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 Cole Guenter November 16, 2012
As athletes and coaches we spend a lot of time working on physical, technical and strategic skills in our particular sport. But is that enough? What about the mental aspect of the game? How important is it for athletes to prepare their psychological mindset?
By Kevin Menz November 1, 2012
“It’s basically a whole year, countless hours of work, coming down to one moment,” said Teagan Klassen, the Huskie Motorsports engine director. Klassen was one of the team’s three drivers in last summer’s Formula SAE competition, an international engineering and marketing student competition, in Lincoln, Neb.
By Canadian University Press October 14, 2012
Jamie Weidl began playing poker with his friends in grade eight. It didn’t take long before what had started as an after-school hobby turned into something much more serious.
By Canadian University Press October 4, 2012
An investigation by the Ubyssey, the University of British Columbia student newspaper, has discovered evidence of salespeople from Fido Mobile compelling underage students to sign cellphone contracts using false ages. Asking 18-year-old students to fudge an extra year onto their ages may be a common practice for dealers at the cellphone service provider.
By The Sheaf September 21, 2012
Graffiti is a transient form of art. It can be painted over. It can be washed away. But for a crew of Saskatoon artists, graffiti is a way to immortalize their recently lost friend.
By Canadian University Press September 4, 2012
On May 1, 2010, Pascal Abidor was riding an Amtrak train from Montreal to New York. His parents live in Brooklyn and he was on his way to visit them. The school year at McGill had just ended and he felt relieved and calm as the train rolled south towards America. But that was before Pascal met the female border guard known only as Officer Tulip.
By Canadian University Press March 26, 2012
As a child, Kalamity Hildebrandt was put on diet pills by her doctor in order to lose weight. By age nine she was bulimic, which progressed to the point where she was throwing up blood in her teenage years. By 19, she could barely function emotionally in the world because of her overwhelming fear of harassment.
Hildebrandt’s view on being fat was changed by fat activism, the social justice movement that believes that, just like any other discrimination, oppression of people because of their weight is unacceptable and should be fought against.
By Canadian University Press March 25, 2012
There’s one update ready for our copyright laws. Should we install it?
On Feb. 14, the Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-11), was submitted to committee for review and amendments. The bill aims to update copyright laws last altered in 1997 and make breaking digital locks illegal.