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Women’s soccer team falls short in quarter-final playoff game.
Local band The Pistolwhips release EP 7 years in the making
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Fashion faux pas to avoid OPINIONS 17
Taking the pulse of a province
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Letter from the Editor
The Sheaf published its very first issue on Nov. 1, 1912 and it’s pretty fortunate that exactly one century later, on Nov. 1, we published another issue. The staff of the 2012-13 Sheaf wants to thank everyone — editors, staff and students — from the newspaper’s past who have contributed to the Sheaf’s rich 100-year history. This week’s cover commemorates those Sheafers. The cover features photos from inside the Sheaf offices, of university events the Sheaf has covered and of many former Sheaf editors. It’s pretty clear based on the photos that the Sheaf hasn’t really changed much in the last century. We still smoke, we still drink and some of us still think peace signs are cool. (The only difference seems to be that we don’t dress nearly as well anymore.) We hope that students at the University of Saskatchewan will help the Sheaf publish for many more years to come. And while we may eventually stop publishing in print in favour of the web, we still want to be at the forefront of student issues. We hope that future Sheaf editors can build off what we’ve done this year the way we’ve built off the Sheaf’s 100-year history. Thank you, Kevin Menz Editor-in-Chief
daryl hofmann/news editor
The Social Science Research Lab at the U of S conducted a poll of 1,750 Saskatchewan residents and teamed up with local media outlets to help share the results.
Most comprehensive public poll in a decade caps off with forum DARYL HOFMANN Senior News Editor A provincewide public opinion poll concluded Oct. 29 with a town hall at the University of Saskatchewan. About 100 attendees gathered to share their thoughts on the results with the researchers and journalists who worked on the survey. Students, faculty and members of the public at the forum were shown a handful of questions from the survey on the lecture theatre’s projection screen.
Those participating submitted their own answers using digital clickers, with the results tallied immediately and compared with the rest of the province. The event was co-hosted by news anchors Costa Maragos and Jill Smith from CBC Saskatchewan. The “Taking the Pulse of Saskatchewan” survey was the first of its kind in the province since 2001 and polled 1,750 residents over the age of 18 from all corners of the province. The survey was administered through 15-minute phone interviews over three weeks in March. The survey examined a widespread range of topics
including resource development, crime, the economy, aboriginal issues, immigration, health, and moral issues, such as abortion and assisted suicide. Merelda Fiddler reported on the “Taking the Pulse” survey for CBC Saskatchewan. She focused on narrowing down the immense amount of polling data and finding people in the community who reflect those results. “It was really interesting to take a survey and turn it into programming and say, ‘Here are the real stories of the people,’ ” she said. “We met some amazing people who told us some amazing stories.” Fiddler is from Saskatchewan
and has reported for the CBC for 12 years. She feels the survey indicates Saskatchewan residents are becoming comfortable in their own skin and realizing that there are opportunities in the province for mostly everyone. “But I think [the survey] also shows us we have a long way to go,” she said. “I’m Métis myself, and it shows we have a long way to go for aboriginal people to have the same opportunities as the rest of the population.”
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