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Who wins this week's Mind Fight? (2009-03-06)
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Eric Mathison:	38% [8]

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	Kim Nursall My Mom Says I'm A Bigot Eliminating society's celebrity obsession

	Sydney Stokoe Call Me Crazy... Remembering the life and words of J.D. Salinger

	Ryan Pike From The Cheap Seats Pie: the creamy bastion of democracy

	Cam Cotton-O'Brien Pidgeon Talk Jay-Z, the Stampede and tuition hikes

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Students amassed outside council chambers to question tuition increases on Tuesday.

Credit: Chris Pedersen / the Gauntlet

Frustration builds around tuition hikes

News - Sharing boos, cheers and chants of "we won't bail you out," about 500 students gathered outside of council chambers Tuesday night to watch provost Alan Harrison speak about tuition increases.

Many students held posters expressing their frustrations while others showed up in little more than garbage bags and underwear.

Harrison explained to students the context in which the current tuition increase proposals were drafted preceding a question and answer session with students.

"We have been receiving six per cent increases for the past several years and in the coming year, that's 2010/11, that will go from six per cent to zero per cent," he stated. "We were told to exp...[More]

Editorial: Tuition is the price of ambition
Opinions - Despite the new library being shorter in stature than the old, the University of Calgary administration betrayed their vaulting ambition Tuesday night. Responding to student questions at the Students' Legislative Council meeting, U of C provo... [More]

Dinos win, eye hosting CW final four
Sports - The Dinos men's volleyball team got back to their winning ways over the weekend, scoring a pair of victories over the University of Regina Cougars. After a mediocre showing last week against the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds, a match-up... [More]

Jewel tells a tale of loss on Valentine's Day
Entertainment - The year is 1985 and Marjorie Clifford is telling the story of a tragedy that occurred three years prior -- the sinking of the offshore oil rig Ocean Ranger. Like the Titanic, the Ocean Ranger was deemed unsinkable, yet it went down not far ... [More]

The end of the world as we know it
Features - "Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months." This is the understated opening sentence of J. G. B... [More]

Contributors:

Tristan Aurini • Trevor Bacque • Amy Badry • Meaghan Carrier • Nicole Dionne • Hazel Carla Heinrichs • Steven Kelly • Rhiannon Kirkland • Cailynn Klingbeil • Richard “Grand Argent” Lam • Katie Letz • Geoff MacIntosh • Kim Nursall • Daniel Pagan • Ben Rowe • Alastair Starke • Curtis Taylor • Tristan Taylor • Natascia Karen Ververa • Alicia Ward • Andy Williams

Golden Spatula(s):

Trevor Bacque abley stepped up when the News department got hit by illness. Way to go, buddy! Also, Emily Ask saved our asses this week.

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Ski Supplement 2010 -- Snowfall

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