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They say money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, there won’t be anything growing on trees around our campus if the maintenance crew keeps at is current pace.
When I returned from my little escapade in Ottawa, it seemed that some people had gone on a little chain saw escapade. I came back to find two large trees in front of McMillan and the hedge behind gone. Now anyone walking by the apartment building can look right in the windows.
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February 8, 2007 | 1 Comment
What characterizes a college student? I try to answer this question often. When I was a high school student, college was synonymous with frat parties, fancy architecture, the “real world,” and homework. After becoming a college student, I began to see college as a means to an end, another step in the grand staircase that would lead to financial security, connections, and a career.
Now that I have completed several years of university, I have realized that the college experience has become a way to learn more about myself. Through making sacrifices, living communally, pushing intellectual limits, challenging assumptions, reinforcing foundations, and enjoying diverse social experiences, I hope to better the community. Now in my final semester, I am sure that a proper university experience encompasses such things.
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January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
RESIDENT SOLUTIONS
Dear Editor,
A former student, George Gray, used his TWUSA position as VP of Student Relations to pick up various issues and work to create effective ways to improve upon these areas. One particular area was the fact that the collegiums lay dormant during evenings and weekends, seemingly abandoned whenever its membership left for their own respective homes, apartments and comfortable living rooms. Could the space be utilized more effectively? Simultaneously, the desire to improve resident options for studying space and co-ed space was a relevant issue, and the thought emerged that one space could effectively serve as an antidote to the other problem of resident spaces.
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January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I am writing in response to Tom Gage’s article, “Wrestling with Feminism” (MH, Dec. 6). While the article likely meant no harm, I think that feminism and its issues are something serious and unfitting for humour. The article claimed feminism to be “something vague and formless.” However, this is not true; feminism is based on real things. It is something that celebrates women as human in a world that constantly rates them as second-class and powerless.
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January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Allow me to set the scene.
Senior year of high school: the guys are all macho-tough, the girls are all Roxy-cute. I am sitting next to Russell in our upper level world issues class.
The teacher – allow me to call her Miss Angry – was very much a feminist. She seemed to hate males, particularly males with confidence and a reason for living. Believe it or not, Russell and I fell under that blanket description.
As the semester progressed, Miss Angry began to make some outrageous statements. “Women are better than men!” she would shriek.
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January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In the beginning, there was the world. It was big. It was good. People thought they could make it better. So they dug out and cut down and exported and manufactured and bought and sold. And soon the world was not so big as everyone thought, and not as good, either. But by that time, the 20 per cent of the population that controlled 80 per cent of the world’s resources was so used to having access to all those resources that they would rather have global warming, wars, clear-cutting, famine, and slavery in far-off countries than change their own habits.
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January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The classic identity of a man is on the verge of extinction in the West as society rejects the idea that man is the superior of the sexes. While “extinction” may be a little melodramatic when describing the loss of ‘man’ as an identity, it is clearly not understood in any of the political or religious communities with the same importance, or even necessity, that it once had.
There are many things to say about the problems and blatant sexism that exist in the modern political movement toward feminism. This article is not meant to discuss what is wrong with certain points of view, but to take a closer look at the image of man and why it should be embraced.
