By Ryan Laverty
"Why fight if you can seduce?" asked Federal Minister of the Environment David Anderson on Wed., Jan. 23, while visiting the University of Calgary for an interactive political discussion.Anderson, a B.C. Liberal, stopped in Calgary on his way back to Ottawa from the Okanogan to meet with students and media alike, and discuss the current… Continue reading Stopping for eco-breakfast
Faculties could soon be fighting it out for student dollars.The University of Calgary is currently investigating the possibility of a Fee-Based Budgeting System, also known as enrolment-sensitive budgeting.Currently, each faculty receives funding based on its expenses from previous years regardless of the number of students that enrol in their programs."Right now there is a base… Continue reading The future of fees
Though it can’t yet do laundry or give back rubs, the Internet has been recruited in the fight against hate crimes.On Mon., Jan 21, the Web site reporthate.org was launched at the Calgary Science Centre. Developed by Big Blue Planet and youth volunteers, the site was created after Calgary youth identified the need for a… Continue reading The crime-fighting machine
By Emma Stokes
The first of 10 possible referendum questions was recently given the thumbs up for student voting in the upcoming 2002 Students’ Union general election.At the Jan. 15 meeting of the Students’ Legislative Council, the student-operated campus television station NUTV got the go-ahead to have students vote on a $0.50 per semester increase to their levy."This… Continue reading A-OK for NUTV
By Natalie Sit
Ever wonder, while waiting in the Art Parkade lineup, just how many parking spots are on campus? Or, during midterm panics, how many computers are in the Info Commons? Or, during a rare cold snap, how many kilometres of pathway must be cleared of snow? But that’s just scratching the surface: there’s a prodigious number… Continue reading The U of C, quantified
By Kyle Young
Rush LimbaughGerthülda and Rüthenleid: A Femi-Nazi Love StoryThis incredibly powerful novel, set in the late ’70s, follows the lives of two West Berlin friends, Gerthülda and Rüthenleid, as they immigrate to America.The main focus of the plot develops as the two friends are taken in by an extreme feminist movement, and discover their true love… Continue reading Publishing industry hits new low
By Kyle Young
Few have ever credited the Vatican with having a spotless past. Over the past few years the world heard Pope John Paul II apologize for several past lapses of conscience in the leadership of the Catholic Church. What must now be questioned is the worth of these apologies as the Church continues into Christianity’s third… Continue reading The Vatican’s decadent hypocrisy
Tuning into the radio during the routine traffic crunch a couple of mornings ago, I caught the tail end of an interview with a bisexual drag queen from Toronto. This wasn’t your ordinary run of the mill drag queen either. As things would have it, Enza (as he likes to be called) is running for… Continue reading Crossing up the Canadian Alliance
Good stories often border on the ridiculous, so consider this one.At the beginning of my second year at your friendly student newspaper, I was appointed interim Sports Editor. I didn’t know how to write, didn’t know how to edit and certainly didn’t understand the world I was about to enter. I had just come back… Continue reading December’s welcome twist of fate
By Gamze Bayrak
Editor, the Gauntlet,Some people who say they are acting in the name of religion may misunderstand their religion or wrongly practice it. Islam, as described in the Koran, is a modern, enlightened, progressive religion. All unnecessary acts of violence and unjust aggression are forbidden by Islam.The Koran orders people to be dignified, modest, trustworthy, kind,… Continue reading Religion and such