AUSU Job Posting – Chief Returning Officer The Athabasca University Students’ Union (AUSU) represents AU students and their interests. The Union strives for a fair and accessible election process for members to the Students’ Council. To this end, AUSU is seeking a student to fulfill the role of Chief Returning Officer (CRO) for the 2008… Read more »
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Since I opened a blank Word document to write my weekly column I’ve trawled through my library looking for inspiration, put a roast in the oven, put a load of clothes into the washer, checked a dictionary to ensure correct usage of a particular word, putzed with a vanilla candle on my desk, and had… Read more »
The Jimmy LaFave Interview Jimmy LaFave is a folksinger-songwriter who was born in Texas but spent his late teen and early adult years in Oklahoma. He has performed in Canada, the United States, and Europe, and has had a devoted following for the last two decades. For a review of his latest CD, Cimarron Manifesto,… Read more »
CD: Jimmy LaFave, Cimarron Manifesto Release date: 2007 Label: Red House Records, Inc. ?Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that… Read more »
Release date: November 6, 2007 Label: Independent release Tracks: 7 Rating: 5 This is the debut, self-titled album from four-piece Ontario band In Its Wake, a group whose front man describes their music as ?alternative soul rock.? I agree wholeheartedly with this self-labelling. Unfortunately, I don’t feel that alternative, soul, and rock music can be… Read more »
AUSU Job Posting – Chief Returning Officer The Athabasca University Students’ Union (AUSU) represents AU students and their interests. The Union strives for a fair and accessible election process for members to the Students’ Council. To this end, AUSU is seeking a student to fulfill the role of Chief Returning Officer (CRO) for the 2008… Read more »
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This morning I spent too long cleaning up my email. There were 14 messages to read. Well, not messages exactly; more like forwarded jokes, video clips, and links to YouTube or other sites. There weren’t any real pieces of genuine communication. You know, the whole reason email was supposed to exist: to offer a cheap,… Read more »
Release date: October 2007 Label: Interscope Tracks: 14 Rating: 8 The Black and White Album is the latest release from The Hives, a group that is notorious for high-energy, catchy songs that make full use of the modern rock mentality while still getting you to dance. At least That’s how I feel about it?The Hives… Read more »