SEX, DRUGS, and PARTYING

Social Issues Desk

Buying Booze for a Good Cause?

By Bernice Yanful

Wednesday? Thursday? Friday? After an exam, a test or maybe even a quiz? There’s always been some ambiguity as to when the weekend starts at Western, and class schedule seems to be of minimal importance – Thursday or Friday classes aren’t able to daunt you from getting your party on early.

pardon the NURMOruption

The Next XXX-Rates Sports Superstar

By Samir Nurmohamed

Nurmo gives you an insight on how he would be the best there is, the best there was, and the best bad boy that sports has ever witnessed

Lucky

By Fraser Page

We killed our dog on Thanksgiving morning. On the way to the vet we saw three dead squirrels. I think my dad said something about them being very active this time of year. They’re preparing for winter, I suppose. To me it just seemed like everything was dying. This is the first day I’ve noticed that the season has changed.

Porno Fairytales

By Michelle Miller

The other day, I was thinking about the first time I discovered – and was subsequently discovered by my Catholic mother with – porn. I expected that this memory would wash me with shame: being caught with a nudie magazine (especially for a girl and especially if that girl grows up to be a working feminist) is a mortifying moment, made worse, I would have thought, in memory.

Placards no Match for Strap-Ons

By Fraser Page

50 or so students gathered on the concrete beach Friday October 13 to protest for lower tuition fees. The McGuinty government, said MC Devin Johnston, has reneged on its promise to consult students before lifting the tuition fee freeze. Instead, McGuinty has given Ontario universities the right to raise tuition fees by up to 5% each year.

November 3rd, 2006
Vol. 6, Issue 3

Also in this issue:

Going Under the Knife for Birth Control

The Pheonix's Chris Carta Explains Why More and More Men are Getting Vasectomies

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The Down and Dirty Details

Drinking Games

By Travis Richstein

Huron Abroad

Huron Activists in Africa

By Laurel Mitchell

Media Watch Blog

By Elyse Maltins

girls just want TO GET OFF

A Look at What the Porn Industry Offers Women

By Jessica Morris

The Grapevine Guide to Voting in the 2006 Municipal Elections

Politics... not just for the middle-aged white man.

By Laura Beaulne-Steubing