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Reading time: 12 mins Volume 20, Issue 32
November 28, 2012
- Editorial – Sean of the Dead
- News – Arts Advice develops new peer mentoring program
- News – Human against zombie: can you survive the apocalypse?
- News – Student artwork on sexual abuse removed from public viewing
- News – Mayor Banman looks back on his first year in office and reaffirms his goals
- News – New copyright laws hit photocopiers everywhere
- News – Be an angel this Christmas: Student Life program lends a hand
- Letter to the Editor – Substance-lacking substance argument
- Letter to the Editor – Tenure clarification
- Letter to the Editor – Only One Direction
- Letter to the Editor – Response to ‘Homophobia point by point’
- Opinion – A farewell, among other things
- Opinion – A parable of papers
- Opinion – CanPol: The Last Stand
- Opinion – San Antonio school district to use student tracking system
- Arts & Life – Cascade Arcade: LA Game Space would be the TED Talks of gaming (and more)
- Arts & Life – NaNoWriMo Update: Week Four
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Red Dawn
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Crystal Castles, Jessica Pratt, The Evens, DragonForce)
- Arts & Life – Album Review: Rihanna – Unapologetic
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: French Canadien edition
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Life of Pi
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Mitch Miller’s
- Sports – UFV Legends: Chantelle Biagioni and Donna Pinning
- Sports – Cascades roll over prairie foes
- Sports – Two wins and an AHL record: Heat cap off a memorable weekend in Texas
- Health – One night of fun, one lifetime of problems
Volume 20, Issue 31
November 21, 2012
- Editorial – UFV holding students back with BA extended minor
- News – Two-minute summaries and other tales from MicroLectures
- News – Student arrested after threatening staff
- News – Big Brothers Big Sisters makes a big difference
- News – Upgrades for Fraser Valley libraries
- News – UFV students stand up for the Paramount
- News – SUS to get food-certified
- News – International Week showcases cultures from across the globe at U-House
- Letter to the Editor – Homophobia point by point
- Opinion – Disaster tourism as ruin porn
- Opinion – The Twinkie as a metaphor
- Opinion – When democracy begins to crumble
- Opinion – Let it die: Why SUS should axe AfterMath
- Opinion – Why AfterMath can be saved
- Opinion – The Conservative attack machine has become a cannon of white noise
- Arts & Life – NaNoWriMo Update: Week Three
- Arts & Life – Haute Stuff: Scarves are like magic in the wind
- Arts & Life – Clubs and Associations: Student Association of Philosophy
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Nick Ferrio, Never Shout Never, Tomas Barfod, August Burns Red)
- Arts & Life – Cascade Arcade: Aurora Borealis and the last polar bear
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: The return of CIVL Stage edition
- Arts & Life – Album Review: One Direction – Take Me Home
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Lincoln
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Tamaringo’s Café
- Sports – Refs are always fair . . . right?
- Sports – ‘‘Q to 12’’ and other nonsensical expressions of joy
- Sports – Goaltending, attendance, coverage controversies in first place Heat’s first quarter
Volume 20, Issue 30
November 14, 2012
- Editorial – Toke up, Johnny!
- News – The current state of AfterMath
- News – AfterMath service staff debate wages
- News – Darryl Plecas chooses to run Liberal in Abbotsford South
- News – CEP campus turns into film set, and not for the last time
- News – Rank, tenure and why it matters to students
- News – Film critic defends independent cinema
- News – TTC fly problem leaves students disgusted
- News – English Student’s Association hosts student-led poetry slam event at AfterMath
- Opinion – All that is wrong with our society: Christmas in November
- Opinion – AmPol: Sour grapes
- Opinion – Readers should be free to read what they want
- Opinion – I want my tuition to include tampons
- Opinion – A tale of two twenties
- Opinion – A breath of fresh air (smoke): U.S. states legalize recreational marijuana
- Arts & Life – Art at UFV: Alicia Williams’s e-cards
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Skyfall
- Arts & Life – Film Review: The Man with the Iron Fists
- Arts & Life – Theatre Review: Once in a Lifetime
- Arts & Life – UFV student Amanda Thiessen shines in Sense and Sensibility
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Ty Segall, Grape Soda, Little Big Town, Coheed and Cambria)
- Arts & Life – Album Review: Patrick Watson – Adventures in Your Own Backyard
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: Blue Jays edition
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Hide-A-Way Café
- Arts & Life – Haute Stuff: Doubling up as the weather drops
- Arts & Life – NaNoWriMo Update: Week Two
- Sports – Whistleblowers: CIS basketball referee Jim Cervo on a difficult job
- Sports – Rowing team prepares for part two of the season
- Sports – Weekend split for UFV’s B-Ball squads
- Sports – Heat off to their best start in franchise history
- Sports – Not kidding around
Volume 20, Issue 29
November 7, 2012
- Editorial – Forgive us our press passes
- News – How to beat procrastination and get things done
- News – Free pizza, candy and advice for students at spooky Arts Expo
- News – Budget cuts through the eyes of UFV’s chief financial officer
- News – AfterMath pub crawl escapes Halloween’s bad reputation
- News – Kickin’ cancer’s ass with a kickass ‘stache
- News – Presenting: The Acropolis
- News – Problems with student email prompt changes
- News – Pumpkins! Pumpkins, everywhere!
- Letter to the Editor – “A disgrace”
- Opinion – Nick and Sean go to Washington: Donuts, baseball bats and Democrats (and Republicans)
- Opinion – Was hurricane Sandy the judgment of God?
- Opinion – Time to stockpile water and batteries
- Opinion – The dark cloud of November rolls in
- Opinion – I don’t want to be a professor anymore
- Opinion – Bill C-30 gives Canadian police unwarranted online surveillance capabilities
- Arts & Life – Cascade Arcade: Message to pirates: give back to the games you love
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Cloud Atlas
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Capitol 6, Mac DeMarco, Andy Stott, Hey Rosetta!)
- Arts & Life – Q&A: The Doers to throw punk rock dance party at AfterMath
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: Fall Down Get Down edition
- Arts & Life – Album Review: Flyleaf – New Horizons
- Arts & Life – Haute Stuff: Oxblood
- Arts & Life – Theatre Preview: Once in a Lifetime
- Arts & Life – Book Review: 1982 by Jian Ghomeshi
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Chilliwack Airport Coffee Shop
- Arts & Life – NaNoWriMo Update: Week One
- Sports – Sophie Schmidt has a vision for Canadian soccer
- Sports – Sex sells: ethics versus economics in the swimsuit issue
- Sports – The rivalry rages on: Heat and Marlies in major weekend battle
- Sports – Potential Marlies tradeables for the Canucks
Volume 20, Issue 28
October 31, 2012
- Editorial – AfterMath vs. Sodexo: a rope of sand(wiches)
- News – SUS to divert additional money to save AfterMath until permanent solution can be reached
- News – Canoes, cadets, books and songs: Lieutenant Governor Steven Point at the end of term
- News – Robin Sather: Lego Certified Professional
- News – BC government to offer textbooks online for free
- News – Fire alarms, but no smoke and no fire
- News – Faculty and staff take a look at funding as they enter bargaining
- News – Balloons sent across border have tensions high in Korea
- Opinion – AfterMath is a service, not a business
- Opinion – I never wash my coffee mug. There. I said it.
- Opinion – Where-intil Scotland be free
- Opinion – What are we being educated for?
- Opinion – The trade agreement copyright problem
- Opinion – AmPol: A split ticket isn’t quite as far-fetched as you might think
- Opinion – Movember: how you can make a difference
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: Birds of Canada edition
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Taylor Swift x 4)
- Arts & Life – Haute Stuff: Fun with fibres
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Lamplighter Gallery Café
- Arts & Life – Write a novel in a month? Why not!
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Fun Size
- Arts & Life – Cinema Politica screens anti-plastic film, draws local MLA to UFV
- Sports – Skeletons, hero worship and Lance Armstrong’s tarnished legacy
- Sports – Talking shop with a 2012 All-Canadian
- Sports – Cascades beat Thunderwolves again in CIS Nationals rematch
- Sports – Interview with (what could have been) an NHL rookie: Jordan Martinook
- Sports – Horak leads the Heat to second place in the AHL after three-game weekend
Volume 20, Issue 27
October 24, 2012
Editorial – Why UFV should have a 24-hour library
- News – SUS budgets and the possibility of an AfterMath closure
- News – Post-secondary strike action could spread to UFV
- News – Writing for the prize
- News – UFV looking for bright ideas
- News – Unlikely as a double rainbow: UCM and Pride co-host forum
- News – UFV beats blood drive pledge
- News – Defend Our Coast: Protesting in Victoria
- Opinion – How to train your baby
- Opinion – The problem of tolerance: Are we strong enough to disagree (and keep talking)?
- Opinion – Amanda Todd’s suicide goes beyond simple “bullying”
- Opinion – Social media causes the fall of community
- Opinion – AmPol: Wait, there are more than two horses in this race?
- Arts & Life – Cascade Arcade: The Unfinished Swan splashes its way onto PSN
- Arts & Life – Haute Stuff: When fashionistas shoot, spike and score
- Arts & Life – Book Review: The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Brambles Bistro
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Titus Andronicus, The New Values, Graham Wright, G-Dragon)
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: Alberta edition
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Argo
- Arts & Life – Art at UFV: Christopher Friesen’s Digital Artifacts
- Arts & Life – Clubs and Associations: SAUS
- Sports – Don’t blame the bugs
- Sports – UFV golfers place eighth in National Championship
- Sports – Catching up with the coaches: UFV basketball
- Sports – Excellent start to the season has Heat second in the Western Conference
- Sports – Chicago Wolves: Return to battle wolfenkind
Volume 20, Issue 26
October 17, 2012
- Editorial – Autonomy, SUS and “the independent Toque”
- News – Potter steps into Vidal’s shoes as interim SUS president
- News – Intersection fix in the works near CEP
- News – SUS transit levy referendum coming soon
- News – There will be blood; it’s in you to give
- News – AfterMath joins the Twitterverse
- Opinion – 7-Eleven steps into the election
- Opinion – This just in: thick-rimmed glasses and plaid shirts will not get you a job
- Opinion – Is Sarah Palin a feminist?
- Opinion – Lectures are dumb
- Opinion – AmPol: Malarkey!
- Opinion – Justin Trudeau has eyes on the Liberal prize
- Arts & Life – Book Review: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Arts & Life – Haute Stuff: Animal-free fashion alternatives
- Arts & Life – Adbusters senior editor Darren Fleet on an accidental career in print
- Arts & Life – From Mario to Link: UFV’s pushpin murals
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Krause Berry Farms
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Jason Lytle, Freelance Whales, Metz, Wildlife Control)
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: Listening to the Movies II edition
- Arts & Life – Album Review: Various Artists – REWORK_Philip Glass
- Arts & Life – Cascade Arcade: Reliving the resonance cascade
- Arts & Life – Women’s rights, cultural oppression and the writer’s process with Shauna Singh Baldwin
- Arts & Life – Vancouver International Film Festival: Week Three
- Arts & Life – SAUS SAUSES IT UP WITH SAUSY SAUS EVENT
- Sports – Cascades women’s volleyball reign over CBC Bearcats
- Sports – Men’s volleyball team falls to the claws of the Bearcats
- Sports – Commitment is key for UFV women’s soccer
- Sports – Vikes shut out Cascades amidst the mud
- Sports – Heat finish off the weekend with back-to-back home wins over the Rivermen
- Health – E. coli: Critical thinking, critical eating
Volume 20, Issue 25
October 10, 2012
- Editorial – Berlin memorial reminds us peace is more than just the absence of war
- News – Vidal departs for new job in Hong Kong
- News – The Kinder Morgan pipeline through the eyes of UFV’s resident elder
- News – John Martin spills on his decision to swap parties
- News – UFV launches development of Peace Studies program
- News – UFV alumnus welcomes next generation of Students for Sustainability
- News – Feeling blue? You’re not alone!
- News – Thanksgiving dinner with Student Life!
- Opinion – Distracted driving: more than just your cell phone
- Opinion – The font of a lost generation
- Opinion – Pig panic predictions
- Opinion – Occupy will bring change in long-run
- Opinion – To choose or not to choose: efforts to reopen the abortion debate in Canada
- Opinion – UFV pulls the blue bin
- Opinion – Shoegaze, hopscotch and the “theatre of the moment”
- Arts & Life – Vancouver International Film Festival: Week 2
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Blue Collar Restaurant
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: Listening to the Movies edition
- Arts & Life – This is THE SHOES’ Jereme Collette on roots, authenticity, and the blues
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Angel Olsen, The Soft Pack, Kay, Melanie Fiona)
- Arts & Life – Album Review: Tame Impala – Lonerism
- Arts & Life – Book Review: The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
- Arts & Life – Haute Stuff: Belts
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Taken 2
- Arts & Life – Cascade Arcade: Free-to-play gem Super Crate Box comes to PlayStation Mobile
- Sports – Victoria-bound with UFV men’s soccer team
- Sports – Sizzling with opportunity: Heat training camp in review
- Sports – Heat sink the Rivermen 4-1 in season opener
- Sports – Cascades varsity golf squad wins PAC-WEST, eyes nationals
- Health – Workouts for the student schedule
Volume 20, Issue 24
October 3, 2012
- Editorial – Mr. Green in the drug store with the toothbrush
- News – CEP built with sustainability in mind
- News – The wheels on the bus go round and round
- News – SUS faces decision: CASA, CFS or none of the above?
- News – Your SUS AGM in a nutshell: three hours in tidy sub-headings
- News – Turning the traditional classroom on its head
- News – Popcorn and intellectual discussion form the basis for Cinema Politica
- News – Talking school with the Advanced Education Minister
- News – Community, respect and never a dull moment at Atangard
- Opinion – False alarm on the fee increase … for now
- Opinion – Google search: everything about you
- Opinion – Sorry, I have reading to do
- Opinion – Fumbling towards November
- Opinion – Sharing is for kindergarten, not full-grown countries
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Maan Farms
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: Left of the Dial II edition
- Arts & Life – Album Review: Efterklang – Piramida
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Cleanskin
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Dum Dum Girls, Wild Nothing, Mumford & Sons, The Glorious Dead)
- Arts & Life – Book Review: The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
- Arts & Life – Shauna Singh Baldwin to do author reading at UFV
- Arts & Life – Cascade Arcade: Super Hexagon turns basic shape into great escape twitch puzzler
- Arts & Life – Not Yer boring rock and roll
- Arts & Life – Vancouver International Film Festival: Week 1
- Arts & Life – Q&A: Dead Frog’s secrets
- Sports – UFV cricket: The best thing since Quidditch
- Sports – Cricket talks
- Sports – Varsity soccer women surge, men hold steady
Volume 20, Issue 23
September 26, 2012
- Editorial – It don’t come easy
- News – Possible fee increase to hit AGM
- News – New VP students Jody Gordon tells it how it is
- News – Hay hoister turned literary mag
- News – What will happen to the old Chilliwack campus?
- News – Canada agrees to add asbestos to international list of hazardous materials
- Opinion – Mandatory attendance? What am I, twelve?
- Opinion – Behold the monkey
- Opinion – Five minutes is not long enough
- Opinion – Should royals be allowed in the army?
- Opinion – Spanking should be illegal
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Cookies Grill
- Arts & Life – Haute Stuff: An autumnal shoe dilemma solved
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: Art show edition
- Arts & Life – Album Review: Grizzly Bear – Shields
- Arts & Life – Book Review: I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Melody’s Echo Chamber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Boxer the Horse, C.R. Avery)
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Trouble with the Curve
- Arts & Life – We Insist: Behind UFV’s independent studies art show
- Arts & Life – CEP grand opening features performances from The Pink Slips, The Matinee and more
- Sports – LFL: She talks to Angels
- Sports – Conversation with an almost-Angel
- Sports – UFV women’s volleyball squad shows promise in exhibition victory
- Sports – All Star Wrestling hits hard
- Sports – Cascades in the community
- Health – Coconut oil helps Alzheimer’s patients
Volume 20, Issue 22
September 19, 2012
- Editorial – A barbecue by any other name
- News – Student Life subtracts barbecue from welcome back barbecue
- News – Nominations open for SUS annual by-election
- News – Afterparty at AfterMath wraps up Weeks of Welcome
- News – BC makes vaccination or masks mandatory for health care workers
- News – An introduction to CIVL through the eyes of Aaron Levy
- News – Vaudeville, aboriginal struggle and kicking it old school
- News – Out with the old, in with the new Advanced Education Minister: John Yap
- Letter to the Editor – If only I could pass on U-Pass
- Opinion – In break with Iran, Canada favours principle over pragmatism
- Opinion – Dear Tim Horton’s
- Opinion – A guide to civil disobedience
- Opinion – Closing in on the silence of suicide
- Opinion – The roommate question
- Opinion – Is Cosmo a feminist mag?
- Opinion – The new iPhone has our undivided attention
- Opinion – Savoury or sweet: when foodies go too far
- Arts & Life – Chillpocalypse LIVE!
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Pho Galaxy
- Arts & Life – Book Review: My Year of the Racehorse by Kevin Chong
- Arts & Life – Author Kevin Chong on procrastination, horseracing and the hybridity of Vancouver
- Arts & Life – Book Review: Batman & Robin: Born to Kill by Peter J. Tomasi, illus. Patrick Gleason
- Arts & Life – Cheese, wine and gluten freedom at the Fraser Valley Food Show
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: Thrash & Trash edition
- Arts & Life – Album Review: Bob Dylan – Tempest
- Arts & Life – Haute Stuff: Ballet, Mad Men, and motorcycles at New York fashion week
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Aimee Mann, The xx, The Avett Brothers, Animal Collective)
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Resident Evil: Retribution
- Arts & Life – Cascade Arcade: Adventure Time could be the next Commander Keen
- Sports – Coach’s Corner: Cheerleading
- Sports – UFV Women’s basketball team sets sights on National finals
- Sports – Blind soccer takes the game to a whole new level
- Sports – UFV’s second-ranking CCAA golf team hope to win National Championship
- Sports – Two teams, three twits and a football
- Sports – Lockout losers
Volume 20, Issue 21
September 12, 2012
- Editorial – You can’t handle the truthiness!
- News – Don’t take a pass when it comes to U-Pass
- News – Community speaks out against existing pipeline
- News – New library opens with a song at CEP
- News – The basics of your health and dental plan
- News – BC NDP critics talk advanced education, student debt, stress, and skills training
- Opinion – A period is only ever just a period
- Opinion – How oil companies plan to kill you (yes, you)
- Opinion – Move over library, there’s a new study space… and it’s got beer
- Opinion – Child abuse is a personal family decision
- Opinion – Who needs Freud when you’ve got Kraft Dinner?
- Opinion – Don’t quit your day job: how to be a writer
- Arts & Life – Kicking up dust Where the Forest Songs Are
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: A guide to meals at CEP without breaking the bank or eating another bagel
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: UnCIVLized and New U edition
- Arts & Life – Cascade Arcade: Gamers flock to Seattle’s PAX Prime
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Holy Other, The Fresh & Onlys, Jens Lekman, Seas to Skylines)
- Arts & Life – Album Review: Stars – The North
- Arts & Life – Film Review: Lawless
- Sports – Row, row, row your boat!
- Sports – Confessed Rower: Debra Neufeld
- Sports – Cascades scare Eagles in exhibition match
- Sports – Coach’s Corner: Volleyball
Volume 20, Issue 20
August 21, 2012
- Editorial – You probably won’t ever go to space
- News – Martin Kelly talks Student Life at UFV
- News – The guns of August
- News – Interview with Carlos Vidal: UFV student, SUS president and YouTube sensation
- News – What the heck are Ancillary fees?
- News – Free tuition offered to domestic ESL students
- Opinion – To the first years: what you need to know about UFV
- Opinion – Life in a box
- Opinion – Get involved with The Cascade!
- Opinion – Education: roots of my identity
- Opinion – Should there be a second chance?
- Arts & Life – Dine & Dash: Dawg Gone Good Grill
- Arts & Life – Haute Stuff: Farewell flip-flops, hello fur
- Arts & Life – CIVL Shuffle: The Streets edition
- Arts & Life – Q&A: Oh Village
- Arts & Life – SoundBites (Purity Ring, Divine Fits, Frank Ocean, Bobby Wieler)
- Arts & Life – Album Review: Colt Ford – Declaration of Independence
- Arts & Life – Film Review: The Step Up series
- Arts & Life – Cascade Arcade: The tragic collapse of the Vancouver gaming industry
- Sports – Men’s varsity soccer players show promise
- Sports – “Suck it, Buttman” and other lockout missives
- Sports – Whitecaps loss still makes for a great time
- Sports – Coach’s Corner: Men’s soccer
- Sports – Coach’s Corner: Women’s soccer
- Sports – Coach’s Corner: Rowing
