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 The People versus PeopleSoft
2007-01-25
The transition to PeopleSoft has been hard and may be about to get harder.
Through the so-called "Project Emerge," the University of Calgary has spent two years updating its entire business administration system to new software designed by PeopleSoft , with the final launch date for all student records set for early February. Despite a host of ongoing problems including misreported pay cheques, over-taxation and numerous crashes, project leaders are assuring students the final transition will go smoothly.
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 Editorial: Sheesha showdown
2007-01-25
Editorial - I'm what I'd like to call an ambivalent smoker.
By that I mean I smoke the occasional bowl of sheesha with friends--flavoured molasses tobacco -- at one of the several cafes downtown. I'm not the only one, as these places are near-capacity most of the time. Most people who smoke sheesha do it as a social pastime and are hardly the pack-a-day smokers targeted by the Smoke-Free Calgary ad campaigns. Sheesha bars provide those of us who want to keep our homes smoke-free with a place to indulge, but the city's recent crack-down on sheesha bars may signal their demise.
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 Swimming: Pool Sharks
Men pick up first gold since ν97, women place second
2007-01-25
This year's Canada West swimming championships were gripping, with the race for the conference title separated by just one point. The University of Calgary Dinos beat the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds 1670 to 1669.
The Championships were held at the U of C's aquatic centre Jan. 19-21. The Dinos men's team took the gold medal with 888 points compared to UBC's 837, a huge improvement over last year's gap of almost 400 points. The men's win broke a CW record, taking home their 15th conference title.
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 The tragic history of dead puppets
All the greatest puppet shows you've never seen
2007-01-25
Whether it's sitting in front of a video game or standing on a street corner with a dioramic set, puppetry is a more pervasive cultural force than it's often given credit for. Projecting human characteristics onto an inanimate object is done early on by most children, a knee-jerk throwback to the days of tribal totems and fertility idols. If the desire to will life into something lifeless is as fundamentally human as history and societal practices would suggest, it's not hard to make the leap to art about the frailty of life--performed, of course, by dead things. By puppets.
"The show is really simple, but it's also quite complex," says Judd Palmer, master puppeteer with the Old Trout Puppet Workshop and one of the twisted minds behind Famous Puppet Death Scenes. "It's about really big things, rather than just puppets dying, which is actually quite small. Death remains that grand void, that big mystery everyone's trying to figure out. But it's also about life, that big lead up to the mystery, because you can't really have one without the other."
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 This Week On The Internet: Waste a semester on Facebook!
2007-01-25
Column - Anyone who's anyone has a Facebook account. Some people use it to plan events, some use it to share photos, others use it to connect to people they haven't seen since grade school and still others use it as The Ultimate Stalker Toolkit. Regardless, the vast majority use it as the most effective method of procrastination ever invented. With a dedication/borderline-obsession comparable only to 4chan users, Facebook addicts have elevated procrastination to a veritable art form. Here's how to survive the GRST class that sounded like such a good idea a week ago:
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