President Alastair Summerlee admits he thought this year’s goal of raising half a million dollars for the United Way was a big stretch.
They did far better.
At an appreciation event for campus volunteers last Wednesday, Summerlee announced that the University of Guelph raised more than $517, 000 for the United Way, surpassing last year’s total as [...]

Shaneista Haye won the women’s high jump event on Saturday, clearing 1.66m in an event that featured only Gryphon athletes. Photo by Rashaad Bhamjee.

Count two more athletes that have already qualified for the CIS national championships, just three weeks into the season.
It was only a small meet, but yet, also another opportunity for the Guelph [...]

Who knew that a single line item amid over 100 others in the public budget discussion could cause such a stir?
When city councilors were going over the items to be discussed at their meeting on Monday, Nov. 30, line item CFM-11 – stating, “reset student transit rate structure,” – raised more than a few eyebrows [...]

Wilco: Wilco (The Album)

When I was in Chicago this past summer, floating by the pie-shaped Marina Apartments on a tour-boat, it took me back to the surreal cover of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002).  It also helped that Wilco was on my mind as the single “You Never Know” had been playing on the local college [...]

While it may seem a little cliché at this point in the year, there are few things as satisfying as embracing an activity that belongs in a Norman Rockwell painting: roasting chestnuts. While for some, the lack of an “open fire”, as the beloved song describes, might diminish the holiday-joy they find in the activity, [...]

Joshua Cleminson positions his work somewhere between modernism and consumerism, and photography and sculpture.  In his untitled works, he re-creates a larger versions of plastic packaging forms (the ones that toys and pretty much anything small from the dollar store come in) to accentuate the simple and accidental beauty within those consumable items.  As a [...]

Almost as soon as the City of Guelph presented their proposed budget for 2010 in a council meeting on Monday, Nov. 30, students and members of the University of Guelph community began to assemble. The proposed budget includes a line item, CFM-11, stating “reset student transit rate structure,” what some argue is an ambiguously worded [...]