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By Kris Kotarski

We’re back with another edition of Bizarro Sports. Important note: this is all made up! So to the wrestlers, the Whites, and anyone else involved, thanks in advance for playing along. We love you, and we couldn’t have done it without you. – Gauntlet Sports Staff Students at the University of Calgary were flabbergasted Mon.… Continue reading Bizarro Sports: Wrestlers solve campus problems

When DeVry Institute of Technology was granted the right to grant university baccalaureates in three degree programs, it became the first institution in Alberta not recognized as a university to hold this privilege. In the weeks passed since then, members of the academic community have stressed a fine philosophical difference between a university and a… Continue reading "A degree is a public good, not a commodity"

By Editorial

The DeVry Institute of Technology was, until recently, famous for only one thing–truly awful TV commercials in which NASA gofers and helicopter pilots profess to be "serious about success." DeVry will now also be known as the first for-profit post-secondary institution in Canada to earn degree-granting status.As of Jan. 31, 2001, DeVry will compete with… Continue reading DeVry’s “duh”gree

By Ruth Davenport

Private, for-proÞt universities may soon be a reality in Alberta. On Jan. 31, Alberta Minister of Learning Dr. Lyle Oberg awarded degree-granting status to three programs offered by DeVry Institute of Technology. "If you look at it in isolation, it may not mean a lot, I mean it’s just three degrees that are out there,"… Continue reading DeVry can grant degrees

By Neal Ozano

After four student attempts to amend the tuition increase amount, the University of Calgary’s Board of Governors voted for a 3.7 per cent increase against the wishes of student BoG representatives. As a result, students will pay an additional $141 per year for 10 courses. Graduate students will pay $159 more per term. There was… Continue reading Tuition up $141 next year

By David Kenney

Alix D’Archangelo isn’t really bitter. Feb. 14 looms and the fashion-savvy Students’ Union Vice-president Events is single but she’s decidedly relaxed on her lack of a caveman, er, boyfriend. "I’m not bitter about being single, just bitter in general," laughs D’Archangelo. For the third year in a row, the bitter and unaffected have a temporary… Continue reading Love Stinks

By Neal Ozano

Most student representatives agree that Wednesday’s town hall meeting in the MacEwan Hall Ballroom was more a token gesture than anything else. The meeting, intended to give students an opportunity to voice their concerns about tuition to administration, strayed from the mark–covering everything from faculty retention to wheelchair accessibility. After 30 minutes of administration reports,… Continue reading Town Hall a “token gesture”

By James Keller

As MacEwan Hall expansion pushes forward, CJSW’s future location is up in the air. "My understanding was that we were always going to move, [but] that remains to be seen," said CJSW station manager Chad Saunders. He pointed out that in the original referendum regarding MacEwan Hall expansion in 1995, the Students’ Union used CJSW… Continue reading CJSW not moving anytime soon

By Ruth Davenport

The lowest potential tuition increase in over a decade has given a Board of Governors member cause to cry foul. "I think a 3.7 per cent increase is a disgrace," declared Drew Brown, undergraduate representative to the Board of Governors. "It’s a number members of the Students’ Union picked as the number they would like… Continue reading BoG rep attacks tuition increase