After bringing 53 years of diversity, culture and a collection of sound to the ears of radio listeners, CJSW will launch its 24th funding drive this Friday at 9 a.m. Some perks for those donating include new swag, live bands and a $25 Friends of CJSW card which gives people discounts at select Calgary businesses.… Continue reading CJSW annual funding drive begins again
Month: October 2008
Astronomer leaves his mark in the sky
By Daniel Pagan
Thanks to an accidental discovery, there is now a comet named after a University of Calgary professor flying though space. U of C research associate and asteroid hunter Rob Cardinal was searching a patch of sky near the North Celestial Pole for asteroids in early October. Using the re-furbished Baker-Nunn telescope, Cardinal took images of… Continue reading Astronomer leaves his mark in the sky
Travelling in time with CJSW
CJSW hasn’t always been a home for freaks and weirdos. The station started as a short radio program mostly acting as a training ground for straight-laced kids to get a leg up into the world of broadcasting. Their polished radio voices resonated on campus through a student-built PA system and eventually into the University of… Continue reading Travelling in time with CJSW
Mind Fights: Can hypocrisy be righteous?
Pro: Hypocrisy is your ticket to the best of both worldsImagine (in as Lennon a fashion as willing) a world without self deception or its delightfully useful sibling hypocrisy. This world- with the exception of the disappearance of non-conformist subcultures- would not be a better place. People who buy things to project an image they… Continue reading Mind Fights: Can hypocrisy be righteous?
Letter: the word on HPV
Editor, the Gauntlet,The Oct. 2 article by Gina Freeman about the HPV vaccine [“HPV Freakout,” Oct.2, Gina Freeman, Gauntlet] contains critical errors and wants to raise doubts about the safety and efficacy of Gardasil.HPV is not just “linked” to cervical cancer. HPV causes cervical cancer– without this viral infection, cervical cancer cannot develop.And while it… Continue reading Letter: the word on HPV
Pesky pirates
By Daniel Pagan
Pirates are alive in the modern world. Not sexy and cuddly ones like Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Carribbean movies, not the singing Pirates of Penzance or the scary Blackbeard, but real pirates who steal, hijack ships and murder people. And they happen to have made their home in Somalia. These new pirates… Continue reading Pesky pirates
Sex and wings
Thanksgiving dinner is one example of how food brings all sorts of things together in our lives. This is the time of year where we give thanks for all we have, but really, of the many other things we may want, there are only a few we cannot live without. What we need to stay… Continue reading Sex and wings
SU View: I’m not your mother, but this is what she would tell you…
Caffeine. Taping your eyes open and propping your head up with a book in front of your computer. Reading an entire textbook the night before an exam and waking up with the text print backwards on one side of your face. These are all examples of ways students try to make it through mid-term season.… Continue reading SU View: I’m not your mother, but this is what she would tell you…
Telemarketing frustrations
Is it me or do you want to personally bash the person who calls, uninvitingly and for an extremely irrelevant reason, to wreck your peaceful slumber or ruin perfect dinners by trying to sell you long distance lines? Or is it duct cleaning? A free cruise, perhaps? Well, if you’ve been alert you know that… Continue reading Telemarketing frustrations
To the edge of the world!
By Roman Auriti
There’s a society for every fucked up person with too much time on their hands. There are secret suicide societies, a cacophony society (guess what they do) and even conservative societies. However ridiculous these societies may be, there is one that trumps them all: the Flat Earth Society. The Flat Earth Society is composed of… Continue reading To the edge of the world!