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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]