By Kyle Young
It used to be that nuclear weapons were tools of diplomacy, something superpowers could sit on as assurance that anyone foolish enough to invade wouldn’t survive the encounter. However, as the world continues to develop, more nations are going to obtain nuclear capabilities, superpowers or not. Such is the case with India and Pakistan.Nuclear weapons… Continue reading Nuclear Toy Story
By Kyle Young
This CD belongs in your collection now, so you won’t have to go digging through HMV later when they’re selling out venues down the road.Even if this release had been their third or fourth, Headstrong’s self-titled debut would still manage to impress. With a heavy rock sound reminiscent of Rage Against The Machine, minus the… Continue reading Headstrong, Self-titled
By Kyle Young
Students are in for a treat this Friday, and it has nothing to do with the end of classes. The University of Calgary will host the Tea Party this week as they hit Calgary on the promotional tour of their latest album, The Interzone Mantras. According to bass/keyboard/harmonium player Stuart Chatwood, Tea Party wil be… Continue reading Tea Party’s newfound mantra
By Kyle Young
Students are in for a treat this week when special guest lecturer Zen Master Ooh comes to campus. Master Ooh is giving a presentation to students on the chi of that most primal human past-time, sex.In particular, Master Ooh will address the concerns of the female campus population as Bermuda Shorts Day approaches, as many… Continue reading Master Ooh will
By Kyle Young
We can now all wave good-bye to Stockwell Day with a sigh of relief more collective than a mandate from CPIRG. Without a doubt, it’s a positive thing for right wingers everywhere that wetsuit boy has taken his jet ski and driven off into the sunset. However, the looming question remains: will Harper be able… Continue reading Wetsuit replaced by sound conservatism
By Kyle Young
Disclaimer: This is the humour section. We know CPIRG are not really like the Borg, and no, Canada is not putting warnings on religious items. (But Harvey should still get dreadlocks.)In a move expected to further fan the flames of the Calgary Public Interest Research Group controversy, the quasi-socialist grouping has decided to do something… Continue reading All will be beautificated
By Kyle Young
It’s coming. Like a looming shadow, Calgary is beginning to sense the approach of something very much larger than itself, the Group of Eight summit. Soon our campus will be flooded by activists from all over the world in their globalized effort to halt globalization. We will bear witness to the violence of European anarchists,… Continue reading Flawed democracy
Editor, the Gauntlet,Re: "Cult of the anti-chic," Feb. 28, 2002,Kyle Young clearly needs to give his head a shake. To equate non-conformist, anti-establishment, activists with those who are hardcore Gap consumers is a travesty. More often than Young realizes, people who hold these beliefs hold them for good reasons, not just because the clothing style… Continue reading Not a Gap fan
By Kyle Young
It’s truly interesting to sit back and observe the droves of social malcontents. Like some freakish exhibit at a poorly kept zoo, these strange creatures of counterculture shrink from the lights of inquiry only to pounce when we are no longer mindful of their presence.Yes, the nonconformist is truly an interesting specimen.Often hard pressed to… Continue reading Cult of the anti-chic
By Kyle Young
Zionism. Homosexuality. Nazism. War. America. Terrorism. Abortion. Feminism. Communism. What do these terms have in common? They each possess the rare quality of eliciting anger in the general public, which itself is nothing special. However, the power of these words is that regardless of what is said about them, a visible slice of the population… Continue reading Political correctness: a socially destructive force