You’re five years old, and you have an idea. You take old magazines, cardboard boxes from the garage, paint and duct tape, and you create art. The result? A ripped magazine print covered in duct tape and paint. The tag on your artwork? Priceless.You’re 32 years old, an artist with a fine arts degree, and… Continue reading This thing called art
Month: February 2004
Can Sci Fi change society?
It was a culture of worship, where fiction writers were gods. As a writer, how could I argue? Mount Royal College hosted the "Symposium on SF and Social Change" Feb. 6-7, mixing scholars, writers and enthusiastic readers. Many journalists posed the question of whether or not speculative fiction can change the world. This is a… Continue reading Can Sci Fi change society?
Dinos’ funding factors
Editor, the Gauntlet, Re: "Faults found in Dinos’ funding," Jan. 29, 2004, While the University of Calgary’s funding of athletics is an important issue, Mr. Coe has taken a simplistic and misinformed view of the situation. As a first-year student on the football team, I find the comments in this article do not reflect a… Continue reading Dinos’ funding factors
Hostile election campaigns
By Josh Woitas
Editor, the Gauntlet, I am an MBA student and a Barski’s Cabinet supporter, and, although I can’t vote, I have put a great deal of time into their campaign. Up to this point, I have never been actively involved in politics, and am quite taken back by the hostility displayed by several of the other… Continue reading Hostile election campaigns
Credit card fee
Editor, the Gauntlet, Re: "U of C: credit card free zone?" Jan. 22, 2004, Eliminating credit card payments for tuition fees–if the University of Calgary can’t get a better deal on service fees, then I totally agree. I’m sure by now everyone has heard the argument that ending the use of credit cards to pay… Continue reading Credit card fee
Making an example of the Gauntlet
By Jerry Osborn
Editor, the Gauntlet, Re: "Emergence of party politics," Jan. 29, 2004, I am presently conducting a writing exercise in my geology class, and have explained to my students how some writers use big, impressive-sounding and occasionally mischosen words in long, ponderous, grandiose sentences to mask the fact that they have little to say in the… Continue reading Making an example of the Gauntlet
The Barski machine
And so it comes to this. Less than 48 hours after this paper hits the stands, we will know who our 2004-05 Students’ Union representatives are–inevitable Review Board challenges notwithstanding. And what an interesting time it has been. We have seen the emergence of party politics, with both the Action Party and Barski’s Cabinet organizing… Continue reading The Barski machine
What song defines this year’s SU election?
By Alan Cho
‘Geer forums all wet
By Ben Hoffman
Engineers, always eager to show off their different ideas, shed new light on the stale ritual of student election forums last Friday. Election hopefuls ranging from academic commissioner candidates to presidential ones were paraded in front of curious engineers and were on the business end of a water gun at the weekly Piss On Everything… Continue reading ‘Geer forums all wet
Union worried about jobs
The university branch of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees is worried about the future of on-campus print services, as the U of C considers contracting to outside companies. "There’s a certain fear from our members that their jobs will become McJobs," said Dan Tilleman, AUPE Local 52 Chair, citing the contracting out of University… Continue reading Union worried about jobs