If you’re reading this, it’s safe to assume you are indeed a Chilean miner. Welcome fellow subterranean excavation enthusiast, we have much to discuss. By the Internet’s standards, four months is a very long time. Remember the vuvuzela? That delightful South African noise-maker which annoyed all of us for most of the World Cup? How… Continue reading The summer fruits of the Internet
Results for "the SU"
We found 14753 results for your search.
The suit against responsibility
It is impossible to deny that Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is an enormous problem. Nor that it demands swift and serious action. The question of how to address it, though, is not so clear. Speaking to the CBC earlier this week, a pediatrician from Prince George suggested that class action lawsuits should be filed on… Continue reading The suit against responsibility
Letter from the SU prez: Why Campus Pro-Life was de-sanctioned
By Dalmy Baez
The Campus Pro-Life club was recently de-sanctioned by the Students’ Union. As President of the Students’ Union I am writing to explain why. For the past few years Campus Pro-Life has run an event called the Genocide Awareness Project which features displays of aborted fetuses, victims of the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide among other… Continue reading Letter from the SU prez: Why Campus Pro-Life was de-sanctioned
Letter: Response from the SU
By Dalmy Baez
Editor, the Gauntlet, I am writing in response to the piece in last week’s Gauntlet titled: “The SU’s woeful tales of tuition [Jon Roe, Jan. 15].” There were a few issues you raised that were valuable and which I take as constructive criticism with hope that our organization can learn from them. I do regret… Continue reading Letter: Response from the SU
The SU’s woeful tales of tuition
By Jon Roe
The last day of classes for the fall semester was the big day of the tuition vote for the University of Calgary’s Board of Governors and though the result is always the same (the BOG approving a tuition raise for as much as they possibly can, which is now limited to the inflation rate), the… Continue reading The SU’s woeful tales of tuition
Violence on the sub-continent
Sadly, the fevered rumours of violence in India are not just the fantasies of malarial dreams. They are the all-too-real reports resulting from a rapidly-industrializing state’s struggles with development and the desperately impoverished that are being left out. Maharshtra is the most economically viable state in India. Home to Mumbai (Bombay), it is also rapidly… Continue reading Violence on the sub-continent
SU View: The SU weighs in on provincial election results
By Mike Selnes
On Mon., Mar. 3, Albertans went to the polls and with overwhelming support elected the provincial Conservative government to another term in office. With the ballots counted, Calgary will be represented by 18 Conservatives and 5 Liberals when the legislature opens later this month. Once again our university riding will be represented by Liberal Harry… Continue reading SU View: The SU weighs in on provincial election results
Heath Ledger rides off into the sunset
By Ryan Pike
As a wanna-be journalist, there’s nothing so great as having a story fall into your lap. This space was originally going to be used, as promised last week, to comb over the tentative agreement between the Directors Guild of America and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Agreed to on Tue., Jan. 22,… Continue reading Heath Ledger rides off into the sunset
Spun: The Summerlad
By Ryan Pike
Ambition is a tricky thing. In the music world, ambition manifests itself as doing something longer, smarter or better than before. For Calgary-based rockers The Summerlad, their latest album, City of Noise, represents their most ambitious release to date. The album features a mere two of songs and lasts almost 45 minutes. City of Noise… Continue reading Spun: The Summerlad
The sun be rising and setting
By Amanda Hu
“Everyone in the band has a lot of different interests and influences and backgrounds and then when we put that all together, it’s kind of like a stew,” says multi-instrumentalist Michael Doerksen of his band Sunset Rubdown. “Like, [putting] a blues riff against a prog riff, you’re just creating a stew of genres that hopefully… Continue reading The sun be rising and setting