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By Cam Cotton-O’Brien

Almost everyone knows that one time, in a fit of delusion, Don Quixote tilted at some windmills he had mistaken for giants. I believe this holds the key to the university’s purpose. Quixote’s collision with the windmills in chapter eight comprises only two pages of Cervantes’ masterpiece, and yet it enjoys a sharply disproportionate hold… Continue reading Editorial: Cam Cotton-O’Brien vs. windmills

By Cam Cotton-O’Brien

As host to Bermuda Shorts Day, April is always busy for Campus Security and this year’s fourth month didn’t disappoint. University of Calgary staff members harangued CS officers for not understanding the plight of the homeless, a man in a wheelchair was caught letting the air out of a truck’s tire and an intoxicated male… Continue reading Campus 5-0 battle busy month

By Cam Cotton-O’Brien

Campus Security braced for the imminent nonsense of Bermuda Shorts Day and thievery was abundant in this special, two-month Campus Security report. The university, which holds a liquor licence that is split between five groups including the Students’ Union, is setting up the 2,300 capacity beer gardens in MacEwan Hall and has distributed roughly 9,000… Continue reading Campus security report: thievin’ and BSD prep

By Cam Cotton-O’Brien

Pretty much the opposite of the one time your little brother ratted you out for forcing him to eat the snow you just peed in, the Students’ Union is trying to tell your parents something: use next week’s election to make PSE a vibrant institution in Alberta. The University of Calgary Students’ Union has teamed… Continue reading Students and faculty campaign for PSE

By Cam Cotton-O’Brien

With close ties to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, there are few people better suited to provide an analysis of the current political climate in Ottawa than Dr. Tom Flanagan. A University of Calgary political science professor since 1968, Flanagan initially engaged in politics at the invitation of Preston Manning in 1991. Since that initial post… Continue reading Harper’s campaign-crafter

By Cam Cotton-O’Brien

Chartwells unintentionally aided small-time crime around Calgary, a student assaulted his partner when a project went wrong, and Bermuda Shorts Day came off without a hitch in the April Campus Security report. A Chartwells van was stolen from the Dining Centre loading dock and subsequently used as a veritable battering ram, driving through the walls… Continue reading Campus Security hijinks

By Cam Cotton-O’Brien

Random nonsense added to the usual theft on campus after a non-student was encouraged by friends/booze to plunge into the pool fully-clothed, a man attempted to propose marriage to an athlete training in the Olympic Oval and a motorist took down a barricade erected two years ago by crashing into it. In January, a non-student… Continue reading Campus crime, one last time

By Cam Cotton-O’Brien

An atomic wedgie led to an ass-kicking in the most ridiculous Campus Security call to take place in December.A group of six males were caught on closed-circuit-television outside the south doors of MacEwan Student Centre involved in some horse play when one of the group gave another an “atomic wedgie.” The recipient of said wedgie… Continue reading Atomic Wedgies gone foul: Campus Security Report