By Barb Wright
If you check the weather channel you will discover that hell has not, in fact, frozen over. But lo and behold on Wed., Jan. 23, MacEwan Hall opened. It is a saga that has seen six Students’ Union executives, three university Presidents, and more frustrated Gauntlet writers than you can fit into the Den. What… Continue reading Why MacEwan Hall took so damn long to build
This week, with the departure of the Christmas season for another year, we look at a very unique woman, a woman who has taught us about the “good things” in life. Pots and pans become nervous whenever this lady enters a room. The very mention of her name sends normally calm craft supplies running for… Continue reading Martha Stewart: Living?
By Editorial
It appears a shiny new appearance is not all that’s different about the Den. In case you haven’t seen the other articles in this week’s Gauntlet, drinking time has now been cut back by a full hour each night in response to violent-although not necessarily drunk-Den patrons.The most recent of these incidents involved the beating… Continue reading A new curfew
By Phil Serchuk
With the ratings for Survivor: Africa at an all-time low, many new reality shows have been placed on the backburner. Production has been halted on many new reality TV shows originally slated to air in 2002/03. Reality series such as NBC’s "Home Alone: Real Kids, Real Homes" and Disney’s "Lost in the Magic Kingdom" have… Continue reading Who wants to be a porno star?
It was about midnight on a warm summer night and I was sitting at the Elephant and Castle Pub with the newly elected Students’ Union President Barb Wright. Joining us were Gauntlet photographer Cory Bass and Toby White–Barb’s predecessor atop the throne of campus politics. We were talking about Dinos basketball star Leighann Doan, who… Continue reading History Supplement Introduction
I commend the Gauntlet for preparing a special supplement on the history of the University of Calgary. Universities are creatures of history and this university is no exception. As I have discovered as the new President, the U of C has a fascinating history and one that is longer than most would expect.Recently we marked… Continue reading Presidential address
By Wendy Maloff
The following is my adventure attempting to find the history of the University of Calgary Students’ Union. The voyage started on Monday afternoon, with a copy deadline looming large. I commenced my search for the deep dark secrets of the SU in the most obvious of places–the SU’s own offices.I was expecting to find an… Continue reading The SU: Decades of disorganized dissent
During its brief 35 years as an established post-secondary institution, the University of Calgary has seen its fair share of lawlessness and disorder, culminating sometimes in organized mischief and sometimes in disaster.By far, the engineers take the cake as the most innovative and gleefully evil group of students on campus. The 1988 tale of a… Continue reading A history of horrified laughter
August 2, 1990 Crop circles were found in a field west of campus now owned by the university. Campus Security believed the circles were a local fraternity prank, but others, such as Dr. Roger Jackson of the Canadian Olympic Association said, “The circles appear to be a crude attempt to replicate the Calgary 88 logo.”… Continue reading The ’90s: Presidential musical chairs
Earlier this week, the Globe and Mail published an eight page supplement that does more harm than good to the perception of education in this country. Over 330,000 people subscribe to Canada’s national newspaper of record and it claims a readership of approximately two million. Three times this year, the paper has published a "special… Continue reading Visual Abuse