By Kim Stock
The Students’ Union President is often thought of as an ambiguous figurehead, lacking personality and a personal life: the person who struts around campus, attends banquets and formal functions, talks to the press, participates in numerous councils and meetings, and is difficult to reach unless you have his cell number. While this year’s SU President… Continue reading Southern comfort: your SU prez
The battle of the Operations and Finance candidates began this Tuesday at a candidates forum in MacEwan Student Centre. Of the four candidates running for the position of Students’ Union Vice-president Operations and Finance, all but Paul Newman attended.It came as no surprise that one of the major issues discussed was MacEwan Hall Expansion, the… Continue reading Op-Fi forum
For those of you who thought the controversy surrounding the Reform Party on Campus was over, think again.On Fri., Nov. 28 the RPOC filed an application with Alberta Court of Queens Bench for a Judicial Review of the University of Calgary Students’ Union’s decision to withhold club privileges from the Reform club. A Judicial Review… Continue reading SU goes to court
By Mary Chan
After waiting in the starting block for over five years, MacEwan Hall expansion is ready and set. All it needs is the signal to go.The Students’ Union is close to signing a contract with a contractor to begin construction on the long-anticipated multi-use facility, the first phase in a possible three-phase development plan. The contract… Continue reading Ready, set, build?
It may have only been the first series of a long season, but the Dinosaurs women’s volleyball team is already proving that the nay sayers may be wrong. With an inexperienced squad of only nine players (up from eight a few weeks ago), many insiders had already counted the Dinos out. The team isn’t going… Continue reading Youngsters nail Cougars
It may have only been the first series of a long season, but the Dinosaurs women’s volleyball team is already proving that the nay sayers may be wrong. With an inexperienced squad of only nine players (up from eight a few weeks ago), many insiders had already counted the Dinos out. The team isn’t going… Continue reading Young Dino cubs fend off cougars
The Reform Party on Campus has had their Students’ Union club privileges revoked until the end of Winter semester by the Clubs Comittee at a meeting on Wed., Oct. 28. This includes all SU grants, their office space and mailbox, and SU room and equipment rentals in MacEwan Hall and MacEwan Student Centre.Reformers used their… Continue reading Club loses privileges
Money may not buy love, but some student leaders think it may buy justice.The legal effort of students involved in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Complaints Commission investigating alleged misconduct and violations of Charter rights at last year’s Asian-Pacific Economic Conference protests in Vancouver is in danger of being bankrupted. The cost of hiring lawyers… Continue reading SU donates justice