from the Jyllands-Posten
.
University of Prince Edward Island
The University of Prince Edward Island is a public liberal arts university in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and the sole university in the province. Founded in 1969, it traces its roots back to its two earlier predecessor organizations, St. Dunstan's University and Prince of Wales...
through a mandatory student fee collected by the university. The campus pub, The Wave, employs in excess of 100 students and hosts many local and touring live music performances. UPEI Student Union Council sits bi-weekly throughout the academic semester.
Many faculties and departments have formed student societies which actively organize social activities on and off campus throughout the year. Social activities are also organized within the student residences on campus.
The UPEI Student Union publishes a student newspaper called The Cadre
The Cadre (newspaper)
The Cadre is the student-run newspaper of University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, by the UPEI Student Union...
, which was unsuccessfully renamed Panther Post in 2009. The paper gained attention by becoming one of the first Canadian publications to print the controversial Muhammad cartoons
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after 12 editorial cartoons, most of which depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005...
from the Jyllands-Posten
Jyllands-Posten
Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten , commonly shortened to Jyllands-Posten or JP, is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper. It is based in Viby, a suburb of Århus, and with a weekday circulation of approximately 120,000 copies, it is among the largest-selling newspaper in Denmark...
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