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Focuses on the practical joke staged by some engineering students from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, by suspending the shell of a Volkswagen Beetle car from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Brief information on the practice of such prank; Disappointing reaction from the United States Coast Guard.

The article reports on the refusal of top universities in Canada to participate in a "Mclean's" magazine survey of alumni about the lives of the undergraduates of their universities. Several university presidents wrote to the weekly national news magazine stating that they had concerns about the survey's methodology and preferred the more rigorous National Survey of Student Engagement, known as "Nessie," by the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research. In an opinion-editorial article in the "Ottawa Citizen," university president of the University of Toronto, David Naylor, said his university runs its own student-satisfaction surveys and finds the "Maclean's" survey unscientific and only good for monitoring.

The article presents information on a national competition "The Next Great Prime Minister," held in Canada. The winner, Deirdra McCracken was a 24-year-old student working toward her master's degree in political science at the University of Laval, in Quebec. Four former Canadian prime ministers fired tough questions at McCracken and four other students who were vying for the title, along with a $50,000 prize and an internship.

The article reports that a record numbers of students, both domestic and international, enrolled at Canadian universities in the 2003-04 academic year. The year was the sixth consecutive one to set an enrollment record. Foreign students accounted for 7 percent of the enrollment in 2003-04, nearly double the proportion of a decade earlier. There are many factors for this. Factors include aggressive marketing by Canadian universities, strong economies in several Asian countries, and changes in Canadian immigration policies. Asian students accounted for 70 percent of the increase from 2002-03 to 2003-04, with the number of students from China alone jumping by 45 percent, to 14,500.

Reports on the total number of students at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, who reside above Wreck Beach, a public nude beach in Canada. Significance of the beach to Canada; Plan to build more dormitories near the beach; Concerns regarding the plan.

Presents the results of a student procrastination study,conducted by Fuschia M. Sirois, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario and Timothy A. Pychyl, an associate professor of psychology in the university. Tendency of procrastinators to have unhealthy patterns of sleep; Link of procrastination with avoidant coping styles; Rates of smoking and alcoholic drinking among procrastinators.

Reports that the strike at York University officially ended, after unionized teaching and graduate assistants and voted to accept a contract offer from the Toronto university in 2001. Salary of York teaching assistants per two semesters; Number of teaching assistants who participated in the strike; Issues on tuition indexing.

Discusses a project undertaken by Birthright Israel to send several Jewish college students from the United States and Canada on a free trip to Israel. Aim of the Birthright Israel group; Details of the project; Identification of the founders of the group; Reactions from students; Critics.

The article offers news briefs related to the field of higher education in Canada. Parents of students who have been eliminated by Alberta's Red Deer College after accepting their admission earlier, plan to file a lawsuit against the institution. A special university committee ruled in favor of Martha Hewitt, dismissed assistant professor of divinity at the University of Torronto's Trinity College, after she contended sex discrimination as the ground for her dismissal.

The article offers news briefs related to universities and colleges of Canada. Indian students studying in Canadian colleges and universities participated in a hunger strike. Around 30 percent of students in Ontario University consume alcohol. Queen's University has selected a book by Sir Christopher Wren for an undisclosed prize.

The article reports developments in the education industry in Canada. The report of the Ontario Federation of Students has described the province's 22 colleges of applied arts and technology as suffering from severe financial and academic problems. The decision by the provincial government to increase operating funds for the province's postsecondary fund institutions has been applauded by the University officials in Alberta. Furthermore, a tentative collective-bargaining contract between Memorial University of Newfoundland and its faculty union has cleared the way for the Canadian Association of University Teachers to end censure of the university.

The article reports that the premiers of Canada's Maritime provinces have reversed their decision to subsidize the cost of the nine places set aside for non-Atlantic students. Central to the reversal of its decision is the sharp criticism from the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and from politicians. The reversal marks the second instance in which a province has withdrew on plans to charge higher tuition to out of province students.

The article offers news briefs related to students in South Korea and Canada. Almost 200 South Korean students occupied the offices of the ruling Democratic Justice Party in Seoul, South Korea, for six hours before they were forced to leave by police. They demanded an end to American support of South Korea. Abdullah Ahmed Forjani, a Libyan student, may be deported from Canada over charges that he tortured two fellow students at the Libyan embassy in Bonn, West Germany, in November 1982.

Offers news briefs on higher education in Canada as of May 1981. Lawsuit filed by journalism professors at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario against female students for libel and slander; Approval of interim guidelines for defining sexual harassment by the board of the Canadian Association of University Teachers.

The article offers news briefs related to higher education in Canada. CTV Television Network Ltd. has apologized on the air for televising a report that students are taking up university places that should be reserved for Canadians. According to a study by Department of Labour, graduate woman from universities are underpaid in comparison with their male co-workers.

The article focuses on the promotion of bilingualism for the students at the universities in Canada. Promoting bilingualism through learning French, as a second language, was not anymore a compulsory requirement of the universities. Students can opt whether they will take the course or not. However, the government officials were not happy with the changes in the requirements because time will come that bilingualism is needed in the national policies and job requirements in the country.