FASTING FOR RAMADAN
October 24, 2007
Traditionally, fasting has been a commonly used form of ascetic and penitential practice, carried out for the purpose of purifying the person or of atoning for sins.
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GANG’S GANG
March 16, 2005
Science may call it drivel but there are some that find a mystical power in the pendulum.
DATES FOR THE DESPERATE?
January 26, 2005
The organized dating circuit was once perceived as a hotbed for geeks and loners. Based on that description, Anthony Vaccaro thought he'd give it a try.
LATITUDE ADJUSTMENT
November 24, 2004
The Northwest Territories is headed for provincehood. Josh Swan reveals some surprising experiences you could have in a city North of 60.
FIVE DAYS OF DIWALI
November 17, 2004
The Diwali festivities came to a close on Sunday night and the Hindu holiday season is officially over.
OUR STRUGGLE TO FIND PEACE
October 20, 2004
In light of recent hate crimes on campus, the World Religions Conference addressed the need for tolerance.
The thin line of tolerance
April 7, 2004
At 1 p.m. on Mar. 23, 2004, students from York University’s pro-Palestinian group, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, set up a mock West Bank checkpoint inside York’s Vari Hall. Some were dressed as Israeli soldiers emblazoned with the slogan “born to kill” on their backs, while others were garbed as Arab women. The students […]
Students marking students
April 7, 2004
Last semester, Orest Werbowy went to class, studied, and took tests like any third-year student. He did well; some of his classmates did too. He should know – he marked their assignments. Werbowy, a third-year ITM student, was hired by professor Debra Sels as a teaching assistant for her third-year ITM course. He says […]
Kung Fu Royal-ty
March 24, 2004
By Matt Kwong FedEx carriers working at Boston’s Logan International Airport in 1996 may have handled an oversized cardboard box and wondered, perhaps out of shippers’ tedium, what was inside. Upon sliding into the cargo compartment, the double-walled box rattled like any other load, but its contents were tucked away safely in Styrofoam peanuts. […]
Remembering a home she barely knew
March 17, 2004
By Gina Puzzuoli With a gentle tinkling of chimes, the door to the Tibet Shoppe on Queen Street West swings open. The smell of sweet incense fills the air as soft tendrils of smoke snake and arc their way to the ceiling. Vibrant reds, blues, greens and yellows of raw silk shirts are hung amongst […]
Painted faces, renewed hope
March 10, 2004
By Rachel Hahn A short and burly black woman wearing a bright orange head scarf and a matching dress applies calamine lotion to my face. I don’t have a rash. She’s using the lotion to create circles and dots, similar to the ones on her own face, so that everyone will know I am celebrating […]
No dreams of justice
March 10, 2004
By Robyn Doolittle It’s 4 a.m. and Richmond Bugyet-Twum is wide-awake. For the past year, he hasn’t been able to sleep past this hour — the time the police called to say his son Jerry had been shot and killed. In a desperate quest for a full night’s sleep, Richmond returned to his native Ghana […]
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