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Corporal speaks of need for Afghan mission
2007-03-08
Master Corporal Keith Hodgson has been called a murderer, a baby killer and a waste of taxpayer's money in his 10 years with the Canadian Armed Forces, but despite his dangerous and often disrespected position, the 27-year-old wouldn't choose any other career.
"A lot of people coming back [from service] get the short end of the stick," said a uniformed Hodgson as he showed off an armoured Jeep in front of MacEwan Hall Wed., Mar. 7. "We've been downtown training and we have assault rifles. It's our job to carry them around. One of our tests is a yearly rucksack march and we carry [rifles] around and people yell, 'Hey, what are you doing with those guns?' But, it's my job. What do you want me to carry? A stick?"
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 Editorial: Journalism lite
2007-03-08
Editorial - There is no doubt print media is in a time of upheaval and change. With Internet news, film documentary, blogging and YouTube, people are getting their information in radically different ways than even a decade ago. The concept of journalism as a watchdog on traditional power centers has been all but washed away for a cynical citizenry to whom journalism scandals, plagiarism charges and the partisan politics of outlets like Fox News have become commonplace. But just because the lofty ideals of journalism have been weakened by shoddy practices and political goals doesn't mean newspapers should abandon them outright.
Three new daily papers hit the streets of Calgary this month, and while each is published by a different media conglomerate, they share some strikingly similar characteristics. The stories are short, the focus is primarily on mainstream entertainment and the advertising is invasive. The reasoning behind publications like these is simple: young urbanites aren't interested in spending too much time engaging with what's happening in their world. To market products to them effectively involves a rethinking of the traditional print medium, especially the way advertising integrates with editorial content.
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Women's Volleyball: Volleysaurs served a side of bronze
2007-03-08
The daring Dinos had their dreams destroyed as the glorious gold was grabbed out of their grasp, like a colossal carcass crashing to the court.
The Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s volleyball championships took place Mar. 1-3 at the Jack Simpson Gym, and the University of Calgary volleysaurs’ chance at gold evaporated in the hands of the tournament’s eventual champions, the University of Alberta Pandas. The team rebounded to take a bronze medal Sat., Mar. 3.
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Movies. They matter.
Mini festival aims to bring the doc series back to campus
2007-03-08
In an age where stories of dead D-list celebrities and Britney Spears’ buzz cuts and baby blunders are breaking news, the media landscape is found wanting for something a little more substantial. Luckily, there exists the noble documentary, which has thankfully become ever-more popular in the post-Fairenheit 9-11 mainstream media. Bringing lesser known world issues to pop-culture’s forefront, the documentary has proved to be a life-preserver for an increasingly dull, apathetic media.
For the past four years, Movies that Matter, the pet project of the University of Calgary’s Trimedia organizations (CJSW, the Gauntlet and NUTV) and the Epcor Centre, has flourished under these conditions, being the fount for current and award-winning docs. Held every first Monday of the month for the past year at the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts Engineered Air Theatre, MTM is back on campus for a mini film festival, running Mar. 14-16.
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 Thailand, tackling and tuk-tuks
2007-03-08
While most University of Calgary students spent their reading week lounging on the couch or trying to best their friend in a spirited round of Wii Sports boxing, the Dinos' Rugby team had a different kind of vacation. They flew 19 hours to Thailand to partake in a rugby tournament, endure a 55 degree temperature change, indulge in a few drinks and experience the sights and sounds of Bangkok. Gauntlet writer and team member Nickolas Meehan was along for the ride and kept track of the team's Thai adventures.
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 This Week On The Internet: Decrease productivity tenfold!
2007-03-08
Column - The average student is withering away under the dreadful pressure of having to finish four tests, six labs, two art projects and a combined 45 pages of term-papers within the next six weeks- and that's without discussing the average engineer's workload. Those poor souls won't see the beautiful rays of spring sunshine before June. As such, the ability to procrastinate longer than a rez rat doing laundry is both a fatal and necessary skill: fatal, because doing it too much will get you a one-way bus ticket back to Moose Jaw or Winnipeg or whereever you're from, yet absolutely necessary since working 72 hours in a row will make you C-R-A-Z-Y. Here are a couple wicked Flash games to keep you sane, whether it's during paper writing or that god-awful never-ending linguistics class from hell. Hapland 1, 2 and 3The goal of Hapland is to get the stickmen to light the torches, causing the portal to open and Goa'uld to emerge and turn the aforementioned stickman inhabitants of this bizarre and beautiful world into mindless slaves. How this is done is half the game; most objects on screen interact with each other, sometimes helping the stickmen towards their goal, sometimes killing a dozen of them in the process. Be prepared for Myst-like frustration.
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