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Regina heading to World Cheerleading Championship
U. of R. Cougars will be only Canadian squad
C-O-U-G-A-R-S. Let’s go Cougars!
The University of Regina cheerleading team is hoping that chant will help lead them to a big W-I-N at a world championship event.
The 27-member team is heading to Florida for the International Cheer Union World University Cheerleading Championship next weekend.
“We’re going to be the only team there representing Canada, so it’s really exciting especially since there’s going to be good representation from the U.S., as well as some Asian countries and (Australia),” said head coach Thomas Rath.
The Regina team got to this point by winning the small coed division at the Canadian National University Cheerleading Championships in Brampton, Ont., in December.
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What students are talking about today (December 17th)
Fake IDs, cheerleading champs, Tolkien & weirdo engineers
A real Ontario driver's license (MTO)
1. Fake IDs have come a long way since I was 17. Back then it simply required peeling off the top layer of a real one, changing a 5 to a 1, and replacing the plastic. Today there are holograms and magnetic strips. Still, shady shops in Toronto are overcoming the technology and creating passable “novelty” driver’s licenses and university ID cards for anyone with roughly $50, CBC News reports. It just goes to show that if demand is strong enough, the black market will respond.
2. Some students will do anything to get out of Saskatchewan in January. The University of Regina is the only Canadian school sending a cheerleading team to International Cheer Union’s World University Championships next month in Orlando, Florida, reports the Leader-Post.
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University of Toronto students do battle
Photos from the annual orientation week event
Photographer Jessica Darmanin immersed herself in the University of Toronto’s “battle of the colleges” and Clubs Showcase last week. She also visited Ryerson University’s parade and is in the Atlantic provinces right now. Check out her shots of U of T students flaunting their school spirit:
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- Students from the various colleges, plus Mississauga and Scarborough campuses, defend their own.
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- A Mississauga (UTM) student defends his suburban kin.
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- Saraf Nawar represents UTM and she doesn’t hold back.
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- Engineering graduate Derek Lee tells students what the Astronomy & Space Exploration Society has to offer.
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- U of T’s cheerleaders strut their stuff and invite new members to join the squad.
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- Members of the Ethics, Society, & Law Students Association introduce students to the club.
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- Members of the Organization of Latin American Students perform a dance.
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- Chris Yu of MoveU invites students to join a group that promotes healthy living.
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- Students from the Chinese Students & Scholars Association have a message for “Incoming” students: “Sign Up and get a 4.0.”
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- U of T’s Ski & Snowboard club hired a Yeti to invite students to join the club.
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- The Battle of the Colleges brings people together outside the Royal Ontario Museum.
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- The Battle of the Colleges gets loud.
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- University College students dance like it’s their job. Third-year Adolf Toral (megaphone) shakes it.
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- Battle of the Colleges: Innis College students are not to be messed with.
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- Battle of the Colleges: more Innis pride.
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- Third-year student Charmaine Aliman of Woodsworth College leads her pack of frosh.
That’s the spirit
Canadian schools have crazy fans and community too
Nipissing University maniacs. By Cole Garside.
From the Maclean’s University Rankings—on newsstands now. Story by Alex Ballingall.
We’ve all seen it: the near-ubiquitous image of the spirited American college student chanting a school slogan, streaking across campus or slogging back a beer from a Dixie cup in a stadium parking lot. It’s the sort of paint-your-body zealotry often depicted in Hollywood movies.
Doesn’t seem very Canadian, does it?
Certainly not according to the 2010 edition of The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, a yearly publication out of Yale University that documents the strengths and weaknesses of North American universities. “One aspect of college life that Canada fails to offer is school spirit,” the guide stipulates. “Their attachment to their schools is not as strong as in the United States.”
