Expanding from the doorway of your university career are two distinct culinary highways, cheap or almost cheap. It’s our duty to guide you on your journey because, frankly, your whole identity will be shaped by if you eat, what you eat, and where you eat it. Route 1: The Low Road The mainstream, "Starving Student"… Continue reading A student studies on his/her stomach
Tag: Facts For The Visitor
The only two bookstores on campus
By James Keller
If you’re attending the University of Calgary, don’t get your proverbial knickers in a knot over buying textbooks. With the right know-how and a little sleuthing, not only will your book buying be trouble-free, you can also save a few bucks along the way. You’re really stuck with two options: the university-run new bookstore, or… Continue reading The only two bookstores on campus
Note to permanent visitors
There are many perils at University of Calgary besides the swamps and man-eating wallabies. This section will highlight tools and resources you can employ to successfully navigate the wilderness of U of C. It’s going to be a long four plus years.
Campus Lore: It’s all completely true
By James Keller
The history of the University of Calgary is laden with myths, stories, and urban legends. Some are seedy, some are funny, others just plain bizarre. And, as with anything odd on campus, many involve the inexplicably eerie behaviour of engineers. The engineering faculty seems a good place to start, giving birth to many pieces of… Continue reading Campus Lore: It’s all completely true
Health and Dental Plan
By Natalie Sit
Being a student serf is a tough gig, but through the minor government of the Students’ Union, you too can have perfect teeth and a massaged back. Full-time undergraduate students are eligible to use the SU Health and Dental Plan, provided by Gallivan & Associates. You pay $51.50 per semester and receive such benefits as… Continue reading Health and Dental Plan
Academic Appeal is not appealing
By Вen Li
At the University of Calgary, there is but one academic justice system, with a bureaucratic system of layers which tends to confuse the appellant student. Fortunately, the regime lacked the creativity of some of its neighbors in designing its appeals system, and much of it is modeled on a simple pattern. For minor issues such… Continue reading Academic Appeal is not appealing
Health Services
While some of the more obvious destinations at the University of Calgary involve classrooms and laboratories, that doesn’t make the role of University Health Services (MSC 370) any less vital. Keeping this bustling metropolis of students working efficiently are the doctors, chiropractors and massage therapists of Health Services. However, this is yet another part of… Continue reading Health Services
Slack like a butterfly, study like a bee
By Jeff Kubik
Like the yin and the yang, studying and slacking are two integral components of the same equation. On the one hand, while you’re intelligent enough to enter the wonderful world of post-secondary, you are by means intelligent enough to ignore your readings and drink your days away. On the other hand, you don’t want to… Continue reading Slack like a butterfly, study like a bee
Campus Media: Informing the masses
By Alan Cho
Your time has come. No longer do you shuffle through the drab walls of high school in a stupor you wished was drug induced. It is time to awake and spit out the ball gag of silence given to you by an anonymous public education system. At the University of Calgary, you have a voice… Continue reading Campus Media: Informing the masses