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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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Alex Patterson
The unwell-made play: A story about a Fringe show, a bathtub, and ‘Building Mode 6’ from The Sims Soundtrack
It’s the first Sunday of August and campus is silent, except for a studio on the third floor of the…
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Willow Austin
USRIs: students may discriminate against gender and race
At the end of every semester, students fill out a course evaluation form called the USRI, or the Universal Student…
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Joshua Storie
This is Folk Fest: Green onion cakes, long waits, hillside dates, tarps to race, getting baked, friends to make, dancing late. God damn right it’s great.
On a tarp in front of me, I watched as a group of friends gathered around a backpack passing out…
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