It was a hard goodbye for six Students’ Union staff who won’t be coming back anytime soon. An event operations supervisor, two Den and Black Lounge managers, a kitchen staff member, the Student Union Volunteer Services manager and a loading dock shipper/receiver were let go recently. SU president Dalmy Baez said that the decision was… Continue reading Recession leads to campus job losses
Month: January 2009
The Church and homosexuality: questions from another age
High on the list of unoriginal insults is calling someone or something “gay.” It provides a catchphrase for people who really don’t know what they mean to say and are too ignorant to realize the hollowness of the insult and the bigotry contained in it. Only a couple of short weeks before Barack Obama gave… Continue reading The Church and homosexuality: questions from another age
The importance of politics
By Megan Rose
With the Students’ Union election approaching, many students give no more thought to it than a brief glance at an election poster. Chances are there will be more than a few students who won’t vote (last year’s turnout was 11 per cent) and too many of those who do attribute little significance to it. Students… Continue reading The importance of politics
Battle for the streets
By Daniel Pagan
Just now, people in City Hall and the local media are running along like headless chickens and people on fire. Do they finally feel bad about not plowing the snow off residential streets, causing stress for disabled residents, or are they sad about high taxes? No, they are worrying about the killing sprees and innocent… Continue reading Battle for the streets
The beauty of child labour
By Ryan Pike
Whenever the world is in economic turmoil, visionaries emerge from amidst the chaos to lead society back to prosperity. Programs like the New Deal changed government policies and allowed economies to recover and eventually prosper. In this current economic crisis, the most logical thing governments can do is repeal child labour laws. Children in society… Continue reading The beauty of child labour
øNo hablas Ingles? No assistance, no luck!
With the recent inauguration of Barack Obama lifting the spirits of Americans, minorities have high hopes for diminishing discrimination in the United States. Beyond appearances, language barriers remain a sensitive issue as governments balance the battle against discrimination with properly accommodating immigrants in their country. Currently, the U.S. has not declared an official language at… Continue reading øNo hablas Ingles? No assistance, no luck!
Picking a patsy
The undesirable effects of melamine on the human body have become well known to the public ever since the Chinese protein export contaminations, perhaps better known as the Chinese milk scam of 2008 and the pet food recall of 2007. The scandal, which resulted from the addition of melamine to raw milk to make it… Continue reading Picking a patsy
Letter: Of unsearching scientists
Editor, the Gauntlet, Recently, the prominent scientist Stephen Hawking warned humanity that, “We’re acting with reckless indifference to our future on planet earth. It will be difficult to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million.” Some time earlier he said that the “Doomsday Clock advanced to five minutes… Continue reading Letter: Of unsearching scientists
Child soldiers and the ICC
A Congolese warlord is being put on trial at the International Criminal Court for using children as weapons of war. The case, which started Monday, is the first ever for the Netherlands-based court and lawmakers, and breakers, around the world are watching closely to see how effective it will be. In 1995, the United Nations… Continue reading Child soldiers and the ICC
A fishy question
A woman goes swimming on a rough day just off the coast of California, in water about 10 feet deep. She is attacked by a shark, which bites her leg. Acting quickly, she stabs the shark in the head with the knife she is carrying. The shark dies, but her leg is caught in the… Continue reading A fishy question