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First-year unaware entire university mocking him.
| 12:01 am | 0 CommentBy Gary Lim Tag:Freshman still totally in the dark on how universally loathed he is by university BURNABY (B.C.) — First-year student Jeremy Richardson is reportedly still unaware of the fact that he has been made a laughing stock by the entire student population and faculty of the university several times since the beginning of the semester. Miriam Cunningham more...
New Year’s resolutions (the ones you should have made)
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By Kelly Thoreson The new year is a time for contemplation, for reflecting on the year past and on what we desire for the future. It’s a time to make resolutions and become better, more fulfilled human beings. I like to think positively, though, and think of it as a time to become a more awesome person. Really, who wants to better themselves through proper nutrition, more...
The kids aren’t alright
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By Cameron Welch KELOWNA, B.C. (CUP) — Teenagers are awful. I have no idea why we as ‘young adults’ would want to be associated with them. Looking back at teen-dom, I don’t really like anything about it. In fairness, I don’t like anything about most ages, or people, or things, but teens are noticeably terrible. It’s not like I’m one of those geezers more...
Burned interns
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By Esther Tung Vancouver has a habit of turning a blind eye to illegal activities. Alongside the Amsterdam Café and Vancouver Cover Girls, there is a thriving trade in unpaid interns. Many unpaid internships are technically illegal, but are just socially acceptable enough to be allowed a cozy nook in loopholes of the law. Unpaid internships have replaced entry-level more...
The crisis of journalism
| 5:00 am | 0 CommentBy Ariane Madden Nearly three weeks ago, not two blocks away from the Occupy Vancouver camp, a consortium of change-makers held a conversation. This conversation, called Media Democracy Day, in many ways paralleled the challenges that the Occupy protestors have fought to bring to the attention of the mainstream media in British Columbia. In this age of the Arab more...
Writing without reading
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By James Plett As young scholars we try to imagine that we’re cloistered in this magnificent ivory tower on top of this God-forsaken mountain, when in reality, we totally aren’t. Managing both a social life and a work life (both in Skyrim and in the ‘real world’) with school isn’t easy. For the first few weeks of class, it’s OK to be a bit unbalanced — more...
School of hard knocks
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By Brandon Braich You stand, watching them break the huddle, and then line up. The play begins; it’s just a simple hand-off and a hole emerges. You step up into the hole and for that moment everything is right in the world — and then it all changes. You receive a blow to the head. You get up and for a second everything is blurred as your brain recovers from this more...
Who can say gay?
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By Kelly Thoreson A policy that intends to make Burnaby schools more inclusive and safe has become an election issue this municipal campaign season. Last June, the Burnaby school board unanimously approved Policy 5.45: Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity. Two years in the making, this policy seeks to “ensure that all members of the school community work together more...
Going nuclear
| 5:00 am | 0 CommentBy Gustavo Destro On November 8, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its report on Iran’s nuclear program. It only confirmed what most already believed: that Iran is actively pursuing the technology to produce a nuclear weapon. The report states that Iran is looking to develop a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead; that it more...
The 5 year plan
| 5:00 am | 0 CommentOn degree-hopping: Graham: Well, as we`re getting more and more people that are going to university just as an extension of high school, people who don’t really know what they want to study. And so they spend a year or two looking around and not really making forward progress. But it’s probably better for them to graduate in five or six years with a degree that more...
