Interrobang issue for Monday, November 24th, 2014
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News
Kingsmill's getting one last holiday window dressing
Students from Fanshawe College’s
Fashion Merchandising program
were at the Kingsmill building
on November 17, dressing the
windows of the former department
store for one last holiday season.
Unlike the past 100 years, however,
the wi... Read more
FSU to adopt another family this Christmas
Following a tradition that’s
spanned six years, the Fanshawe
Student Union will be giving a family
a little extra help this Christmas.
Lori Masterson, a part-time instructor
at Fanshawe, works for
Merrymount Children’s Centre an... Read more
Learn self-defence for a good cause
London’s Shining Mountain
Dojo, in partnership with Campus
Security Services and Fitness 101,
will be offering an introductory
self-defence class on November 27
in the Fitness 101 Studio.
The two-hour class will not only
teach studen... Read more
An alternative way to dispose of old textbooks
When Chris Janssen taught in
Rwanda last year, he saw an urgent
need for textbooks in post-secondary
institutions in Africa.
“I saw a dire need for text books
there – dozens of students sharing
one photocopied textbook,” t... Read more
Business profs bringing students to Haiti
Instructors from the Lawrence
Kinlin School of Business led a
small group of eight students to Haiti
for an awareness trip over reading
week in February.
The trip will be reprised in 2015,
but this time the group will be travelling
after t... Read more
Coffee and rolling die go hand-in-hand
The Cardboard Café, a board
game café à la Toronto’s Snakes and
Lattes, is scheduled to open next
month at 114 Dundas St. in London.
For $5, gamers will have unlimited
access to the shop’s game library,
whic... Read more
Kingsmill: Building to undergo construction spring 2015
The Kingsmill building will bear
the name of Fanshawe in 2017,
when the School of Information
Technology moves into its new
home. Tourism & Hospitality will
move in the year following.
Construction for the building will
begin as early ... Read more
Protest of Armed Forces booth at Western
LONDON — Foot traffic was
impeded in the University Community
Centre atrium on November
17 as members of the Western Solidarity
Network staged a “die in,”
blocking access to the Canadian
Armed Forces recruitment table.
At... Read more
UWOFA and Western reach tentative contract agreement
LONDON — Unlike four years ago, the negotiations for Western’s new faculty contract didn’t go down to the dying minutes of a midnight strike deadline.
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association and Western’s ad... Read more
Opinion
ARTiculation: Solving problems... creatively
Last week, as I scrolled through my Facebook
feed in bed – sorry Oprah, I know I’m
not supposed to – I came across this: “Of the
3 million available jobs today, less than 20
per cent require a four-year degree. We’re... Read more
A race for the right: Ontario PC leadership race kicks off
Five months after Tim Hudak’s failure to
unseat Ontario’s Liberal Premiere Kathleen
Wynne, the Ontario PC Party announced that
a leadership election will be held next spring.
The PC Party has struggled to gain support
in provinci... Read more
Lifestyles
G33K LYFE: Carving your own tale through Middle-earth
Recently, I completed the story
mode of Middle-earth: Shadow of
Mordor, a game that ranks among
the most pleasant surprises in the
gaming industry this year, as Monolith
Productions shook off its record
of mediocrity, and proved that not
all l... Read more
Frugal fashionista: DIY holiday heels
It’s only November, and holiday
parties are already being put on. For
fashionistas everywhere, this can
only mean one thing: holiday fashion.
This is the one time of the year
when you can dress as gaudy as you
want, and no one can judge y... Read more
Reel Life: Format wars II: The digital age
What do Christopher Nolan,
Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas
Anderson and Martin Scorsese have
in common? If you’ve answered
their insistence on using film, you’re
probably aware of the ongoing fight
to keep the medium of 35 mm filmsto... Read more
College: Where your journey begins
Edwin Barahona is a student who
works part time in the Office of the
Ombuds.
“We are all of us not merely liable
to fear – we are also prone to
be afraid of being afraid – the conquering
of fear produces exhilaration&hel... Read more
The Shopping Bag: The clean lines of the season
Fall and winter fashion calls for
silhouettes, materials and colours
that reflect and can take on the cooler
temperatures. You may want to
take this opportunity to play up your
layers and explore mixing colour
themes or even patterns together. ... Read more
Just when you thought they couldn't possibly get Dumber
Twenty years ago, two incredibly
stupid friends won their way
into our hearts, showing kindness
and earnestness with no motive or
complicated scheming. Now, they
are going on a road trip to manipulate
some poor girl into donating a
kidney, lyi... Read more
What's your Fanshawe story? Monsieur Dangie - Music Industry Arts
I am not one of those artists who
can stick to one thing only: I am always
all over the place.
Monsieur Dangie has one of the
most unique sounds in the London
music industry, mainly because his
liberal approach on the art allows
him to ope... Read more
Bobbyisms: On music discovery with Autumn Hill
I write about random things a lot.
I write a lot about random things.
It’s no secret that the landscape of
the music industry is ever-changing,
though sometimes it can be easy to
miss the little signs along the way.
While it often takes y... Read more
I want torrents, not tits!
NEW WESTMINSTER — Let’s
all get honest here for a second
and admit that as Canadians we
probably download more music
and movies than we pay for. We’re
in an Internet age, and that comes
with certain benefits for the frugal.
U... Read more
The stigma of working a 'McJob'
NEW WESTMINSTER — Writer
Douglas Coupland popularized
the term “McJob” in his ground
breaking novel from the ‘90s, Generation
X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture. He defined it as, “A lowpay,
low-prestige, low-dign... Read more
Gaming The System: Guacameele! helped me remember why I enjoy video games again
All you regular readers of my column
probably know me as someone
who’s always got gloom and doom
predicted for the future of video
games. I’ll definitely admit to being
a downer, but it’s for a good reason.
The industry of... Read more
Reading Between The Lines: Adaptation deviation: When movies strayed away and were better for it
The biggest complaint of any
book fan is just how badly the movie
seemed to screw it all up. Deviations,
for the sake of squeezing in
story within a run time or just because,
almost never seem to go over
well in the final cut. Sometimes,
howev... Read more
From under the counter: Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkillers- All Balls... No Cock
Judging a band by its album cover
can sometimes be helpful in determining
what the music may be
like. I know you’re not really supposed
to do that, but if it looks like
it was created on Microsoft Paint
and has any visual resemblance to
... Read more
Take the Nickel out of circulation
Nickelback is the band that all
your friends love to hate, and if the
band is on your iPod, you probably
aren’t bragging about it.
These Canadian rockers take a
lot of flack from the public but they
don’t show any signs of slowi... Read more
Give me some credit, please
Ah, the magical world of credit,
where you have seemingly limitless
amounts of money. That’s not quite
the case. Credit is a huge building
block for your future. Unfortunately,
a lot of students are not properly
educated on the topic and ... Read more
Rosetta's Philae historic comet landing a little rocky
More space news this week: the
European Space Agency (ESA)
became first to successfully orbit a
comet and land a probe on its surface.
The ESA reported on November
12 the Philae Lander payload
detached from the Rosetta Probe,
reaching the surf... Read more
1989 album is unexpectedly good
BURNABY — I’ll start by saying
what a thousand think-pieces
and reviews have spent bloated
word counts tiptoeing around: Taylor
Swift’s new album, 1989, is
good. Like, really good. Not great,
per se, but certainly much better
... Read more
Come out to Fanshawe Rotaract's last meeting
Rotaract International is the
world’s biggest community service
club in the world, and Fanshawe
College has its own chapter.
First-year Police Foundations
student Jim Ulusoy, VP Communications
for Fanshawe Rotaract,
explained just wh... Read more
Interstellar: An epic study of evolutionary possibility
BURNABY — The theory of
evolution proposes that all of mankind
developed through natural
selection from a single-celled organism
to the species we exist as
today over the passing of millions
of years. Should this be true, there
are impli... Read more
How to meal: Cooking chicken in the slow cooker
NEW WESTMINSTER — In the
land of “how to meal,” you could
consider using a slow cooker as
playing on cheat mode. It certainly
is a great way to pile your main
and your side into one easy, sloppy
dish, best served over rice or ... Read more
Sports
Zodiac Stargazer Horoscope
Aries (March 21 - April 19)
Fear of the future is easier than
remorse about the past. Count yourself
lucky that you’re still in a position
to heed the warning signs. Any
mistakes at this time may be taken
personally. Give yourself a... Read more
Motoring: Finally, a Camaro worth driving
When Chevrolet introduced the
fifth-generation Camaro back in
2009, it was a car I wanted to love,
but just couldn’t. While I thought
it looked great, and had a promising
drivetrain, many things about it
were far from perfect.
The in... Read more
Knight's season hinges on goaltending
Goalies are crazy. I mean this is
the most complimentary of ways.
Think about it. They stand in
front of a frozen puck being shot at
speeds of over 120 kilometres per
hour. Sounds pretty crazy to me.
Yet hockey teams rely on this
one p... Read more
What's eating Liverpool?
OK readers, this week I’m taking
the international break to throw off
the false shackles of non-bias and
use the predicament of the club I
support to talk about form.
Last year was a dream for those of
us who support Liverpool, the te... Read more
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