Education

Residence Your tiny dorm room can serve a multitude of uses. I’ve known students who’ve held seances, brewed vodka from old potatoes, recorded albums, shot short films, launched opera-singing careers and made sun-dried tomatoes all from their dorm rooms. If your room is an inviting hub of activity, potential lovers will be more likely to […]

During frosh week you can douse your body in flour and egg yolk, drink enough beers until you ride your bike home but find out in the morning you actually rode a goat, or get a ticket for jaywalking. During such a majestic week of wonder when anything seems possible, one might develop the sense […]

OK, I’ll admit it: I’m a procrastinator. When I’ve got work to do, I like nothing more than imagining its potential brilliance in my mind for days on end. Of course, by the time I actually have to sit down and get something done, I’m not only strapped for time (having left everything to the […]

The first time I saw someone actually write down something I said in class, I nearly laughed out loud. “No no no,” I wanted to say, watching a student dutifully record something I’d spit out unthinkingly from my post at the front of the room, “I’m just your T.A. I don’t actually KNOW anything.” Which, […]

Glen Hougan Design, NSCAD “I’m not just in making stuff, I’m interested in making stuff happen,” says Hougan, over the phone from Michigan, where he’s both on vacation at a cottage and working with furniture design companies. Hougan has done work with design for senior citizens and is probably best known for his “Empathy Suit,” a […]

For the student suffering acute big-wide-world curiousity, a passport is the most useful tool to carry into this school year. Earth Sciences your thing? Why not travel to the Bering Sea to study its subduction zones? Want to know more about living under communism in Latin America? There’s a Cuba program for that. Still not […]

Haliwood celebrities are your baristas by day, musicians by night. Due to an overwhelming urge to celebrate our community, Haligonians crown any talented about-town figure “Halifamous”, unnecessarily defined by Urban Dictionary as “a person who is considered famous within Halifax.” Plenty of the Halifamous aren’t even from here. If you’re creative but lack the posse, […]

A Chump At Oxford (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, 1940) The classic comedy duo play a couple of deadbeat ninnies so down-and-out they resort to temping as street cleaners. Fortuitously, they foil a bank robber by neglecting to pick up banana peel. The grateful banker then fulfills their dreams of getting an education, but before they […]

“Don’t go after the first opportunity that’s given to you…Or how ‘bout, don’t be so naïve about everything, about guys who are trying to mislead you. Don’t be easily persuaded.” Sarah Delaney Mount Saint Vincent University, 3rd year Arts “I would say don’t go after the athletes and if you go to a small university […]

How many bands can come from a single town in 20 years? A thousand? Seems like a low estimate, somehow. This storied burg has a musical history deep enough to drive a ferry through every half-hour—about the amount of time it takes for some kids on Agricola to put up a new Bandcamp page. Because […]

It’s an unfortunate fact that many a university student has a diet that is basically a salty, flash-frozen echo of a Jim Gaffigan Hot Pocket joke. The dorms at Dalhousie, St. Mary’s and Mount Saint Vincent all deem the presence of heating element strictly verboten, meaning the only cooking appliances allowed in dorm rooms are […]

THE QUEEN One of the biggest events of summer 2010 to rouse people’s interest (at least on a superficial level) was Queen Elizabeth’s visit to our fair little port city. Whether folks were excited about her arrival, annoyed at the pomp surrounding her short visit and the resulting traffic delays or decidedly indifferent to her […]