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A GUIDE TO WHO’S ON YOUR CSA BALLOT

Compiled by Nicole Elsasser The Central Student Association elections are upon us with voting running from Mar. 8 -12. And whether or not you are personally enthusiastic about student politics, the candidates running for the executive positions in the CSA are ...
A GUIDE TO WHO’S ON YOUR CSA BALLOT

More environmentally sound pork?

A U of G innovation may soon mean that pigs will produce much less pollution Written by Aldis Brennan It has been a long-standing folk tale that pigs are dirty animals and live in their own filth. But of lately people are ...
More environmentally sound pork?

Sweeping through the semis

Written by Justin Dunk The Guelph Gryphons women’s hockey team is playing their best hockey at the right time of year. After taking down the University of Toronto Varsity Blues in the OUA quarter-finals, the Gryphons knocked off the second-seeded Queen’s Gaels ...
Sweeping through the semis

Academics Against Apathy

Witen by Kelsey Rideout Profiling Dr. Keefer’s endless will to enable critical thinking and evoke justice Dr. Michael Keefer is a professor in the department of English and Theatre Studies. He is also an engaged citizen who spends much of his ...
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Featured Artist: Christina Boyer

Written by Miles Stemp Christina Boyer is a painter that is working herself out of painting within painting. If that description is confusing, that’s alright, but it really isn’t that difficult to comprehend. Think of it as if ...
4 March 2010 I Read the full story

Onward and upward

Written by Mike Treadgold For Kyle Walters, the opportunity was just too good to pass up. Late last week, the now-former head coach of the Gryphons football team announced that he would be stepping down from his position with the team to ...
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While the world is still watching…

Canada just finished hosting one of the world’s most significant international events: the Olympic Games. We don’t need to reiterate the importance and the spectacle that is the 17-day event that took place in and around Vancouver. The level of captivation ...
4 March 2010 I Read the full story

Famous and wealthy individuals are no more than human

March - 4 - 2010 Reporter: The Ontarion Respond

Written by Justin Dunk

Step into the shoes of Tiger Woods for a minute.
It is too easy for an overweight couch potato to call out Tiger Woods for all of his transgressions.
A man is only as faithful as his options. None of us really know what Woods has to deal with in his everyday life.
Woods has [...]

Disney shows kids a “Whole New World,” but is it the right one?

March - 4 - 2010 Reporter: The Ontarion 1 Response

Some critical thinking may reveal that Disney movies aren’t as harmless as they seem

Written by Josh Doyle

“When we watch cartoons, values are shaped in our minds forever. You can’t escape those values even when you’re older,” said Khatereh Sheibani, an English professor at the University of Guelph.
Sheibani teaches classes on post-colonial literature and film [...]

CFS ‘for dummies’

March - 4 - 2010 Reporter: The Ontarion Respond

The Ontarion attempts to make a convoluted issue simple and clear

Written by Daniel Bitonti

A small percentage of students already think it really is a big issue: the university’s student government pursuing legal action against both the provincial and national components of the Canadian Federation of Students, Canada’s largest student lobby group.
Last week, the [...]

The importance of a good web presence

March - 4 - 2010 Reporter: The Ontarion Respond

Written by Andrew T

Good Morning Angels,
This article was suggested to me by someone who e-mailed me and told me what to write about. And I turned that suggestion into this elegant piece of writing. It is like The Ugly Duckling. You’ll see. But the idea came from Josh. He’s a loyal reader, I assume, [...]

Academics Against Apathy

March - 4 - 2010 Reporter: The Ontarion Respond

Witen by Kelsey Rideout

Profiling Dr. Keefer’s endless will to enable critical thinking and evoke justice

Dr. Michael Keefer is a professor in the department of English and Theatre Studies. He is also an engaged citizen who spends much of his time publically revealing injustices within the Canadian government and western policies through delivering public lectures, [...]

Israeli Apartheid Week at U of G

March - 4 - 2010 Reporter: The Ontarion 1 Response

The campus critically explores a Seemingly Never-Ending Conflict
Written by Kelsey Rideout
While imposing blame for the ongoing conflict on either state remains a heavily sensitive and controversial task, IAW seeks to raise awareness regarding Israel’s large-scale acts of violence and deliberate segregation in defiance of international law. In 2008-2009, Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip [...]

I want to get into opera

March - 4 - 2010 Reporter: The Ontarion Respond

Written by Duncan Day-Myron
For the uninitiated, opera can be a little intimidating to say the least. Probably the biggest hurdle for most is that it is almost never in English. Operas tell stories, and without understanding stories it can be easy to feel lost. But the effort can open a door to a whole new [...]

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