These students seek to tear apart the only binding fabric of the Ottawa population. An unspoken agreement that anything goes this time of year, so long as it keeps you warm. Nobody looks good dressed up as a marshmallow.
Brennan Bova
Have you ever heard the saying “less is more”? The University of Ottawa hasn’t. They believe “more is more” with the 80 gazillion pounds of salt they throw onto the ground whenever it drops below zero degrees Celsius.
Midterms shouldn’t all be grouped together, as it’s regressive to students’ mental health and renders reading week pointless. The university should create mechanisms to spread out midterm exams and assessments, for students’ sake.
If professors want to look at practical and simple ways to improve student life, they should not just know the basics of Brightspace. They need to examine what benefits students the most on multiple levels—especially financially and mentally.
An Interpol investigation has led to the arrest of the figure known as Santa Claus, who is now facing charges related to iden-tity fraud, among others.
Illustration by Brennan Bova
Fulcrum critics take on a comic book and a graphic novel for those who know there’s no shame in reading books with pictures.
The PepTides Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe | Self-released 4 / 5 REVENGE OF THE Vinyl Cafe, from Ottawa’s own nine-piece outfit The PepTides, is an unusual album. What’s important to realize is that it isn’t really an album; it’s a soundtrack, written and recorded to coincide with each short story in Stuart McLean’s book …
I’d been looking forward to it, sure, but I forgot all about it until I got a surprise call from the local game store to inform me that my pre-ordered copy had come in. This is something that should have been great news, but instead it felt like a call from a girl I’d gone out with and never called back.
But what made it into what it is? Why is it, a Game Boy Color game, rarer and more valuable than any of the original Game Boy games which have age on their side? The answer is simply an unfortunate circumstance.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been drawn into a game the same way I have been by Ni No Kuni.
This week’s reviews include new albums from Canadian indie rockers Ra Ra Riot and Tegan and Sara
The Fulcrum asked a couple of our contributors to look back and tell us what they thought the top five albums of 2012 were.
Bend Sinister | On My Mind Killbeat Music 4/5 Bend Sinister’s five-song EP, a prelude to their upcoming full-length album, will whet listeners’ appetites of what is to come. The band has wisely chosen a short mix of fun and upbeat songs in anticipation of their next release. “Give it a Rest” starts off the …
NOT SURE WHERE you’re going to be knocking the boots next? Look for your astrological sign below and discover what’s in store for you this month. Don’t say we didn’t warn you! Aries (March 21–April 19) Your ruling planet, Mars, is in the house of the fallen moon, which can only mean one …
AT THE HIGHLY-PUBLICIZED 2012 Grammy Awards, Game of Thrones actor and Hollywood’s resident little person Peter Dinklage added a cryptic message to his acceptance speech. “I want to mention a gentleman I’m thinking about in England,” he said. “His name is Martin Henderson. Google him.” Henderson, who was diagnosed with a form of dwarfism as …
RESIDENTS OF WESTBORO will have access to bicycles with the purchase of a membership starting May 2012 with the launch of Right Bike, a bike-share program run by the Causeway Work Centre. The centre put the program together with help from the community, local businesses, the City of Ottawa, and Earth Day Canada, an environmental …
IT’S NO SECRET that we live in a fast-paced society. “Go go go!” seems to be the personal mantra of every citizen of downtown Ottawa, and local businesses have picked up on that. During the holiday shopping season, store hours city-wide were lengthened considerably. Small shops opened earlier and chain stores kept their doors unlocked until the wee hours of the morning. Bayshore Shopping Centre, one of the largest malls in the city, carried on its annual tradition of staying open until midnight for the week …
How Twitter defined norovirus outbreak ON JAN. 11, the Fulcrum editorial board and a group of its staff and volunteers set out for a national student journalism conference in Victoria, B.C. By Jan. 14, a large portion of our delegation fell ill with what turned out to be a small-scale outbreak of a highly contagious …
Kreesha Turner | Tropic Electric EMI 4/5 “Rock paper scissors” is the name of the first single on Kreesha Turner’s latest album Tropic Electric. The name of the song appropriately entices the listener to take a chance on Turner’s newest record, and surprisingly, the gamble pays off. Turner, who has been called Canada’s answer to …
Our Academy Award predictions AS WE APPROACH the end of the year, the question that will inevitably come to the minds of movie fans is, “What should we expect to see at the Academy Awards?” Practically every movie is guilty of shameless self-advertising. They put a commercial on TV saying how many people have seen it, what Rolling …
Prurient | Time’s Arrow EP Hydra Head 3/5 Prurient (Dominik Fernow) has made quite the name for himself in avant-garde circles for producing some of the most mind-bending, earth shattering dissonance out there as a solo artist. His performances usually consist of him and a microphone, sometimes run through with digital filters. They can only …
