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A whiff of what The Rock is cooking
2005-02-17
Editorial - When it comes straight down to it, you don't give a shit. The university experience for you can be summed up by a few all-nighters in the Infocommons and the occasional drunken binge at the Den. Student politics aren't your concern, you just want to earn your degree and head out into the real world. But then there's the stifled giggles during job interviews and snickers around the watercooler, because you've graduated from the school that elected a rock for president. It's like you've got a degree from the University of Pee-Wee's motherfucking Playhouse, where finals boil down to figuring out what the secret word of the day is.
In Monday's Calgary Herald, Deborah Tetley wrote a story about the Students' Union election in their City section. A patronizing fluff piece, as though written by somebody's elderly aunt: "Oh how cute, the kids are having an election and they've nominated a rock." Our campus, in the eyes of the city, seems to come right out of a crappy Hollywood college comedy where students learn important lessons about alcohol and stick their genitalia in awkward places. Because post-secondary is obviously just another label for special education. Never mind the idea of voting for The Rock as an open vote to abstain from the running candidates or issues affecting students that in turn affect the province.
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 Dinos upset Cougars and enter playoffs
2005-02-17
basketball - The Dinos women's basketball team had a pair of matches Feb. 11-12 as important as the pair of humans on Noah's Ark. With a 7-11 record heading into the weekend series, our ladies needed two wins as badly as a high frosh searching for an uh... 7-11. Only by winning both games would the Dinos secure the eighth and final spot in the Canada West playoffs.
Friday night our ladies performed like T-Rexes on a killing spree as they murdered the Brandon University Bobcats 87-39. After getting the first point, the Dinos steered the game like Michael Schumacher and didn't look back.
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 Black History Month
Music and Pride
2005-02-17
It's a bird! No, it's a plane! No, you imbeciles, it's actually Kanye West, complete with a set of angel wings, flying over the crowd at the 47th Grammy Awards after his dramatic resurrection.
A perfect way to ring in Black History MonthÂ--an African American flying around in front of millions of viewers in a moment of sheer triumph over personal and social adversity.
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