By Bo Rhodes
You probably don’t know who he is and you probably don’t know what he’s done. For rookie middle linebacker PJ Shea that’s just fine. As far as he’s concerned he "didn’t do anything special this year." "Special" would refer to the team-leading 50 individual tackles Shea completed. As a matter of fact, he finished in… Continue reading PJ the Destroyer
By Mike Flach
Christmas will be more jolly for the Dinos men’s hockey team this year, as the team closed out the first half of the season in third place. Beating the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds last Friday 3-1, and then tying 4-4 on Saturday, the weekend was reasonably successful. Both Lethbridge and Manitoba gave the Dinos… Continue reading Hockey Dinos win and tie
It has not been an easy season for the Dinos women’s volleyball team. A 1-7 start is certainly a difficult obstacle to overcome, especially for a young team. The losses, however, had all come against top-10 teams, a fact which a Dinos fan would be quick to point out. The young Dinos are out to… Continue reading Volleysaurs sweep TWU
By Chris Johns
It is pretty clear what the Dinos men’s volleyball team thought going into their weekend series with Trinity Western University. "We are playing the equivalent of an expansion team. Piece of cake, right?" The Dinos found out otherwise when the TWU Spartans took them to a fifth game on Friday night before the Dinos regained… Continue reading Volleyball men overcome Spartans
Thanks to a series of successful meets and tournaments last weekend, the Dinos wrestling teams are on top of the national rankings. Both the women’s and men’s teams are ranked first in the country after tearing apart the competition in Saskatoon. On Friday, the men’s team took part in a pair of dual meets, beating… Continue reading U of C Wrestlers best in CIAU
By Bonnie Leung
Have you ever wondered what a cell looks like magnified over a million times? Or how a piece of metal would corrode atom by atom? University of Calgary students will soon have first-hand knowledge of these processes. This fall, the U of C’s Faculty of Medicine received $2.1 million in donations to purchase two electron… Continue reading It’s a small world after all
By Bonnie Leung
Students can now surf the net to find outstanding professors instead of badgering others for information. The University of Calgary launched a new website commending outstanding professors Nov. 15 in the Learning Commons. The website includes profiles of over 100 professors who have won teaching awards since 1992, according to Coordinator Tim Buell. "It also… Continue reading Website slings good profs
By Nicole Kobie
The Grim Reaper came for students last Thursday and Friday, not to spread death and pain, but to help stop it. The University of Calgary Amnesty International Association held a mini-fair featuring a 10-foot-tall Grim Reaper in MacEwan Student Centre to promote their causes and the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the… Continue reading Amnesty commemorates Rights of the Child
This week, thousands of protestors, including University of Calgary students, will speak out against negative effects of globalization in front of delegates of the World Trade Organization in Seattle, Washington. The protesters represent a wide gamut of interests, including environmentalists, social activists, union supporters, and agriculturists. The WTO is an organization set up by the… Continue reading U of C students protest WTO in Seattle
"Construction could begin as early as Spring 1996, with a completion date of Fall 1996." – Students’ Union President Kate Kimberly, Oct. 12, 1995 "Ground will be broken in July. If everything goes well, completion will be August 1998." – SU Vice-president Finance Akin Jeje, Feb. 20, 1997 "We may be looking at a spring… Continue reading Pigs to fly at SU