By Riley Hill
Starting this Saturday, the Student Success Centre will begin auditions for the third annual Coming Out Monologues, a celebration of sexual diversity held at the University of Calgary. The event features various artistic performances exploring Calgary’s queer community. Auditions will be held in the Women’s Resource Centre. The show, which will be premiering on… Continue reading Coming Out Monologues auditions coming up
By Sean Willett
Almost everyone who has owned a Mac or wandered into an Apple store has played with Photo Booth at least once. The popular webcam application allows users to manipulate and distort their appearance in comical ways, shrinking and expanding faces to create hilarious images. While most people are just content to use Photo Booth to… Continue reading Digital puppet masters
By Sean Willett
By Kurt Genest
By Manal Sheikh
The University of Calgary takes a number of precautions to protect students on campus. One of these measures is the emergency text messaging service used to alert students during emergencies. The system was first tested on Jan. 15. Emergency text messaging is the primary means the university can use to alert students to danger on… Continue reading New emergency texting
Grace Samuel, a University of Calgary graduate student in the faculty of social work, is researching the health and safety of sex workers in Calgary through the Shift Program, which works with adults who have been or are currently involved in the sex trade. Samuel has been compiling research to increase services and eradicate negative… Continue reading A look into Calgary’s sex trade
The Gazette, Western University’s student newspaper, may lose its office space to create more room for the multi-faith centre. However, the motives for the move are unclear since multi-faith groups have consented that their current space is adequate. The Gazette, which was founded in 1906 and has 24 staff members, has occupied its current space… Continue reading Student newspaper fears downsizing
By Riley Hill
The Department of Human Resources and Skill Development Canada announced on Jan. 16 that they had lost a portable hard drive containing the data of 583,000 Canadians who took out student loans between 2000–06. The lost data of Canadian Student Loans Program clients include social insurance numbers, contact information, dates of birth and loan… Continue reading Federal government loses student loan information
“There is absolutely a negative stigma around mental illness. In society, it has been [taught to]us to think that mental illness is a huge problem and that it’s negative and dangerous, but that isn’t true,” said fourth-year University of Calgary psychology student Chantai Minet. Students have a lot on their plates, and a huge array… Continue reading Improving the state of mind