By Amanda & Krista VanSteelandt
Natural selection was on the march Sun., Sept. 25. The Dinos men’s soccer team took down the maladapted University of Lethbridge Pronghorns 3-0. The Dinos went for the jugular in the first five minutes and were on the board. Veteran Dino Carlos “Hot Karl” Cruz scored off a set play that started with a throw-in… Continue reading Dinos seeing threes and zeroes
By Tunde O.
Editor, the Gauntlet [Re: “Black Men” feature] As a member of the so-called “idolized” ethnicity, I found this article both interesting and disturbing to read. Interesting because I have mused over this topic only to return to the same conclusions as the writer. Disturbing because I am (proudly) part of an ethnicity that remains socially… Continue reading Another perspective
By Greg Ellis
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”-Gerald R. Ford, 38th US President, Republican The reasons to not have re-elected President Bush number in the thousands and it’s a time-honoured tradition for columnists to attack Bush with marked ferocity. His reshaping… Continue reading Bulldozing the way for capitalism
Fancy getting off your arse and crawling out of that dank cavern you call your mum’s basement? Go and see a movie at the Calgary Film festival–the opportunity to see something original is becoming a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Face it: the alternatives aren’t that great. Anyone who’s seen the recent remake of Bewitched knows not even… Continue reading Burn hollywood burn, I smell a riot
By Kyle Francis
Home to both legitimate and illegitimate news sources, gambling rings, auction houses and some of the most horrifying things ever conceived by the human race, the internet has become humanity’s intellectual flop-house. Sharing cyberspace with eBay and farm-animals-on-sealions.com are thousands of online diaries, called ‘web logs’ or ‘blogs.’ Commonly, blogs are the jerk-rags of amateur… Continue reading Building the new Great Wall
By Angee Johal
Beer, learning, and a good deed with little effort required. Who doesn’t like the sound of that? This is your chance to combine it all, with the Big Rock Brewery’s Lecture Series, which hits the Big Rock Grill starting Tue., Oct. 4. The first session features the University of Calgary music department’s Jeremy Brown, whose… Continue reading Big Rock lectures back
A sudden demand by the provider of the dental half of the Students’ Union Health and Dental Plan for a sudden fee levy has sparked the SU into a brand new partnership, as well as fast-tracking construction of a new MacEwan Student Centre dental office. According to SU Vice-President Operations and Finance Joel Lockwood, the… Continue reading SU avoids dental woes
Both the University of Calgary and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology are poised to add new student spaces, thanks to recent provincial funding announcements. Advanced Education Minister Dave Hancock was at SAIT Mon. Sept. 19, to announce a $2 million donation that will enable the technical school to begin the construction of a new Trades… Continue reading More student seats
With all the required texts, most university students don’t have time to read a novel, let alone write one. However, University of Calgary fifth-year accounting student David Sirtonski has taken up the challenge and penned a novel. His book, Is This the Real World…?, is based on his experience in a co-op accounting program working… Continue reading Student pens first novel
Despite increased base operating grants and recent capital funding announcements, campus stakeholders agree quality issues remain at the University of Calgary. “I don’t think people in the next five years will see substantial changes–and they will only see them if we get more funding,” said Students’ Union Vice-President Academic Paige Forsyth. “The government has to… Continue reading Quality issues remain at U of C