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Lawrence Bailey and Ken Clarke (among others) traveled to the beautiful Kootenay mountains for days of music-filled fun. As per tradition, Ken brought his digitial video camera... here's some of the more interesting shots.

Read his Shambhala 2002 feature or check out his 2001 story.

Stomp is an extremely difficult concept to define; no one word does it justice. It's not a play. There's no story and no script, and save for the occasional holler or grunt, there's no lines. It's not a dance number. It's true, the performers move about the stage, graceful, controlled and with beautiful precision, but it's more than that. It's not a concert, as the drumming, banging, scrapping, slipping and stomping are only a part of the whole, and certainly not complete on their own.

Frank Zappa fans have a rare event in store for them. For three nights only, the Shiny Beast Collective and The Whip It Out Ensemble will be performing music from Zappa's eclectic 1967 masterpiece, We're Only In It For The Money.

Important events usually become fictionalized and then filmed. Events become something to amuse.

Already, a film about fallen firefighters was shown at the Toronto Film Festival. Conceivably, a movie about the attack on the World Trade Center could be filmed soon. Will it cast a rosy glow on the events or sanitize them?

How would you like to go away on a house-boating weekend with a bunch of your buddies and get all of your uninvited classmates to pay for it? Sounds like a good idea to me--and the Students' Union thinks so, too. On Sat., Sept. 28, your valiant student representatives will gather at the SU office in the MacEwan Student Centre to embark on their three-day house-boating retreat in Sicamous, B.C.

The estimated cost: $6,500.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada welcomes foreign students and recognizes the importance of their contribution to our academic, business and cultural communities."

"But" is what should follow this sentence from the CIC fact sheet No. 8 concerning studying in Canada.

Ever since the immigration act was changed in July 2002, Canada has decided to check on foreign students in greater detail, making the loopholes for foreign students and temporary foreign workers smaller.

As flags across the United States flew at half staff this week in remembrance of the events of September 11, 2001, so too did the six official flags on the University of Calgary campus. Although the U of C did not originally intended to lower its flags, last minute communication with the Alberta Government saw the flags flying at half staff this Wednesday.

Editor, the Gauntlet:

Re: "You've got poor grammar," Sept. 7, 2002.

"Student politics is so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."

–Henry Kissinger.

Was Kissinger ever right.