Tag: Letters

By Roger L. Gagne

Editor, the Gauntlet, This article [“‘Good’ advertising gone wrong,” Rinaldi Gulinao, Feb. 5] highlights a conundrum faced by most utility companies in North America: they are aware of the external social and environmental costs of generating electricity, yet how are they to tell customers to buy less of their product? And what incentive is there… Continue reading Letter: Editor, the Gauntlet: electricity rules

By Spence Madden

Editor, the Gauntlet, Your publication of the story regarding [Students’ Union communications and culture facualty representative Mathew]Bladek versus the Students’ Union [“SU representative locked out of office,” Sarelle Azuelos, Jan. 29] gives me hope for the upcoming election. These “normally under the radar of the typical student” stories need to come forth during election time.… Continue reading Online Only – Letter: Hope amongst the readership

By Cam Cotton-O’Brien

Editor, the Gauntlet, I was deeply disturbed by all of the posters spread around the university by the Students’ Union this week. Given that there are so many candidates who say they want to increase the university’s sustainability, why the fuck are so many trees being cut down?

By David Brownridge

Hey Harvey, Nice work on the lower floor washroom in Social Sciences. Let’s see, you had a month over Christmas, plus almost two weeks prior during exams when it was pretty dead, but oh no, can’t do construction then. No, let’s wait until school starts– even though there are damn construction guys running around all… Continue reading Letter: A hard time peeing

By Tristan Schorn

Editor, the Gauntlet, With regards to the article “The birth of the atheist evangelical” [Tyler Wolfe, Jan. 22] Wolfe’s comparison of the atheist bus ads with religious proselytizing is absurd. In no way does the atheist campaign tell you how to live your life or what to believe, it specifically tells you one thing not… Continue reading Letter: Believe in not believing

By Bryan West

Editor, the Gauntlet, I’m really sad to hear about the cuts to core student services and staff [“Recession leads to campus job losses,” Nicole Dionne, Jan. 29]. These were all very good people and, in my opinion, all very good at their jobs. In addition to the cutting of the Students’ Rights Advisor, these new… Continue reading Letter: SU’s sad news

By Louis Poirier

Editor, the Gauntlet, While I’ll fully agree that the Olympics can be a costly venture [“The life blood of the Olympics,” Daniel Pagan, Jan. 22], the summer and winter games simply cannot be compared. In size, scale and cost, the summer games are a behemoth to beware. That said, how can you write about the… Continue reading Letter: Heroic rebuttal

By Gunther Ostermann

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

By Dalmy Baez

Editor, the Gauntlet, I am writing in response to the piece in last week’s Gauntlet titled: “The SU’s woeful tales of tuition [Jon Roe, Jan. 15].” There were a few issues you raised that were valuable and which I take as constructive criticism with hope that our organization can learn from them. I do regret… Continue reading Letter: Response from the SU

By Louis Poirier

Editor, the Gauntlet, I have always been of the impression that the reason we had the UPass here at the University of Calgary was since ours was a commuter campus and there are not nearly enough parking spaces for all those students who would like to drive every day. The UPass is a great alternative… Continue reading Online Only – Letter: UPass problems