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By Chris Beauchamp

I’m a sucker for tradition. At the end of every school year, the Gauntlet Editor-in-Chief takes the opportunity to regale readers about life as a student nearing (hopefully) the end of their academic career. What have I learned in the past five years? That it is important to stand up for what you believe in… Continue reading Parting shots

By Chris Beauchamp

Editorials at this time of year are always a parting shot fired by the Editor-in-Chief at something they feel like bitching about or an attempt to impart some sort of wisdom on readers as they prepare for a day of drunken merriment at BSD. I decided to combine the two: nothing fucking changes. This final… Continue reading Editorial: Parting shots

By Chris Beauchamp

Emily Wyatt has had a successful year as Students’ Union president, though how much of that is due directly to Wyatt herself, is questionable. She was lucky to have strong VPs and a strong SU bureaucracy behind her every move. Launching her year on a platform that included the goals of increasing SU communication with… Continue reading SU Reviews: Emily Wyatt, President

By Chris Beauchamp

Most writers strive for a certain ideal whenever they sit down to pen something for a mass audience. It should be poignant, relevant and peppered with a smattering of humour. It should open people’s eyes, or at least make them nod their head in agreement.Ironically, these ideals can sometimes coalesce into a crippling wall of… Continue reading Editorial: Parting shots

By Chris Beauchamp

In a stunning turn of events that bodes ill for all involved, the University of Calgary independent student newspaper elected to replace their two top editors with inexperienced candidates this week. Current photo editor Chris Tait will replace outgoing–and outstanding–editor-in-chief Chris Beauchamp at the helm of the U of C Gauntlet, while news assistant Katy… Continue reading New Gauntlet editors poised to take the reins

By Chris Beauchamp

There is no doubt print media is in a time of upheaval and change. With Internet news, film documentary, blogging and YouTube, people are getting their information in radically different ways than even a decade ago. The concept of journalism as a watchdog on traditional power centers has been all but washed away for a… Continue reading Editorial: Journalism lite

By Chris Beauchamp

The University of Calgary wants to add a bit of community to campus by embarking on a multi-million dollar project to rip out the roads on the south side of MacEwan Student Centre and replace them with sprawling green space. The Taylor Family Quadrangle is a partner project to the planned digital library and was… Continue reading Editorial: Creating history

By Chris Beauchamp

Every candidate in the Students’ Union election aims to create an eye-catching poster to snag the attention of the average student voter. And each year, as the nominations close, most candidates are already on the phone to their friends stationed around the “prime” poster locations, giving them the go-ahead to drop their furled banners like… Continue reading Election SWAT

By Chris Beauchamp

By their second or third year in university, savvy students have gotten used to the rituals of campus life. They won’t have trouble finding their classrooms in September, they won’t rush out to buy all their textbooks brand new, and they certainly won’t be surprised to hear that tuition is going up again. Outraged perhaps,… Continue reading Editorial: The more things stay the same…

By Chris Beauchamp

As any decent workplace safety program will reinforce, there is never a single cause behind an accident. Rather, there are multiple oversights and mistakes behind every tragedy, numerous miscalculations that lead­ to the moment when things go terribly wrong. A six-year-old girl lost her life this week. The daughter of a University of Calgary student,… Continue reading Prevent the preventable