Print Edition: April 4, 2012
This has been a great year at UFV, and we have our friends at SUS partly to thank for that. Yet while the staff of SUS wandered mild-mannered about the campus and the office this year busy doing their good works on behalf of the student body, little did we know that each of them had their own surprising secrets outside campus life. So now, let us take a look at our past year’s VP social, VP academic, VP finance, rep-at-large, communications administrator and SUS president and their fascinating lives. A hearty congratulations goes out to Sam Broadfoot, Ryan Petersen, and Carlos Vidal on their re-election who will, along with Jhim Burwell, be back with SUS next year, and the best of luck to Wyatt Scott and Kate Nickelchok in their future endeavours at UFV.
Print Edition: July 4, 2012
Growing up everyone had their favourite hero: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc. Even though they have unrealistic super powers and weird tights, chances were at some point you probably looked out over the horizon and hoped to see your hero flying off into the distance, soaring off to somewhere you’d never been and better than the place they were leaving.
Lately Hollywood has brought back some of our favourite superheroes, creating a huge summer smash up of big name movies like
The Avengers,
The Amazing Spider-Man and
The Dark Knight Rises. Directors are taking classic comic book heroes and giving them modern weaponry, social drama and even modernizing those silly tights. The fights are bigger and the trauma closer to real life. But why does Hollywood feel we need superheroes right now and why so many all at once?
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Illustrations by Anthony Biondi
Media monster
People die without our knowledge every day in every kind of horrific way. Right under our noses, the most heinous crimes are committed in the city we live in. Are you afraid?
The news and media mills live off the negative power of the public’s fear and it’s up to us to know what is real and what is relevant. If we listened to the media monster, few of us would leave our houses out of fear of being butchered. But the news is a poor substitute for reality, and even if you hear it, you don’t have to listen. (DON’T LISTEN!)
(Illustration by Anthony Biondi/The Cascade)
Vancouver:
no artists allowed
Bad news for wannabe urbanites: Vancouver was recently named the second-most expensive city in the world to live in, losing only to Hong Kong.
This isn’t news to anyone. Vancouver has been jaw-droppingly expensive for a couple of decades now. You can actually buy a mansion in southern France for less than a Vancouver Special crack shack.
But the saddest consequence of the city’s insanely inflated cost of living is that an entire generation of talented starving artists are cut off from the city’s vibrant cultural scene. If you work in industries like film, business, journalism, or the arts, you’ve gotta be in Vancouver to make it happen but even a leaky, bed-buggy basement suite is out of the average person’s price range. It means that only people who are already successful can be where the success is.