By Ryan Pike
Much like her namesake cereal, Special K, vice-president external Kay She provided the students of the University of Calgary some delicious results during her term. More important than what she delivered, though, was what her efforts represented for students. Much of She’s year was dominated by the tuition issue. While the initial tuition revelation found… Continue reading Students’ Union year-end reviews: Kay She
Joey Brocke’s term as vice-president operations and finance is best compared to mini-wheats cereal, delicious frosting on one side that disappears on the other half. During his first semester, Brocke’s major accomplishment was a complete overhaul of the Students’ Union governance structure which saw executive commissioners move from elected to hired positions, faculty representatives become… Continue reading Students’ Union year-end reviews: Joey Brocke
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
Count Chocula has always been the leader of the breakfast cereal underworld. With an interesting sense of style and a strong desire to be sustainable (that’s why he switched from blood to chocolate) the Count has used some stellar communication skills to keep his minions in line. While Students’ Union president Charlotte Kingston may not… Continue reading Students’ Union year-end reviews: Charlotte Kingston
Despite the best efforts of the Students’ Union to offer reasonable arguments, alternatives and compromises, the University of Calgary Board of Governors voted April 12 to impose a new $450 compulsory fee and raise tuition in business programs in an effort to ease the operating deficit. The morning meeting started with presentations that listed a… Continue reading New U of C compulsory fee next year
I bought a slate-style tablet pc for school last summer in an attempt to keep organized notes after my note-taking mess of last year. Similar to Apple’s upcoming iPad, it has no keyboard or touchpad, but instead, users interact directly with the screen. Even though it was built in 2003, it has roughly the same… Continue reading Technobyte: Touchy-Feely Tech
By Douglas Long
March was an exceptionally busy month for three hopeful University of Calgary Dinos football stars. Erik Glavic, Deji Oduwole and Anthony Woodson participated in the Canadian Football League evaluation camp in Toronto March 12-14. The evaluation camp is invite only and featuring Canadian football players from Canadian Interuniversity Sport and NCAA universities. The skills camp… Continue reading U of C football players show their stuff at CFL combine
By Jon Roe
The Dinos celebrated a year of three national championships and numerous external awards with their own annual awards night Tuesday at the Red and White Club. The Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship-winning Dinos swim team swept the women’s side of the major awards, taking both the Dr. Dennis Kadatz award for athlete of the year… Continue reading Dinos hand out hardware
March 23 started as an ordinary day for Dinos goaltender Nathan Deobald. He got up early to go to work and then headed off to attend class at the University of Calgary, where he is a drama student. As class started, he politely turned the ringer off his cell phone and tucked it away in… Continue reading Dinos goalie gets NHL cup of coffee, best seat in the house
By Colin Minor
Cyclists at the university be wary, a noxious infection is spreading through the bicycle community. The virus is known as hard court bike polo, and has infected and made host of the Bike Root. Bike Polo has been replicating rapidly on campus since late March. The virus has been shown to transform mild mannered commuters… Continue reading Bike polo virus spreads to U of C