The view from second-floor residence isn’t fantastic. I can’t see over the first row of beige homes across the street. There’s no beautiful skyline or city lights. It isn’t great, but it’s fine. Would I pay $800 more a year … Read the rest
Scott Strasser, November 6 2014 —
Five Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ENTI) 381 students are bringing an Amazing Race-inspired event to the University of Calgary on Nov. 13 at 5:00 p.m.
The race includes 10–15 stations where teams will solve riddles … Read the rest
By Scott Strasser, November 6 2014 —
Every semester, anxious and stressed students are bogged down with heavily weighted exams.
Midterm season seems to either last for months or be over in one week. Some classes have multiple midterms, so … Read the rest
By Alexander Kim, November 6 2014 —
The University of Calgary Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) brought back the Who Needs Feminism? campaign Wednesday, Nov. 5.
Volunteers from the WRC set up a photo booth in the Taylor Family Digital Library … Read the rest
By Chris Adams, October 30 2014 —
Students’ Union faculty of arts representative Lexi Narowski successfully lobbied to ban offensive team names for University of Calgary intramural sports teams that she says perpetuate rape culture.
Names like Frigid Whore, Cunning … Read the rest
By Andrew Kemle, October 30 2014 —
Debates about mandatory membership in the Students’ Union are more about how we ideologically feel about unions than the SU’s value at the University of Calgary.
SU membership is automatic. Every semester, $35 … Read the rest
By Alex Procyk, October 23 2014 —
Our student union is easily one of the best in Canada. Most of their revenue comes from MacHall instead of students fees, their political advocacy focuses on student issues and they support diverse … Read the rest
By Susan Anderson, October 23 2014 —
On Tuesday, Oct. 21, second-year chemistry major Jason Lampman broke all sense of laboratory decency when he pipetted his 6 mol sodium hydroxide by mouth.
Lang is currently in a coma at Foothills … Read the rest
The Faith and Spirituality Centre (FSC) at the University of Calgary has nine chaplains. Seven of them preach some variation of Christianity — Lutheran, Catholic, Pentecostal and Baptist —while the other two are Muslim and Buddhist. There’s a noticeable absence … Read the rest
By Ashley Gray, October 9 2014 —
U of C Compliments and U of C Confessions have unrealized potential. Anonymous people could be complimenting an exceptional employee or student, but instead they acknowledge “pink trainers in the gym” or confess … Read the rest