Opinion

Dalhousie Medical School's plan to sell seats for exorbitant amounts of money to Saudi Arabia is once again illustrating the sorry state of postsecondary education in Canada.

The stench of stress and fear are in the air as final exams approach and I have just the remedy for your pre-exam blues: procrastination.

Local Conservative candidate Ryan Hastman has been running a boring, uninspired campaign, adding to an election that has effectively sidestepped the youth vote.

With both our attention and the media's focused squarely on the campaign trail for the federal election, it's easy to forget that there's a significant battle going on for control of Libya, a battle with humanitarian consequences that Canada is now involved in.

People nowadays are too damn nice. It's like Louis Armstrong's "It's a Wonderful World" has come to life. "I see friends shaking hands, saying, 'How do you do?' They're really saying, 'I love you.' " It makes me want to puke.

Sometimes, I am truly ashamed to call myself a gamer. It's one of my favourite hobbies, and one that I'd like to turn into a career someday. However, when I look at some of the twats who seem to get perverse pleasure out of dragging the title of "gamer" through the mud, it makes me wish that there was some sort of application process to put it behind your name.

The communities surrounding the University of Alberta aren't happy — the past few years have seen one complaint after another. The Garneau community has raised concerns regarding the fraternity and sorority houses in their neighbourhood. More recently, serious issues have been raised about the new Go Centre, with residents in the Landsdowne area worrying about the planned South Campus expansion.

We just made it through the labyrinthine Students' Union elections. For the majority of you, it was a grueling month of ignoring the posters, hoping that it would eventually make them go away — and now we're expected to pay attention to another federal election.

These days, with the invention of caller ID and text messaging, it seems that prank calls have more or less fallen by the wayside. But I'm not ready to surrender this classic joke just yet; too many hours in my life have been spent trying to decide who to call and which prank to pull.

Most people should be able to agree with me that the Earth is a pretty awesome place. It’s the only home we’ve ever known. It’s where we find the oceans and the mountains, the forests and caverns, and the only life we’ve yet to discover in the universe. It’s a shame that we only devote one hour per year to collectively pay attention to it.