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By Maximilian Moore   NekNomination is dead. It quietly left our Facebook newsfeeds as Kony 2012 once did, as Coke and Mentos and ‘I Can Has Cheezeburger Cat’ once left. The sensationally annoying Fred Figglehorn luckily never said goodbye, and I believe Nigahiga has more...

By Chris Whan   Recently there has been a surge in the growing of facial hair and as an avid member of the hirsute community, I couldn’t be happier. Beards are one common denominator that links most men together. It’s an evolutionary piece of our puzzle that seems to serve...

By Elizabeth Mabie With Valentine’s Day coming, couples are making romantic preparations while single people are either rolling their eyes at the absurdity of the holiday or crying their eyes out into a tub of ice cream because they have no love again this year. There are a lot...

By Tyler Labonte The beginning of what I view to be the worst influence in my lifetime was when I was eight years old. It could all be summed up in a South Park episode. Really. Recall the one in which Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld were the hard-rock band the children...

By Natasha Kellar Butts, so many butts everywhere! It’s disgusting, and it stinks. The bylaw keeping smokers at least 15 metres away from any entrance poses an issue in regards to litter on campus. Everywhere you go on campus you see them lined along the entrance, cigarette...

By Michael Robinson Bell’s Let’s Talk campaign undermines the depth of mental illness by enabling the perception that it’s something easily managed by the painless act of tweeting. The bumpy ride known as life, converted into a hashtag, now lives as a trend rather than a...

By Christine Roy For several years, I lived every day like someone who had almost drowned and was terrified to go back into the water.  Except the lake that frightened me so much wasn’t really a lake, it was every place that wasn’t home. The water that worried me was my own...

By Lauren Khalil At the onset of every semester, students take on the burden of a general elective course. For every student who thinks they’re great, another thinks they suck.  Personally, I like them. For some, general electives are an added inconvenience in their busy...

Religious or cultural accommodation should not privilege the rights of one gender over another. Yet, that is what happened when a male student at York University requested an exemption from a group project with female classmates for religious reasons. The professor refused the...

By Eric Thompson When the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos tangle in Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2, there is about a one in two chance a person will be watching it. 18.2 million Canadians tuned in for some part of last year’s Super Bowl. It’s become an event that a wide...