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By Andrew Barbero

With Bermuda Shorts Day right around the corner, most students are getting ready to reject all things academic for four months. For the many U of C undergrads doing research projects over the spring and summer, the work is just beginning. Whether students have won awards or grants, been lucky enough to land a position… Continue reading School’s not out for summer

By Andrew Barbero

In the backstage area of the MacEwan Ballroom, Ishmael Beah is ushered from the hallway to an otherwise empty stairwell because the photographers think there’s better light there. This is nothing new for Beah on his book tour, here from New York City by way of Sierra Leone. He’s happy to oblige, straightening up from… Continue reading Former child soldier visits campus

By Andrew Barbero

Former child soldier and award-winning author Ishmael Beah will speak at the University of Calgary Sun., Mar. 16.Beah’s book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier, chronicles his youth in Sierra Leone, where he lost his entire family to civil war and was forced into military service at the age of 13. The… Continue reading Former child soldier coming to campus

By Andrew Barbero

The University of Calgary has struck black gold­. Mineral rights to a title of land were gifted to the U of C four years ago from an estate donation. Uncovered in the fall of 2007, professors and students in the geoscience department have been studying the land and their research suggests extractable oil deposits. “We… Continue reading Geoscientists discover oil≠ on U of C land

By Andrew Barbero

Paul Hinman navigated what few political figures can; the merging of two parties. For an MLA and leader of the recently fused Wildrose and Alberta Alliance parties–now known as the Wildrose Alliance Party–the move was easily achieved. “We said ‘united, we’re stronger; divided we’re weak, we’ll fail’,” said Hinman from the campaign trail. “So we… Continue reading Strengthening the right

By Andrew Barbero

Gauntlet: What policy decisions have been forwarded this time around to help put the Liberals out in front of the Conservatives? Kevin Taft: We’re actually the first party with a comprehensive platform out there. It covers everything from affordable housing issues to environmental issues, with a particular focus on post-secondary education. One of our fundamental… Continue reading Taft argues why it could be time

By Andrew Barbero

Alberta may soon be the site of many nuclear plants. The Energy Alberta Corporation proposed nuclear power early last year as a means of supplying energy to the oil and gas industry while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Peace River is a likely site for the first plant. However, fueling the oilsands with nuclear energy is… Continue reading The ongoing debate on nuclear energy

By Andrew Barbero

Are you an aspiring University of Calgary law student? Then you better have already written the LSAT. The U of C law school has moved their application deadline forward from Feb. to Nov. 1 starting this year. The move means potential law students must have written the law school admissions test no later than Sep.… Continue reading Law school changes deadline

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 Andrew Barbero

Psst. You there. Yeah you! Put that pencil down and close that book! It’s daydreaming time. That’s right. I want you to imagine a happy place, a wonderful land of freedom and adequate sleep, a magical realm know as ‘spring.’ And spring starts soon, although not soon enough. Now, I know a bunch of egg-head… Continue reading Spring is chock-full of awesome!