By Alan Cho
If your planning a ritual sacrifice on campus, don’t bother doing it in those drab cookie-cutter buildings. Praise your pagan god in style in one of the fabulous buildings belonging to the faculties with money. Slit the throat of a virgin goat in the Haskayne School of Business’ Scurfield Hall. While you’re there, visit the… Continue reading DAY TRIP: Scurfield Hall, ICT, Engineering
By Alan Cho
The barbed wire fence and machine guns have been replaced with goats and pine trees that now decorate this picturesque mountain landscape. KFS hasn’t always been this friendly field station. Back in WWII, it served as an internment camp for German and Italian prisoners of wars and before that, it was a slave camp. But… Continue reading DAY TRIP: Kananaskis Field Station
By Natalie Sit
Located 50 clicks southwest of the campus, stands the RAO. The rolling hills of Priddis, Alberta hide the jewel of the astrophysics department, founded in 1972. Three ‘scopes dwell there: the 16" f20/f5 optical telescope, the Alexander R. Cross (Infrared) telescope and the Baker-Nunn Camera. RAO also has showers and sleeping facilities for sleepovers. They’re… Continue reading DAY TRIP: Rothney Astrophysical Observatory
Lowly University has dug into its archives to unearth these gems. • Frequent Campus Rec users have been known to carry stinky sneakers and still-damp-and-getting-very-moldy bathing suits to and from school, squished into their backpacks along with textbooks and peanut butter sandwiches. Instead of creating a thriving ecosystem in your backpack, get a locker with… Continue reading TIPS: Helpful and tidy
The Students’ Union General Fee ($33.00 FT / $14.50 PT) This fee pays for MacEwan Student Centre and subsidize the operating costs of the SU. NUTV ($3.50 FT / $3.25 PT) This fee is used for general operating expenses of the student television station. CJSW ($4.00 FT / $4.00 PT) This fee helps to pay… Continue reading SU FEES: What the hell are you paying for?
By Alan Cho
Accidentally snack on a urinal cake while completely hammered on Tibetan mushrooms and vodka? Has a hamster burrowed up your rectum during a frosh week stunt? Sounds like you could use a visit to the Foothills Hospital. Just walk in and announce you’re a University of Calgary student, because the U of C and the… Continue reading DAY TRIP: Foothills Hospital