By Peter Stein
During those fruitful months of summer while students were away, a new e-mail quota was implemented at the University of Calgary. As of mid-August, students and staff will no longer be able to fill their inboxes with hundreds of e-mails without paying attention to their maximum disk space. Undergraduates are now only allowed 25 MB… Continue reading 25 MB is all anyone needs
By Veronika Lancaster Deliyannakis
Slim Twig’s kind of a skinny guy. Though the name does well to describe his appearance, it also speaks to his music. Travelling with his tour band, the Mercy Mercenaries, Slim Twig is going on a bit of an adventure. It is his longest tour thus far and the band’s first out west. He says… Continue reading Funk singer Slim Twig has the skinny on success
Take three press quotes: “A freakishly brilliant pop opus that engages the listener from the first minute to the very last.” “…share an intense curiosity about uncharted musical territory, but draw heavily from other artists and styles of the past. The result is a winding post-modernist pastiche of layered vocals, instrumental passages and sampled sounds… Continue reading Spun: The Waking Eyes
By Greg Ellis
It comes with no great surprise that the worshipping of any-one seems distasteful. For religion we make an exception. Religion is an abstraction, a concept of God not fitting the molding of someone. Running into Danny Heatley, the NHL’s top up and coming star at a Subway Sandwich Shop at 3:30 a.m. provided tre-mendous observational… Continue reading In celebrity we trust
With Campus Security, Students’ Union security personnel and Calgary Police on hand, the controversy surrounding a presentation by Middle East scholar Dr. Norman Finkelstein revolved more around the security precautions themselves than the content of his speech. The event, held in MacEwan Hall Sat., Apr. 3, was presented by the Palestinian-Canadian Student Society and was… Continue reading Speech makes case for Palestine
By Natalie Sit
Amidst the recent escalation events in the Middle East, a controversial scholar will speak Sat., Apr. 3 on the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and whether or not there is hope for peace. The Palestinian-Canadian Student Society is bringing Dr. Norman Finkelstein to campus. Despite being the son of two Holocaust survivors, Dr. Finkelstein is… Continue reading Controversial Middle East scholar coming
Dude, Where’s My Car? this ain’t. Instead we get Ashton Kutcher’s first attempt at serious drama, where child abuse, suicide, prostitution and prison rape are all par for the course. It’s pleasantly surprising that The Butterfly Effect isn’t as bad as most of the current crop of teen horrors, but it’s still no Exorcist.Kutcher, best… Continue reading No one ever suspects the Butterfly
By Marcel LeBel
Peter Lynds is going in the right direction, the problem is he doesn’t know where he is going yet, which leaves him open to mistakes. I came to the same conclusion (no moment in time) by a different route. The sun is at eight minutes (universe with speed limit) from me and is not part… Continue reading An alternate approach to a moment in time
By Ken Clarke
Since its inception in New Orleans during the 1890’s as a mixture of ragtime and blues, jazz music remains to this day a constantly evolving, unpredictable art form. With 20 years of film-making under his belt, Ken Burns is the creator of several award-winning films. He is best known for his two previous epic documentaries,… Continue reading Ken Burns on film and all that Jazz
By Natalie Sit
Grant MacEwan dies at 97 University of Calgary students may wonder about the connection between MacEwan Hall and the former Lieutenant-Governor who died Thursday, June 15. The student centre was named after Grant MacEwan, honouring his contribution to the university. MacEwan was an adjunct professor and taught a Western Canada history course. He often did… Continue reading News Briefs