By Kate Foote
Remembering yourself a decade ago is usually embarrassing. Let’s face it, the ‘Rachel’ haircut, Pauly Shore’s heyday and a beverage with gelatinous balls suspended in it are all things better forgotten. However, glossing over this era would also mean neglecting Green Day’s Dookie, Pulp Fiction, and a time when Saturday morning cartoons were actually worth… Continue reading Music Interview: Knucklehead
It’s official. Not only does CJSW dominate Calgary’s airwaves, they do so to the tune of over $200,000 in listener support.The 21st CJSW Funding Drive wrapped up last week with the station raising $204,660 during the annual week-long event. The total marks a station record, and according to CJSW Station Manager Chad Saunders, a record… Continue reading CJSW makes radio history
By Emily Senger
Millions of student dollars were hidden for a month in a binary world of ones and zeroes, lost somewhere within the university’s new computer service provider, PeopleSoft. Meanwhile, the Students’ Union and student groups waiting for levies tightened their belts and waited for overdue payments. This week the SU received a $1.9 million payment from… Continue reading The check’s in the mail
Students in search of a unique opportunity to learn more about the business world need look no further than the Student Technology Innovation Challenge. The STIC, a newly founded business plan competition with a speaker series component, is aimed at promoting the entrepreneurial skills of those involved in technology development.After specializing in cancer research in… Continue reading STIC it to ’em
By Rene Bodack
The evacuation last week of Kinesiology A and MacEwan Student Centre proved to be the second false alarm on campus in as many months.“Wednesday night the Kinesiology staff, in their regular order of business, they were changing chlorine tanks,” said Campus Security Manager Lanny Fritz. “My understanding is, every so often there is what they… Continue reading Bio-hazard scare… again
By Eric Klotz
Not planning the usual cerveza-fest in Cabo San Lucas this spring break? Or perhaps our present global warming debacle has melted your plans to spend spring break on a week-long skiing and drinking binge. If so, you may be interested in an Alternative Alternative Spring Break. Students’ Union Volunteer Services Manager Sue Wilmot has developed… Continue reading Alternative to drinking and reading
In direct contrast to the rhetoric provided by Hancock and the A Learning Alberta steering committee at the forum this week, Public Interest Alberta released their “Post-Secondary Education Report Card,” a report detailing the findings of the survey and consultations at universities across the province. “I had a lot of very positive comments [about the… Continue reading Not good enough
The first day of the A Learning Alberta Minister’s Forum began with Advanced Education Minister David Hancock encouraging boldness and innovation from participants, a theme consistent throughout the consultation process. “Today, we’ll focus on creating Alberta’s future, a future that depends on pushing the edges of knowledge creation and knowledge transfer, a future where every… Continue reading PSE under microscope
By Emily Senger
A class project was cut short when two students were escorted out of MacEwan Student Centre for attempting to conduct a five-question student survey about fair trade coffee.Eric Shorten and Jenn Marshall, both Development Studies students, were handing out the survey as part of a General Studies project when they were confronted by a food… Continue reading Students booted from MSC
University of Calgary students are likely facing a “double-bump” maximum tuition increase next year–to the tune of $62 more per half-course. Premier Ralph Klein announced in February the government would pay the bill for last year’s increase, promising a new tuition policy by September 2006.The government of Alberta’s current tuition fee policy caps student contributions… Continue reading Double tuition increase