Common sense on tap
If you build it, they will drink. Mount Royal’s campus bar has finally finished its stylish upgrade. A facelift was obviously in order, with the old saloon looking more like a Legion than a...
Category: Editorial
Stop talking, start thinking
No longer the little brother of Alberta post-secondary institutions, Mount Royal has grown up and become a university. It’s time to start acting like one. The last two year’s have been filled with elaborate...
Changes in the Reflector office
Springtime is symbolic of new beginnings: baby animals, tulip bulbs and needing a new basement after a post-snowstorm flood wreaks havoc. At The Reflector, spring often marks a regime change, as we see some...
100 years in review
What’s there to say after you celebrate your hundredth birthday? Perhaps you, like us at The Reflector, while excited about Mount Royal University’s centennial, couldn’t help thinking we were giving too much credit to...
Women ignored
Your formal sexual education need not end after learning about STIs in high school. A psychology class on human sexuality at Northwestern University near Chicago viewed an “absurd” and “clinical” video about female orgasm...
Eradicate SquirrelMail
Ah, noble SquirrelMail. Since the turn of the millennium, the open-source system has been providing acceptable, free email services to users across the Internet. Mount Royal adopted it around 2005 because it was the...
A+ coming too easy for MRU
When we’ve shut our mouths long enough to stop complaining about parking, and we’ve stepped out of the glow of our deservedly fancy centennial celebrations, we’re going to realize there’s something else that’s really...
Time to look at election process
The Students’ Association, annually plagued with an irrepressible lack of enthusiasm for elections, is trying to reach students with a cheeky campaign for voting. “Vote Naked” is the slogan, featuring outgoing SAMRU executive members...
Show up and make it happen
by Chris Harper Guest Columnist You could probably call me an addict. When it comes to my addiction, I can’t say no. I just have to do it. Maybe I need help, but it...
Take heed of ‘Learning Outcomes’
January is the time of year when The Reflector regularly begins talking about a lack of student engagement on campus. We bemoan the dearth of interest in the Students’ Association election and wonder why...
