History repeating
by Blaine Meller There’s an old saying: making history is easy, repeating it is the hard part. Such is the challenge facing the Calgary Vipers. When the Vipers captured the 2009 Golden Baseball League title...
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Hacking into the blogosphere
by Jamie Witham The term blog has found its way into society’s vocabulary, and permeated the way we think about communication. But what is a blog, and why are they so important? Straight from...
Telling stories on the fly
by Sean-Paul Boynton In the year 1599, William Shakespeare penned one of his most famous soliloquies, spoken by the character Jacques in As You Like It, which contains these immortal opening lines: “All the...
A different kind of course
by Gabrielle Domanski Since its induction into academics, women’s studies has been a course that has had its fair share of criticisms. However, at Mount Royal, it is one of the first courses within...
Exposing the student body
Thank you very much to everyone who took time out of his or her holidays to fill out our annual sex survey. The questions were based on previous columns and ideas for future columns,...
The search for pow’
by Vanessa Vegter Guest Columnist December has arrived, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and Ular the Snow God seems to finally have awoken from his slumber. Fear not my comrades; while...
Exam lotto: How Mount Royal University schedules final exams
by Nori Sinclair Eight weeks before the end of classes, students eagerly check online for Mount Royal’s exam schedule, hoping they will luck out with an extended holiday vacation or the afternoon exam times....
When tradition turns to tedium
The arrival of the holiday season can be seen in a number of ways: the appearance of Christmas lights hanging from the houses of your eager neighbours; Lite 96’s 24-hour playlist of carols and...
No strings attached
Don’t hate the game, hate the player — oh wait, it’s the reverse: don’t hate the player, hate the game. Whatever. Either way, hating the game or the player is beside the point. The...
