00 0 0 c:'\; ('I') ('\J PAGE 2 >141-08 GAZETTE ···STAFF WEEKLY GAZETTE STArr EDITOR-IN-CHIEF' Julie Sobowale DISPATCH [email protected] COPY EDITOR Katie May co py@da Igazette. ca Hello, Dalhousie students! NEWS EDITORS Ruth Mestechkm We would like to congratulate the University on i ts t wo Melissa Di Costanzo recent environmental awards. Dalhousie i s t he first [email protected] university to receive the EcoLogo Envi ronmental COVER OPINIONS EDITOR Stewardship Award, which recognizes the uni versity's The Gazette's layout des1gner Susan Bethany Horne switch earlier this year to green cleaning products. We Maroun IS gallvanting around New York [email protected] have also been recognized by the Sustainable Endowments this week . a pnme opportunity for the ARTS & CULTURE EDITORS Institute with the Champi on of Sustainability in rest of the staff to comment on the Christie Conway Communities Award for the work done by the university's smooth production of this 1ssue. In the Hilary Beaumont [email protected] Eco-Efficiency Centre. Congrats and keep up the good five days since our design dictator has work! Your students and your environment thank you. been shopping, dnnking and spend­ SPORTS EDITOR ing money, no one has left the office Nick Khattar [email protected] Here at the DSU we also take pride in sustainability. The 1n tears, no one has partaken in any DSU sustainability office is a student-run space that ~creaming matches, and our bruises PHOTO EDITORS aids and engages the student body in education, have had a week to heal. John Packman awareness, research, policy, operations, recommendations Josh Boyter We have five days left to feel good and change pertaining to social, economic and [email protected] about ourselves before she returns. environmental sustainability. If you have concerns or PRODUCTION & DESIGN We miss you, Sue! Susan Maroun ideas surrounding the sustainability of Dal's campus, [email protected] visit www.dsu.ca or email: [email protected] . WE SCREWED UP! WEB EDITOR Jason Tenter In the Oct. 16 Letter from the Ed1tor Dalhousie students caught national attention during the [email protected] federal election last week when two-thirds of students "Art for a change", we misidentified attempting to vote were turned away at the on-campus Halifax's inaugural Nocturne Festival as CONTRIBUTORS polls, either because they had a lack of appropriate Nocturnal Festival. NEWS documentation or because they live off-campus. This In "Dal gallery's wild side" (Sept. 25), Andrew Robinson weekend's municipal election also caused problems for exh1b1t curator Peter Dykhuis' name Rachel Sunter students whose family homes are outside of HRM, but who was misspelled. are undoubtedly affected by the election's results. 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Football alumni are arguably the The administration would have to Dalhousie University, I hate that our most generous in supporting univer­ commit to building a multi-purpose school doesn't have a football team. sity sports for most universities. Then stadium, a costly and complicated en­ This is a topic that has been discussed there's the publicity factor. We were deavour. Where the stadium would be amongst sports fans and Dalhousie witness to the Huskies' push for Vani­ built and who would pay for it are not Student Union (DSU) council mem­ er Cup last year. When their games easy questions to answer. Then there bers, past and present. the Saint Mary's were broadcast on national televi­ are concerns about maintaining the University Huskies' head coach, Steve sion, so were the university's recruit­ facility and finding the support staff Sumarah, said in a 2006 interview with ment ads.