Talk:The Charlatan (student newspaper)

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"In early 2006, two referendum questions asking for increased student funding of The Charlatan were defeated. One question was defeated 2276-1350, the other 1926-1600.(source) Some students point towards these results as evidence of general dissastisfaction with The Charlatan."

The Levy question result were actually quite close: The inflation question was close with a 45-55 spread, The $1 increase: by a Larger 35-65 spread.

I'm not sure of any students pointing to this as a general dissatisfaction with the Charlatan: Only Laura Haylock a GSA VP member (and hardly an unbiased person) wrote of this view in a letter that was printed in the Charlatan. After GSA & CUSA lost the Student Building referendum (The Vote lost with only 39% of the vote for the building and 61% against), GSA President "Filippone said there is still a large base of support for the building." (http://www.charlatan.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17186&Itemid=26)

Based on Filippone's argument there must be "a large base of support" for the charlatan aswell.

--Mrr1979 16:12, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Pure sophistry. Numerous reasons can be cited for the defeat of the Student Building referendum, most notably the terrible wording of the question, and perhaps the Charlatan's own confused reporting of the matter. On the other hand, the Charlatan's questions were clear cut. What I would really like to see is a poll commissioned by the Charlatan on whether or not the student body likes the paper. And not one of their idiotic online polls.
 * --DJN

"After Carleton University shifted from its premises downtown to its current location by the Rideau River, the Carleton moved from temporary quarters to the basement level of Paterson Hall on Carleton's campus."

Carleton has never been downtown save, perhaps, when it was using rented space. Its first home was on First Avenue in the Glebe. -Dhodges 02:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)