By Bryan West
With another round of maximum tuition hikes on the way, combined with the latest news of university-wide budget cuts, undergrads should be feeling in a fairly un-agreeable mood as of late. I mean honestly, sometimes it’s all enough to make you want to slam your hand in a waffle iron. Why-oh-why does it seem that… Continue reading Tuition, Budget Cuts, Fee increases… and all that other Bull-$#@!
By Amanda VanSteelandt and Tanya DeLyzer
With week six of soccer action coming to a close, the Dinos men stand in fifth place with only two wins under their belt. The second win came Fri., Oct. 15, courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies, again. The Huskies’ Jordan Schidlowsky scored first at the 22 minute mark, leaving the Dinos to take… Continue reading Soccer and snow?
The University of Calgary is moving forward with broad new environmental sustainability initiatives, though specific proposals remain undefined. U of C Vice-President of Finance and Services Mike McAdam commissioned Campus Infrastructure to start an ongoing report examining sustainability issues. According to Steve Dantzer, Director of Campus Infrastructure, the first report outlines eight focus areas for… Continue reading Blueprint for a green campus
Environmental sustainability is rapidly becoming a significant issue as it is examined everywhere from corporate boardrooms and city councils, to the University of Calgary Administration and Students’ Union. According to SU Vice-President Operations and Finance Greg Clayton, a sustainability report has been commissioned by the U of C to examine environmental policy on campus with… Continue reading New campus sustainability initiatives
By Alan Cho
The sky was like damp concrete, sprinkled with the cobalt shards of a gin bottle tossed away by someone who had long moved on to more temperate climates. Men and women, disheveled and rumpled, shuffled to late meetings or classes. They will apologetically mouth the words “traffic” and offer a helpless shrug to the person… Continue reading Shisha and donair
We’re #9, which is better than not being ranked at all to those of you snickering. After a 5-4 win coupled with a 7-0 romp the following night, the Dinos vaulted to ninth spot in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport top ten rankings, and moved into sole possession of second place in Canada West’s Mountain Division. Led… Continue reading Hockeysaurs dole out beatings like candy
Let’s say everyone at the University of Calgary is on a hockey team. In theory, we win as a team and lose as a team. Now, what would we do if we looked sluggish compared to the other teams, failed to show improvement, and cost more than we did last year for the same results?Two… Continue reading Sports and Maclean’s
By Nils Kolson
In the 1980s the U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop made the following comments to the Western Psychiatric Institution and Clinic about digital games and the nature of young players. “Children… are into the games body and soul–everything is zapping the enemy. Children get to a point where they see another child being molested by… Continue reading Digital Games and Violence: are games really that bad?
By Adam Goetz
A dirty little girl seeks out a “magical cleaning liquid” to rid herself of her unsightly soiled clothing and hopeless transient life. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? When in fact this short plays out like a Javex endorsement by mother goose. All that came to my mind after watching this was “what the fuck,” closely followed… Continue reading How Beatrice Came Clean
Male Athlete of the Year:David Kooperberg 2-1Jamie Elliott 4-1 Chad Murray 6-1Lincoln Blumell 15-2Brian Newmarch 1000-1Female Athlete of the Year:Amanda Moppett 3-1Jessica Zelinka 7.5-2Kristy Cameron 8-1Erin Gammel 8-1Katie Lee 12-1Male Rookie of the Year:Geoff Kerr 2-1Alex Andrews 5-2Adam Onulov 10-1Huy Nguyen 23-2 Female Rookie of the Year:Janelle Findlay 3-2Alexandra Lys 5-1Steph Hoogveld 8-1Mike Attersall 1000-1—… Continue reading Odds and ends for Night of the Dino