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 Regional input in PSE review
Stakeholders have mixed views about process
2005-09-29
The consultation phase of the A Learning Alberta steering committee came to Calgary's Roundup Centre this week.
At the invitation-only event delegates including students and faculty converged to discuss and debate a framework intended to guide Alberta's post-secondary education system into 2025. The framework, created by a steering committee whose members include Calgary-Shaw MLA Cindy Ady and University of Calgary President Dr. Harvey Weingarten was created over the summer with the focus of increasing accessibility to higher education for aboriginal and rural students, as well as making it more affordable and of better quality for everyone.
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Building the new Great Wall
2005-09-29
Editorial - Home to both legitimate and illegitimate news sources, gambling rings, auction houses and some of the most horrifying things ever conceived by the human race, the internet has become humanity's intellectual flop-house. Sharing cyberspace with eBay and farm-animals-on-sealions.com are thousands of online diaries, called 'web logs' or 'blogs.' Commonly, blogs are the jerk-rags of amateur pundits, failed comedians and 14-year-old 'life is pain' goth-kids, though some exist with the legitimate purpose of opening their readers' eyes to new kinds of music, alternative media or even mail order T-shirts.
Within the last week, China has begun a crackdown on the information access and activities of China's 100 million internet users, namely calling for all news sources, official and unofficial, to be registered with the Chinese Ministry of Information. This comes down hardest on China's avid blogging/message-boarding community, as many blogs and webboards comment on current Chinese affairs, leading the government to deem them "unhealthy news sources." While the ministry has stated publicly that blogs will be allowed to continue running as long as they are registered through all the usual channels, one anonymous China-based blogger was told 'not to bother' because 'there was no chance of an independent blog getting permission to publish.' The Great Firewall has been erected.
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 Dinos seeing threes and zeroes
2005-09-29
Soccer - Natural selection was on the march Sun., Sept. 25. The Dinos men's soccer team took down the maladapted University of Lethbridge Pronghorns 3-0.
The Dinos went for the jugular in the first five minutes and were on the board. Veteran Dino Carlos "Hot Karl" Cruz scored off a set play that started with a throw-in by sophomore Dino Lauren "Bamboo" Ramos.
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 Music Interview: Black Dice get noisy
2005-09-29
Music - I really like to just listen to records at my house and figure out where they're coming from," confides Black Dice's Aaron Warren. "That includes our records too. I'll put it next to something else and just see how it fits with that stuff."
It's a sentiment most music fans can share. A well-made record works because it creates a relationship between the band and its audience. Whether it's abstract or straightforward, difficult or pop-oriented, albums live and die on their ability to draw in an audience and provoke an emotional reaction.
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Survey: boylove
2005-09-29
Sometimes it feels most natural to let the issues speak for themselves. When it comes to our society's organized subculture of pedophillia ("boylovers"), the most compelling voices are the ones closest to the source. This week we bring you five unconventional views on the idea of boylove. The opinions presented here are certainly not mainstream, but we trust you to bring your own arguments to the pieces and complete the spectrum of values. We've sought to de-editorialize these two pages as much as possible; therefore, this entire feature is presented without any of the Gauntlet's own writing. We'll let you choose what's right, and what's wrong.
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 Magic missile for life
the Gauntlet talks to a veteran wizard
2005-09-29
Most hobbies are like a moped: they're fun until your friends find out. They have their initial flare but can't keep your attention for much more than a few hours. Regardless, the inevitable truth remains: with hobbies come fads. The infamous Pokemon (admit it: you still have a box in your closet), the unforgettable Pogs (who could forget slammers and double whammies? It was utter craziness), and the forgettable Bones (do you remember Bones? Yeah, me neither) were all the flavour of the week at one point. Fortunately few of these survive in a world of money-hungry toy companies pumping out every child's new infatuation. Through all of this, one constant within the hobby realm has always found a way to reel in a handful of new kids every year: Dungeons and Dragons.
There is a good chance you were never part of a 24-hour Dungeon showdown but there is still a very sound probability you know what DD is. Originating in 1971, the game of magic missiles, elves, and 20-sided die enthralled kids of all ages. This complex fascination of witches, spells and enchantments has thrown us for a loop, and to better explain this phenomenon we spoke with a level 26 (that's right, 26!) Wizard of Sorcery and doom. His name is Craig "Morlock, Ring of Fire" Stevenson and he works at Radio Shack. He's just a pleasant 46-year-old trying to get by on one goblin potion at a time.
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