THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By Ashleigh Mattern August 23, 2010
Reality fractures for a moment when I realize I’m looking at myself in 3D on television. Tucked away in the basement of the Education Building, Panasonic demonstrates their latest 3D technology by pointing a prototype of one of the first ever hand-held 3D cameras at the small crowd and hooking it up to a 3D ready plasma TV screen. We each take turns trying on the active shutter glasses to look at ourselves in 3D.
By Ashleigh Mattern July 12, 2010
Organic producers say their food tastes better, is more nutritious, and is better for the environment. But in an effort to be wary of salespeople’s pitches, I decided to get to the roots of claims about organic foods.
By Ashleigh Mattern June 25, 2010
Communal meeting spaces, commercial shop-lined streets, a place for the proposed performing arts centre and a kilometre-long, tree-lined pedestrian and bike-friendly walkway are some of the prospective additions to the College Quarter.
By Ashleigh Mattern May 7, 2010
The Saskatchewan Playwrights’ Centre hosted their annual 24-hour playwriting competition in Saskatoon this year. Although I’ve never written a play before, I decided to sign up, and kept track of the adventure by the hour.
By Ashleigh Mattern April 8, 2010
As the editor of a newspaper, I get a lot of press releases.
My mouse was hovering over the “delete” button of one such press release when this sentence caught my eye: “Now, I appreciate that The Sheaf doesn’t deal with frivolities and trivialities, nor does it ordinarily engage in the crass promotion of what is obviously a commercial website…”
By Ashleigh Mattern March 31, 2010
Despite two contested positions, voter turnout to the 2010 University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union elections was nearly the same as last year, when all positions were won by acclamation.
By Ashleigh Mattern March 24, 2010
On March 25 and 26, a Global Vision Junior Team Canada workshop will be in Saskatoon looking for representatives to attend the G8 and G20 summits this summer. Anyone looking to meet the finance minister of Japan?
By Ashleigh Mattern March 17, 2010
Finding grades online just got a little easier for University of Saskatchewan students. Both PAWS and the iUSask application for the iPod Touch and iPhone have been updated with new features displaying grades.