By Fifi Enyi
The Students’ Legislative Council completed the first reading of its 1999/2000 annual budget Tuesday. “In terms of revenues and expenditures this year’s budget is approximately $5 million; last year’s was approximately $4.7 million,” said Students’ Union President Rob South.The increase represents the adjustment in spending areas of this year’s budget.“In January 2000 students will not… Continue reading SLC budgets for GST on books
By Mary Chan
They gave him something to talk about.The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations met with federal finance Minister Paul Martin and members of the Liberal Caucus Committee on Post-secondary Education last week, getting a head start on the lobbying season.The main topic discussed was core funding for post-secondary education, which CASA says is essential to offset… Continue reading CASA to Martin: more core funding
This four member Vancouver based band has an edgy quality. They sound as if they want to be categorized in the same manner as Bush, but with one big difference-they lack the allure. I will admit they can create melodious tunes with fabulous rhythm, but combined with repetitive lyrics and inane vocals, this music loses… Continue reading Threadbare band
By Sonis Sharma
"We’ll rant and roar like true Great Big Sea fans–Newfie style."-Great Big Sea In an ocean of Celtic music, Great Big Sea is more than just a band riding the waves. Vocalist Darrell Powers and his three compatriots Allan Doyle, Sean McCann and Bob Hallet make up this folk-influenced band. Formed in 1991, this hard-working… Continue reading A whale of a band
By Kevin Foster
Do you enjoy listening to the pounding rhythms of the African world beat? Do the peaceful and aggressive hooks of Radiohead turn your crank? Does sweat pouring off the skin of attractive dancers working it up on stage make you wanna shake yo’ booty? Even if you answered no to all of these questions, you… Continue reading Some’re Dancing
What would you get if you morphed a Volkswagen full of clowns with an eight-piece New Orleans-style Jazz band, and a group of Decidedly Jazz Dancework dancers? (Try saying that six times fast.) Soul Jugglers, baby. Asked to sum up the production in three words, Vicki Adams Willis, the brainchild behind Soul Jugglers, responds instead… Continue reading A celebration of the circus of life
Blending rock, rap, ska, funk, punk and pop, DDT’s latest offering, Urban Observer, deserves respect for its diversity. This quality is DDT’s greatest strength. Unfortunately, Urban Observer invites too many comparisons with artists more melodically savvy than DDT. At their worst, on songs such as "Pistol Whip" and "I Can’t Take My Eyes off You,"… Continue reading Try it again, Sam
By Bebe Vocong
Here Comes the Bride, the Spin Doctors’ latest album could not be a more appropriate title for this New York band’s fourth effort. It is the name of the first track on the CD and epitomizes the music and new image of this Grammy-nominated band. "Something old/… something new/… something borrowed/and something blue." The old… Continue reading Simply smashing
You are Tony Kushner, American playwright, socialist, and gay rights activist. Your work deals with serious issues confronting Americans, including the AIDS crisis, the effects of Reganomics, and the enfranchisement of homosexuals. Your work, "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches", which draws from both your Jewish roots and socialist beliefs, has won you numerous awards and… Continue reading Angels in Canada
The approaching millennium is rapidly proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that humans are the most dangerous and stupid animal of them all. Although seemingly harmless and undoubtedly vapid, a recent Time Warner on-line poll asking voters to choose their person of the century has touched off a controversy involving four large organized religions,… Continue reading Elvis vs. Hitler: Decision 2000