What has and what does the Students’ Union do to ensure you are receiving outstanding instruction? Teaching Excellence Awards: Every year students nominate professors who have gone above and beyond the call of duty in their classrooms. From the nominations received a committee surveys the classes taught by these outstanding professors. At the end of… Continue reading Good Teachers + Great Instruction = Happy Students
Month: October 2004
In celebrity we trust
By Greg Ellis
It comes with no great surprise that the worshipping of any-one seems distasteful. For religion we make an exception. Religion is an abstraction, a concept of God not fitting the molding of someone. Running into Danny Heatley, the NHL’s top up and coming star at a Subway Sandwich Shop at 3:30 a.m. provided tre-mendous observational… Continue reading In celebrity we trust
The terror of the minority
By John Leung
The Speech from the Throne last week in the House of Commons is the traditional start of a new parliamentary session. For governments coming off election victories, the speech is their way of outlining what they will set out to accomplish in the first session of their newly-minted mandate. Usually, when Parliament votes on the… Continue reading The terror of the minority
Muslims were in school, too
Editor, the Gauntlet, Re: “Terror’s in the name,” September 9, 2004 The population of Beslan is mostly Muslim in its origin so many children in the school were Muslims. The Russian media tried to hide this important fact. This isn’t a question of Islam because Chechenians as well as other Muslim ethnic groups who live… Continue reading Muslims were in school, too
What he meant was…
By Greg Lang
Editor, the Gauntlet, Re: “There can only be one… election,” October 7, 2004 The article by the Gauntlet news reporter Jodde Mason reads: “I believe the Calgarian City Council about the fault that it’s a totalitarian regime”. The unevenness of this statement should suggest that it is the reporter’s mistranscription. Moreover, though, I kept a… Continue reading What he meant was…
Join the proccess
By Вen Li
In less than a week, students will go to the polls for the first time this semester. While the Students’ Union by-election does not have the same draw as the upcoming civic or provincial elections or the November election in the United States, it does offer students an opportunity to participate in a democratic process.… Continue reading Join the proccess
Hypnotize this
By Вen Li
Students may get better grades through self-hypnosis. Professor Dr. Kevin Alderson’s new book, Grade Power: The Complete Guide to Improving your Grades Through Self-Hypnosis gathers over 20 years of hypnotherapy experience and clinical data into a form students can easily apply. “It’s focused on how students can use self-hypnosis to do better at school,” said… Continue reading Hypnotize this
Geer career fair
Career Services will be hosting the Science and Engineering Career Fair on Thu., Oct. 14 in the MacEwan Hall Ballroom from 12-4 p.m. With 44 exhibitors and 12 sponsors, this year’s event is shaping up to be one of the biggest fairs Career Services has held. The Career Fair is not to be confused with… Continue reading Geer career fair
CMSS lecture series on today’s terrorism
By Josh LaVoie
If there is one thing that virtually everyone has an opinion on, it’s terrorism. With nearly limitless theories on the roots and justifications for terrorism, along with its potential cures, making sense of it has proved difficult for many scholars. That is however exactly what the University of Calgary Center for Military and Strategic Studies… Continue reading CMSS lecture series on today’s terrorism
Festival promises Palestinian viewpoint
By Kyle Francis
It looks as if October is shaping up to be the month of film festivals centered around the Middle East conflict. Following hot on the heels of the Israeli Film Festival comes the Canada Palestinian Film Festival, sponsored by CanPalNetCalgary. Proclaiming itself to “offer Canadians with a rare opportunity to see first-hand the humanity of… Continue reading Festival promises Palestinian viewpoint