Hawksley Workman: Meat Reviewed by Daniel Wright It’s an endless debate between music aficionados which is better: originality or diversity. While pop music often gets away with neither (for better or for worse); to make it with the snobs you’re going to need to be either “new-sounding” and/or eclectic. […]
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Open Content: Paperless in 2010?
New Year’s Resolutions? Meh. Let me tell you about my 2009 resolution: to go paperless. Yeah. Right. What was I thinking? The idea was to use as little paper as possible. I thought this was quite progressive of me. I even started a new twitter stream (www.twitter.com/paperless2009) to track my […]
News Briefs
According to research, having some “junk in the trunk” is healthy Oxford scientists claim that having more weight on thighs and bottoms may actually provide benefits for heart disease and inflammation. While too much weight carried in the bottom is not recommended, according to a recent published study, a person […]
Loose Cannon: Ignatieff, jettison those speaking notes!
Written by Greg Beneteau Michael Ignatieff’s cross-Canada visit to 11 post-secondary institutions might as well be called Prorogation Tour 2010. That is, it seems like the Liberal leader has spent much of his time on campus attacking Prime Minister Stephen for dismissing parliament until March. (Nova Scotia Community College, […]
Inside Hillside Inside
The Hillside state of mind Written by Zack MacRae This past summer I went to Hillside, Guelph’s renowned outdoor music festival. And what an experience! There were drum circles until four in the morning, the best local foods, an obvious focus on sustainability, skinny dipping, and of course a […]
Gryph Bits
The passing of a legend On Thursday Dec. 10, former Gryphon soccer coach Guenther Zemanek passed away. He was in his 90th year. Zemanek worked with both the men’s and women’s teams between 1982 and 1990 and was honoured with the Dr. John T. Powell Award in 1997, given to […]
Featured Artist: Stephen F. Fisher
Written by Miles Stemp In land art there is a tradition of use of space, and in particular a reaction to space. We see in these works a physical response to the space. With Michael Heizer the space was simply a large track of land that he could bulldoze, reshape, […]
Scam artists attack U of G
Written by Daniel Bitonti “They want to use our resources. We have very powerful machines and a very large network connection,” Doug Blain, manager of IT security at the University of Guelph. From a small office on the second floor of the Computing and Communication Services (CCS) building, Doug Blain […]
The important little additive
Bad reputation of aspartame is seemingly exaggerated “I don’t have a problem with my clients using aspartame-sweetened drinks, yogurts, or other products.” – Erin Armitage, Campus dietician, on the curious case of aspartame. If you reached for a stick of gum, a diet soft drink, or a low-fat yogurt today, […]
A dying art: black & white photography
More than point and shoot “Look closely and notice the grain of the film – an entire image composed of millions of tiny individual specks of black and gray.” There is a simplicity to black and white photography, where careful construction of crisp contrast, gray tones and smooth depth of […]
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The Ontarion publishes independent, student-produced news, opinion, and commentary for University of Guelph students so that they can make informed decisions in their lives. To do this, The Ontarion provides learning opportunities and training in journalism, media production, leadership, board governance, and other aspects of nonprofit news.
The Ontarion is the University of Guelph’s independent student newspaper. It began in 1951 as part of the Ontario Agricultural College and then began to represent the entire University of Guelph once it amalgamated in 1964. The Ontarion incorporated in May 1970 as The Ontarion, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation registered with the province of Ontario.