by Selina Renfrow
February is a cold, cold month. If you’re someone who actually likes winter sports (I’m not), you can laugh in the face of the cold and have fun skiing, snowboarding, ice skating or sledding, whatever makes you happy. But those aren’t pasttimes you can do at night. Risking waiting in line for a [...]

by Kylie Robertson
Cries of “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!” will be met with silence this year in Mount Royal residence.
A partnership between Mount Royal Residence Services and Canada Olympic Park to house their international ski staff – the majority of whom were from Australia – has been halted after three successful academic years on campus. During the [...]

On the myMRU webpage under “Student Resources,” in the upper-right corner there is a window labelled “H1N1 Registration.” This is where all students, staff and faculty who are experiencing flu-like symptoms are being asked to register into Mount Royal’s system.
The registration was initially launched on Oct. 30 as a way of keeping track of the [...]

By Reflector Staff
From Oct. 28 to Nov. 1, the staff of The Reflector attended the 88th annual Associated Collegiate Press conference in Austin, Texas.
Along with coming back with an abundance of knowledge to improve The Reflector, the staff came back with three awards in hand.
The first recognition came in the form of honourable mention for [...]

Telling someone to jump in headfirst is awful advice.
Most of us spend several years of our youth in swimming lessons learning about the dangers of doing so, especially when you don’t know how deep the water is. Rather than advising someone to jump in headfirst, shouldn’t we be saying, “feet first, first time” like most [...]

A doorman at Classic Jack’s restaurant on 17th Ave. was let go after allegedly refusing entry to a MRU grad and his friend in the early morning of Sept. 18 after judging the latter to be “too much of a dirt bag” to enter.
Grad Aaron Ellard and friend Tim Albinati were finally allowed entry after [...]

Construction costs for Mount Royal’s new 1,200-stall parkade will see open lot parking passes increase by $75 for the fall semester to a rate of $180.
Under provincial law the college is not allowed to allocate any grant or tuition funds towards the $45-million parking facility and thus students and staff will cover much of the [...]