Editorial
The Lost Art of Paying Attention
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Being in university often means not having a life beyond yourself. As you say good riddance to mid-terms and march toward finals, free time will be spent in libraries, in labs, on laptops and...
The 2010 Winter Olympics: for better, or for worse embodying the...
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The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games were not yet a week old before the international media unleashed their hounds. The games and their organizing committee, VANOC, garnered plenty of bad ink in those initial hours...
Starving will mess you up
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The worst has happened. Jason Alexander is the new face of Jenny Craig.
According to his Jenny Craig blog, Alexander decided to lose weight after seeing a photo of himself he didn’t like. This,...
Give Up Now
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The only way to avoid the crushing moment-to-moment parade of utter hopelessness that is “life” is to give up now. Believe me, it is beautiful relief to lie prone, on the floor, detached and...
Diamond rings are cheap
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“You lower on bended knee, look into her eyes and ask her to spend the rest of her life with you. This is a moment of pure joy, and there’s no need to be...
Why are you here?
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Our universities in Manitoba are having trouble operating. Between inflation, tuition freezes, crumbling buildings, a bad economy and a host of other issues, it is amazing that our post-secondary institutions can even afford to...
Universities need to learn from Facebook and Twitter
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The Internet is constantly becoming more advanced, but is taken for granted as a passive tool for gathering information and being entertained.
Social networking, one of the more actively engaging tools in use online...
