Tri-Varsity to be downed

By Sian Cohen & Greg Aldridge

Pic by Sean William Messham

Alcohol Awareness Week began with the well-attended “Save Tri-Varsity Debate” in Eden Grove Red on Monday 18 February. While no resolution was reached, the University has promised to hold a follow-up meeting two weeks before the upcoming Tri-Varsity at Fort Hare, much to the disappointment of students who expected this year’s event to be held at Rhodes.

Rhodes on the rocks

By Jess Levy

Alcohol Awareness Week was held 11 to 15 February and organised by the Dean of Students Division with the intention of changing students’ attitudes towards alcohol.

From the Editor

By Bianca Silva

 The racist video emerging from the University of the Free State (UFS) last week has been a big wake up call for people across the country: racism is still an issue and it still accompanies gross human rights violations. Those who thought these issues had emigrated were evidently wrong; apparently they have only been swept under the rug and confined to private conversations.

Getting Marx in university

As students we have been taught to question everything that we have been told is a truth. We should, therefore, question the notion that we are receiving an unbiased education. Can we really expect a lecturer to keep their own beliefs from being put forward in a lecture? I have recently heard students debate whether or not university education is pro-communism. Sounds controversial. And you know we love controversy.

Liberal Propaganda

By Matthew Edwards

 

One of my favourite magazines recently published the results of tests they had done on Johannesburg’s public toilets.

Grahamstown’s other drinking problem

Bottled water, anyone? Emma Richards and Peta Daniel investigate the quality of Grahamstown’s water.

It has become a familiar scenario: people complain that the Grahamstown water smells bad, tastes worse and is brown in colour. Some experience interruptions in water flow. Others refuse to drink it at all, claiming that they have been told that the water contains high levels of heavy metals and faeces, and that their friends have fallen ill.

God Is Dead – Ron Currie Jr.

By Nich Mulgrew

God, having taken the form of a wounded female refugee stranded in the deserts of Darfur, is, ironically, alive at the beginning of American author Ron Currie Jr.’s debut novel.

RMR left Wiggaless

By Kirsten Harris

Rhodes University bid farewell to Rhodes Music Radio (RMR) Station Manager Mike ‘Wigga’ Smurthwaite.

Website Review: Cracked.com

By Nich Mulgrew

Most of us spend a couple hours a day on the Internet: for music, for academic reasons, for communication, for entertainment.

Andrew Buckland discovers The Man Who

By Yashen Moodley

Multiple award winning actor Andrew Buckland, one of South Africa’s greatest dramatic performers, will be presenting Peter Brook’s The Man Who.

The Politics of Politics

By Simon Howell

We the youth of South Africa, recognising the injustices of our past, honour those who suffered and sacrificed for justice and freedom.” These are the opening lines to the new “constitutional pledge” that our illustrious Education Minister Naledi Pandor has proposed should be voiced at all school morning assemblies.

The presently disadvantaged

 

Pic by Sophie Marcus

Kate Douglas takes a look at Grahamstown’s poverty problem, its causes and effects and why it concerns you.

 

 

Start your engines

By Oliver Field

Spying controversies, tyre scandals, new rules and some new guy called Lewis Hamilton are all things that spring to mind when the 2007 Formula One season is mentioned.

From Left Field

By Timmy Hancox

There are some things that you can always bank on like the sun rising, somebody else getting the last cookie and the Australians being in the headlines for their comments.

ABSA banks on sport

By Joy Niemack

Rhodes University’s hockey, netball and cricket teams can expect upgraded facilities and other opportunities following the funding provided from ABSA Bank for 2008. This funding will also be used to create bursaries for promising sportspersons and as an attraction to the University.

In awe of Iron Man

By Warrick Smith

Craig Baillie may appear to be the average second year Masters student, but looking past his seemingly ever-present golden mullet he’s a man that has seen and achieved very much.