By Rob Scherf
Thank God. With the release of The Saddest Music in the World, a Canadian artist finally has the balls to come right out and say we Canucks are a pretty moody bunch. And who is this trailblazing entrepreneur of fresh-air filmmaking? None other than cinematic lo-fi auteur Guy Maddin. Maddin’s delievers a strange mix of… Continue reading Saddest music not so sad
By Jeff Kubik
We’ve all been there, found ourselves stuck somewhere we never imagined ourselves being in. Driven by necessity or impulse, we’ve worked awful jobs, said awful things and made awful decisions. But we’ve never lost ourselves there, have we? Underneath it all, there’s still a caring human being, right? But, after all, aren’t those experiences the… Continue reading Theatre wank: the good kind
The City of Calgary has officially declared an annual Sikh Awareness Week, which is a city-wide event to be held for the first time, Aug, 29 to Sept., 5. The proclamation was signed by Mayor Dave Bronconnier and made by Alderman John Schmal on Fri., May 14 at a dinner in celebration of the quad-centennial… Continue reading Sikh awareness week
By Вen Li
“On balance, the war was good for Iraqis, and very bad for Americans.” Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente captivated an audience of 150 for an hour at the 2004 Ross Ellis Memorial Lecture in Military and Strategic Studies on Mon., May 17. During the lecture presented by the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military… Continue reading Tales from Iraq
A Students’ Union initiative to install revenue generating advertising screens in the MacEwan Student Center has upset NUTV, who see the screens as a duplication of the service provided by the existing NUTV closed circuit system. The initiative involves four 40-inch plasma screens to be installed by a private company called Competitive Edge around MSC.… Continue reading SU advertisement screens anger NUTV
By Dale Miller
MacEwan Student Centre is to remain incomplete for least another six months as the Students’ Union gives the redevelopment plan a major rethink. This is the latest chapter in the expansion and redevelopment project which has spanned two decades. “We have stopped everything and now we’re hammering out a master plan and finding out what… Continue reading Expansion put on hold
Students have a tough enough time keeping up with their studies, so it’s no wonder an issue as convoluted as electricity deregulation continues to be misunderstood. However, deregulation directly affects anyone who pays for electricity. Alberta’s electric industry was restructured on Jan. 1, 2001. Before which, the sale, generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity were… Continue reading Electricity deregulation in Alberta
By Kevin Allen
Dear Bryan West, Students’ Union President,Re: Future plasma screens in MacEwan Student CentreThe Board of Directors of the New University Television Society would like to express concern regarding planned future installations of television plasma screens in MacEwan Student Centre. We recently found out on April 26, 2004 about a contract between the Students’ Union and… Continue reading NUTV opposes plasma screens
Politeness is that social requirement that makes you do things even when you don’t feel like doing them. And if the person you’re doing them for knows that you’re just doing them because society expects you should, not because you really want to, then why be polite? Why not just be a big, fat, rude,… Continue reading Politeness: a social implant
Editor, the GauntletMy name is Kelly St. Jean and I am the other student senator that was removed from the [U of C] senate in 2001. Not that it matters after this many years, nor does it surprise me what happened to [Student Senator Nick] Vuckovic. My story is simple: I too, was ill and… Continue reading Sickness forbidden in senate