Tag: Voice

By Adam McArthur

Let’s say everyone at the University of Calgary is on a hockey team. In theory, we win as a team and lose as a team. Now, what would we do if we looked sluggish compared to the other teams, failed to show improvement, and cost more than we did last year for the same results?Two… Continue reading Sports and Maclean’s

By John Leung

Last week, myself (along with some members of the Political Science Association) were fortuitous enough to have had the chance to billet a bunch of university students from Leiden in the Netherlands. In speaking with the Dutch students, I noticed something very fundamentally different between their European attitudes and our increasingly American attitudes.On the day… Continue reading PSA perspectives

By John Leung

Thirteen years ago, I was a little boy fresh off the plane. I had come to Canada from Hong Kong when my parents decided to come here to pursue better prospects. The one thing I remembered hearing from friends about Canada was something called snow. Being a six-year-old, I thought it must be like ice… Continue reading Snow getting used to it

By Meraj Abedin

Rising American casualties in occupied Iraq dominate the daily news. Extensive coverage of American combat deaths monopolize headlines, causing a PR nightmare for the White House and providing political capital for the American opposition.Missing from the picture is the fate of the common Iraqi. Little is said of the thousands of Iraqis killed and maimed… Continue reading Iraq’s unknown and unseen dead

By Salima Bhanji

Last Halloween, I was a butterfly. This Halloween, I was a secretary who was sleeping with her boss. Somewhere between the two Octobers, something happened. I’m not sure what it was, and I’m trying to figure it out. Halloween is originally a Celtic tradition, a festival in which the living communicated with the dead in… Continue reading Spreading your wings

By Phil Bird

Mention heroes and the pages of a comic book come to mind, the Hollywood-ized testosterone-teeming movie star or the sword-swinging farmboy from the latest fantasy novel. Personally I’ve loved each thoroughly. Perhaps it’s because I’m a farmboy myself or because I’ve always had a taste for the fantastic, but the idea of a superhero draws… Continue reading Leaving an impression

By Adam McArthur

There is a point in everyone’s life where we either go with what we think is right, or what we think is popular. Whether it’s the first day of high school and you’re too “fly,” “hip,” or “dope” for your previous crew or you stuck up for your buddy, for no other reason than they… Continue reading Changing with the times

By Tash McKenzie

Bars, booze and good times are what the Saturday night party crowd know all too well, but what happens when the typical Saturday night ends with a visit to the emergency room? It’s a case that is becoming all too common: drugs slipped into drinks. It reinforces the cardinal rule of the bar–never leave a… Continue reading The horror of date rape

By John Leung

Many do not believe the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance should not unite into a single party. I have to ask, why not? What does the Canadian right have to lose? Since 1987, the right has been fractured by the formation of the Reform Party. This fracture was made into a complete break after… Continue reading Survival of the merger

By Mark Hopkins

For the past two weeks, walking from my parking space to school, I’ve passed a shattered Kokanee bottle on the sidewalk. There’s nothing particularly special about it, just shards of brown glass pushed up against a wall. But it makes me think. Here’s what I think happened. A small group of university students decide going… Continue reading Your actions matter