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Strike negotiations took break in December

Negotiations between Mon- treal’s Concordia University and its full-time faculty will resume this month, after breaking for the holidays. In late November, the council of directors of the Concordia University Fac- ulty Association, which rep- resents full-time professors. and librarians, voted unani- mously to ask its member- ship for a strike mandate.

Looking to make the Bible more appeal- ing, “The Brick Testament” is using logos to get their message across

They’re hip, they’re glossy, and they’re reaching out to a slightly different generation of worshippers.

While these modern ren- ditions of the King James Bible aren’t direct transla- tions, they may be reaching audiences that the tradi- tional text may have never attracted.

One version, The Brick Testament, is a series of short, hardcover books. On . the cover, biblical scenes are illustrated using Lego blocks, put together entirely by Reverend Brendan Pow- ell Smith. Actual block sets are also available, which the website promises are made of “the finest Danish plas- oe

With files from the Canadian University Press

NATIONAL

"PANTHER POST

Cold, snow blasts prairies"

Campus gets hit hard by a winter ae wink temperatures the coldest seen since 1966 |

SASKATOON (CUP) - Baby, it’s cold out- side.

That’s the tune many students in the prairie regions were whis- tling as they returned to university Monday, amidst record-break- ing temperatures and relentless snowfall that persisted through- out the winter holi- days.

“When I walked to school today, it was so cold so I bundled up to the point where all you could see were my . eyes,” said University of Saskatchewan stu- dent James Pepler of his 22-minute walk to campus Monday morning.

“When I got inside, my eyes were encrust- ed with ice crystals,” he added. ee

Although the temperature was still a nasty -25 Celsius in the morning, it was a wel- come relief from the previ- ous day.

On Sunday, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan experienced the coldest temperatures the city had seen since 1966, at -39 C, with a wind chill of -45C.

Regina wasn’t much better.

University of Regina student

Dan Shier said heading to school Monday was diffi- cult.

“Tt’s pretty cold outside still, but I guess it’s better than the

last few days,” he said Mon- day, adding that he caught a ride in the morning rather than taking the bus like he normally does.

‘Thankfully for Saskatche- wan residents, that nasty blast of cold and snow promptly left Sunday night, but only to head east to Manitoba.

Both provinces were under wind chill warnings Jan. 4 because of the chance unex- posed skin would freeze in under 10 minutes.

“It sucks,” said University of Winnipeg student Rod Beilfuss Monday. “It’s very cold, and we’ve had a lot of

snow in the last few days.” The extra powder made for a nightmarish commute, he says. His bus was over 20 minutes late. Though classes at the Uni- versity of Winnipeg did not resume until Jan. 6, there were still a lot of students on campus Monday, stomp- ing through several inches of snow. Ensuring a campus is free of snow when people re- turn from holidays is no easy task, says Murray Zook, manager of grounds keep- ing with the U of S facilities management division.

He says the effort to make

The University of Saskatchewan is buried under snow this week. CUP photo

the U of S campus ready for students, employees, and faculty began at the end of December, when casual workers removed snow from doorways and some side- walks. Regular staff came in on Jan. 2 to clear all of the walkways, and private con- tractors worked on the park- ing lots with snow removal vehicles. : While he doesn’t “know exactly how big the snow- — removai budget is at the

some years it costs

$25 000 + ‘$3 OC