Stop hatin' on St. Valentine By Tessa Cogman Nexus (Camosun College) February 4, 2009 VICTORIA (CUP) – Sweet, chocolate-y goodness, many shades of red, and giant bouquets of flowers are just around the corner, waiting to pounce on the single and depressed. It happens every year; your best friend is down and out because he or she thinks there’s no one to love, and our society attacks broken hearts by bombarding them with cupid images. Singles form into groups and make pacts to stomp on every bouquet and avoid every couple in sight. >> | Canada is still illiterate By Deanne Beattie The Peak (Simon Fraser University) February 4, 2009 BURNABY (CUP) – So, illiteracy is dead, huh? The National Endowment for the Arts in the U.S. declared this month that fiction reading is finally on the rise again after a steady 25-year decline. The organization reported survey data that indicated 50.2 per cent of adults in the country had read at least one novel, short story, or poem in the 12 months prior to the survey. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Less WiFi on campus By Sam Enriquez University of Windsor student February 4, 2009 I finished reading the Volume 81, Issue 22, Jan 27, 2009 paper and out of everything printed, one opinion truly grasped my attention. Page 18, entitle Opinion, “Too hard to mute your laptop during classs?” This article speaks wonders of respectable values and behaviours that should be given towards the professors. I really agree with Crystal Kotow’s opinion over limited Wi-Fi to locations other than lecture halls. The paper is entertaining but in my opinion, it needs more opinions regarding proper conduct within campus in all areas just like Crystal’s opinion. >> |