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 The struggle between class size and availability
2008-01-31
In a university plagued with large class sizes, one professor fought to make his class just a little bigger. In response to overwhelming demand for an oversubscribed psychology class, Dr. Don Kline signed off on 20 new seats for the only section of the course offered this year.
Though the university has come under fire for large class sizes from students and Maclean's magazine's university rankings, Kline believed this was a special case.
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 Editorial: Towards a post-adolescent Canada
2008-01-31
Editorial - In a lot of ways, nations are like people. They embody many of our best qualities--access to a wealth of resources specific to themselves, the twitchy compulsion to use those resources in new and unfathomable ways and a relentless drive to find meaning in their philosophies or rewrite them when they can't. They also embody many, many more of our worst--the desire to gobble up everything in sight and leave the steaming cultural doo-doo on other people's doorways, an attraction to petty squabbles that result in huffy standoffish relationships and more hypocrisy than Schrödinger's cat as it manically explains its zeal for life to you, or not (as the case may be).
The oddest human characteristic countries display, though, is crisis of identity. During medieval times, Britain and France, pimply teen lovers, just couldn't figure out who got what, resulting in extensive mixture of languages and interbred hillbilly kings with little-to-no-wits and an abundant sense of entitlement to prove it. Japan's concern about their identity within the larger context of east Asia led them to become one of the most xenophobic nations to ever have existed. It's no surprise, then, that Canada has found its own identity crisis to compete.
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 Swimmers take gold at CW championships
2008-01-31
The Dinos men's and women's swimming teams anticipated to perform well at the Canada West team championships last weekend, but their results surpassed all expectations.
The Dinos men won by an unexpected 350-point margin over the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds. The women roared back from a 22-point deficit on Sat. to win for the first time since 2003, even without team stud Katy Murdoch who is out due to illness.
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Summer isn't really that far away
Calgary staple The Summerlad muse about changes, labels and vinyl
2008-01-31
People often forget the city's soundscapes as they go about their daily grind. Sounds like the low whipping of the train while it trundles along the tracks or the revving of engines as they idle in gridlock are common sounds most tune out from day-to-day. This is the wall of noise that we live through every day. The Summerlad's latest album, City of Noise, is a sonic exploration of one day in the city. Originally a project for One Yellow Rabbit's High Performance Rodeo back in Jan. 2005, it's been a nearly three-year process to cut the record. The performance will be replicated Fri., Feb. 1 in That Empty Space with local band Woodpigeon.
"We've done it as a three-piece once when Liz was sick and we've done it with bits of Woodpigeon before already," says bassist Arran Fisher. "We've also done it with an entire ensemble of about nine players or so. It ended up being 17 for the original performance, with four singers and seven guitarists."
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 Music industry almost comes around
2008-01-31
Column - If the idea of the music industry caving and giving in to the piracy community by providing free and legal music downloads sounds to good to be true, that's probably because it is. Qtrax, a new website launched Sun. claimed to be doing just that this week, dropping the names of four major labels-Warner, Universal, Sony BMG and EMI-said to be backing the music website that planned to use peer-to-peer sharing to distribute music. By Mon. afternoon, all four labels had denied signing any deals with Qtrax. News of the website took the Internet by storm late last week, and has become the bread and butter of technology bloggers ever since.
In a blurb describing the site on parent company Brilliant Technologies Corporation website, Qtrax claimed to have "already signed deals with Universal, Sony/ATV, Warner Music Group, The Orchard, EMI Music Publishing and EMI Music, TVT Records, Go Digital, ASCAP and BMI." Coupled with the announcement of the site's imminent launch, the company's stock skyrocketed Mon., only to plummet sharply by Tue. as the major labels each denied the deal one by one, leading several tech blogs and news sites to question whether the whole thing was just a stock scam.
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Concerning Ashley Ketchum...
2008-01-31
Dr. Arbour's Log: 06-01-2008 Interview with subject Ashley Ketchum.
Dr. Paul Arbour: Now Ashley…
Ashley Ketchum: It's Ash.
PA: Very well, Ash. Let's start from the beginning; when did you run away from home?
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