University Life

 
Geoff Ives, a third-year journalism student, just completed his first year as one of two play-by-play broadcasters for the Ravens men’s hockey team. Each game was broadcast on ssncanada.ca, a streaming sports network that webcasts university sporting events coast-to-coast. The Charlatan’s Elise A. Milbradt caught up with Ives to chat about his experience, and this the edited transcript.

 
Commentary: Dean Tester is a third-year journalism student and avid sports fan. He thinks that this year’s National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) March Madness basketball tournament that culminated with the University of North Carolina blowing out Michigan State University in the national championship was a let down in comparison to the intense competition of other years

1) The Far-reaching Footpath
 
Location: Carleton - Canal (towards downtown) - Hawthorne Bridge
Distance: 10 km
Conditions: Flat course, level, paved

The Carleton men’s soccer team squared off against the Ravens women’s basketball team in a barnburner of a basketball game to raise money for Kyosiga Community Christian Association for Development on April 1.

 
As her remarkable collegiate athletic career comes to a close, Rachel Baxter of the Carleton women’s water polo team has been named the Charlatan’s Female Athlete of the Year. 

The season was like any other for the fifth-year law major from Ottawa. It was a season where she once again dominated the competition and led her team to the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship game.

In a season where the Carleton men’s soccer team suffocated the competition defensively, everyone realized the talent of defender Nicholas Persichino, who has been named the Charlatan’s Male Athlete of the Year.
Persichino, a third-year commerce major from Thunder Bay, was the captain of a dominant Ravens team that surrendered only 10 goals in the regular season.   

Spanning across Robert Ridgeway’s entire abdomen is a tattoo that says “faggot.” He stands topless in front of a brick wall that is veiled with graffiti, and covers his eyes with his left hand.
 
The photograph, snapped by Kenny Lee, combines ink tattoos and kinky sexuality, otherwise called “kinked.” Lee is known for photographing the underground gay community in Toronto.

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4/5 stars
 
Right from the opening strains of Attack in Black’s
Years (by One Thousand Fingertips)
, it is clear that this album is not 2007’s
Marriage.
  

If you happened to be wandering the Carleton tunnels late Monday, March 30, you may have been surprised to see a group of musicians playing on acoustic guitar and ukulele in a passage near Residence Commons, gathering a small crowd. Then again, you might not – aspiring campus musicians occasionally come to the tunnels to play – but the band in question was Michou, a folk rock group from Windsor who had played a concert in Toronto to over 1,000 people just three nights before.