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  • 16 years 4 months ago

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The guys at the Dude Ranch live in peace and harmony—except on Fridays.
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My Ghettohouse: Kickin’ around at the Dude Ranch

Who: Jamie Miller, MSc ’07, Jon Marck, ArtSci ’06, Craig Langridge, Sci ’07, Mike Gowing, ArtSci ’06, Jordan Fast, ArtSci ’06, Dan Moore, ComSci ’06, Jon Hoddenbagh, ArtSci ’06, and Leigh Halliday, a computer programmer for the National Cancer Institute of Canada here at Queen’s.

Favourite thing about the house: “We have a music room, where bands can practice and we can be as loud as we want,” Moore said, referring to the musical instruments set up in the basement.Continue...

Denim has evolved from a functional fabric to a high fashion statement.
  • 16 years 4 months ago

Riding the wave of a denim evolution

On numerous occasions, my friends have confessed their almost shameful collections of jeans: pairs upon pairs upon pairs.Continue...

  • 16 years 5 months ago

Issue in photos

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Sometimes, making small talk is just too hard.
  • 16 years 5 months ago

How to successfully avoid eye contact

It’s that classic moment of panic when your gaze meets the gaze of another.Continue...

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Issue in photos

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Adventurers “sky trek” through the Monteverde Cloud Forest.
  • 16 years 5 months ago

Costa Rica: living la pura vida

When I was 14, a few friends and I decided living in Costa Rica would be a fabulous way to spend our summers. We’d stay with a family, attend a Spanish language school and travel across the country. For reasons we have yet to fathom, our parents agreed.Continue...

The view from the tiny hamlet of Pangnirtung.
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Nunavut: visit ‘the place of the bull caribou’

One of the moments I remember vividly from my 2000 trip to Nunavut with assorted family members and friends is looking out of the window of the rickety 14-seater plane that was conveying us to the isolated hamlet of Pangnirtung, and realizing two things in quick succession.Continue...

  • 16 years 5 months ago

Greece: where ancient past meets present

The first book I ever took out from the library at my school was D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths. The idea of the ancient city fascinated me: a place where ruins, spirits and myths were a part of everyday life. So when the opportunity to go to Greece with my school came up in grade 11, I jumped at the chance.Continue...

A baby koala crawls into view at Healesville Animal Sanctuary.
  • 16 years 5 months ago

Australia: admiring the ‘Coat Hanger’

In 2004, my dad, a professor at McMaster University, had temporarily separated our family by taking my mom and my then-14-year-old brother on a six-month sabbatical in Melbourne. Not one to be left behind, I decided that if my parents and brother were travelling to Australia, I absolutely had to visit.Continue...

A Nepalese man poles down a river in Chitwan National Park.
  • 16 years 5 months ago

Nepal: shrines, soldiers and Mount Everest

From an airplane, the tiny kingdom of Nepal is a palette of lush greens and rich browns, with Mount Everest rising above the clouds with its magnificent snow-capped peak. To my eyes, the roadways look like tiny veins as they wind through dense vegetation.

Emerging from the airport, I adjust my eyes to the intense sunlight that appears after a heavy downpour. It is the beginning of the rainy season, and the air is hot and sweet.Continue...
  • 16 years 5 months ago

Tanzania: exploring the real ‘circle of life’

As I descended into northeast Tanzania and watched the Serengeti plain come into view through the tiny window of the little Cessna plane, I embarrassingly admitted to the person beside me that The Lion King had shaped everything I knew about Africa.

I also admitted I had no idea what I was getting into.Continue...

The residents of The Oasis have lived there for three years.
  • 16 years 5 months ago

My Ghettohouse:Home is where your friends are

Who: Dave Albertyn, ArtSci ’06, Pete Fujarczuk, ArtSci ’06, Andrew Mannik, Comm ’06, Mike McGouran, ArtSci ’06, Tanya Shabotynsky, ArtSci ’06 and Martin Vaz-Jones, ArtSci ’06.

Favourite thing about the house: “The people,” Fujarczuk said. “And not just the people that live here, but all the people who share in The Oasis experience with us.”

They also all like the open concept living/dining room and the close proximity to Victoria Park.Continue...

Kyle MacDonald decided to push his luck with a paper clip.
  • 16 years 5 months ago

From one red paper clip to a cube van

If you happen to think money is the only way to acquire something, think again. All you need is just a red paper clip.Continue...

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Issue in photos

View all images from vol. 133, issue 27.Continue...

Once dubbed as ancient, vinyl is back in the hands of music fans.
  • 16 years 5 months ago

Why vinyl records are back in style

In a world of invisible music files, iPods and CDs, vinyl record albums are making a comeback. According to vinylrecords.co.uk, sales in Great Britain were up by almost 90 percent in 2005, compared with the previous year’s figures.Continue...

  • 16 years 5 months ago

Issue in photos

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The blue walls of the Reef gives it an under-the-sea ambience.
  • 16 years 5 months ago

My Ghettohouse: under the sea at ‘The Reef’

“We all like that all four bedrooms are upstairs,” said de Jonge. “And we like the big living space,” added Lorimer. “We also love to sit out on the roof when the weather’s nice,” she said. “It’s great for people watching.Continue...

Stephen Harper struts out of his Tory-mobile.
  • 16 years 5 months ago

Riding the wave of a Tory turnaround

I knew I had a spectacular show ahead of me the minute I hit the Toronto highway.

A slogan was scrawled broadly on the back of the blue cube van that was speeding along Allen Road towards Highway 401 West: “Stand up for Canada.”

I chuckled to myself. What bizarre luck for me to have turned onto the road directly behind the campaign vehicle of Lewis Reford, Conservative candidate for Toronto-Central.Continue...

  • 16 years 5 months ago

Issue in photos

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