1,000 B.C. Mezzezeh woke up to the buzzing alarm of the mosquitoes dancing by his ears. Lethargically, he rolled off his bed. Today he didn’t feel like a kata: a ruler of the highest worship in ancient times. A typical kata ruled over his kingdom, the katakum, and controlled thousands of warriors in his army, [...]
The Manitoban
The Students' Newspaper of the University of Manitoba
Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
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Lack of conviction in speech and you!
Starting in the spring of 2010 I found myself starting to dabble in the idea of slam poetry. Slam poetry is a kind of poetry that holds true to an antithesis of formality, commonly found in traditional forms of poetry, and is culturally relevant to young people. I stumbled upon poet after poet that constantly [...]
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Australia you’ve changed me
Any avid traveler can testify that leaving a country you have just explored and fallen in love with can be a heart wrenching and difficult thing. I was terribly sad to leave Australia and its beautiful and breathtaking scenery, its strange animals and its marvellous people. So after spending a month in this new and [...]
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Sex and the campus
I, like many people, previously had a love affair. It lasted quite a while, but has recently been on hold for a prolonged period of time. I had an affair with what I thought was the perfect yam fry — delicious, orange in colour, perfectly shaped every time and with just the right texture. Yes, [...]
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Those damned election signs
They are green and blue and yellow. They loudly proclaim “Re-Elect Sam Katz” or “Judy for Mayor!” They are a mixture of plastic and sawdust. And they squat at the edges of suburban lawns, flashing passers-by. They are those damned election signs, and I hate them! The strange thing is, I have a difficult time [...]
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Interview with a smoker
Having worked in a small town grocery store this past summer I learned that the average cash out for tobacco products was $1,000 a day, in a town of 200 people! So, from Captain Black Sweets to John Player Standard and everything in between, it is obvious that tobacco is still a huge industry in [...]
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Sex and the campus
The advertising and marketing executives are always looking for untapped markets, and so it is with dating. We are always looking for people we haven’t contacted or entire places we haven’t been before. Certainly, in a city the size of Winnipeg, there aren’t many places you can go without finding someone who is more than [...]
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Going underground
The time of year is fast approaching in which the entire population of the U of M moves underground. Naps on the quad and games of pick-up soccer are soon to be replaced with vitamin D deficient shuffles through our tunnel system. I thought that most universities had an underground tunnel system like ours, but [...]
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Trend spotter
Stop! Look up from your paper and look around . . . What do you notice? Maybe you are in a classroom full of students and you see a lady walk into the room wearing skinny jeans. You also see half the class are using laptops, madly taking notes, and there is probably a dude [...]