By Tim Louden
A University of Calgary student was fatally stabbed in the early morning on Saturday, Jan. 12. Brett Wiese, a 21-year-old bachelor of commerce student, died from his injuries after an attack at a house party in Brentwood around 3 a.m. on Saturday. A second victim, a man in his early 20s, remains in hospital in… Continue reading U of C student’s death mourned
Editor, the Gauntlet, The Students’ Union recently held its annual Summer Student Research Symposium in the Mac Hall Ballroom. The event was a fantastic display of undergraduate summer research endeavors; allowing students the opportunity to showcase their hard work. My favourite part of the event occurred during the prizing of the event, as the “Science… Continue reading Letter: Silly symposium
University of Calgary Campus Security and Calgary Police Service have issued an alert to students over the release of high-risk offender Derek Ross Calf-Child on March 7. On Nov. 24, 2007, a young woman was assaulted on campus after being followed by Calf-Child from a downtown LRT station. After she was thrown to the ground,… Continue reading Community alerted to release of Calf-Child
For a brief spell it looked like Campus Pro-Life was safe. The trespassing charges the university laid last year were dismissed before the case went to trial, and CPL thought they had won their case. But after the group put up their provocative display again in April, the university charged the members of the group… Continue reading Editorial: Campus Pro-Life has a right to speak
UBC students successfully lobby for reduced fees The University of British Columbia Athletics and Recreation department and the Alma Mater Society announced recently that they would be significantly decreasing student fees for intramural and recreational activities. This comes after a strong rally by students to reduce the fees. The decrease was possible due to some… Continue reading News for the unnewsed
A week ago, Gregory Kopiloff of Seattle, Washington was caught using peer-to-peer programs in a very shocking way-and it wasn’t downloading bestiality porn. On Wed., Sep. 5, a new enemy of P2P programs was revealed. LimeWire and Soulseek were reportedly used to download sensitive financial information from people who had poorly configured the sharing options… Continue reading Ninja looter caught stealing identities
By Greg Ellis
In light of the comments by Students’ Union Vice-President Operations and Finance Greg Clayton two weeks past in The Gauntlet, and the city of Calgary deciding to ban all smoking in public places in 2008, the smoking issue must be examined in more rigorous detail. It is the assumption below that the reader agrees on… Continue reading Aiming at smoking arguments