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Alex Patterson
Do students really understand plagiarism?
Pressed for time and with an essay deadline quickly approaching, Lachlan Watters* decided to take his roommate’s advice and contact…
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Eric Lillow
My McDonald’s story
These are divisive times in which we are living. But amidst the chaos and the turmoil, there stands one monument…
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Alex Patterson
University of Alberta fosters ‘elitership’ in failing program
[perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Elitership (e·lit·er·ship), noun. The use of elitist values to lead a group of people or organization.[/perfectpullquote] This…
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Jonah Angeles
The Gateway goes to a sexpo
Now in its 16th year, the Taboo Naughty but Nice Sex Show returned to Northlands Park on November 17 to show…
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Joshua Storie and Adaire Beatty
Your doctor’s right: you’re too young to smoke weed
Doctors are right: you shouldn’t be smoking weed at 18. This past summer, the Canadian government ran a public consultation…
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Alex Patterson
Why studying abroad is not a simple feat
Susie Muncner, a biological-sciences and chemistry double major, embarked on a 10-month exchange program to Lille, France in her second…
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Willow Austin
More scholar for the dollar: the predicament of contract academic staff
Former University of Alberta contract instructor Theo Finigan thinks it was funny when his students called him “professor.” “People would…
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Alex Patterson
The trouble with food… and shame, and self-criticism, and starvation
At 16, Hannah Kinsella was admitted to the University of Alberta. Her application package: a frail 5’8″ frame weighing 111 pounds,…
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Joshua Storie
The Gateway gets an office exorcism
According to The Gateway’s Managing Editor, Jon, our business office has been haunted for four months. “The weird thing about…
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Alex Patterson
The transition from curative to palliative care
Kathryn Martin, registered nurse and Faculty Lecturer in the Faculty of Nursing, doesn’t attend the funerals of her deceased patients.…
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