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 The Sheaf September 10, 2009
Luke Siemens is a working artist and a recent graduate with a BFA from the U of S. Herein he discusses the work and influence of Julie Mehretu, an established artist whose depictions of mind-melding explosions have considerably affected him in terms of inspiration and the subjects in his own work…
By The Sheaf September 10, 2009
The goal for my summer reading was to read as few academic texts from June until August as possible.
I accomplished that by reading David Eddings’s first cycle. I had just started Pawn of Prophecy when news reached me that David Eddings had passed away.
By The Sheaf September 6, 2009
Students at the U of S can expect to pay more for less in upcoming years.
Tuition increased by three per cent between the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years as part of the university’s effort to meet budgetary needs. Other measures, such as not replacing professors who are retiring, will mean that students will receive fewer class offerings and larger class sizes for their extra money.
By The Sheaf September 5, 2009
Following countless hours of summer training and three tough exhibition matches against top-rated Ontario soccer programs York University and Toronto FC Academy, the Huskies men’s soccer squad is ready for another year of Canada West competition. With the new season right around the corner, the men’s soccer team is looking to bounce back with a vengeance after last season’s devastating mere two point exclusion from the Canadian Interuniversity Sport playoffs…
By The Sheaf September 5, 2009
Sports come in all shapes and sizes. Cheese wheel rolling is definitely one of the sports that has strayed away from cool-kid sports like football or hockey and has remained a nonsensical outcast on the fringes of athleticism’s social circle.
Experiencing the nomadic lifestyle of a mouse in search of a dairy dinner has never been easier.
By The Sheaf September 5, 2009
Nearly four years had elapsed since I have competitively played baseball, which has been my favourite sport since childhood.
Each summer since, likely due to my mobile lifestyle, I have been prevented from doing so. After departing Saskatoon for yet another summer and moving to B.C.’s west coast, I was asked by a friend’s older brother to come to a slo-pitch practice of a team he was playing on ”” not technically baseball but close enough.
I jumped at the invitation and anxiously unearthed my glove I had handily packed in my trunk. Little did I know I was in for a sobering experience…
By The Sheaf September 5, 2009
As a self-taught artist, it is quite fitting that Patrick Schmidt should take his influence and inspiration from other unconventional, independent artists. The Sheaf sat down with Schmidt for our recurring series of interviews on artistic influence.
Thanks to his commitment to the photo-sharing network flickr.com, Schmidt discovered Xiao Shan, a photographer from Japan with a knack for using traditional methods to capture modern subjects…
By The Sheaf September 5, 2009
Summer Hours is a splendid film. Simply splendid.
It details the life of a French family as they try to distribute their deceased mother’s estate. Writer-director Olivier Assayas, whose primarily French body of work North American audiences probably will not recognize, does a marvellous job crafting the experience of grief.