Three minutes with the future mayor
by Aaron Chatha The key to speed dating is making a strong first impression, laying your best cards on the table and hoping that, after meeting everyone there, someone liked you best. On Oct....
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Students feel the heat in fire demo
by Kevin Rushworth Within minutes of the first smoke detector screech, fire rippled up the curtains and danced chaotically across the floor. Just as twisting flames deformed a computer screen, a couch lit up...
Double-dose of history?
by Blaine Meller There’s an old adage in sport: records are meant to be broken. It would seem Gillian Doubleday has heard this as well. Doubleday, playing for the Cougars Women’s Soccer team, has already...
Cougars golden on greens
by Blaine Meller It isn’t rare to see cougars prowling the foothills of Southern Alberta. However, the Cougars stalking the fairways at Wintergreen Golf Course had a different prey in mind: ACAC gold. The Cougars’ men’s...
Legacy of marvels and merry-making
by Zoey Duncan Half-naked and sweating copiously, Gregg Gillis is buoyant, bounding up and down, over and over, behind his plastic-wrapped laptop in Wyckham House. On stage, he’s surrounded by dozens of ebulliently dancing...
Students could lose thousands
by Miriam Ostermann A controversial document, submitted to the provincial government by the Council of Alberta University Students, has left Alberta universities divided on an issue to eliminate the provincial tuition and education tax...
MRU students ‘can make a difference’ in election
by Bryan Weismiller Maybe you’ve been buried under a pile of textbooks lately, or you’ve been preoccupied “sampling” a few pints of Royal 100 in the Liberty Lounge, but Calgary’s 2010 municipal election is...
Hats off to 100 years
by Claire Miglionico It’s weather fit for a Monday morning — foggy, rainy, and just plain ugly on Sept. 20. But today isn’t an ugly day inside Mount Royal University. Today is a day...
Mayoral pool still plenty deep
by Devin Ayotte Fifteen candidates are vying for the mayoral post that Dave Bronconnier is vacating next month, but Mount Royal University political science professor Duane Bratt said it will be business as usual...
Budget cuts mean fewer first-year classes
by Miriam Ostermann Post-secondary institutions across the province had to bite the bullet when the Alberta government, faced with a $4.7-billion deficit, announced a freeze on funding. For Mount Royal University, the freeze came...
