By David Kenney
Alix D’Archangelo isn’t really bitter. Feb. 14 looms and the fashion-savvy Students’ Union Vice-president Events is single but she’s decidedly relaxed on her lack of a caveman, er, boyfriend. "I’m not bitter about being single, just bitter in general," laughs D’Archangelo. For the third year in a row, the bitter and unaffected have a temporary… Continue reading Love Stinks
A psychic couldn’t predict this story and a psychologist couldn’t understand it. The very definition of confusing, Maelström doesn’t make any sense until you stop thinking so hard. From director Denis Ville-neuve, it is a simple story, brilliantly obscured by odd characters, a rambling plot and an aquatic narrator. The failed daughter of a business… Continue reading Maelström magnificent
By Kyle Siler
As students, we are presented with a plethora of courses in the calendar from which to choose every semester. The limits of academia know few boundaries, and every semester leaves one facing the daunting task of choosing two to six courses out of the hundreds in the calendar. Of course, what one learns in a… Continue reading Remedial education for dummies
By Matt Vernon
Editors, the Gauntlet, Re: "Bad Kitty, can I buy a pack of smokes?" Jan. 18, 2001 As the winner of the Name the Stör contest, I question the thought process of Ruth Davenport. I will be the first to admit that when two friends and I came up with the name Bad Kitty’s Cigarette and… Continue reading Reader responses
Editors, the Gauntlet, Re: "Universal bus pass debate," Jan. 25, 2001 It seems we are jumping to conclusions based on some false perceptions about a possible universal bus pass and an incomplete understanding of the issues that are relevant to a meaningful discussion. The U-pass deal is not written in stone. The numbers we have… Continue reading Reader response
By the time you read this, the cost to attend this institution of learning next academic year will have gone up, most likely by 3.7 per cent ($141 dollars for 10 classes). Sucks, eh? I know, Jane also feels your pain since she too will be returning next year.Three elected members of your Students’ Union,… Continue reading Tuition: consultation, decision and increase?
By Rhia Perkins
It seems these days everything is headed by big corporations who have, to lesser or greater degrees, effective monopolies over consumers. From close-to-home examples like the takeover of McQ’s by the Students’ Union or the Pepsi exclusivity deal, to the ubiquitous presence of Microsoft in the computing world, the day of the small businessman and… Continue reading Big business bites consumer choice
By Jan Creaser
I wonder how many little boys feared they might wake up and realize that overnight they were transformed from puny runts in the throes of adolescence into tall, handsome and super-hero strong MEN, in capital letters. How many cowered in terror imagining their chests might suddenly bulge out of their hooded sweatshirts? Which ones dreaded… Continue reading Jimmy Olsen blues
By Editorial
Finally, Premier Ralph Klein admitted education is an investment rather than an expense. He then opened Alberta’s once-tightly zipped pockets and offered $25 million to post-secondary education, of which the University of Calgary will get… well, we don’t know what we’ll get. Rumours peg the number at about $4 million, but considering there are 26… Continue reading 25 million ways to shaft education
Is one individual justified in deciding that another’s life is too unbearable to continue? Thankfully, the Supreme Court of Canada recently answered the preceding question with a resounding and unanimous "No."Robert Latimer was sentenced to life in prison after more than seven years of appeals and legal battles. It will be 10 years before he… Continue reading No bleeding heart defence Supreme Court rightly upholds "freedom to choose"