Student

Student («Студент»). A Ukrainian-Canadian student newspaper published irregularly from 1968 to the late 1980s. Established as the official publication of the Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union (SUSK), the newspaper dealt with the concept and politics of multiculturalism, community affairs, the defense of human rights and political prisoners in Ukraine, and contemporary Ukrainian cultural phenomena in a spirited and occasionally provocative manner. Its most notable years of publication were in 1977–82, when it came out of Edmonton under the editorship of Nestor Makuch and became the first ethnic student newspaper to be accepted into the Canadian University Press association. From 1982 Student was formally independent of SUSK but maintained a working arrangement with it.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]