Editor, the Gauntlet,Pro-life pridefully takes her place behind the podium for her opening remarks: She points her fingers at judges, her esteemed opponent, administrators and the audience. In her hysterical screams she labels us child killers, complacent with genocide in our midst. She runs and then, from within the shadow of campus security, produces a… Continue reading Online Only – Letter: Clockwork-Orangin’ kids
Month: December 2008
Online Only – Letter: Sick sights yonder
Editor, the Gauntlet,I am a first-year engineering student fleeing to the social sciences. As I go from day to day, studying into the wee hours of the morning to get a good grade on the exams, I try to avoid getting into situations that may unnerve me. Sadly, I have seen something that cannot be… Continue reading Online Only – Letter: Sick sights yonder
The philosophy of needles
It’s flu season and if you haven’t already heard the rolling thunder of melodious sneezes in your classes, you may have at least noticed a few Rudolphs around campus. Better yet, you may have a flu or cold yourself. How glorious is it when oodles of work weigh down upon your weary shoulders and you… Continue reading The philosophy of needles
Letter: The trouble with rape jokes
By That 1 in 4 North American Woman
Editor, the Gauntlet, “Wow, that midterm test raped me.” Walking down the halls of the university, how many times do you hear this comment tossed around so frivolously? How many times have you yourself uttered this phrase? Have you ever stopped and thought about the implications behind your words? Sexual assault statistics show that one… Continue reading Letter: The trouble with rape jokes
Letter: On drinking and driving
Editor, the Gauntlet, Another car “accident” linked to teenage drunk driving has stolen lives from this city and this young generation. One more life lost, but many more affected by this traumatic and most impossible to understand of events. In this lack of understanding, the question raised is but one word. Why? Why did someone… Continue reading Letter: On drinking and driving
Gingers getting kicked – why do people take jokes so seriously?
Our generation is slowly becoming more and more sensitive about each other’s feelings. In our day and age, political correctness is a must to avoid offending anyone. We have established laws to protect each other from the lethal smoke of cigarettes, enforced helmets and vast arrays of safety gear on most vehicles and have laws… Continue reading Gingers getting kicked – why do people take jokes so seriously?
Online doctor visits: what webcams should not do
Remember the last time you went to the doctor’s office? Perhaps for another one of those routinely intrusive check-ups or for a diagnosis of some curious illness that had set up camp in your immune system? As you sat in the waiting room, you may have thought to yourself, with society’s growing need for speed… Continue reading Online doctor visits: what webcams should not do
Holidays without the holy, but with wine
My extended family has the bad habit of praying before holiday meals begin. I say bad because I find it an effective way of cooling food and little else. Also, they never consider it necessary for other meals. They don’t go to church. No deity is invoked the rest of the year. Like many others… Continue reading Holidays without the holy, but with wine
A crisis of consumerism
By Tyler Wolfe
Black Friday, the Friday after American Thanksgiving, is annually one of the busiest retail days of the year. Kicking off the Christmas shopping season, the idea behind the name is that it is supposedly the day in which all American businesses magically happen to begin turning a profit– out of the red and into the… Continue reading A crisis of consumerism
The new Canadian theocracy
Given all the attention directed towards the Conservatives’ governing crisis in the last few days, it’s hard to fathom how no commentator has yet grasped the True meaning of the issue. Slightly below 60 per cent of eligible voters cast their ballots in the most recent Canadian election. Given that these were then divided amongst… Continue reading The new Canadian theocracy