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2, 2023 student fees sent p. 3 holly funk editor-in-chief women’s basketball p. 10

While students at a 2020 referendum did vote to say none of their funds should be sent, URSU has delivered $500K to CFS with another $500K planned in the next five years.

With art, creativity, and innovation comes joy, and there is thankfully no shortage of joy across this issue. We’re a few weeks past blue Monday now but spirits are still tumultuous, so be sure to keep updated on all the development happening in and around our campus.

We still have one staff position open, are always looking for contributors, and a few student-at-large seats on our board of directors remain open, so if you’re looking to get involved after paging through this issue please email me (editor@carillonregina.com) and I’ll direct you as best I can!

The women’s Cougars basketball team has ranked first nearly the entire season, and are gearing up for the money matches while doing what they can to keep level heads.

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The Carillon is published no less than 11 times each semester during the fall and winter semesters and periodically throughout the summer. The Carillon is published by the Carillon Newspaper Inc., a non-profit organization.

The Carillon is written on Treaty 4 territory. As such, staff recognize that we are living, working, and telling stories on and of Indigenous lands. We recognize that we are on the traditional homelands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Nakota, Lakota, and Dakota peoples, along with the homeland of the Métis nation. The Carillon understands that it is pointless to acknowledge the land on which we work without demonstrating our commitment to telling stories and prioritizing voices that further the return of this land to its sacred place.

In keeping with our reckless, devil-may-care image, our office has absolutely no concrete information on the Carillon’s formative years readily available. What follows is the story that’s been passed down from editor to editor for over sixty years.

In the late 1950s, the University of Regina planned the construction of several new buildings on the campus grounds. One of these proposed buildlings was a beltower on the academic green. If you look out on the academic green today, the first thing you’ll notice is that it has absolutely nothing resembling a belltower.

The University never got a belltower, but what it did get was the Carillon, a newspaper that serves as a symbolic bell tower on campus, a loud and clear voice belonging to each and every student.

With midterms rapidly approaching and life in Regina reaching new financial and stressful highs, Kate Sveinbjornson covers recent feedback of counselling services.

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intramural update p.11 craft café p. 8 flight troubles p. 14

Open to any students interested and able to get to campus, intramurals are gearing up for the season and tournament plans are in the works.

Returning from a mostly-Zoom delivery, Campion’s Craft Café is back up and running in person. Learn about location, time, and topics in this quick update.

More and more airline companies are canceling flight routes to Regina, and some students are left feeling that they can’t wait to leave post-graduation.

gillian massie news editor

Despite the 2020 referendum voting against it, the University of Regina Students’ Union (URSU) will be paying a grand total of $1 million to the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS).

The 2020 referendum is when students voted to stop paying fees to the CFS. URSU label on their website the 2020 referendum as one that was “illegal, violated URSU’s contractual agreements, and placed a large liability on URSU and students.”

In the August 9, 2022 meeting minutes package, URSU brough forth “Motion A: Canadian Federation of Students – Withheld Dues,” where it was stated URSU withheld these dues from the CFS between 2015-2020. These dues amounted to $1 million within the five year period. URSU determined in August it would pay $500,000 in withheld fees over the next five years, with an immediate payment of $500,000.

The money being paid to the CFS is made up of student fees.

While the 2020 referendum opted out of paying CFS fees, motion A explained that URSU was “legally indefensible in terms of the dues between 2015-2020.”