Month: March 2011

By Susan Anderson

The Students’ Union released a poll Mar. 3 which showed Calgarians’ support for secondary suites in an attempt to influence City Council. Four days later, City Council made minor adjustments to the secondary suites bylaw, but Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s proposal to approve the creation of secondary suites in areas that currently allow only single-family homes… Continue reading New Council still won’t pass secondary suite motion after Students’ Union poll shows majority of city in favour

By Brent Constantin

The race to the end brought out almost 6,000 University of Calgary students, or 23.8 per cent of voters, to cast their votes for the 69th Students’ Union executive council. The turnout was an increase of about seven per cent from 2010–2011 and a five-year high. Dylan Jones took president with 57 per cent of… Continue reading Five-year record for Students’ Union voter turn-out

By Brent Constantin

A University of Calgary team of students from the Haskayne school of business finished second in an international competition to develop solutions to growing water shortages around the world. The team was one of only six undergraduate teams in the San Francisco regionals-the majority were MBA or PhD students. They eventually took the runner up… Continue reading Business students finish second in international competition

By Taylor McKee

For the men’s basketball program of a U.S. division one school, the success or failure of an entire season is predicated on their performance in March. Inside of the traditionally weak Mountain West Conference, near perfection is needed to rank highly and gain entrance to the NCAA tournament, a single loss could be the difference… Continue reading Sportspinion: Athletes are no exception to honour codes

By Rhiannon Kirkland

The Dinos men’s volleyball team went into the CIS volleyball championships last weekend as both defending champions and Canada West champions — the toughest volleyball conference in Canada — but they knew the road would be hard and that a lot of good teams had a shot at winning it. It was one such good… Continue reading Spartans kill Dinos title defence

By Erin Shumlich

For the first time in 10 years, the Dinos men’s hockey team is heading to the CIS University Cup. The team’s playoff dreams became a reality in a close best-of-three semi-final against the University of Saskatchewan Huskies at Father David Bauer last weekend. Both teams clinched a game each, forcing the series to a third… Continue reading Hockey headed to Canada West final

By Sarelle Azuelos

And the unfortunate secondary suite saga continues. On Monday, city council once again pushed back the vote to legalize secondary suites until further research is conducted. This cycle of introducing the issue, promising change and then postponing any meaningful policy has been ongoing for over half a decade. City council is out of touch with… Continue reading The wrong call on secondary suites

By Eric Mathison

A professor at Northwestern University is discovering that if a class involves sex, students aren’t likely to mind. The university administration, however, is a different matter. On Feb. 21, professor John Michael Bailey invited a guest lecturer to give a talk on fetishes for his introductory sexuality class. The guest lecturer invited a non-student couple… Continue reading Academic masturbation isn’t a crime

By Mister Tiddlywinks

What going on at school?!?! Tiddlywinks wake up at crack of noon like always on Tuesday and then break into neighbourses’ house to use computer. When try to vote in Students’ Union election Tiddlywinks find bad bad thing!!! No Tiddlywinks on ballot!!! Why not? No smoochable Delilah Smith on ballot!!! Why not? Tiddlywinks mad, all… Continue reading Letter: Troll pissed off, going to die soon