By Liv Ingram
Making its Alberta premiere at the Calgary Underground Film Festival, The Machine is a near-future British sci-fi movie from director Caradog W. James. With Britain in a deep recession and on the brink of a Cold War with China, the British Ministry of Defence is developing the world’s first robotic soldier with artificial intelligence to… Continue reading Film review: The Machine
By Riley Hill
Students and members of the community gathered in the MacEwan Student Centre concert hall to address the loss of five young people who were killed at a Brentwood house party following Bermuda Shorts Day. At the vigil, leaders from on and off campus shared their thoughts on a tragedy where details are still scarce. “We… Continue reading Vigil held for victims of stabbing
By Chris Adams
University of Calgary students woke up Tuesday morning, April 15, to the tragic news that five people had been stabbed to death at a house party in the early hours following Bermuda Shorts Day. Four men and one woman died of stab wounds: three died at the scene while two died from their injuries in… Continue reading Five dead in Brentwood stabbings
Death does not choose who it will take based on race, age, gender, sex, socioeconomical status or time of year. Death is an inevitable factor of life, which can come at any time. Have you thought about celebrating death, or rather life, alongside the semester’s-end festivities? Will it be a time to celebrate death, or… Continue reading Do we still know how to celebrate life?
By Ann Karras
The end of the semester is bittersweet. It marks the end of classes that have consumed your energy over the past months and become your life during the last few weeks of school. There’s a confusing melancholy to working hard for something that ends abruptly. You will carry the skills you’ve learned with you, but… Continue reading University about new experiences
The word “privilege” has become a popular and dirty word. A quick look at #WhitePrivilege will show you how frequently this popular hashtag is used on social media. It also ranks within the top 6,000 words in the English language, beating out common words like “nowadays,” “endless” and “unfortunate.” Despite its booming popularity, the long… Continue reading Privilege no longer a dirty word
By Alex Procyk
Another day, another moment closer to a soul crushing, heart pounding final exam. Every time I sit down to study for one, I remember the good old days of provincially mandated diploma exams. Not long ago this fresh faced, second-year Gauntlet opinions writer was an even more fresh faced high school student. There would come… Continue reading Diploma exams key to success
Every Tuesday and Thursday at 3:30, I drag myself over to Science Theaters to pretend to listen to a lecture regarding pyroclastic rock debris, convergent plate boundaries and a number of other topics I have no interest in. Looking around the lecture hall, the sea of bored faces surrounding me in geology 209 confirms that… Continue reading Man cannot live on breadth alone
Gauntlet tradition states that the last editorial of the year is written by the outgoing Editor-in-Chief. I’ve been a student here for four years. Sometimes I feel like I’m not learning anything in my classes, but I’m a different person than the scared 20 year old who walked into the Gauntlet office in September 2010… Continue reading Parting shots from the EIC
By Curtis Wolff
Men’s hockey: A- It was a tale of two seasons for the Dinos men’s hockey team. Over the Christmas break the squad was almost unstoppable. They averaged nearly five goals a game. Their only blemish was an overtime loss to the University of Alberta. The second half of the campaign started well enough with the… Continue reading Dinos year-end report cards