On display in the Engineering Building’s atrium at the University of Manitoba is quite possibly the future of Northern shipping. Taking up a large proportion of the atrium’s footprint is an airship built by Buoyant Aircraft Systems International (BASI) and ISO Polar, a non-profit research institute. According to a press release the “large aerial craft [...]
The Manitoban
The Students' Newspaper of the University of Manitoba
Archive for December, 2011
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Winning in a winter wonderland
At this point in the season I’m not going to predict that the Winnipeg Jets will make the playoffs. But with the way this team has been playing — putting in solid efforts more often than not, playing with plenty of energy, and working hard to make scoring chances — the Jets can tilt the [...]
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Playing political games
A few weeks ago I sat down for an interview with Russell Field, a professor in the University of Manitoba’s kinesiology department, to talk about an academic paper he had been writing on the GANEFO games. The Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) was a sporting event organized by Indonesia in 1962, ostensibly as [...]
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Rivalry renewed
The cross town athletic rivalry between the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg was renewed Dec. 1, as the basketball portion of the 2011 Duckworth Challenge took place at the Investors Group Athletic Centre on U of M’s campus. The event was the brainchild of the late Dr. Henry E. Duckworth, who presided [...]
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Bison briefs
Hockey The Bison women’s hockey team travelled to the University of Alberta to play two games against the Alberta Pandas, while the Bison men’s team stayed home to host the Alberta Golden Bears for two games of their own on Dec. 2 and 3. Both Bisons teams split their two-game series with Alberta On Dec. [...]
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Know your history
Hockey has its roots as an amateur game played across Canada. Amateur hockey leagues were first formed in Manitoba during the early 1890s. For the better part of a decade, the Winnipeg Victorias Hockey Club competed against the Winnipeg Winnipegs Hockey Club. The Vics dominance included Stanley Cup championships in 1896 and 1901. Professionalism transformed [...]
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Ground-shaking news
Most Manitobans don’t lose any sleep over the idea of earthquakes. But in areas such as western North America and China, earthquakes and tremors occur regularly. A recent study from the Monash University’s School of Geoscience in Melbourne, Australia shows that we may be closer to predicting when and where earthquakes will hit. The study [...]
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Bettering our campus
From Nov. 17-20, the fifth annual Canadian Conference on Student Leadership (CCSL) was held in Calgary, Alberta. I was one of the eight undergraduate students from the University of Manitoba given the unique opportunity to accompany Camilla Tapp, UMSU president, and Brendan Hughes, director of Student Life, to the conference. Although seen by some as [...]
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Efficient altruism
The other day I was walking around campus when I passed a pink fire truck. It was, of course, related to some kind of breast cancer fundraiser. For some reason, this got me thinking, and as I looked on and pondered, a question occurred to me in a sudden moment of clarity: What exactly is [...]