By Вen Li
Though germinal legislation establishing the Students’ Union and the same articles 60 years hence are mute to the politics of faction within our student government, such is now necessitated by the explicit reality of special interests. Whereas groups exterior to formal student governance–concerned with religion, gender and public policy–have repeatedly petitioned the SU without affirmative… Continue reading Emergence of party politics
By Вen Li
In response to popular demand–and because someone decided to liberate most copies of the Gauntlet from campus costing students thousands of dollars–here is the stats page from our December 4 issue. Apparently, many readers find this page very interesting today, especially the part that also ran in our Nov. 20 and Nov. 27 issues. Keep… Continue reading Gauntlet’s December 4 Sports stats page, with interesting advertising about sperm donation in Australia…
By Вen Li
Seven falling blocks changed the world forever when Alexy Pajitnov introduced his masterpiece game in Soviet Russia. Genetic Engineering, the first version of the game, required players to move tetramino–pieces made of four connected squares each–around to form shapes. Soon after, in 1984-85, Pajitnov implemented the familiar falling-pieces incarnation of the game on the Electronica… Continue reading The joy of falling blocks
By Вen Li
June 1985 – Alexy Pajitov programs the first Tetris at the Moscow Academey of Science on an mainframe. Vadim Gerasimov makes a PC version. July 1986 – Robert Stein, President of British software company Andromeda, spots Apple II and Commodore-64 versions of Tetris in Budapest. Without securing rights to the game, he sells all rights… Continue reading Tetris timeline
By Вen Li
At the University of Calgary, there is but one academic justice system, with a bureaucratic system of layers which tends to confuse the appellant student. Fortunately, the regime lacked the creativity of some of its neighbors in designing its appeals system, and much of it is modeled on a simple pattern. For minor issues such… Continue reading Academic Appeal is not appealing
By Вen Li
An attentive audience of students and curious onlookers listened to a panel discuss the merits of differential tuition on Mon., Mar. 3. Speakers at the noon-hour forum, hosted by the Students’ Union as a part of their 2003 tuition fight, adamantly opposed the university’s plans to charge students of some faculties more than others.“A university… Continue reading Lots of talk, little difference
By Вen Li
Surfing for porn will still be inappropriate under the library’s new code of conduct.The Library Committee of the General Faculties Council approved the document on Feb. 11, and the Students’ Academic Assembly voted in favor of it on Mon., Feb. 24.“It’s a conglomeration of existing rules,” said student representative Chris Blaschuk. “It sets up expectations… Continue reading New library code of conduct
By Nicole Kobie
Imagine you won the lottery. What’s the one dream item you’d love to own? If you could buy your friends and family their dream gifts for Christmas, what would they be? And, more importantly, where exactly would you buy it? We all love to dream about the cool stuff we’d buy if we only had… Continue reading Our wish-list, on-line
By Вen Li
Al Gore did not create the Internet, nor a victory for himself because of Florida in 2000, but that didn’t stop Dr. Richard Davis, Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University in Utah from lecturing about U.S. on-line election campaigns to a handful of political science aficionados on Tue., Nov. 26.“The 2000 election was… Continue reading Campaigning online
By Вen Li
Researchers, doctors, patients and students will benefit from a new $3 million Brain Tumor Research Chair. Dr. Gregory Cairncross, Department Head of Clinical Neurosciences and a professor at the University of Calgary, was announced as the first recipient on Tue., Nov. 5. “We’re going to build a brain tumor research centre for the twenty-first century,”… Continue reading $3 million Tumor Research Chair