Month: January 2007

Letter: A Rebuttal

By Robert Schmiel

Editor, the Gauntlet, [Re: “The Muslim,” letter, Dec. 7, 2006.] Fact is evidently an unfamiliar concept to Allison Dube. Mr. Dube criticizes my letter on Sarah Malik’s article series, “The Muslim,” for “faulting her for writing something she was not trying to write”–a “history of Islam.” In fact, the lead paragraph on the first instalment… Continue reading Letter: A Rebuttal

Letter: Insensitive

By Anonymous

Editor, the Gauntlet, [Re: comic strip, Dec. 7, 2006] In the current copy of the Gauntlet, the back page features a comic strip with two people making “your momma so fat…” jokes. In the third frame, a third character enters holding a bloody severed head and says “your momma so fat, she couldn’t run away.”… Continue reading Letter: Insensitive

Letter: An Open Letter To Weingarten

By Nic David

President Weingarten, On Dec., 18, 2006, my “expense report”–actually a travel advance–was approved by PeopleSoft and so ended a year’s frustration, my and many others’ time wasted, worry that I might have to find $6,000 out of my pension and, most seriously, interference with my research. In late 2005 PeopleSoft staff had entered a travel… Continue reading Letter: An Open Letter To Weingarten

Editorial: Carleton student union aborts free speech

By Jon Roe

Carleton University students opened up a can of Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms worms in December after passing legislation denying certain types of clubs funding, though whose rights are being violated is in question. On Dec. 5 the Carleton University Students’ Association voted 25 to 6 in favour of a motion banning all groups… Continue reading Editorial: Carleton student union aborts free speech

Spun: Threat Signal

By David Haney

Arriving about two years too late to the thrash-metal party, Ontario’s Threat Signal have delivered a dated but solid effort with their album Under Reprisal. Unfortunately, the album suffers from “sameoldshit-itis” since everything here can be heard in countless other thrash-metal albums by countless other thrash-metal bands. Though swimming in an oversaturated sea, the album… Continue reading Spun: Threat Signal

Spun: Milburn

By Darren Young

Milburn are not strikingly different from any other indie band. The band is young, has four members, good fashion sense, and basic knowledge about playing rock music. Pending an eventual iPod sponsorship, Milburn has everything lined up. What artistic merit could they possibly have, then? Well Well Well, Milburn’s debut album, shows a great deal… Continue reading Spun: Milburn

Spun: Meat Loaf

By Darren Young

Meat Loaf has been fighting a downhill-slide his whole career. This is not uncommon for an artist responsible for a highly influential album such as Bat Out of Hell. Determined to recreate his past successes, Meat Loaf has now released a third Bat Out of Hell–the uphill battle rages on. Besides the legal troubles and… Continue reading Spun: Meat Loaf

Blood and gore is awesome! Coheed and Cambria rock out.

By Darren Young

Claudio Sanchez has an entire universe growing in his head, and some speculate that there are several galaxies hidden in his wild mane of hair. Sanchez understands the immense proportions his fictional world has grown to, and is expanding to new mediums to express his lofty thoughts. Not only has he seen success in the… Continue reading Blood and gore is awesome! Coheed and Cambria rock out.