By Gram Lawn
Editor, the Gauntlet, I recently witnessed a bench-clearing brawl during an intramural basketball game in the Jack Simpson Gymnasium. It took the poor referees three tries to calm things down. I had never seen anything like it before in a lifetime of sports participation. Ironically, I had just been thinking that intramural basketball didn’t seem… Continue reading Letter: intramural violence
Editor, the Gauntlet, Tristan Taylor’s article [“Canada as a get out of jail free card,” April 9] makes the false assertion that Mohammed Kohail is of a split Canadian-Saudi Citizenship. From all the facts that I could gather, Kohail, although once a resident of Saudi Arabia, is of Palestinian origin. Saudi Arabia’s naturalization process is… Continue reading Letter: One con…
By Roibert Newman, MD, MPH, Director
Editor, the Gauntlet, Congratulations to Ms. Rooseboom for her comments on the methadone clinic site controversy [“Marauding on Methadone,” April 9]. In communities throughout North America the problem of narcotic addiction is very real and has catastrophic consequences for the users and the public at large. How counter-intuitive and counter-productive to fight against services that… Continue reading Letter: One Pro…
Editor, the Gauntlet, In December, just before exams, I held a bake sale entitled “Love in Africa” in Science Theatres. All the money raised from this sale will be used to enhance children’s educational opportunities and help people achieve sustainability in Tanzania and Rwanda. I will be taking the money to these countries and using… Continue reading Letter: Thank you, Hillel
Editor, the Gauntlet, In light of the scandal besieging our province’s energy regulator, the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, one would think the provincial government would feel duty-bound to eliminate such antidemocratic practices. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case. Even in the face of scathing reports from the Privacy Commissioner and Justice Del… Continue reading Letter: Letter to the Editor
Editor, the Gauntlet, [Re: “Administration fails U of C 101,” Editorial Sep. 7, 2007.] As one of the many student volunteers who worked on U of C 101 this past week, I am appalled by the article written about the program in the Sep. 6 issue of the Gauntlet. I understand that in past years… Continue reading U of C 101 all that and a bucket of wings
By J. Hind
Editor, the Gauntlet, The start of another school year reminds us how horribly inadequate our university really is. The University of Calgary is sadly lacking in some of the most basic student services and facilities resulting in the endless numbers of lineups, overcrowded classrooms, lack of student housing and residences, lack of resources in a… Continue reading Letter: Be angry, dammit!
Editor, the Gauntlet, I was due to give a plenary address to the Student Conference of the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics at 1:40 p.m. Monday, May 27. I don’t have a car, so I took a taxi over to the MacEwan conference Centre, arriving at 1:20 p.m. Much to my horror, the site… Continue reading Letter: Benevolence!
Editor, the Gauntlet, Kudos to Mr. Sieppert for engaging in the climate change discussion and providing his views on university education [Bruce Sieppert, “Fact or Fiction?” Apr. 6, 2007]. We believe that both are of critical importance. As H.G. Wells said, “human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” Mr. Sieppert’s… Continue reading Letter: Climatolicious!
Editor, the Gauntlet, [Re: “Fact or Fiction?“, Bruce Sieppert, Apr. 6, 2007] Earlier this semester I was invited by one of my colleagues to give a lecture on the topic of climate change in Geophysics 375. Prior to this lecture there had been an opportunity for students in the class to view the movie An… Continue reading Letter: More climate fun!