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March 8, 2010

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Tattoo Of the Week

Mar 8
Columns

Last week, in our latest business endeavour, The Quill got inked. While some might view it as advertising to the extreme, a long time Quill member, recently emblazoned The Quill onto their skin for a lifetime.

Sex Ed in the City

Mar 8
Columns

The term transgender means that a person is born with the anatomical genitals of one sex but identifies as being the opposite sex. For example, a person may be born with a penis and testicles but emotionally and spiritually feels...

How Voting “YES” Will Save a Life

Mar 8
Columns

Voting “YES” to increasing the WUSC Levy will help the BU WUSC SRP (Student Refugee Program) provide TWO students with the opportunity to change their lives for the better.

Post Modern Revolution?

Mar 8
Columns

So this strikes me as a little off. On the one hand you have a certain kind of revolutionary spirit which says that revolution can come about peacefully. You know, those people who advocate for sit-ins, marches, and demonstrations.

Sex Ed in the City

Mar 8
Columns

The vaginal Nuva Ring is a soft, flexible, clear plastic ring that is about the size of the bottom of a pop can. It is put in the women’s vagina where it slowly releases hormones which can prevent pregnancy or...

WUSC Brandon Nominated for $20,000 Grant

Mar 8
Columns

On February 23rd, the Brandon University WUSC (World University Service of Canada) Club received notification from the WUSC National Office that they would be nominated for the Paul Yuzyk Award for Multiculturalism for “Outstanding Achievement”. The award is given to...

Get your Freak On!

Feb 22
Columns

The LGBTTQ* Collective is holding their annual Fetish and Fantasy (commonly known as F&F) on Saturday, February 27th in SUDS. This year we are going with a 1930’s theme. Wait! The dirty 30’s?

Vote “YES” and Save a Life

Feb 22
Columns

Every student on campus pays a one-time WUSC fee every year. That fee currently helps Brandon University sponsor one student from a refugee camp in Africa to come to our institution and obtain a post-secondary education...We want to sponsor TWO students every year.

Look Up, Stupid!

Feb 10
Columns

Well, we had a good run. Thanks to our leaders’ inaction on climate change at Copenhagen last year, the human race is doomed. You get what you vote for, I guess.

Post Modern Piss-off

NO I won't be your Valentine

Feb 10
Columns

For those of you that know me, every year I tend to have a rant about Valentine’s Day. This year is no different. In fact this year I decided to get the upper hand on that inevitable day, so here, without further ado, is my Pre-Valentine’s Day rant!

Be prepared...

Post-modern Piss-off: Assault on Sexuality

Feb 3
Columns

It’s here. It’s on the Prowl. And its prey is sexuality

The End of Print?

Feb 3
Columns

When you take about 500 journalists from all across Canada and shove them in a hotel on the outskirts of frigid Edmonton, you get mayhem—lots and lots of it.

Simple Small Town Gal

Jan 26
Columns

“I’m just a simple, small town girl. So, I’m going to keep this simple.” This is was the start of my speech at Take Back The Night this year.

Trufax

Jan 20
Columns

Martin Joseph Rudolf Bohn was hired by Brandon University as a professor of psychology for the 1971-1972 year. What the university didn’t know was that Bohn was actually a cab driver from Worcester, Massachusetts, and was using a false identity...

LGBTTQ* A Late Merry Queermas!

Jan 12
Columns

Merry Queermas from the Butch It’s Christmas Eve and the family is together and I even get to meet dad’s new lady friend. I have been told that she is intelligent and was looking forward to a good conversation. She...