Interview with Bakhtawar Riaz, a director of Islam Awareness Week
Why is it so important to have an Islam Awareness Week and what kind of message are you trying to get out to students? The objective of the week …
Volume 49
Vigil highlights issues still faced by Indigenous women
Last week marked the second annual Indigenous Awareness Week at the Trent Symons campus. Trent University Native Association (TUNA), Gzowski College and the TCSA collaborated and held several events …
#MyJihad, #WhoIsMuhammed: Social media and Islam
Islam Awareness Week took place last week at Trent, but organizers didn’t relegate activities solely to the classroom. Social media use, alongside traditional methods of communication like lectures, was instrumental …
Creative expression workshop shines light on Indigenous identities
As part of the second annual Indigenous awareness week, the TCSA hosted “What It Means To Be Indigenous: Creative Expresssion Worskshop” in the LEC pit last Tuesday. More than a …
Hijab in philosophy and perception
The hijab, a symbol of religious commitment and modesty in Islam, has become a symbol of political conflict. Hijab wearers (hijabis) in Canada are often met with hostility and ignorance. …
Welcome Death
Death is inevitable. A sure fact of life is that every one of us is going to die at the end of it. Death is natural and yet for …
‘Not Quite’ is quite a music festival
Peterborough has long been building its reputation as an art and music scene. Now two Trent students and local musicians, Laura Klinduch and Natalie Resimes (members of local band ‘Watershed …
The Antidote interviews We Are The City: From videos to feature film
Having recently signed to labels in both the US and Germany, Vancouver’s We Are The City have taken their ambitions to another level on their upcoming album, Violent. The album …
Chappie Review: Turns out intelligent robots can also be cute before they destroy humanity
Neil Blomkamp is one of the few people around who seems to know the secret to getting science fiction movies made. Hollywood is notoriously weary of sci fi. A director …
Editorial: Controversy = Participation
The TCSA has certainly been the centre of a lot of controversy lately. I don’t think I need to get into specifics here. There’s probably something that comes to the …