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Volume 50, Issue 33 March 18, 2010 ![[image]](/imgcache/150_images_covers_20100318.jpg)
Previous Issues News • Multi-faith forums encouraged • Homelessness in the media • Living library lets readers talk with 'books' • Ticketmaster replaced by Prime Box Office • Campus improvement fund proposals approved • Controversy over Facebook comments continues (1 reply) Entertainment • Spun: Hawksley Workman • Spun: Joanna Newsom (2 replies) • Spun: Tindersticks • U of C student roars in budding group • Student dancers take to the Mainstage Opinions • The face-off over cultural (in)tolerance (5 replies) • When it comes to love-making, some like it rough • The tangled tale of Rights and Democracy • Greyhound's big speed bump • The validity of demonstrations (1 reply) Sports • Dinos advance to CIS semis • Dinos in fight for CIS title in Ottawa • Dinos national champions Academic Probation • Protestors disappointed by lack of march on Parliament (1 reply) Features • Home, home on the range |
Content by Daniel Pagan
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2010-03-18 - News The Business Club Trailer will receive renovations through CIF funding. Story: Campus improvement fund proposals approved 
2010-02-25 - News The new applyalberta.ca website helps students apply for PSE. Story: New post-secondary website helps students 
2010-02-11 - News The group Anti-Racist Action Calgary has drawn attention with a poster campaign on campus. Story: Controversy arises over anti-racist group's posters 
2010-01-21 - News The University of Calgary was one of 11 stops on a cross Canada campus tour for Michael Ignatieff. Story: Iggy gets jiggy with U of C students Michael Ignatieff comes to campus to answer questions from students and community 
2010-01-21 - News Communication and Culture professor Doug Brent is wary about the impact that the rise of audio readers and the decline of braille will have on the blind. Story: U of C prof researches decline of braille New audio reader technology has potential to negatively affect blind literacy 
2009-10-22 - News The U of R is promising students will have jobs within six months of graduating. Story: U of R guarantees students jobs 
2009-10-22 - News According to a provincial budget, in the 2011-12 school year the B.C. government will receive more tax dollars from tuition than corporate income taxes. Story: B.C. Liberals cut $16M from student aid Average debt rockets 50 per cent from 2002 levels to $27,000 
2009-10-15 - News Undaunted by the cold, Calgarians marched for equality Saturday. Story: Protestors make it clear hate not welcome in 'cowboy town' 
2009-10-15 - News Beaty's newest book looks at why comic books have only just started to be looked at as an art form. Story: Comics, TV and academics, oh my! Professor brings pop culture, wrestling and video games into the classroom 
2009-10-15 - News Members of the U of C Solar Team use Race City as a test track. Story: Solar Team celebrates Race City's lease Critics contend tax dollars better used for landfill, not support for private company Stories City of Calgary donates over $3 million to Nickle Arts Museum2010-03-11 - The Nickle Arts museum received more than its namesake, after the City of Calgary contributed $3.234 million towards the construction of its new home in the Taylor Family Library. The fund is part of the needed $50.5 million in construction costs. Once completed the new Nickle Arts Museum will connect with the Hotel Alma, Rosza Centre and the Reeve Theatre, to act as a new cultural hub on campus. University of Calgary vice-provost libraries and cultural resources Thomas Hickerson applauded the city's move, saying the grant is essential for the construction of the new Nickle Arts Museum. More... TNT found on campus 2010-03-04 - Oddities - Engineering students and staff had an explosive surprise after a staff member found a small amount of TNT in the Schulich School of Engineering building last Friday. A lab technician found about half a kilogram of a chemical suspected to be trinitrotoluene, during a routine review of chemicals in storage facilities. U of C research communications manager Grady Semmens explained that the material, found in a sealed container, was clearly identified as 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, otherwise known as TNT. More... Group wants Calgary taxi policy reviewed 2010-02-11 - A flawed twenty-five year-old taxi supply/demand ratio may be the reason for long taxi waits in downtown Calgary. In the first of its public education seminars held last week, Voters For Taxis poked holes in the cab industry's argument for the current regulations. The group reviewed historical data of the number of taxis and noted the ratio of 1:900, used by the local companies, was calculated incorrectly. Voters for Taxis head Sandy Jenkins further explained that all such calculations, even when properly conducted, are illegitimate. More...  U of C prof researches decline of brailleNew audio reader technology has potential to negatively affect blind literacy 2010-01-21 - New adaptive technology and the decline of braille education in public schools could result in a shift from a literate society to a new oral culture among blind people. Last year, the National Federation of the Blind reported that less than 10 per cent of 1.3 million visually impaired Americans read braille. According to the New York Times, the report pointed out that only one in 10 blind children learn braille today, compared to half of all blind children in 1950. More...  ACAD re-evaluates its CFS membership tempts referendum to leave2010-01-14 - ACAD - A 14th school could join the long list lining up to leave the Canadian Federation of Students if an Alberta College of Art and Design Students' Association referendum is successful. A member since 2002, ACADSA is re-evaluating its CFS membership after a review of the association's budget and bylaws last year. The association pays around $10,000 annually to the national student lobby group and is one of only two CFS affiliates in Alberta, along with the University of Calgary's Graduate Students' Association. More...  Calgary community test site for free Wi-Fi2009-11-26 - Lucky students living in the northwest neighbourhood of Hawkwood can now access free Wi-Fi, with no "wires" attached. In the past, students would need to visit the university campus, the Calgary airport or Starbucks for free wireless. But now a local wireless company, Naeco, is installing 23 phonebook-sized Internet nodes in the community on top of lamp posts at a cost of $5,000 each. Naeco business development vice-president Alain Dubreuil explained that this "mesh network" is a brand new technology. In mesh networking each Internet node acts as an independent router, allowing for rerouting around broken connections. The planning and deployment stage of the project took two-and-a-half years to complete. More... From lobby groups to enrolment, the university lowdown 2009-10-29 - Briefs - UBC's student government and CASA ended their relationship Last week, the University of British Columbia's student government, the Alma Mater Society, voted to sever its relationship with the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, a national student lobbying organization, April 1, 2010. A CASA founding member, the AMS cited several reasons for leaving, such as less focus on AMS' priorities in CASA, lack of institutional reforms and a desire to focus more on provincial lobbying efforts. The vote on the motion was almost unanimous, with only two dissenting councilors. Until April, their status has been changed from a full-time member to an associate member. More... 200 students face academic misconduct 2009-10-22 - Briefs - Two hundred Ryerson University students could face academic misconduct for posting and viewing old coursework on a new study site, universityjunction.com. Donna Bell, the university's academic integrity officer is alarmed about students sharing assignments on the study site, explaining she is fine with collaboration, but individual assignments still need to be done individually. According to The Eyeopener Online, RU's student newspaper, the site also allows students to work together on homework through online chat or forums. More... Alberta tuition third highest in country: StatsCan 2009-10-22 - Briefs - Alberta students pay the third-highest tuition in the country, coming in at over $600 more per year than the national average. According to a Statistics Canada report, undergraduate tuition went up by four per cent last year to an average of $5,520. More...  B.C. Liberals cut $16M from student aidAverage debt rockets 50 per cent from 2002 levels to $27,000 2009-10-22 - Students in British Columbia were hit hard this summer after provincial Advanced Education Minister Moira Stilwell cut $16 million from the student-aid budget without warning. To add insult to injury, the B.C. government's September provincial budget update expects tuition fees collected to surpass corporate income taxes in the 2011-12 school year. The report indicated they will collect $1.11 billion in tuition revenues, compared to $1.04 billion in corporate income taxes. More... 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