There it is, another Oscar ceremony come and gone. It wasn’t a bad way to spend four hours. As for the show itself, meh. I’d give it a solid B-minus. Strong opening song, I felt. The use of the protections on the screen I thought was cool. Anna Kendrick and Jack Black...
Meet your incoming NAITSA leaders
The dust has settled, the posters are being taken down. NAIT students have voted and chosen their new student executives for 2015/2016. These students will be the advocates, the leaders, the movers and the shakers, at the helm of NAITSA starting in May 2015. It would...
Ideal music, at the perfect moment
Picking the correct playlist of tunes for a wonderful night of partying requires painstaking research and diligent planning. Selecting certain tracks to be played at specific times will affect the mood and energy of a room. It’s amazing how this process can make such...
Winning ways continue
This weekend the NAIT Ooks women’s hockey team swept another weekend series against inner-city rival, the MacEwan Griffins. The women clinched the top seed in the conference and will contend for the title once again, looking to pull off the monumental three-peat. On...
Guys sweep, gals swept
The match durations for volleyball flipped between the two Ook squads this past weekend. NAIT’s women’s team was swept 0-3 and 2-3 by the visiting Grande Prairie Wolves, while the men came from behind to win 3-2 on Friday before shutting out the Wolves Saturday. The...
NAIT’s got skill
NAIT continues to live up to its name as one of the leading providers of apprenticeship training in Western Canada, as campus was host to a skills trial for the next international competition of WorldSkills. Four Alberta students, including three current NAIT...
Are info posters passé?
For over a century, posters have been used by political parties, large corporations and numerous other groups and individuals wanting their message to be heard. However, over the past few decades, the digital age has begun taking over traditional methods of...
Personal robots are coming
NANAIMO (CUP) – Humans are social creatures, which means the greatest hurdle in truly intuitive communication with machines is their inability to generate and interpret social cues. Non-verbal communication like the position of our arms, where we look and how we speak...
Rate your Valentine …
Valentine’s Day is a time we often get warm, glowing images about love and relationships. It is also a great opportunity to evaluate how happy you are with your relationships, romantic and otherwise. People in healthy relationships are willing to work at the...
Put your money to work
Money is freedom. We all work for our money. It is the effective work we do translated into monetary units. Basically, it is our effort translated into things we can buy. Naturally, we appreciate our work and free time. Deductively, we should appreciate our money....