Students at the University of Calgary may soon find themselves hard-pressed to escape the distraction of video games—even at the library. While some may criticize the University of Calgary’s new collection, it’s encouraging that the library recognizes that playing video games doesn’t have to mean playing around.

I’m sure I’m not alone in flipping through this month’s issue of Vogue with a feeling of excitement and relief at the article “Va Va Boom,” which explores the increasing number of runway shows that are using curvier models instead of teenage waifs.

In an article published Sept. 18, the Globe and Mail considered the status of Queen’s University’s reputation as an academic institution in which the least-representative elements of the Queen’s community are implicitly set up to stand for the whole.

If you’ve ever gone shopping, I’m sure you’ve experienced something called the ‘upsell’: the wonderfully irritating efforts of sales clerks to offer you every useless bell and whistle imaginable at the checkout.

The British Red Cross is promoting a new campaign intended to teach children how to help those suffering asthma attacks, epileptic seizures and other injuries. The most interesting component of the campaign is its emphasis on dealing with alcohol-related issues.

Almost immediately after starting at the Journal, I realized that many people don’t understand how editorials are generated. As the year begins, I want to address the most common misconceptions in order to spare our regular readers unnecessary confusion.

Though lectures will always be a necessary teaching method, they must be properly taught and supplemented with more modern teaching tools.

It’s easy to suggest in the mellow days before classes start that what students really need to do is take a deep breath or something equally useless, but what I think students really need to do is put things in perspective.

The bright and flashy packaging often used to wrap junk food and candy may soon be crossing borders to an unlikely new food item: baby carrots.

Recently, former Canadian media mogul Conrad Black was released from a Florida prison after serving less than three years of a seven year sentence.
Expressing opinions on Black has long been a preoccupation for members of the Canadian media. In the past few years, Black has been labelled everything from a malicious robber baron to a tragic hero, plagued chiefly by his own hubris.

Nearly ten years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the impending construction of a mosque threatens to ignite discrimination and religious intolerance in America.
The planned location of the mosque—only a few blocks from ground zero, the former site of the World Trade Center — has some up in arms, claiming that a Muslim site of worship has no place near one of the most hallowed sites in America.

As citizen journalism and blogging mature and become competing forces for readership, newspapers are racing to be first to report. The problem with being first is that first can also be wrong, or at least wrong by omission.

The security measures in place to protect the delegates at the G20 summit are substantial. While many criticize these security measures as excessive—the six-kilometre fence alone cost more than five million dollars—the most unsettling defence deployed for the summit is one which has received far less public attention.

Being nice is underrated. No one wants to hire nice, to date nice, to be friends with nice. Everyone wants edgy, smart, talented–I admit, I’m guilty of it too but what’s wrong with nice?
It wouldn’t really be a problem if we expected nice plus clever, beautiful, etc., but the truth is, nice is so uncool it’s actually undesirable.