by Selina Renfrow
If Facebook fan pages were a popularity contest for Calgary’s mayoral race, Mount Royal University associate professor Naheed Nenshi would be winning with 710 fans supporting his run at press time.
The problem is, Nenshi isn’t running for office. At least not yet.
“I’m still thinking about it,” is Nenshi’s official answer at the moment.
Nenshi [...]

by Zoey Duncan
Clucking, pooping, flapping, and laying, the humble chicken is popping up in a few Calgary backyards despite a bylaw that orders otherwise.
The Canadian Liberated Urban Chicken Klub (CLUCK) has been meeting with the city in order to change a bylaw that prohibits their presence within city limits. The city considers the urban environment [...]

by Zoey Duncan
Mount Royal University’s self-proclaimed techie president, Dave Marshall, engaged in a debate about the uses and abuses of social media on March 11. Marshall discussed the dependency of society on social media while Gil Wilkes, who holds the Ralph Klein Chair in Communication Studies, argued that social media eases communication.
Marshall said he was [...]

by Kylie Robertson
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin spoke on March 6 in Calgary – her first Canadian appearance since she resigned office in 2009. Former U.S. president George W. Bush was in Calgary almost exactly a year prior, on
March 17, 2009 and received a rather different reception than Palin.
When Bush spoke in Calgary there was [...]

by Catherine Szabo
In the past three years, Samantha Murdock, a business student, has moved six times between Mount Royal University residence and her hometown of Edmonton. Her roommate, Lisa Stevens, has moved five times between Calgary and her hometown of Crossfield, Alta.
This year, both women decided to live off campus together, after previously being roommates [...]

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 – [...]