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Todd Pettigrew

Todd Pettigrew, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English at Cape Breton University. Follow him @toddpettigrew.

Students’ Union seeks to break Guinness record for largest water balloon fight.

The O’Neill Report needs to go in a drawer right now.

It’s the first day. You already have some reading to do.

It’s a sailboat, not a phonograph.

Chances to really think about things are rare. Don’t waste those chances while you are in university.

Professors try to be engaging, but students have to meet them in the middle.

And your phone. And your iPod. We have work to do.

Except that we have blogs now.

A little knowledge is a hilarious thing.

It’s not stealing, and saying that it is does more harm than good