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The most important thing you will ever learn in university is to be a participant in your own life. Whether you realize it or not, the most important thing in your life is university. Your university administration is quickly working to strangle that out of you, and this year’s tuition fiasco is a prime example.Not… Continue reading It’s about more than just money
Editors, the Gauntlet,RE: All on board the SU money train, Editorial 01.13.2000Of all the things the Gauntlet could complain about this year in the SU, they have to choose the easy one. After a year of sitting on their hands while the SU plods along with no campaign for tuition, the province short-sells students, and… Continue reading Gauntlet drops ball on SU raises
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Life at the U of C is pretty halcyon.People drift through halls, classes happen, and exhaust fills the sky as students split at quittin’ time. It’s a rare occasion that students show any other side to themselves than overwhelming haste and apathy… and that time should be rapidly approaching.And so, with this year’s BoG meeting… Continue reading Secret tuition deal kills school spirit dead
By Editorial
Would you like to give yourself a 10 per cent raise?Your Students’ Union did just that at last Tuesday’s Student Legislative Council meeting by increasing Exec salaries by $8,000.Currently, the president makes $23,340, while the each of the four vice-presidents earn a meagre $21, 218. Was it only three years ago when students argued that… Continue reading All on board the SU money train
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Ten years ago in his inaugural address then us President George Bush laid the ground work to justify our newly crowned economic hypothesis. "Freer markets undoubtedly lead to freer people." While it’s not a direct translation from Milton Friedman it’s the sound-bit summation of the libertarian’s philosophy. It is also very incorrect. The link between… Continue reading Do free markets make free people?
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For 10 years, the Alberta government has followed a policy of less government is better government. From privatizing liquor stores to contracting out health care services, the province has paid lip service to this idea of non-obtrusive government. In reality, they have more power now than ever before–they’re just more covert about it.The government accomplishes… Continue reading Strings attached
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What constitutes an acceptable balance between public and private medical services? Alberta Premier Ralph Klein thinks he has the answer in contracting public services to private practitioners. Apparently, though, he claims a tier-two system is not in our future. Right… The Canada Health Act guarantees universality of "medically necessary" services based on need and without… Continue reading Two-tier, single-tier
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Debt is not a dirty word. Well, maybe not anymore. Federal Finance Minister Paul Martin’s recent announcement of a $90 billion-plus surplus must leave some of the recent political opportunists with their head’s spinning. It seems for an eternity now, we’ve been talking about how the federal debt steals 30 cents of every tax dollar… Continue reading Debt politics are dead
By Greg Harris
An editorial in the Oct. 7 Gauntlet (“A brief history, told in present tense”) claims the U of C Gazette “would not run a feature about Shell Oil’s involvement in Nigeria simply because Shell Oil gives this university a dump truck full of money.”For the record, no one on Gazette staff has ever been asked… Continue reading Gauntlet angers Gazette editor, sickens also
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Student journalism is the last bastion of free speech. You can print anything in a student newspaper, with only one condition: you have to be right or at least be able to prove you’re not wrong. We’ve all seen the results of big business in the media from the scandals at CBS news to our… Continue reading A brief history, told in present tense