By HJ Hornbeck
Every song starts with a single tweet, as political blogger Laurie Penny can confirm: “An opinion, it seems, is the short skirt of the internet. Having one and flaunting it is somehow asking an amorphous mass of almost-entirely male keyboard-bashers to tell you how they’d like to rape, kill and urinate on you. This week,… Continue reading A woman on the internet
On “Compromise,” a standout track from 2008’s The Old Prince, Shad dropped the line “In the same way, soon the tunes get better / And I polish a Juno, who knows / I might get acknowledged and kudos.” The line was oddly predictive. The 28-year-old rapper, born in Kenya, raised in London, Ontario and currently… Continue reading The Old Prince waxes prophetic
By Jon Roe
Men’s rugby The Dinos men’s rugby club team made their way to the west coast for two tournaments on back-to-back weekends. During the first tournament, the Dinos faced off twice against the University of British Columbia. In the first game, on March 4, the Dinos’ red squad were down 15-3 at half time and ended… Continue reading Sports briefs
By Jon Roe
The accolades keep piling up for Erik Glavic. The University of Calgary Dinos quarterback’ was announced Wednesday as one of the four finalists for the BLG award, handed out to the male Canadian Interuniversity Sport athlete of the year. Eleven Dinos have been nominated for the award since its 1993 creation and a record six… Continue reading Glavic nominated for BLG award
It’s lunchtime in MacHall and hundreds of students are eating. When they are done, they will dump their leftover food into the garbage. From there it will go to the dump. As this process repeats itself day after day, meal after meal, thousands of tonnes of organic food waste ends up in landfills, but it… Continue reading Composting: an intricate tale of rot
By Jeremy Zhao
While the Wildrose Alliance has gained a lot of momentum over the past couple of months with a provincial byelection victory and the election of a new leader, the party’s platform is now being closely scrutinized. In particular, the Wildrose Alliance’s desire to remove Section 3 of the Alberta Human Rights Act — formerly known… Continue reading Protecting free speech: Wildrose style
The One Yellow Rabbit theatre company may have turned 25-years-old recently but they’ve had some wild times creating and introducing some of the most important and eclectic theatre Calgary has seen. Michael Green, one of the Rabbit’s founding ensemble members and artistic director for the High Performance Rodeo, discusses the history and the current status… Continue reading Mixing Cowtown persuasions with high performance artistry
Art has always been touted as a means of expression, so a group of Calgarians with schizophrenia and one University of Calgary professor decided to use art to share their experiences. U of C communication and culture professor Dr. Barbara Schneider met with 30 people with schizophrenia to discuss the issues of service providers. With… Continue reading Schizophrenics share care tension at City Hall
Dr. Rowland Smith, University of Calgary faculty of humanities dean, passed away early Monday morning at the age of 70. Smith is survived by his wife Ann and his children Russell and Belinda. Students’ Union humanities faculty representative Daniel Pagan said Smith will be remembered by his students as a man who shared his immense… Continue reading Humanities dean passes
O Canada! Our lost and forlorn land. True foreign owned. Under all the world’s command. In the last several years, large Canadian businesses such as Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and the Hudson’s Bay Company have been bought out by foreign businesses. Today when you walk around Lake Louise and look back at the beautiful Chateau,… Continue reading A country’s degradation