By Mike Flach
I fell in love in Australia. The subtle curves. The smooth, soft feel of the skin. The sweet smell of sweat. The gentle touch. The scream of pain as one Aussie rules football player puts his cleats into his opponent’s back. All of these have converted me to an all-out footy fan.Australian rules football, or… Continue reading Biggest thing from Oz since Yahoo Serious
By Kevin Foster
I could say A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an awful movie, a sad shadow of the original Shakespearean masterpiece, a presentation comparable only to the lowest of the low budget Þlms. But if I did, I would be an utter liar, as childish as the character Puck. This version of the William Shakespeare’s classic is… Continue reading Oberon Kenobi
While not undocumented, it is a tenuous string that connects rock- and-roll music to the seemingly increasing urge to light up a high school with a shotgun. To listen to society’s critics we, as a people, have blasted down the highway of moral relativism, carefree to the ideas of good and bad, right and wrong,… Continue reading Kill your parents, says society
For weeks now, you have been watching missiles burst in Technicolor hues over an unfamiliar country while thousands of unfamiliar faces flee from violence. Hopefully, if you are not yet desensitized, you are abhorred.If you are not personally willing to go to Yugoslavia and kill a group of people you have never met, then you… Continue reading Silence threatens to overtake explosions
By Brian Low
Terry White and the Board of Governors have been taking a lot of flak lately, and perhaps it is not undeserved. Tuition rises while many students struggle to go to school and carry on gratuitous habits such as eating and sleeping indoors. All the while, White’s infamy grows in proportion to his salary. Recent demonstrations… Continue reading The price of Fruit Loops
Dear Elouise,Greetings from the prairies! I know it has only been a couple of weeks since you left, but I really wanted to write. How are you? How’s life back in Toronto? I’m so glad you had a good time visiting here over Christmas. I’m happy to have a nice friend like you. There was… Continue reading The purloined letter
By Jan Creaser
Intellectual thought is the crowning glory of evolution. The level of self-awareness we, the human species, have achieved fascinates me beyond belief. No longer do we scrounge in the dirt, bite the heads off little animals and defecate wherever we want. We think rationally about numerous topics never before contemplated. We ponder important issues such… Continue reading Like Mice in a cage
Editors, the Gauntlet,I want my Students’ Union dues back. I was disgusted last week at the unprofessional tuition awareness campaign of misinformation run by the SU. I am disappointed in our SU and ashamed to be a member of it.The campaign was slanderous toward our university administration, making it appear (wrongfully) responsible for the rising… Continue reading Wrong way to protest
By Chris Reid
Editors, the Gauntlet,Re: "U of C students get million dollar tuition break," The Calgary Herald, Mar. 27, 1999,As a U of C (ash) student who stood in the cold for over five hours on Friday morning to protest 10 years of maximum tuition hikes, I was appalled by the way our protest and its outcome… Continue reading Not for students
Consider idleness and its sources in governing how we as a western society react to crisis in the world. Lately, it seems the suffering in Kosovo has monopolized media agendas and dominated conversation. The tense, repugnant smell of war has been injected into the air around us. We are appalled at the terror and injustice… Continue reading Where’s your line?