Month: September 2000

By Daorcey Le Bray

Just before I left the golden fields of Stony Plain to come down south and live the wild life in the big city of Calgary, my friend grabbed my shoulder and delivered his ultimatum: "You’d better not go down there and start cheering for Cowtown, or I’ll…" His face turned purple and that vein throbbed… Continue reading The sad tale of a transplanted sports fan

By Michael Leung

We turned in the direction of the girl’s frantic scream, as her body pitched directly earthward. Five feet passed, then 10 and 15 and finally her body came to a sobering stop at the end of her rope. Propelled by the force of her fall, her upper body swung around leaving her hanging upside-down. She… Continue reading Rock climbing safe… if you want to be

By Jan Creaser

In a rousing show of sportsmanship, the first event on the schedule for the send-off of Calgary’s Olympians featured Celine Dion crowing about the "power of the dream" as clips of sometimes triumphant and sometimes unsuccessful athletes flashed across the movie screen. Apparently, the emotional gains and traumas of the sporting world are meant to… Continue reading Summer Olympians say g’bye to Calgary and g’day to Sydney

By Еvan Osentоn

Lost in the weekend’s over-inflated hoopla surrounding the Labour Day classic was a much more important football game–the University of Calgary Dinos 2000/2001 season opener against the University of Regina Rams. In theory, this game should have been a cake-walk. On paper, the Dinos look like a much-improved team over the squad that finished 3-5… Continue reading Dinos chewed up, spit out by Rams in season opener

By Mary Chan

"… the principles of academic freedom [are]… the right of the academic staff to examine, to question, to teach, to learn, to investigate, to speculate, to comment and to criticize without deference to prescribed doctrines…" – from Article 6 of the University of Calgary Faculty Collective Agreement Tenure. It’s not a word university students are… Continue reading Tenure: the great protector of academic freedom

By Rob South

A new era of government relations started for graduate students on Aug. 22 with the launch of the Alberta Graduate Council. Representing 98 per cent of graduate students in Alberta, the AGC is an umbrella organization that graduate students at the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta approved by referendum last spring. To… Continue reading Alberta Grad Students band together

By Rowena Sampang

Interested in making a charitable contribution? Consider donating your body to science. The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary recently expressed a great need for body donations, due to increasing class sizes. Cadavers in the classroom are used to foster medical learning and research. "Body donation after death has been in existence at… Continue reading The Faculty of Medicine wants your body

By Natalie Sit

They came, bleary-eyed and wary. They saw thousands of others just like them. They knew it was the beginning of their university career. U of C 101 started Wed., Sept. 6, with about 3,600 first-year students participating in the orientation program. The three-day long program began with the Community Welcome in the Jack Simpson Gymnasium.… Continue reading First-years start their orientation week

By Rob South

Rob Anders is excited about the next federal election, particularly because the Calgary West MP won the Canadian Alliance nomination for the riding on Aug. 26. Calgary Currie Member of the Legislative Assembly Jocelyn Burgener challenged the incumbent Anders for the nomination, but Anders won with 783 votes to Burgener’s 449. "The competition was a… Continue reading Anders gets the Alliance nod

By Rhia Perkins

It’s off to the cold outdoors for smokers at the University of Calgary after the Students’ Union closed the Black Lounge, a smoking room on the second floor of MacEwan Hall, Thurs., Aug. 31. The Black Lounge, the last indoor smoking space on campus that is not part of a bar, was closed as part… Continue reading Indoor smoking extinguished on campus