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SU appealing election further
2004-04-01
SU Election - The Students' Union Tribunal has agreed to hear the SU's appeal of the Review Board's decision to overturn the 2004 SU General Election.
The Review Board ruled in favour of failed presidential candidate Phil Barski, declaring that voting irregularities centered around the online voting software designed by Sorex Software Inc. materially affected the outcome of the election.
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 Motherhood's no cakewalk
2004-04-01
Column - Imagine building a soul inside of you. Slowly creating fingers and toes, a life that will last decades. While you sit reading the paper or stand in line at the grocery store, you are making a person, a little being that will grow and smile and laugh and hate and cry and be in the world because of you.
From the first day you realize the news with a rush of elation and fear and anxiety, to five months in when you can't fit into your clothes and feel as though you've become a tiny god, harboring life within you. As the final day approaches, you feel as though you're going to burst with nervousness. The large expanse of what used to be your flat belly stretches out before you like some interminable sentence without punctuation. As you're waking up one morning and struggling to your feet you suddenly feel it, like something's losing its grip and being released.
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 50 trillion pounds of sumo
2004-04-01
Sumo. The very word evokes a flurry of images in the mind of the average Westerner. Enormous men trying to push each other out of a ring; diaper-clad bodies colliding with a resounding "smack;" E. Honda's mysterious "machine gun slap" from Street Fighter II.
While these perceptions are not entirely inaccurate, the sport has many other fascinating features which are not so widely known. Strict rules of conduct, regimented training programs and lucrative advertising contracts are all part of the intriguing world of modern sumo.
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 Of improvisation and canned ham
2004-04-01
Theatre Review - Are you a night owl searching for something to spice up your Saturday nights? Are you looking for something new and different to satisfy and tantalize your taste for live entertainment? Can't find an open supermarket at midnight on the weekend?
Well, you don't have to go to the French Maid or the fresh food black market. Nope, search no further than the Plaza Theatre where a fresh, new improvisation troupe performs every Saturday night.
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 Fitness Alternatives
2004-04-01
Checked out the Fitness and Lifestyle Center (a.k.a. "the gym") lately? Been there, done that? Well, this reporter headed out into the vast world of "alternative" health and wellness and came back with some activities to improve not just the body but the mind as well.
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