Month: September 1999

By Mukul Ahuja

Two players so alike in their personality and mannerisms, you would mistake them for each other of you didn’t know better. Tammie Wilson, last season’s Dinos women’s soccer goalie-extraordinaire, now moves up the field, making room for rookie blue-chip goalkeeper Taryn Swiatek, as two of the nicest girls on campus accompany the championship team into… Continue reading Two between the pipes

By Laura Glick

The Dinos men’s volleyball team will add some extra depth in their outside hitting department this season–about 6′ 5" worth of depth, to be exact. Twenty-three year-old Denis Zhukov from Almaty, Kazakhstan recently arrived in Calgary to join the Dinos after a six-month courtship with head coach Greg Ryan. "He emailed me, he sent me… Continue reading Volleyballer far away from Kazakstan

By Josh Truba

It was a lovely midweek afternoon here on campus when I had the occasion to speak with Andy Gibbs, the head coach of the Dino’s men’s soccer team. My day up to that point had seemed so perfect–sleeping in, no scheduled classes, an unusually warm and sunny day, and a supersized "Two Cheeseburger Value Meal"… Continue reading Sorry, folks, men’s soccer anticlimactic

By Bo Rhodes

The thrill of victory was elusive, the agony of defeat, however, held a firm grasp on the University of Calgary Dinos last Saturday in Manitoba. Suffering their first loss of the season, head coach Tony Fasano summed up the Dinos’ trouble in one phrase: "we had a lapse in the second quarter that cost us… Continue reading Dinos drop the ball

By Mike Flach

In a much-hyped press conference on Tuesday, the University of Calgary Athletics Department unveiled a two-pronged attack on the apathetic student body and public. Teaming with the Calgary Herald, the department revealed new jerseys as well as a revamped web page. After casting aside my initial disappointment at not seeing Rex (our official mascot for… Continue reading New logo, new clothes, new slogan

By Jan Creaser

While Woody and Buzz duked it out over who would be Andy’s favourite toy, Univeristy of Calgary President Dr. Terry White spends 80-85 hours a week trying to make the U of C everybody’s favourite post-secondary institution. "I don’t see myself as a toll collector," he says, referring to last year’s tuition fight with the… Continue reading The Great White Way…:

By Ryan Pelletier

Has the thought of a summer spent in sunny Central America ever crossed your mind? What if someone else was willing to cover the tab? This is the experience students Delphine Bouvry, Ines Kwan, Cameron Baughen, and Kiran Lerner participated in during the past several weeks. The quartet of Environmental Science students spent July 4… Continue reading U of C students back from Nicaragua:

By Kim Stock

The numbers are in. The University of Calgary Registrar finalized Sept. 13 enrolment statistics Tuesday. The number of full-time students increased last year from 20,514 to this year’s 20,944, a 2.10 per cent addition. "We’re always pleased to see more students, but as usual, we’re concerned about the growing size of classes, the pressure put… Continue reading Full-time U of C students rise

By Jamie Hellewell

As Alberta students return to class this week they will face the third highest tuition fees in the country, according to Statistics Canada. Meanwhile, the Alberta government is predicting an enormous and growing $1.9 billion surplus. This has student leaders and opposition MLAs across the province calling for tuition relief. They point out that provincial… Continue reading COVER: Has Klein missed the boat?