Mathers' Blog

We walked through the art halls today. Everything was just screaming “oh look at me I can draw!”. Yeah well I can eat glue.

SIFE, the annoying student group dedicated to themselves, have picked up their backpacks and stormed off of campus. I was unable to confirm if the smell emanating from this story was poop in their pants or just their bad attitude.

Here’s the story:

• SIFE has had a monopoly on Thursday’s at Heroes for the past 7 years.
• Their group made a lot of money doing this.
• Other campus clubs wanted in on the action and, over the past two years, TRU has been talking to SIFE about sharing.
• Earlier this year, TRU gave the Adventure Club a thursday to host a Where’s Waldo night.
• SIFE was told one night out of seven would go to another club.

So rather than sharing and allowing other clubs to raise money, SIFE decided to move their event to Cactus Jacks. They tried to take the Thirsty Thursday name with them, but had  no rights to it.

Heroes will continue to have a Thirsty Thursday event. The difference is that each night will benefit a different campus club.

This is good for students and good for TRU. A stronger and  more diverse set of campus clubs will benefit the TRU Community. Wouldn’t you rather see the Nurses hosting a thursday night? And how much money does SIFE spend shipping themselves all over Canada to “compete”?

For more info check out these blogs:

Cam On Campus: Is Dan Erickson just viciously unaware?

Tab on TRUSU: TRUSU gives SIFE $2000 to run one of Kamloops’ Thirsty Thursdays

Rock Trivia at Hereos Pub circa 2008

Has anyone noticed the new game in town? It’s like cops and robbers, but the kids dress up like journalists and abuse a newspaper. Our once weekly source of student drama and campus comedy is now ploughing a field of the mundane and inconsequential. And mmm mmm mm does it taste insipid!

This past edition featured the boy band ‘hey we’re short on cash let’s tour’  Backstreet Boys on the cover. I guess there was nothing else important going on?

Turning the page, which gets harder the further you go, you’ll find an insightful article on how gosh darn irritating bad drivers are. Hey if your cheese is sweaty does that make page 3? You know what else is annoying: wasted journalism! Your paper is sweaty and smells like brie.

Underneath the road lamage is a predictable and clichéd article on how early Christmas starts. Other topics they considered for this spot included: What Women Really Want, How to Avoid a Hangover, Stock Markets are Down, Video Games are Bad for Kids, Tiger Woods is Pretty Good, Snow is Cold and Stock Markets are Up.

We all recognize the challenges of being a student journalist. There are only so many times you can interview your parents and so many times you can criticize the street cleaner and the snow plow for always doing your street last. So here are some tips to help you along. I know you’re busy with homework and handjobs but the more you put into it, the more lives you could ruin, and that’s what being a journalist is all about!

Today’s tip is: If any of these phrases appear in your article, trash it:
- “don’t get me wrong”
- “I just don’t get why”
- “I can’t wait for it to come” (yeah me neither)
- “but I realize I can’t force it to come” (try harder)
- “believe me”
- “it can’t be that hard, can it?” (it’s the pills)
- “not only does he look like an idiot” (but he smells like cheese?)
- “Mr. Advice Guy”
- “students only have the option of calling campus security if they want an escort” (little known fact: maglite brothel)