Communities Shaky steps February 19, 1997 April 27, 1994. Finbarr O'Reilly writes of his experiences as an election monitor in South Africa
Pitman Hall the pits February 19, 1997 By Susan Fekecs In Pitman Hall there are scratches on desks, phone jacks that don’t work and broken refrigerator doors. Students living there want to know why. Karen Bahula, a first-year radio and television arts student and a resident in a suite at Pitman Hall, has chips in her wall, tables with coverings coming off, […]
Features Reach out and fuck someone February 19, 1997 By Jane Young “Congratulations! You have just made the most important telephone call of your life. Sit back and relax while Quest Interactive makes a difference in your life.” The back of any weekly or daily are cluttered with ads, promising to give you a chance to find love. But these phone dating services are […]
Lights, camera, get me a sandwich February 19, 1997 By Diana Zlomislic If you’re hoping to make it big in the silver screen industry, you better be willing to start at the bottom. In three years at Sleeping Giant Productions, Andrew Brady’s salary doubled. He went from being a low-level production assistant to the production manager. Andrew, a business graduate from Dalhousie University, says […]
Editorial The Mike Harrisutra February 19, 1997 By Douglas Cudmore Maybe it’s just the influx of spring air this week, but a strange thing happened to me while I was reading the paper. I was wading through the usual litany of bad news and, instead of reacting with my normal outrage, I found myself aroused. And it came to me — the […]
Student protests may lead to strike February 19, 1997 By Renata D’Aliesio York University’s plans for an Ontario-wide general student strike got put on hold Monday after all-day meetings tempered emotions and restored common sense. Ten Metro police and 15 York security officers woke the 22 students camped out in the president’s office Sunday around 8:15 a.m. A letter from administration threatened to charge […]