By Amy Badry
On April 26 the University of Calgary campus community gathered to acknowledge professors with outstanding accomplishments in the teaching arena. Sixteen faculty members along with two teaching assistants received a Teaching Excellence Award. Seven faculty members were inducted into the Hall of Fame, which recognizes professors who have won the award multiple times. The award… Continue reading Excellent teachers given awards
By Andréa Rojas
If you happen to see an ultramodern-looking vehicle making its way down Alberta’s highways this week, it won’t be stopping for gas. This car is powered completely by the energy of the sun. Last Friday, the University of Calgary Solar Team took their Schulich Axiom solar car for an eight-day province-wide tour – the Schulich… Continue reading Solar cars race across Alberta in preparation for Australia
By Amy Badry
“Students Vote” was the cheer heard across campus during the University of Calgary’s vote mob. But did the red and white wearing students get out and vote? The election resulted in a conservative majority and Rob Anders, MP for Calgary West, has identified post-secondary issues in need of attention in the coming years. Voter turnout… Continue reading Student issues addressed in election
MTV’s Jersey Shore has served as a lightning rod for social commentary on the rise of the bar-frequenting, working-class Italian-American male commonly known as the guido. Critics regularly lampoon the show, complaining that it promotes a litany of unbecoming behaviours such as belligerence, binge drinking and belligerent binge drinking. Despite the words of naysayers, the… Continue reading Choch: If “The Situation” explored his inner self
Most people know of the historic assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth in 1865. For those of us not studying American history, however, our knowledge of the event may stop there. This is often the case with history, where the main players are usually the ones most remembered, and the people on the… Continue reading Film review: The Conspirator
By Andréa Rojas
Scientific knowledge and childlike wonder aren’t mutually exclusive, especially when they’re combined by artist Luke Lukasewich into the pieces that will comprise his upcoming gallery exhibition, the aptly titled “Renewal.”The collection, to be unveiled at Calgary’s Axis Contemporary Art gallery this week, is characterized by eclecticism and experimentation, incorporating diverse pieces everywhere from metal sculptures… Continue reading Steel, stone and bone
By Andréa Rojas
They play Super Nintendo, go to hip-hop shows on the weekends and their lead singer also plays the ukulele. All the characteristics of your quirky next-door neighbour kid are, interestingly enough, the eclectic elements that come together to form the endearingly aggressive metalcore act Fall City Fall.To the untrained ear, it might seem as if… Continue reading Thrash-inducing metalcore sounder than metropolitan infrastructure