By Riley Hill
Again, the time has come for the Gauntlet security report: our periodical cavalcade of the dangers, excitement and depravity that campus security gallantly deals with on a daily basis. With the fall semester in full swing and students coming out of the tail end of midterms, summer for most seems like a distant memory. But… Continue reading Fall semester campus security report
By Riley Hill
The University of Calgary’s Students’ Union Sustainability Board has decided to change its direction this year to become more of a “working group,” according to SU vice-president operations and finance Patrick Straw. Moving away from its traditional role of promoting sustainability through events, SUSB has decided to play a more proactive role, pursuing development of… Continue reading Changes to SUSB
By Riley Hill
After a difficult first two years, the University of Calgary women’s rugby team has burst out of the gates, winning its first two games of the season.Their first wins as a varsity team came after a troubled start to the program, which saw the tragic death of program founder Jenny Vincent in 2010. The three-year-old… Continue reading Victory! Dinos rugby makes history
By Riley Hill
University of Calgary students will be heading to the polls October 25-27 to vote on the current student levy on the Women’s Resource Centre. The referendum will decide whether the Students’ Union will stop charging a levy on students, in light of new money made available with the introduction of the controversial General Non-Program Fee.… Continue reading Funding for the WRC potentially redirected
By Riley Hill
Music filled the air last Friday night as Tom and Gary’s Decentralized Dance Party hit Calgary’s streets. Attracting well over a thousand people, this traveling circus is on a cross-Canada tour with one thing in mind — to bring about a party revolution. One look at the Decentralized Dance Party’s website and you’ll find that… Continue reading Dance party takes over the streets
Re: “Spending Request.” An article called “The Joys of Approving Your Own Spending Request” was recently published as the cover story in your Jan. 30 publication. As the two Q Centre (SU Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity) co-ordinators who were interviewed in this article, we were disturbed to see the inaccuracies that were reported.… Continue reading Letters to the Editor
Lacking patience, hungry Gauntlet reporters descended on the 18th avenue Smoke’s Poutinerie last week to find out how awesome it will be to have a poutinerie on campus. Montreal Poutine Typically, I’m somewhat of a poutine purist who sticks to the classic fries-curds-gravy combination. However, with so many combinations at Smoke’s, you have to step… Continue reading Poutine reviews
By Liv Ingram
More memory than reality, drive-in cinemas are largely a thing of the past — their grainy projections and crackly car-stereo delivered sound long replaced by HD projectors and surround sound. But TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary is modernizing the drive-in with their Bike-in Cinema film series. Returning for its third year, Bike-in Cinema encourages moviegoers… Continue reading Bike-in Cinema brings contemporary art and film outdoors
Youth and adolescent bullying makes headlines frequently. Newspapers often lend detailed accounts of severe cases of suicide and grave injuries which resulted from physical aggression, verbal abuse and more recently, online bullying. Childhood and adolescent bullying is a traumatizing situation that affects the way a person reacts to the world around them and even damages… Continue reading BULLIED
Parking rates at Calgary’s medical centres and hospitals will be rising as of April 1, 2013 as part of a three-year implementation period to meet increasing market demands for parking. The rate per 30 minutes will increase from $1.75 to $2, weekly parking passes will raise to $41 up from $40 and monthly passes will… Continue reading Parking prices rising