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Steubenville & social media

April 9, 2013 | 9:25 pm | Comments Off
Steubenville & social media

Social media has done it again. Over the past seven months, both Facebook and Twitter have come close to exploding…

How to stop being an ignorant asshole in six easy steps

April 9, 2013 | 9:24 pm | Comments Off
How to stop being an ignorant asshole in six easy steps

Walking around university and college campuses has made me realize that maybe the facts of life (especially those regarding courtesy…

All work and no play makes SAIT a dull school

April 9, 2013 | 9:21 pm | Comments Off
All work and no play makes SAIT a dull school

SAIT would be better with more liveliness in its hallways and more celebration in its atrium.
SAIT’s sense of cohesion…

No vs. Go

April 9, 2013 | 9:07 pm | Comments Off
No vs. Go

 
Andrew Halipchuk, Sports Writer
On March 14th, the NHL made one of the biggest mistakes in league history when…

Payphones ‘shmayphones’

April 2, 2013 | 8:46 pm | Comments Off
Payphones ‘shmayphones’

Tucked away and unnoticed sits the Senator Burns phone room. Its inhabitants include five Telus pay phones covered in a…

An inside look at a cult: belieber edition

April 2, 2013 | 8:44 pm | Comments Off
An inside look at a cult: belieber edition

 
CULT (NOUN):
“A system of devotion directed towards a particular figure or object with practices often regarded by society…

Give metal a chance

April 2, 2013 | 8:34 pm | Comments Off
Give metal a chance

Throughout the course of metal’s history, it’s been stereotyped, dismissed and condemned.
For as long as I can remember, I…

Color me bad—colour me right—Canadian spelling matters

March 25, 2013 | 12:01 am | Comments Off
Color me bad—colour me  right—Canadian spelling matters

 
A recent memo forwarded via email by ACAD chair Richard Brown that lashed out at students who vandalized the…

Why you should be proud to be a millennial

March 22, 2013 | 9:28 pm | Comments Off
Why you should be proud to be a millennial

 
The population at SAIT is overrun by members of Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation. Fellows of…

Albertans need to stop drinking the PC Kool-Aid

March 18, 2013 | 1:15 pm | Comments Off
Albertans need to stop drinking the PC Kool-Aid

The 2013 Alberta budget is cutting from our future, to pay off the deficit from their uncontrollable spending habits.
The…

Pope vs. Pope

March 18, 2013 | 1:14 pm | Comments Off
Pope vs. Pope

What do you get when you put the Catholic Pope Emeritus in the same room as the Oakland rapper, Pope…

CRTC’s measures are just the beginning

March 11, 2013 | 12:17 pm | Comments Off
CRTC’s measures are just the beginning

According to the big three wireless and cell providers in Canada (Bell, Rogers and Telus), protecting customers from incurring ridiculous…

An internet takeover for less body shaming, more body acceptance

March 1, 2013 | 2:58 pm | Comments Off
An internet takeover for less body shaming, more body acceptance

The Internet has been great for spawning subcultures—Star Trek geeks, fantasy football fans and progressive rock nerds have their own…

Boycotting the NHL? Bad idea.

February 26, 2013 | 1:00 am | Comments Off
Boycotting the NHL? Bad idea.

When the NHL announced the end of its third lockout in the last two decades, fans vowed to disown the…

Health Canada’s E-Cig restrictions deserve to go up in smoke

February 25, 2013 | 1:00 am | Comments Off
Health Canada’s E-Cig restrictions deserve to go up in smoke

Health Canada has currently banned a healthier alternative to smoking, while keeping cigarettes available in every corner store—it’s a move…

“Not every opinion is valid”

February 8, 2013 | 12:01 am | Comments Off
“Not every opinion is valid”

Only a couple hours after Carleton University’s Students of Liberty group installed a “free speech” wall on Jan. 21, it…

DJ sets are a terrible trend

February 5, 2013 | 12:01 am | Comments Off
DJ sets are a terrible trend

The highly anticipated Passion Pit show at the Gateway on Jan. 12 left much to be desired for fans and…

Manti Te’o – who cares?

February 1, 2013 | 1:28 pm | Comments Off
Manti Te’o – who cares?

Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend scandal was one of the biggest international news items since the hoax came out on Jan.…

How did Ryan Gosling become so cool?

January 30, 2013 | 12:45 pm | Comments Off
How did Ryan Gosling become so cool?

As the fictional model/philosopher Derek Zoolander once declared, “That Hansel; he’s so hot right now.” The same can be said…

Idle No More needs to stop idling

January 25, 2013 | 9:50 pm | Comments Off
Idle No More needs to stop idling

Idle No More hasn’t exactly been a successful movement so far. They’re struggling to get their message out – no,…