By Jon Roe
The Pandas are in bamboo heaven. After taking away the women’s volleyball Canada West championship from the University of Manitoba Bisons the previous weekend, the University of Alberta Pandas followed it up with a four-set Canadian Interuniversity Sport championship win over the Université de Laval Rouge et Or in Calgary Sat., Mar. 3. The title… Continue reading CIS recap: Pandas win, Laval fails to repeat
By Jon Roe
The daring Dinos had their dreams destroyed as the glorious gold was grabbed out of their grasp, like a colossal carcass crashing to the court. The Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s volleyball championships took place Mar. 1-3 at the Jack Simpson Gym, and the University of Calgary volleysaurs’ chance at gold evaporated in the hands of… Continue reading Women’s Volleyball: Volleysaurs served a side of bronze
While most University of Calgary students spent their reading week lounging on the couch or trying to best their friend in a spirited round of Wii Sports boxing, the Dinos’ Rugby team had a different kind of vacation. They flew 19 hours to Thailand to partake in a rugby tournament, endure a 55 degree temperature… Continue reading Thailand, tackling and tuk-tuks
The average student is withering away under the dreadful pressure of having to finish four tests, six labs, two art projects and a combined 45 pages of term-papers within the next six weeks- and that’s without discussing the average engineer’s workload. Those poor souls won’t see the beautiful rays of spring sunshine before June. As… Continue reading This Week On The Internet: Decrease productivity tenfold!
There’s a growing trend in Canada–environmental awareness. It wasn’t too long ago that environmental issues were seen as the responsibility of one or two “eco-friendly” clubs or advocacy organizations. But as the song goes–the times, they are changing. In recent years there has been a renewed national and global awareness on how we can all… Continue reading SU View: Get set for Enviropolooza taking place March 12-16!
By Paul Jarvey
Israel week culminated last Thursday in a screening of Obsession, a controversial film—I hesitate to call it a documentary—about violent Islamic extremism and the apparent conflict of ideals between the Islamic and Christian traditions. Don’t let this fool you into thinking the film has its feet in a solid debate about a clash of civilizations.… Continue reading Deconstructing Obsession
By Emily Senger
Women around the globe have been celebrating International Women’s Day in some form since its inception in the United States in 1909, and as Thur., Mar. 8 approaches, both male and female critics abound, proclaiming the day has become unnecessary as women’s battles have all been won. It is true that in the last 100… Continue reading Breaking the silence on domestic violence
[Editor’s note: Seeing as you all are too content with the status quo to write letters, we’ve decided to show you kids how it’s done with an excerpt from some insanity of days of yore. Evidently drug culture was still in full siwng in 1978]Editor, the Gauntlet, [“No sense in nonsense,” Fri., Mar. 17, 1978.]… Continue reading Letter: An oldie but a goodie!
Pull out the old Axis of Evil checklist, because the world has a new boogeyman. That’s right, the bastion of neutrality known as Switzerland has joined the ranks of rogue states. The reality of the burgeoning evil empire recently became clear with an act of unbridled aggression as they invaded neighboring principality, Liechtenstein. What’s so… Continue reading Time’s up, Switzerland
There is no doubt print media is in a time of upheaval and change. With Internet news, film documentary, blogging and YouTube, people are getting their information in radically different ways than even a decade ago. The concept of journalism as a watchdog on traditional power centers has been all but washed away for a… Continue reading Editorial: Journalism lite