Print Edition: April 4, 2012
I was pleased to stay in two Sundays ago, due to an event as delightful as the season five premiere of my favourite TV show,
Mad Men. I’ve waited 17 months for this, and was not disappointed. After all, what could be better on a night in than voyeuristically enjoying the pursuits of a group of men (and women) who drink Canadian rye at noon, pass cigarettes around office meetings, and consider romance their prime physical activity?
Yes, I was more than enchanted to see the return of Don Draper, Roger Sterling, Pete Campbell and Joan Holloway. However, as homey as a television return to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce may be, I have to say (with some embarrassment as I attest to my fashion-minded ways) that my eyes were more so on the clothes than anything else! Janie Bryant, long-time costume designer for the series, has worked her magic yet again with a set of outfits that reflect the ever-passing ‘60s and, in this season in particular, descent into
Print Edition: June 20, 2012
UFV is getting inventive with its Arts program this fall. On the UFV Today blog, Anne Russell explained how the University is planning to offer an intensive nine-credit course. âUFV will be offering first year Bachelor of Arts students a new way to dive into university studies,â she wrote, explaining the goals of the course. The interdisciplinary ARTS 100 course will cover some lower level requirements of the BA program, introducing students to UFVâs resources, and providing skills needed to succeed in a post-secondary environment.
As a 60 student, nine-credit course split between two professors, ARTS 100 will be attended three days a week, and will meet the writing and reasoning requirements needed for the Bachelor of Arts program at UFV. The course will cover such disciplines as geography, literature, and history, with a main focus being on anthropology and literature.
Print Edition: March 28, 2012
Having difficulties forging through the terms and history of feminism? No worries! Sasha and leanna tackle the ins-and-outs of what, exactly, feminism is, was and ought to be.
Leanna: As Emmaline Pankhurst, twentieth century womens’ rights activist, said in one of her many famous speeches, “Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it … They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.”
This quote sums up the original intent of feminism: the movement from a patriarchal, male-dominated society to one that offers equal rights between genders, beginning with allowing women the right to vote.
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Print Edition: March 21, 2012
Director Lasse Hallström (
Casanova,
Chocolat) set out to adapt Paul Torday’s 2006 political satire
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen into cinematic form. However, the finished product falls far short of Torday’s original intent.
The film revolves around Dr. Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor), a fish expert, and Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt), a Sheikh’s female representative. This particular Sheikh has a penchant for fishing, and Harriet is passionate about making his dreams of a fisherman’s paradise in the Middle East come to pass.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen deals with all the consequences of such a plot, and does not fail to explore the tentative romance between the male and female leads, turning what was originally an absurdist political satire into something more along the lines of a pseudo-political romantic dramedy.