Month: September 2007

By Jon Roe

Campus Calgary Digital Library, groundbreaking ceremony: Mar. 31, 2006. That was then. Taylor Family Digital Library, groundbreaking ceremony: spring 2008. This is Now. The outside community may need repeated groundbreaking ceremonies and front-page Calgary Herald stories on funding to bring their gaze back to the University of Calgary, but the general university population needs no… Continue reading Editorial: Deferred university

By Danee Wilson

Christmas came early this year for University of Calgary faculty of nursing students due to a generous gift of $40,000 from the Students’ Union campus improvement fund. The money was used to purchase new equipment in order to enhance the learning experience of nursing students. SU faculty representative for nursing Jenna Baumgartner initiated the process… Continue reading Nursing students get a leg up

By Kendra Kusick

The University of Calgary solar car project is coming up to speed, and heading Down Under for the 2007 World Solar Challenge. This year’s car–the Schulich 1–will be shipped Friday, but the big race won’t start until Oct. 21. Over the past two years the team has been hard at work preparing a completely new… Continue reading New Solar Car’s design lights up

By Morgan Haigler

Despite unanimous approval for new laws demanding photo identification in the House of Commons, Elections Canada is maintaining their position, saying it isn’t required. The current law allows a citizen to use either photo identification or two other pieces of identification. Individuals voting through mail do not need any identification. Muslim and other women who… Continue reading News for the unnewsed

By Sara Hanson

While the Dominican Republic may be one of the Caribbean’s most popular tourist destinations, it is also one of the western hemisphere’s poorest countries. Later this year, four University of Calgary graduates will travel to the Dominican Republic with Canadians for Organized Relief Effort–a five-member non-governmental organization incorporated in 2006–to complete the NGO’s first development… Continue reading Development in the Dominican

By Katy Anderson

This year’s U of C 101 included an induction pledge, carefully chosen words and 5,000 frosh. In surveys from previous years student responses indicated the program was too long. To accommodate this and other recommendations from the surveys, the program was cut back to two days instead of three days, removing extracurricular sessions. The removal… Continue reading U of C 101 recap

By Andrew Barbero

One University of Calgary class aims to keep Alberta green, both environmentally and financially. The university’s environmental science department sent 22 students on a field school experience to study the oil sands and other potentially at-risk industrial environments throughout northern and southern Alberta. These excursions, which occurred two weeks prior to the beginning of the… Continue reading Students examine the oil sands

By Katy Anderson

University of Calgary students are one step closer to feeling the benefits of research due to a recent funding announcement. The government of Canada announced $109.5 million for 126 new Canada research chairs throughout the country Mon., Sep. 10. The U of C will be the recipient of funding for 11 of chairs, including both… Continue reading Feds announce funding for 11 research chairs

By Jon Roe

First-year students will be accustomed to the sounds of drills and jackhammers by the end of their four-year degree. Construction fences, signs and giant posters hanging off campus buildings constantly remind students and the university community that the University of Calgary is in the midst of a massive capital expansion project. Between now and fall… Continue reading Campus Infrastructure