?What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.? Ralph Waldo Emerson The start of school is around the corner, and most students are looking ahead with a mix of nervousness, anticipation, and hope. Planning, dreaming, and perhaps worrying have been occupying much mental space in… Read more »
Facebook is like the difficult kid in high school who spends most of his spare time in detention. At once intriguing and controversial, the social media giant is always in some kind of trouble with watchdogs. Privacy concerns and worries about how It’s affecting interpersonal relationships keep Facebook in the headlines constantly. Yet despite the… Read more »
Out with the old, in with the new: It’s a popular sentiment at New Year’s Eve parties. Not so throughout the course of the year, when a change of plans can raise eyebrows, cause embarrassment, and create a lot of self-loathing and personal torment. Look around, and you’ll notice that popular and corporate culture are… Read more »
AUSU Joins ASEC! On Friday, July 15, AUSU was officially accepted into membership by the Alberta Students? Executive Council. ASEC is a provincial lobby group that now represents students from fourteen post-secondary institutes across Alberta, including schools from five of the six categories described in Alberta’s Post-Secondary Learning Act. ASEC is focused on advocating on… Read more »
Gmail’s down? How is that even legal? Ugh, the DMV website takes forever. Why is YouTube so slow today? The browser on my smart phone is lagging?what a piece of junk. And what’s with my Internet service provider? It’s been down twice in the past two weeks! Sound familiar? Technological ?failure? has always accompanied the… Read more »
Film: Soundtrack for a Revolution (2010) Genre: Documentary Writers/Directors: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman Executive Producer: Danny Glover When you watch old black and white footage of children gladly marching to jail, you get a sense of how bad life really was for African-Americans in the southern US, up to and including the 1960s. It’s hard… Read more »
Tired of being a nobody? Looking for recognition, a sense of importance, and a legacy That’s out of this world? You might take a cue from a wealthy Arab sheik. Then again, you might not. Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, ?a member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi,? recently made his mark on the… Read more »
It was a story made for television. Literally. Unless you’ve been on a media break for the past few years, you’ve probably heard of the Casey Anthony trial, which wrapped this week with what many consider to be a shocking verdict: the Florida mom was found not guilty of murdering her young daughter. Social media,… Read more »
Well, It’s been quite a year. From the controversial G20 Summit fallout, to a federal election and all the snark that politics typically entails, to a post-hockey loss riot in Vancouver last month, Canada has been taking a beating to its reputation. And It’s not surprising. After all, the stereotypical Canadian?if the media has it… Read more »
That summer we had started playing capture the flag in the cemetery a lot. Pat and James and I, and some other kids from school: the usual crowd. We’d sneak around and crouch behind the big tombstones late at night, talking on those little Motorola radios you can buy at Canadian Tire. Most of the… Read more »