Book Ban Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian dissident and the first Muslim woman to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize, is being prohibited from publishing her memoirs in the United States because of laws that forbid “trading with the enemy.” Ebadi is a persuasive voice in the struggle against an Islam commandeered by fundamentalist extremists. This… Read more »
AUSU Christmas Hours Over the Christmas Holidays, AUSU will be closed for the same duration as the university. Our hours will be as follows: Dec 24, 2004: office closes at 3:00 pm, MST Dec 25, 2004 through Jan 3, 2005: Office Closed Jan 4, 2005: Office open at 8:30 am, MST Are you in Need… Read more »
Dear Barb; I’m in my first year at University and many miles away from my home. Therefore, I will not be able to afford to fly home for Christmas this year. This will be very difficult since this is the first Christmas I have not been with my family. Is there anything I can do… Read more »
It’s Christmas Eve sometime in the distant past, and I’m in a ski cabin in the Kootenays that my roommate Todd and I rented with the last of our summer tree planting money. With both of our families in remote places, we decided to “get away from it all” this year. At this point in… Read more »
WHAT’S NEW ON PRIMETIME THE AMAZING RACE Last week, 9 Teams set out from Norway and traveled to Sweden where they visited the ice bar as well as IKEA and had to do some tedious staff chores. Later, they had to unroll hay bales to search for a clue. It took Lena over 8 hours;… Read more »
In a calm, measured, almost dispassionate way, Reverend Dale Lang retold the story of his son’s murder to an audience in Andrew. Seventeen-year old Jason Lang had been shot at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, April 28, 1999 in his Taber, Alberta high school. It was eight days after the Columbine massacre. Lang recalled how that… Read more »
This made for TV film has been in high demand on channels like the Discovery and the Learning Channels. The summer months often produce high demand programs in specialty weeks like Shark Week and UFO week., and this film is a result of the latter. British TV producer Martin Belverson was smart enough to film… Read more »
From UFOs to possible life on other planets, this column goes places! Mars Mission is really a videotape of a United Nations presentation by speaker Richard D. Hoagland. Talking to the honorable assembly would be pretty cool for me but to a former NASA scientist maybe not. He is easily the most interesting speaker I’ve… Read more »
Nova Scotia Students Gain New Deal The Provincial Government of Nova Scotia has signed a deal (http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20041207002) with the local universities that will cap tuition increases for the next three years with the promise of guaranteed increased provincial funding. While many students and student organizations cry for tuition freezes like this, they often neglect to… Read more »
I no longer remember where it originally came from. It’s written in red permanent marker on a piece of yellow foolscap spattered with a couple of decades worth of spilled tomato sauce, red wine, oil and who-knows-what-else. For many years now it’s been committed to memory, and remains folded at the bottom of the kitchen… Read more »