Too soon to envy digital library
T20.C54.1962. Follow the call number through Mount Royal University’s stacks and you’ll eventually find Profiles of the Future: A daring look at tomorrow’s fantastic world by Arthur C. Clarke from 1962. The...
Category: Editorial
Punch Drunk Hub
Picture your worst hangover. It’s Sunday afternoon and you’re sound asleep. Your brain’s suddenly snapped from slumberland by the sound of incessant vibrations resonating from a nearby cellphone. Groggily stumbling to the bathroom sink,...
Tuition jumps yet again
Feeling the squeeze? Instead of heading to The Hub for another round, students are now forced to deal with rising tuition costs hitting an all-time high in Canada. Full-time undergraduate tuition has increased 4.3...
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...
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...
