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By Emily Senger

I did a very important thing this week. I crossed the great gap from being a carefree kid to being an adult. The transformation occurred in about one minute, the minute I got and accepted a job offer. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had plenty of jobs before. But this job is different. In this… Continue reading The great job hunt

By Emily Senger

Food lovers unite! Smash Hit Subs, Benny’s, the Dining Centre, and all other Campus Food Services currently operated by the University of Calgary are up for bidding and could be privatized by next summer. In early August, Student Academic Services held a series of focus groups to get input on the present services offered by… Continue reading Privatized U of C Food Services?

By Emily Senger

The Campus Security Report for April is in, and the results show that people do stupid stuff. The stupidity began with a bang on April 1 with an April Fool’s Day prank. An unknown individual or individuals entered Engineering 201A, removing some bolts from fixed seating leaving some desks precariously wobbly. Students with classes in… Continue reading Theft, jackhammers and child neglect

By Emily Senger

Maybe it was the cold and snowy weather, or the change of venue, or fewer people then usual taking part in drunken revelry. Whatever the reason, the Bermuda Shorts Day festivities on Fri., April 16 ran uncharacteristically smooth, with only one ambulance call and one student hauled away by the police.“We [Campus Security] were a little worried… Continue reading BSD goes down smooth like… beer

By Emily Senger

Over the next three years, the Graduate Students’ Association will see a 100 per cent increase in their total rental costs. To help offset the rising occupancy costs, the GSA is asking graduate students to vote on a proposed $10 levy over the next three years in the upcoming GSA election. This levy will help… Continue reading University charging GSA more for space

By Ben Hoffman

I’m a moron, what can I say. Never in my wildest dreams could I have expected Jeff, the cruel Entertainment Editor, to take me seriously when I sarcastically offered to review Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London. I realized my first judgment of him as a human being was incorrect when he handed me the… Continue reading Tweens rejoice

By Emily Elder

It began as a class project. When Annalea Sordi, a 2003 sociology graduate, started at the University of Calgary in 1998, the Women’s Collective and Resource Centre was open and active. It closed in 1999. Three years later, when a class presented the opportunity, Sordi and classmates Karoline Kemp and Angela Sheppard decided to try… Continue reading A centre of their own

By Emily Senger

The Leisure, Tourism and Society program offered by the Faculty of Communication and Culture has fallen victim to budget cuts. A joint decision made by faculty members dictated the LTSO program is slated to be phased out within the next three years. There are currently 51 students enrolled in the program, one of the larger… Continue reading Leisure, Tourism and Society phased out