Facebook group for class of 2012 (that's you!)

Are you looking to meet some of your fellow upcoming freshman classmates? I was browsing through a few U of A Facebook groups, and found this one - U of A Class of 2012 - which was started by some students a few weeks ago.

I would join it myself, except that I am no longer a freshman (or a student for that matter). "Back in my day" (it seems like not long ago, but it has been eight years since I've graduated high school!) we didn't have social networking as an option to "pre-meet" our classmates. Take advantage of it!

There are also hundreds of other U of A student interest groups, so do some surfing and you may find a unique community you want to join! Ciao!

Human Rights Speaker Comes to Campus

Mary Robinson with University of Alberta students, originally uploaded by TheElders.

The U of A often brings national and international speakers onto campus to talk about a wide variety of topics. This year, for the tenth annual University of Alberta Visiting Lectureship in Human Rights, Mary Robinson spoke to the "Every Human Has Rights" campaign on April 2. The Visiting Lectureship in Human Rights was inaugurated in 1998 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to provide a means to further learn about and discuss human rights issues.

If you would like to get involved with human rights advocacy on campus, there are a number of student groups you may be interested in, such as Amnesty International, UNICEF, Make Poverty History, Organisation for Peace and Security Studies, Stand for Darfur, Students Against Global Apathy, and World University Service of Canada (WUSC).