News

Hop on the good foot and do the bad thing safer

Mar 4th, 2010 | Category: News, Web Exclusives


Rolling to campus

Mar 3rd, 2010 | Category: News

by Zoey Duncan
Campus sustainability proj-ects are visible throughout the school: the award-winning, environmentally friendly Roderick Mah Centre for Continuous Learning and the recent expulsion of Styrofoam from Wyckham House to name a few. But one student thinks that the campus could be greener, if security would give skateboarders a break.
“I’ve gotten in trouble cruising from [...]



School spirit subtle but present on campus

Mar 3rd, 2010 | Category: News

by Miriam Ostermann
Despite many students’ views that school spirit at Mount Royal University is declining, the Students’ Association at the university has seen an increase in clubs, greater numbers of volunteers and new events.
Over 300 volunteers have gotten involved with the SA, with roughly 250 serving as executives in 48 clubs, including academic, social and [...]



Co-working makes space for freelancers

Mar 3rd, 2010 | Category: News

By Michaela Kemp
We’ve all seen them. They crowd around tables at Starbucks, frantically typing on their laptops, answering calls, and rolling their eyes when the table beside them gets too loud. Some of them are writers, others web
designers, or even students, but all of them are trying to find a productive space free from the [...]



Students adjust to logo

Mar 3rd, 2010 | Category: Editorial, News

By Zoey Duncan
Mount Royal University finally has a sharp new logo to stamp on all correspondence and propaganda. Whether you like the new insignia is beside the point now, because you had plenty of time to give your input. In fact, about 1,600 people – over 70 per cent of whom were students – [...]



Memorial march honours dead and missing women

Feb 12th, 2010 | Category: News

by Kelsey Hipkin
Bringing attention to and honouring the thousands of women either killed or missing in Canada, the second annual Valentine’s Day Women’s Memorial March will take place on Feb.14.
The walk, which originated in Vancouver 19 years ago, occurs in different cities all over the country simultaneously on Valentine’s Day.
The inaugural walk in Calgary last [...]



SAMRU candidates elected into student government

Feb 11th, 2010 | Category: News, Web Exclusives


Survivors tell their stories of earthquake tragedy

Feb 11th, 2010 | Category: News, Web Exclusives


No surprises in SA election

Feb 11th, 2010 | Category: News

By Zoey Duncan
After four-and-a-half hours of waiting for the ballots to be counted, an excited and slightly nervous group of Students’ Association hopefuls finally got their answer.
“We had a lot of ballots, and that’s a good thing,” said Shauna Hunter, the chief returning officer, to a modest number of students during a break between karaoke [...]



Working on the written word

Feb 11th, 2010 | Category: News

By Zoey Duncan
It’s not unusual for students to enter university with only a cursory knowledge of how to properly craft a sentence. That means when they’re faced with writing a well-researched essay, they’re in trouble before they’ve even typed up a search query.
It’s a problem that some Mount Royal professors are concerned with.
Deb Bridge has [...]