The Federation of Students now has a full slate of Mathematics councillors, following a by-election that took place May 25-27.

Khalil Andani and Lianchong Zhu won seats on Students' Council with 113 and 86 votes, respectively. The other candidate was Ahmed Farrakha. Turnout was extremely low, with only 245 of the 4096 eligible voters casting ballots, a turnout rate of less than six per cent.

In an attempt to deal with an attrition problem that is about to become "disastrous", the Faculty of Mathematics is proposing to institute a new promotions system that would significantly reduce the impact of failed courses.

Research In Motion® (RIM®) is one of the world’s leading innovators and providers in wireless technology. Based in Waterloo’s technology triangle, RIM has over 15 locations worldwide, with over 3,000 employees and 2.5 million customers. Every term, RIM hires numerous students to fill exciting positions in software development, hardware engineering, marketing, finance and much more!

Following months of back-and-forth accusations, as well as many meetings and negotiations, the Embassy Students Association (ESA) conflict with the Federation of Students has finally concluded with the ESA’s official dissolution as a Federation of Students club.

After almost 6 months of action by CEGEP students and two months since official joint University-CEGEP strikes began to be launched, groups representing Quebec CEGEP, and University students have decided to call an end to the Quebec student strike.

The University of Waterloo programming team has placed fourth in the world at the 29th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in China.

I am looking for students, staff, and faculty that interested in participating in a quick usability study of the current UW home page and the new UW home page.

Science councillor candidate Suman Bhamra was disqualified Tuesday night for failing to submit her financial statements on time. This leaves only two candidates left in the race: her running-mate on the "equity" ticket, Kevin Redmond, as well as Salima Printer.

Engineers Without Borders needs help in collecting computers to send to the Philippines to help out of school youth. Charitable tax receipts can be provided.

The referendum committee has declared the results of the WPIRG referendum void, and has taken the ballot offline.