UMSU election candidate interviews – Community Reps
Women’s representative candidate: Bilan Arte Experience Involved with U of M Womyn’s Centre, FemRev Collective, Fort Garry Women’s Resource Centre Why do you think the community reps…
Leif Larsen
Democracy in the Middle East
Over the past two months, the people in Tunisia and Egypt have managed to effect serious change in their governments, chasing out corrupt leaders and…
Google punches, Bing fights back
What do Google and a bunch of Internet fraudsters have in common? According to Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s senior vice-president (online services), they both engage in…
Technology for art’s sake
What happens when you give a reference librarian an iPhone and tell her to do something exciting? If you’re Liv Valmestad, a librarian in the…
Retail worker blues
I don’t get mad very often. Sure I get frustrated, discouraged and annoyed . . . but mad is one of those special emotions that…
The Manitoban gets motivational
Considering this is the editorial page, I am about to make a bold statement: Stop complaining about things and start acting. That’s right. Stop posting…
In Desolation
You can always tell which books on my shelf are my favorites; they have been read so many times that the spine is creased, the…
Fight or flight in the biology lab
Exam anxiety has been a hot topic here at the U of M recently. I myself have experienced exam anxiety, although it had nothing to…
There’s a USB port in that wall!
*A shadowy figure walks down a dark alley. As they look over their shoulder, ensuring they are alone, a netbook is removed from a pocket,…
You’ll thank me later
Dear Mr. Mayor, First let me congratulate you on winning a third term in office as Winnipeg’s mayor. You overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles, such as…