Death does not choose who it will take based on race, age, gender, sex, socioeconomical status or time of year. Death is an inevitable factor of life, which can come at any time. Have you thought about celebrating death, or rather life, alongside the semester’s-end festivities? Will it be a time to celebrate death, or… Continue reading Do we still know how to celebrate life?
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Calgary’s cheapest 18 holes
By Fabian Mayer
Few have heard of disc golf, let alone played it. It is a pastime that has been ignored by most athletes and sports fanatics, so much so that finding a disc golf basket in a park would be a thoroughly confusing experience for many. Yet it is a sport that has much to offer people… Continue reading Calgary’s cheapest 18 holes
Dance the night and day away
By Sean Willett
In any student’s time at university, there will be challenges that need to be overcome on the way to success — challenges like a first research paper, a first group project or a first class presentation. All of these trials act as stepping stones, preparing students for challenges further down the road. For choreography and… Continue reading Dance the night and day away
Player profile: Tamara Jarrett
By Taylor McKee
Embarking on a tough British Columbia road trip from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, the University of Calgary Dinos basketball team is one of the hottest teams in the entire country. The Dinos currently hold a top-10 Canadian Interuniversity Sport ranking. After losing two of three non-conference games in Nova Scotia, the Dinos have won… Continue reading Player profile: Tamara Jarrett
Play review: Love of the Nightingale
By Ryan Barlow
The University of Calgary’s department of drama’s latest production, The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker, is an intriguing adaptation of an Ancient Greek story that addresses timeless themes of gender roles, violence and silence. Running from October 23 to November 3 at the University Theatre, the director Alyssa Bradac has woven the script… Continue reading Play review: Love of the Nightingale
HPV — a risk worth taking?
The third most frequent cancer in women aged 20 to 49 in Canada is cervical cancer. In September 2010 after a routine physical, I was told I had low-grade cell changes in my cervix. I’d had this occurrence once before at age 15, and it had cleared up before we had anything to worry about.… Continue reading HPV — a risk worth taking?
A local affair
After my foray into the world of raw I was looking forward to eating hot foods again. I was excited to jump into the local food scene in Calgary after seeing the focus raw foodists take on fresh and healthy foods. My conversation about the raw food diet with Light Cellar employee Denis Manzer had… Continue reading A local affair
The Seeds have been
This is a big week for Newfoundland’s sweethearts Hey Rosetta! Their third full-length album dropped on Feb. 15 and its release has already set off a new wave of comments about the band’s similarity to Canadian juggernaut’s The Arcade Fire. While always a compliment, it’s quite daunting for the Newfoundlanders to be compared to the… Continue reading The Seeds have been
Prorogation protests postponed
Prorogation rallies across the country have been “put on hold” with less than a week to go according to Christopher White, creator of the Facebook group that spawned the protests against Stephen Harper’s request to dissolve government until March. White posted a message to the over 100,000 member social network group earlier this week. “It… Continue reading Prorogation protests postponed
Education needs to fight for its freedom
In a world where misinformation, political corruption, war and other social problems exist, the academy is seen in many ways as a bastion of free speech and thought — where unbiased research exists for its own sake. Thus we enter into the world of academic freedom and all its many facets. Academic freedom is the… Continue reading Education needs to fight for its freedom