Volume 50, Issue 28
February 4, 2010
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Previous Issues
News
• Students' Union allows joke candidates in upcoming election (2 replies)
• Students lead drive for more Arabic classes (5 replies)
• Tuesday's council chambers a hive of activity
• Students pose to protest tuition increases (1 reply)
• Frustration builds around tuition hikes (7 replies)
Entertainment
• Shockingly, Travolta returns to badass form in From Paris With Love
• Channing Tatum finds love in Notebook writer's Dear John
• Learn to mend a broken heart in Lunchbox Theatre's Mr. Fix It
• Jewel tells a tale of loss on Valentine's Day
Opinions
• Letter: looking for accountability
• Letter: biz kid hates hikes
• Letter: grateful graduate (1 reply)
• Explosive undies and TSA scanners (1 reply)
• Jay-Z, the Stampede and tuition hikes
• Pie: the creamy bastion of democracy (3 replies)
• Downloading trouble
• Remembering the life and words of J.D. Salinger
• Eliminating society's celebrity obsession
• Editorial: Tuition is the price of ambition (2 replies)
Sports
• Men's hockey look to take advantage of week break
• Photo: Defending against Cougars
• Vincent started, drove Dinos club rugby
• Dinos win, eye hosting CW final four
Features
• The end of the world as we know it (1 reply)
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 Frustration builds around tuition hikes
2010-02-04 -
Cailynn Klingbeil
with files from Emily Ask and
Annalise Klingbeil
Gauntlet News
Tuition Crisis 2010 - 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.
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|  Students pose to protest tuition increases
2010-02-04 -
Trevor Bacque
Gauntlet News
Tuition Crisis 2010 - Throngs of upset university goers figuratively raised their voices in displeasure at proposed tuition increases Tuesday afternoon in the MacEwan Student Centre.
Students were invited to hold comic-like speech bubbles for photos which will be turned into postcards and delivered to the Board of Governors when they vote on the proposal for market modifiers and compulsory fees.
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|  Tuesday's council chambers a hive of activity
Impressive student support shows up to question university administration
2010-02-04 -
Noah Miller
News Editor
Tuition Crisis 2010 - The MacEwan Student Centre council chambers were a hive of activity during the not-so-routine Student Legislative Council meeting Tuesday night.
Provost Alan Harrison, with an entourage of university administration members, addressed students and their concerns surrounding proposed tuition increases.
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| Students lead drive for more Arabic classes
2010-02-04 -
Cailynn Klingbeil
Gauntlet News
A student led initiative for the University of Calgary to create standard Arabic language courses is yielding few results, leaving students discouraged and department heads offering varying rationales for why such courses do not exist.
Students Marina McLellan, Zain Jinnah and Wesam Cooley are spearheading the initiative and have met with various department deans over the past few months about their proposal for the creation of credited standard Arabic language courses.
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| Students' Union allows joke candidates in upcoming election
2010-02-04 -
Annalise Klingbeil
News Assistant
The Students' Union is allowing joke candidates to run in the upcoming SU election in an effort to raise awareness and provide an opportunity for more students to engage in the electoral process.
"If a joke candidate wins, they will not take office, rather the purpose of a joke candidate is to make a point about something and raise awareness about student issues and the election itself," said Alastair MacKinnon, a senate representative for the SU and chief returning officer. "It's a fun way to inject a little levity into the campaigns. The key thing is under no circumstance can a joke candidate be elected to office."
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|  Proposed tuition, fee increases leaked
SU, U of C students express outrage at potential tuition and fee hikes
2010-01-28 -
Noah Miller
News Editor, with files from Ryan Pike
Tuition Crisis 2010 - Outrage spread like wildfire among students when the Students' Union disclosed administration's proposed changes to next year's tuition in Student Legislative Council on Tuesday.
After the first of their meetings with university administration, the SU was handed a chart of figures now in circulation among students. The chart outlines proposed changes according to the province-mandated across-the-board maximum of 1.5 per cent based on the Canadian Price Index, alongside proposed "market modifiers" drafted by university administration.
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| Budget cuts on campus: what to know
2010-01-28 -
Annalise Klingbeil
News Assistant
The economy stinks. Canada's unemployment rate soars. Tuition continues to increase. Class sizes are getting bigger. Harvey Weingarten received a $4.75 million pension. It is tough being a student at the University of Calgary these days.
The U of C, like many other schools, businesses and companies across Canada, has taken a hit thanks to a tough economy. Having a multi-million dollar deficit means the university is looking to cut costs wherever possible. In January 2009, it was learned that the falling markets cost the U of C $78 million in endowments and investments. The U of C announced in July that 200 jobs would be cut in the fall. Budget cuts have now spread into specific faculties and affected students' education and experience.
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