Take heed of ‘Learning Outcomes’
January is the time of year when The Reflector regularly begins talking about a lack of student engagement on campus. We bemoan the dearth of interest in the Students’ Association election and wonder why...
Category: Editorial
The scary side of sports
by Blaine Meller Another Halloween has come and gone, but this time, it left something behind other than stomach aches and dentist bills: The scariest sports personalities of all time. 1. Mike Tyson In...
Status update: Where do you like it?
by Catherine Szabo I like it out in the open. This isn’t the sex column, but during the month of October, other ladies used their Facebook statuses to declare that they like it on...
Students adjust to logo
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...
Nursing shortage may be a simple numbers game
When Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach made a campaign pledge in February 2008 to graduate an additional 225 doctors and nurses annually over the next four years in an attempt to address the province’s health-care...
Still on the job hunt? Social networking may be the key
If you aren’t using social networking sites in your job search, you may be missing out on opportunities. The rapid rise of social networking over the past five years is nothing short of a...
Where’s the gold?
Opinion We are seeing signs of the upcoming 2010 Olympics in Vancouver everywhere. I think the mascots are frigging adorable, the T-shirts okay and the hoodies a little scary, but the sense of excitement...
Build it, and they will come
Opinion Mount Royal’s decade-long quest for university status seems to be hitting its zenith. Inspectors from the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada — the country’s de facto university accrediting body — will...
Authors use ‘flimsy knowledge’
Writing a book on the “Aboriginal industry” is certainly a worthy and important undertaking. There are lots of “industries” out there in the real world, such as cancer, diabetes, “green,” subsidization, immigration, and to...
Aboriginal cultural gap a reality
At the forum we were hoping to provide an overview of our arguments in Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation. We were looking forward to scholarly criticisms from Dr. James...
