Reading Time: 2 minutesHow to win all the ugly Christmas sweater contests this holiday season Photos by Tina Wallace While the prospect of receiving and having to wear an ugly Christmas sweater knit by your well-intentioned granny used to illicit groans, these sweaters are now staples in the wardrobes of many university students. To ensure you don’t fall …
Reading Time: 3 minutesDog Day Fade Out | Fundog Nancy Urich and Seth Smith, a duo from Halifax, bring a much darker atmosphere to their new album Fade Out compared to their three previous albums. There’s a Joy Divison and Sonic Youth influence to the alternative rock sound of their music. The opening track “Blackened” really sums up what this …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s incredible to realize how heavily we rely on visual cues. We’re so used to judging someone on how they dress, how they stand, and their body size, but when you can’t see, you start paying more attention to what someone says rather than how they look or act.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s too cold. I don’t have time. I can’t afford that. We’ve heard just about every excuse in the book for why health and fitness is the first to-do item on the list to fall by the wayside in university (that is, if it even makes it to the to-do list).
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new field at Lees Avenue has stumbled onto another setback, as the dome that was supposed to winterize the pitch will not be installed until the middle of December.
Reading Time: 3 minutesGet your fill of this weekend’s sports with women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Gee-Gees took down the Carleton Ravens while fighting breast cancer to raise $1,000 in their Nov. 9 game. Both teams were able to bring out a large crowd to support their breast cancer fundraiser.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this week’s issue we have women’s volleyball, men’s hockey, women’s hockey.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Gee-Gees’ basketball season began for both the men’s and women’s teams Nov. 1–2 with two back-to-back games against the Western Mustangs and Windsor Lancers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMeet the University of Ottawa women’s varsity volleyball team captain Myriam English, a fourth-year social science student, and her sister Kelsie English, also a fourth-year social science student. These two sisters are veterans who are looking to lead the team to the podium this year at nationals.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter accommodating American standards and the complaints of those who said 10-pin bowling was just too strenuous, Thomas F. Ryan created what would be known as five-pin bowling.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLumsden, who was born in London, Ont. and grew up in Toronto, enrolled at the University of Ottawa in 1972 and began playing for the Gee-Gees’ varsity football team.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the same way the pre-game rituals can be necessary for the mental spirit of athletes, sports traditions translate into a necessary component of a city’s culture.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith 15 years on the sidelines as a Gee-Gees coach, Matt Anthony led the team from 1954–69, throughout the beginnings of the Panda Bowl.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWithout a centralized association to foster its infrastructure, the e-sports community has to rely on the endorsement of gaming companies and free tools available to them like online streaming to maintain itself.
Reading Time: 2 minutes101 week is a wonderful time to fill your social calendar with activities, your body with exciting and colourful beverages, and to forget to eat.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter construction delays and disputes over a dome, the Lees Avenue field is finally ready.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBring your professor a coffee in the morning, because they make you a better student than Carleton professors do. If you see a Gee-Gee on campus, let them know that you appreciate them, or just give them a high-five.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Riding a unicycle just seems impossible,” said Jérémie Gaudreau, fourth-year mechanical engineering student at the University of Ottawa. “I still think it’s impossible.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn his first year at Carleton University, Watson was sad and anxious when his parents dropped him off, but he was also excited to be on his own
Reading Time: < 1 minute“Son, there are few things in life richer with meaning than hard work,” [Pedro] said. “There are even fewer whose reward is comparable.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesJournalists and psychologists have started talking about FOMO as a new type of social disorder—a consequence of the social media age.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt started with a simple idea: to make good beer.
Reading Time: 2 minutesForget cafeteria foods, forget brown bagging it, and forget working through lunch.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis summer I’m saying fuck it to slaving away and missing all the fun. If I want to take the full 12 days of Bluesfest off, I’m doin’ it.
