Volume 39 Issue 9 JMeliorist www.themeliorist.com Thursday, 3 November, 2005 STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE www.themeliorist.com • November 3, 2005 Meliorist mehioTism (meel'e riz'm. me'le e-), n. the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort An autonomous body, separate from the U of L Students' Union SU-166, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, AB T1K3M4 Phone 329-2334 The Meliorist is the student newspaper of the University of Lethbridge, published most Thursdays throughout the academic year by The Meliorist Publishing Society, an autonomous incorporated body. Please address all correspondence to The Meliorist, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4, or drop it off at room SU-166 Deadline for submissions is Sunday at noon The Meliorist appreciates and encourages the writing of thoughtful, concise, timely letters However, The Meliorist will only consider for publication those letters which are signed by tho author (special arrangements may be made for those wishing anonymity, but absolutely no pseudonyms), contain the authors legible name, address, telephone number and student identification number (address, I.D and phone number not for publication). Letters may be edited for brevity, clarity and legality. The Meliorist reserves the right to edit submissions and will not print libelous material. Editor-in-Chief Craig "The Big Cheeze" Hamilton [email protected] Business Manager Joseph "Archie" Brunton [email protected] "Off to the rodeo..." Advertising Manager Lance "Old Balls" Semak "Taken at the 2004 Kinuso Annual Rodeo, this little bucking horse was remembered by the broken [email protected] collarbone this cowboy got in the fall." - Photo by Meghan Payne Managing Editor Know the feeling of getting "that shot" and want to get it published? Amber "Herbie" Herbison [email protected] Stop by the office, or email your picture and story (max 40 words) to [email protected] News Editor Nathan "Salvia" Sharpe [email protected] Entertainment Editor Jared "J-Rod" McKenzie This Week... [email protected] Sports Editor Cover: Hoop it up 'Horns style Ainsley "Copius" Doty The Pronghorns hosted their annual pre-season tourney last weekend in hopes [email protected] of kicking off the regular season on a high note. The 'Horns open their season Featues Editor this Friday against the UofA, so get all gussied up and show your support. Garret "The Tongue" Ford [email protected] Photo Editor Heather "Eddie" MacBeath [email protected] News: The three most important pages of your week Copy Editor Genocide on campus! Well, there wasn't genocide ON campus, but rather, Talis "Wordsworth" Jacobsen [email protected] an interesting series about genocide, and what we can do to prevent it. If that weren't enough, we've also got information about drugs, Halloween Creative Designer Quinn "The Blonde Bomber" Kuiken costume pics and according to Chris (our production guy), something on [email protected] Ralph Klein's big balloons. (I don't think that came out right). Webmaster Matt "Cyberslave" Sletto Features: For the short attention span in all of us [email protected] You know when you're sitting in class and you wish you had something to Office Assistant do other than take notes and pay attention? This is the section for you. Do Jaime "Jam-Jam" Tremblay [email protected] the crossword puzzle or consider the word association puzzle. If you've been following along over the weeks, our Weekly Story is coming along nicely as Distribution Manager George "Delivery Guy" Andrews well.. [email protected] Production Assistants Entertainment: Chris "Hibby" Hibbard We put the 'dirt' in "the dirtiest cartoon ever!" [email protected] If you're looking for all the goodness that TV can afford, you'll find it right Sarah "Scuttle" Fulcher here. If you've never seen "Drawn Together", check it out immediately (just production 1 @themeliorist.com don't tell my wife that I recommended it). If live action is more your speed, Printing we've got everything from the Trailer Park Boys to the O.C. Southern Alberta Newspaper Group Contributors: Keith McLaughlin Sports: Keep Fit And Have Fun! AJ Struyk Looking for ways to keep fit in class without going to the gym? We've got Marnie Hamagami Angus Sutherland your solution, no thanks to Hal Johnson & Joanne McLeod. The 'Horns are Nafisa M. Jadavji heavy into their respective seasons, and would love to see some fans in the Alex Wylie Darryl Nordick seats. Basketball opens this weekend, and women's hockey is in town. Get Vince Chew out and see what the fuss is all about. Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain www.themeliorist.com • November 3, 2005 Ghosts and ghouls and other costume jewels jjfl I • ill \j • MWk It ^ 1 m S ts^. > . MflBjW MP Ladies and gentlemen! The winner of the Meliorist's costume contest is above center. Sarah Nelson, dressed as a sexy dark angel, wins a trick or treat bag chock full of awesome prizes including movie passes. Thank you all for your submissions. Read This ! - A message on student apathy to write anything on the subject, chance to have their voice heard, to us on a silver platter. We have no or whatever vour chosen profession by Craig Hamilton because I would hope that students but only a handful of them actually adversity and thus, no character. may- be. The problem is that if you Editor in Chief are terribly involved with their cared enough to do anything. Take a look at the people around aren't doing anything to change the school and with the issues that af­ What this school lacks more than you; you could be screaming and on world around you right now, yvhat fect them. I would also hope that anything is PRIDE. Do you actu­ fire and most of them would avoid makes you think you'll do anything Over the past week, in discus­ I'm better looking than I am. No ally care about the place where you eye contact so they wouldn't have different ten years from now? sion about the paper and in various amount of wishful thinking makes receive your education, or is this to be a part of the scene. They have I trulv hope that I am wrong about meetings, there has been one topic either thought true. Students at this school simply a roadblock to the life someyvhere else to be. Think about the students who attend the U of L. that has been presented to me more school don't give a damn about any­ you see for yourself in the future? it. Would you help them? No. you I like to think that you are proud of than any other. I've heard com­ thing. Are you here to earn a degree or to wouldn't. You're no different than your school and proud of yvhat you ments to the effect that "you should You think I'm wrong? Take a look at be educated? There is a difference. they are. have the capacity- to achieve. I like to write about how the students here the recent Student Union votes. Out If you were proud of the place where When yve finish our time here, I think that you care about the person don't care about anything" or "you of the nearly EIGHT THOUSAND you found an education, you would assume that most of us want to take next to vou and that vou support the should do something on student ap­ students who attend the University make your voice heard, not just bide what we've learned, and do some­ other students in the school. How­ athy" or even "the people who go to of Lethbridge, only 28 per cent of your time until they hand you a thing productive yvith our lives. We ever. I know differently. this school are lazy." After all of the them bothered to click two buttons piece of paper. yvant to make changes and have an comments, I'm beginning to agree. to vote about how they want their For good or bad, we are the genera­ impact on the yvorld around us, be it .lust wait until you're the one on To be honest, I didn't really want tuition spent. Every student had the tion that has had everything handed through business, athletics, fine arts, fire. Letters! We've Got Letters! 1 (ear Editor: I am writing to express my sincere thanks to the Universit) of Lethbridge So where is my gold star? Students' Union tor voting in favour of supporting the Daycare Action Bv .Jason Sorochuk Advantage" school system. In The reason I felt the need to write Committee (DAC) with regards to on-campus childcare. Currently, this elementary, 1 spent the first five years this, and my anger so obvious, is initiative is supported by the Universit) of Lethbridge Alumni Association As many students here at the in "split" classes. That is 1 was in a because yve are not helping the next (I'l.AA): University of Lethbridge faculty Association (1'I.fA): and the University of Lethbridge did a lew strange hybrid of grade 2/3, or 4/5 generation of minds this way. When Lethbridge Public Interest Croup (LPIRG), which also funded the study- weekends ago, I went back home for and so forth, [f you were a student we hit University, or (gasp) the leal conducted by the On-Campus Child Care Assessment Team (OCCAT) Thanksgiving.