Making Mount Royal: Methodist mission to modern university
How a Methodist college became one of Alberta’s most adaptable institutions
Tagged: The Reflector
$15 million donation from Taylor Family Foundation makes way for MRU student spaces
by Riggs Zyrille Vergara, Publishing Editor Philanthropists Don Taylor and Ruth Taylor announce a $15 million donation to remodel Mount Royal University’s old and empty spaces to physical hubs for learning and student services...
Your unofficial summer reading list: The existential crisis edition
By Andi Endruhn, Publishing Editor Everyone always asks me what I did over the summer, and for at least every year of my university career, the only thing I’ve been able to tell them...
Album review: Sludgefest by Chipmunks on 16 Speed
Chipmunks on 16 Speed Sludgefest Self-released Score: A+ From the opening notes of a hellish interpretation of Blondie’s “Call Me,” it’s obvious Christ has abandoned the soundscape of Sludgefest. Pitched down and brought to...
Album review: Hi This is Flume by Flume
Flume Hi This Is Flume Future Classic Score: A If someone told me five years ago that I would be positively reviewing a Flume album, I’d say: “Buddy, what are you? Some kind of...
MRU Cougar sports year in review
By Dan Khavkin, Sports Editor Men’s soccer Ryan Gyaki’s boys in blue kicked off their footy season while the rest of us were still soaking in the scorching sun in the final weeks leading up...
How a radical shift in the literary world is reviving poetry
By Sarah Green, Staff Writer We’ve been there — stuck in a high school English class, head in our hands, attempting to dissect the intricate words of Shakespeare, Homer or Dickinson. We’re all familiar with...
2018/2019 varsity season sees unprecedented success
By Dan Khavkin, Sports Editor The 2018/2019 Mount Royal athletics season proved to be the most successful the university has seen since its transition to USPORTS university level seven seasons ago but is also seeing...
How Maren Morris and the rest of the music industry are standing up for women
By Mackenzie Gellner, Contributor Music has the ability to make a person feel like they belong or that they are being understood. Music can uplift you and also put you right into your feelings. Recently,...
Pixar SparkShorts: The shifting tale of stories
By Rosemary De Souza, Features Editor The animation studio that brought us Bug’s Life, Cars, Finding Nemo, Wall-E and The Incredibles, to name a few, has had a couple of its Academy Award-winning creators leave...
