By Natalie Sit
Students’ Union President Jayna Gilchrist was censured by student leaders due to her conduct and lack of leadership in a unanimous vote. External Commissioner Jim Bailey brought the motion forward at the Tue., Mar. 30 Students’ Legislative Council meeting. Gilchrist was not at the meeting as she was helping at the SU’s screening of Discordia,… Continue reading SU President Jayna Gilchrist censured
Between 1939 and 1945, millions of people–the majority Jewish–were systematically tortured and murdered. Miles of recorded film and enough archived documents to fill libraries carry the heavy, irrefutable evidence of one of humanity’s greatest atrocities. Still, there are some who insist the Holocaust never happened. Holocaust survivor Sid Cyngiser, and the story he shared with… Continue reading Holocaust survivor shares stories
The Students’ Union Tribunal has agreed to hear the SU’s appeal of the Review Board’s decision to overturn the 2004 SU General Election. The Review Board ruled in favour of failed presidential candidate Phil Barski, declaring that voting irregularities centered around the online voting software designed by Sorex Software Inc. materially affected the outcome of… Continue reading SU appealing election further
By Russ Dyck
Dinos Nathan Kendrick and Shannon Slater both competed Sat., Mar. 28 at the 14th World University Cross Country Championships in Collegno, Italy. Eighty-nine runners competed in the men’s race over an 11km course and our very own Kendrick placed 51st with a time of 34:48. In the women’s race, Slater placed 31st out of 60… Continue reading Runners and Roughnecks
Sumo. The very word evokes a flurry of images in the mind of the average Westerner. Enormous men trying to push each other out of a ring; diaper-clad bodies colliding with a resounding “smack;” E. Honda’s mysterious “machine gun slap” from Street Fighter II. While these perceptions are not entirely inaccurate, the sport has many… Continue reading 50 trillion pounds of sumo