By Jan Creaser
After being forcefully told by my mother that I at least had to purchase stocking stuffers for everyone this year (that’s 10 people for brunch at my sister’s), I realized I hated Christmas. When I dug a little deeper, I discovered that it wasn’t Christmas I hated, but the self-gratifying materialism that accompanies this holiday… Continue reading I’m not a material girl
Editors, the Gauntlet,Re: The cartoon with a penis in it, Dec. 3, 1998,Can we PLEASE move past the juvenile behavior? Due to an obvious lack of creativity and of new subjects to offend every group of people, I was disapointed but not surprised to see the standard penis illustration in the Gauntlet’s Christmas edition. I… Continue reading More maturity please
When the dust finally settles, 1998 will go largely unnoticed in the history books. The turn of the new millennium and its inflated significance will be what matters. Where were you when we hit the year 2000? It will be the question that arises at parties when everyone gets nostalgic after knocking back a few… Continue reading The times, they aren’t a-changin’
By Jan Creaser
Clink, clink, clink!Jingle, jingle, jingle!I’m navigating my way through MacEwan Student Centre, dodging the volunteer clan of “holiday cheer” hunters. I lost the cameraman somewhere back by the A&W lunch line and I’ve found myself muttering into my mic just like Allgood does in that way that irritates me so much. And where the hell… Continue reading Holiday hallucinations: spread the nog
Editors, the GauntletRe: More than a Ribbon, Nov. 26, 1998,Marc Lepine is “one idiot with a gun” contrary to Ms. McNaughton’s assertion. Is Lepine a product of our society as McNaughton says? Absolutely. Is he the desired product? Absolutely not. Nobody is proud of what happened in Montreal on Dec. 6, man or woman. It… Continue reading Not simply a gender issue
By Phil Vorvis
As I was walking through MacEwan Hall, I was approached by someone dressed completely in black. She gave me a piece of paper marked with the familiar eyeball embedded in a pyramid that appears on the back of the American one-dollar bill. This had a vague meaning to me.Nov. 27 was dedicated to curbing consumer… Continue reading Buy this
Wednesday,Nov. 18: the International Day of Action against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment. How many of you knew? How many of you cared?The Council of Canadians, a leading public action organization against the MAI, defines the MAI as an agreement, which provides for “…the movement of money across international borders by imposing a new set… Continue reading MAI okay?
The Students’ Union has voted to pull out of tuition consultation with the University of Calgary administration. The decision was made at Tuesday night’s Students’ Legislative Council meeting where council voted 141 in favour of withdrawing from the consultation in an attempt to stop a maximum tuition increase this year. The resolution was moved by… Continue reading SU pulls out of tuition consultation
By Kim Stock
"We’re poking a finger in the eye of Maclean’s!" Andrew Sherriff, Associate Editor & Special Advisor of Innovations: A Journal of Politics, triumphantly stated. "[Innovations] is an innovative venture that they don’t notice!"A new annual journal called Innovations was launched at the University of Calgary on Wed., Dec. 2 amidst a crowd feasting on wine… Continue reading A novel idea
By Rob South
Legendary coach Pat Summit clenched her thighs, bracing against the next contraction . "I am not leaving until I get an answer!" she proclaimed. Summit was in the middle of a recruiting visit, she had flown halfway across the country, nine months pregnant, to recruit this woman for her University of Tennessee Volunteers Basketball Team;… Continue reading Recruiting in Canada