The photos are candid snapshots of a part of student life most universities and colleges probably wish didn't take place. Among the tamer ones: a women's swim team member with "Do Me Here" written on her bare back and arrows pointing to her buttocks.

For several weeks this past summer Marie-Joëlle Zahar watched as bombs rained down on Lebanon, the beloved country of her birth. "I was stunned," says Dr.

They stare at me. Chins propped up on fists.

Concordia University is famous for all the wrong reasons. People don't know about our amazing political science program or that our business school was rated by Forbes as one of the top 20 in the world.

Many conference presenters will start off their talk with a joke, but at a gathering last November in Ottawa, economist John Helliwell began his presentation by engaging the audience in a sing-along. Introducing what he called the "social capital theme song" and encouraging his audience to join in, he began: The more we get together, together, together.

Last year, Ryerson University received almost 300,000 historically important black-and-white photographs along with $7 million for a new gallery to house them. More recently, McGill University was given $700,000 by a Nova Scotia woman who wanted the funds to be used to create 40 major scholarships.

It was the first warm Saturday morning in March, and one could safely bet that many students were basking in the sun or rolling over for a couple more hours in bed. But at the University of Waterloo, hundreds of them, well-coiffed and dressed for success, showed up early and packed the school's William G.