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By Joshua Goard-Baker

With the Major League Baseball season soon upon us, resident Gauntlet baseball-buff Joshua Goard-Baker gives his two cents on the off-season happenings and his predictions for the 2008 prizewinners. The off-season has been so jam-packed with interesting side stories that it is hard to believe, that as of this writing, we are less than a… Continue reading The real DL on MLB

By Medha Subramani

Calgarian Darfur activist Ameera Abbo asked her father if she should come visit family in Darfur. “Don’t come-you may be the only one to survive from our family,” he explained. The worsening genocide in Darfur by the government-backed Arab Janjaweed militia against Abbo’s Darfurian community is met in Canada by a largely apathetic media and… Continue reading The ongoing genocide in Darfur

By Saidia Green

On November 1st, two devel-opment studies students, Jenn Marshall and Eric Shorten, attempted to conduct a survey in MacEwan Student Center as part of a project for their GNST 500 class. Their project is a multi-faceted attempt to get all coffee providers on campus to offer at least one variety of fair trade product so… Continue reading Fascism holds sway in foodcourt

By Kirstin Morrell

What does the future hold? We all fantasize about going there, but the only time travel possible for most of us is the slow passage forward, one day at a time. However, a select few–people lucky enough to be professional dreamers–leapfrog ahead, contemplating far tomorrows. Some of what these science fiction writers have predicted has… Continue reading A look into the future

By Steve Coyne

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees has railed against them. The administration heralds them. Last month it was announced after a competitive bidding process that Chartwells, a private American company, would take over Campus Food Services. As the first privatization of a university food provider in Canada for decades, the announcement was closely watched by… Continue reading Privatization better than some think

By Karoline Czerski

Corpus, Nuit BlancheEnter a world where sleepless night thrives, a Nuit Blanche filled with performers, dancers, mimes and thespians. Visual effects stimulate the eyes while music filters into the ears with tuned energy. The often-closed circuit of theatre breathes unfettered in the open night air, able to move unrestricted by conventional theatre walls. “There is… Continue reading Coming Attractions