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 Michael Cuthbertson January 12, 2012
“I’m only here for the girls.” I’ll never forget reading this graffiti on my desk years ago. It was like some great poem; phrased with elegant simplicity and delivering a telling message about the human condition.
Our classes are filled with attractive, intelligent and — most importantly — available students. It’s one of the major perks of attending university. But from my personal experience, it’s actually quite difficult asking out classmates.
By Nicholas Kindrachuk January 12, 2012
If you are unfamiliar with the Old Republic series, the first game Knights of the Old Republic single-handedly established Bioware as a best next-generation role-playing-game developer. They then proceeded to make such well regarded games as Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Although these other games are great, fans demanded another Old Republic game and Bioware finally answered those demands.
By Alexander Quon January 12, 2012
U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney has described Iran as “the greatest threat that the world faces over the next decade.” Surprisingly this is the first time that I have agreed with something a Republican candidate has said in as presidential campaign.
For numerous years, Iran’s continuing development of a nuclear program has been cause for concern to the international community, with condemnations coming from the EU, U.S. and Canada, among others.
By Daryl Hofmann January 11, 2012
The Indigenous Students’ Council president Ryan Moccasin stepped down this week to instead focus on completing a degree in sociology and producing hip-hop music.
He was elected to the position in May 2011 and was expected to serve a yearlong term.
Replacing him is current ISC member of students’ council Jared Brown, who has represented the organization at University Students’ Council for the past two years. Brown adopted the role at a late afternoon meeting on Jan. 9, held in the basement of McLean Hall.
By Aren Bergstrom January 11, 2012
The winter movie season in January and February always feels like a letdown. This is to be expected after the abundance of middle-brow, awards season films that flood the cinemas around Christmas. But there’s another, perhaps more obvious, reason for this. Most of the movies the studios release in January are terrible.
Looking at the past three years of January releases, you begin to see a trend for the month’s releases. The winter movie season is filled with cheap horror movies, shallow romantic comedies and bigger films that obviously displeased the studios and have no box office potential.
By Bryn Becker January 11, 2012
The web’s hyperlink structure works kind of like the synapses in your brain, or the blood vessels in your circulatory system. Everything is interconnected, designed to pass information back and forth, sometimes in multiple directions simultaneously. It can be mind-bogglingly complex but it works because there are relatively few blockages. People can traverse the web how they see fit.
But imagine what would happen if massive swaths of these connections suddenly blinked offline. This is the risk posed by the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill introduced in the U.S. Congress in October of last year that is scheduled to be voted on by Jan. 24 this year.
By Kevin Menz January 11, 2012
It wasn’t pretty but it worked. The Huskies women’s hockey team was forced to down the visiting Lethbridge Pronghorns 4-3 in overtime Jan. 7 after blowing a 3-0 lead in the third period.
Meanwhile, The Lethbridge Pronghorns continued to trouble the first-place Huskies men’s hockey team last weekend as the Dogs found themselves scrambling for what should have been a guaranteed win. Earlier this year, a game between the ’Horns and the Huskies was postponed after two periods due to ice resurfacing problems. Saskatchewan had led 3-0 in that game.
By Daryl Hofmann January 11, 2012
When police services in Canada conducted their annual public crackdown on drunk drivers over the recent holidays, many social media users shared checkstop locations and blew police cover.
Ontario’s Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere, or RIDE, program was regularly sabotaged. Many Twitter users announced checkstop locations throughout late December using the hashtags #RIDE and #checkstop, which triggered an online shitstorm between those tweeting locations, concerned citizens and members of the police.