A Remembrance Day challenge

One death means that someone is missing a parent, child, partner, sibling or friend. That life cannot come back: it’s gone, taken away forever

Gas leak forces evacuation

York security conducted the evacuation of students and residents after a gas leak Nov. 9 inspired chaos in the northwest section of the Keele campus.

TEDx at York U

The world-renowned TED talks made their way to York Nov. 6 via TEDxYorkU. The theme “Ctrl + Alt + Delete,” all about change, linked seven speakers and two performers, all of them York alumni or students. The presenters educated an intimate audience of 100 with a day of presentations, panel discussions and choice videos pulled from previous TED talks. Excalibur sent a team of writers to soak up the knowledge from all seven speakers and pass on the wisdom to you.

Fear and loathing in Washington

Communists! How many do you see around you? Count them. Is it one? Two? Three? How about 150,000? That’s how many I found last week at a rally to destroy de- mocracy hosted by their chairman, Jon Stewart.