By Fabien Mayer
Hallways and classrooms across campus are filled with discussions on how best to combat student apathy and increase student engagement — at least in the hallways frequented by candidates for the Students’ Union. The promise to get students more engaged makes its way into the vast majority of candidates’ platforms. Unfortunately, ideas on how to… Continue reading SU apathetic to student apathy
Seven musicians from the University of Calgary Jazz Orchestra and Chamber Jazz Ensemble won 10 outstanding individual achievement awards at the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival in Chicago last month. “The band’s gotten really good over the last couple years,” says bassist Hannah MacGillivray who won one of the awards. “In a lot of ways it… Continue reading U of C Jazz Orchestra brings home awards
By Liv Ingram
After 28 successful years, the upcoming winter season of the Enbridge playRites Festival of New Canadian Plays will be the last. While the Alberta Theatre Company will continue to produce new plays, they will no longer offer four Canadian premieres in the festival format along with four plays in the regular season. They plan to… Continue reading Curtain to fall on Enbridge playRites Festival
A damsel in distress, a femme fatale and a fake detective, plus video games, guns and Tim Hortons coffee make up the key elements of No Clue — a comedic detective movie based around a key misunderstanding. A woman, Kyra (Amy Smart), walks into the office of Leo Falloon (Corner Gas’s Brent Butt, who also… Continue reading Film review: No Clue
The Hannibal season two premiere dives immediately into battle. The episode opens to a physical confrontation between two major characters set a few weeks into the future, then backtracks to the mistrust and manipulation that leads there. With their brilliant coworker and troubled friend Will Graham locked away in a psychiatric institution and suspected for… Continue reading TV review: Hannibal
Canada’s Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Chris Alexander tabled Bill C-24 on Feb.6 — the first changes to the Canadian Citizenship Act in 36 years. The bill is meant to crack down on fraud by adding new requirements for citizenship. If the bill passes, permanent residents must live in Canada for four years, instead of… Continue reading Bill to toughen laws on citizenship
An oven caught fire on Sunday afternoon, March 2, in Brewster Hall when a resident left the self-cleaning function on. Smoke poured out into the building’s hallway. The Calgary Fire Department responded to the fire alarm just after 2:00 p.m. The fire was contained inside the oven and firefighters quickly extinguished it. The building was… Continue reading Small fire breaks out in Brewster Hall
By Tendayi Moyo
Following the direction of post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, the Students’ Union is looking to bring open textbooks to the University of Calgary. Open textbooks would be made available to students online, free of charge and licensed under an open copyright. This means instructors can edit these textbooks as they see fit. “Right now, the… Continue reading Open textbooks for classes on the horizon
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights has set up shop in MacHall to protest the military occupation of Palestine. Their display is a part of Israeli Apartheid Week, which runs from March 2–5. Events for Israeli Apartheid week are held in 130 cities across the world every year, including 13 in Canada. The event aims to… Continue reading Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights hosts Israeli Apartheid Week
By Riley Hill
The Students’ Union is close to completing a study space audit that was the centerpiece of SU president Raphael Jacob’s campaign during the 2013 SU election. Both Jacob and SU vice-president student life Ben Cannon promised a study space audit in their platforms last year. The two began work on the idea immediately after taking… Continue reading SU study space audit nears completion