The smell of ink is in the air
by Jonathan Vern McGill The Reflector Incessant buzzing filled the floor of the BMO Centre this weekend as artists punctured ink into the skin of those attending the eighth annual Alberta Bound Tattoo...
Category: Features
Trapped by convenience
48-hour vending machine diet challenge leaves bad taste Todd Vaughn The Reflector Who doesn’t love a ham sandwich? Maybe the person who found out the sandwich in question came from a vending...
From Albuquerque with love
Lindsay Douglas The Reflector I’m spending four months of my life attending the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I realize — with Canada being attached to the United States — it seems a...
Living for the ride
Why bike safety matters by Marina Giannitsos Features Editor “It’s just like riding a bike…” The saying itself refers to something that becomes second nature — something you can never forget. But try...
For the love of bacon
Baconfest Canada celebrates the best part of breakfast Aaron Chatha Nothing gets between a pork lover and his bacon. In a light-hearted 2010 survey conducted by Maple Leaf Foods, 43 per cent...
Healthy living, healthy eating
Snacks to help you survive the semester by Eunice Poon In the lives of busy students, meal planning and eating nutritional foods can often be left until the last minute when the...
Back to the drawing board
Marina Giannitsos Features Editor There’s a reason characters like Superman and Batman are considered legendary. When you look at their dates of origin in 1937 and 1939 respectively, both characters are slightly older than...
Party like a responsible rock star
Steve Waldner The Reflector The fall semester of school has arrived and with it comes one thing some students look forward to over the summer — the first wave of residence parties. Some students...
Brothers in arms
by Devin Ayotte The Reflector Though it has yet to grace the pages of the hallowed Oxford English Dictionary, the term bromance is gaining ground in gender studies discourse and fraternity house basement discourse...
Life without a laptop: MRU’s technology 30 years ago
by Krista MacPherson The Reflector Can you imagine Mount Royal University without the Internet? How about without computers in the library, or computer labs at all? Could you fathom writing those often talked about...
