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 Students want/fear Flying Spaghetti Monster
2008-11-06
Students\' Union - The Flying Spaghetti Monster has another hurdle to tackle in spreading his noodly appendage across the land. University of Calgary third-year chemical engineering student Jeremy Zhao approached the Students' Union clubs committee with a proposal to start a Pastafarian Student Society last week and was denied.
"To them it would be a parody religion, but for us, our god wants it to be a parody," said Zhao. "They questioned our sincerity and we have a problem with that."
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 Bad decisions about booze
Cancelling alcohol awareness week a weak choice
2008-11-06
Editorial - Despite alcohol use and misuse being such an important and potentially destructive issue for students, the Students' Union has decided to forgo alcohol awareness week this year. The rationale for discontinuing the event hinges on its supposed lecture-like nature and the idea that putting everything into one week is simply too much.
SU vice-president events Luke Valentine told the Gauntlet that a holistic approach to alcohol awareness, which would feature a number of special events throughout the year, would be more beneficial for students than concentrating everything within a single week. He said that in an effort to do so, the SU arranged an alcohol-free dance party in That Empty Space at the start of the year-- which they hope to put on again either this semester or next-- launched a responsible drinking campaign sponsored by Molson and are planning to hold a beer and wine tasting in the winter which will incorporate some educational aspects.
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 Equipped to win
A day in the life of Dinos manager Allan Naylor
2008-11-06
Football - Imagine walking into McMahon stadium expecting to see a football game only to view players standing around in their underwear, unable to throw around footballs. Without someone to take care of player's uniforms and equipment, a football game ceases to exist. This person will rarely be in the newspaper, is not on the score sheets after the game and will never be voted MVP. For the Dinos, this person is Allan Naylor, manager for the University of Calgary football team.
While working for the Dinos, Naylor has witnessed two Vanier Cups. He was with the team when they lost in 1993 by three points to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. That hardship was remedied two years later when he witnessed Calgary win the cup with a 54-24 victory over the University of Western Ontario Mustangs.
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 Canadian rock staple takes on reinvention
2008-11-06
music - An old adage says that the only constant in the world is change. For the better part of three decades, Vancouver-based rockers 54-40 have been ruled by that adage.
Since the group's formation in 1981, the band has crafted a series of albums with a varied sound, all while constantly touring. Appropriately enough, 54-40 is poised to close out this year in the way they've become accustomed: touring across Canada to support their new album, Northern Soul. For a change of pace, lead singer Neil Osborne says the group is jumping in a bus for a month-long sojourn across the country.
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 Think before you drink
Why it's important to drown the myths behind the student bender
2008-11-06
Redefining the binge
The concept of binge drinking used to have a radically different meaning. It conjured up images of severely intoxicated hooligans roving around drunk for two or three days at a time, people who could hardly stand up, who couldn't stop drinking, who appeared nearly dead. This was the image associated with falling off the wagon and with going on a bender.
But these multi-day drinking bouts are no longer the clinical understanding of binge drinking. Dr. Wesley Perkins, a sociology professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York state, suggests that the historical connotation still brings its debauched image with it into present-day discourse. It is for this reason that it produces controversy.
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