By Noah Miller
Elephant Stone’s follow up to their Polaris Music Prize-nominated debut album The Seven Seas, The Glass Box is a likable addition to the world of indie music that ultimately fails to deliver an inspired power-pop/psyche classic. The group shunned modern recording methods in favour of an all-analog process. Despite this unique approach – which as… Continue reading Spun: Elephant Stone
By Noah Miller
Students’ Union vice-president academic Meg Martin has delivered healthy changes to the University of Calgary’s academic body with a crisp taste that is agreeable to all — much like the healthy, but sweet, taste of Oatmeal Crisp. Her tenacity brought through projects that have been long ongoing and that lagged even under her capable predecessors.… Continue reading Students’ Union year-end reviews: Meg Martin
By Noah Miller
Students heading to MacEwan Students’ Centre to mail taxes or process student loans will face disappointment and have to trek a little further with the closure of the Canada Post outlet in the basement of MacHall. “The closure of the postal outlet was not Canada Post’s choice, it was a request by the [University of… Continue reading University of Calgary post office outlet closes
By Noah Miller
Weeks of anxiety were finally relieved April 7 when Alberta Advanced Education and Technology minister Doug Horner announced the province’s acceptance, and rejection, of various tuition market modifier proposals from Alberta’s post-secondary institution. Eighteen of 24 proposals from Bow Valley College, Olds College and the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge were rejected. Proposed hikes… Continue reading Province responds to tuition proposals
By Noah Miller
Students inspired by the passion and prowess of professors and teaching assistants at the University of Calgary have turned in record nominations for the Students’ Union’s annual Teaching Excellence Awards. Â Since the awards’ inception in 1984, the SU collects nominations every year for outstanding instructors at the U of C. According to the SU… Continue reading Record nominations for teaching award
By Noah Miller
A bus-load of students from the universities of Calgary and Lethbridge joined hundreds more from the University of Alberta and descended on the steps of the provincial legislature in defiance of market modifier and compulsory fee proposals March 18. “I think it’s a really cool experience,” said Lauren Webber, U of C Students’ Union president-elect.… Continue reading Tuition protest moves to the capital
By Noah Miller
As students from the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge prepare to march on Alberta’s legislature in defiance of proposed tuition hikes, one has to wonder what effect their outcries will yield. For a government faced with a large deficit to balance and voters to sway in the wake of decreasing support, it is highly… Continue reading The validity of demonstrations
By Noah Miller
A University of Calgary student is seeking a judicial review of a university decision to place him on probation for non-academic misconduct charges regarding comments he made about a professor on Facebook. A group of students conveyed their dissatisfaction with their Fall 2007 law and society 201 professor’s teaching capabilities on the Facebook group entitled… Continue reading Controversy over Facebook comments continues
By Noah Miller
Various groups at the University of Calgary will now have access to an impartial arbitrator who has the capacity to resolve disputes between the Students’ Union, Graduate Students’ Association and the university with some real gusto. The new role, known as the ombudsperson, boasts “recognized standing” by the SU, GSA and the university along with… Continue reading Ombudsperson receives “recognized standing”
By Noah Miller
The University of Calgary’s potential loss of millions of research grant dollars due to what seems to be correctable administrative errors is, at best, laughable. An article appearing in the March 10 National Post claimed that the U of C “is on the verge of losing access to tens of millions of dollars in crucial… Continue reading Editorial: Research funding in danger