NAIT has three weeks off for winter break and we decided to give a rundown of our favourite games of 2017, what we are playing, and what we look forward to in the new year. Hopefully we can help you pass the time with these recommendations. Tre Lopushinky - Sports...
Take time to de-stress
The NAIT Students’ Association’s Campus Activities Board (CAB), featured a series of activities at the end of the fall semester to help students de-stress. The activities included bubble wrap to pop, play-dough to mold and a giant colouring sheet. Students could even...
Some steps to happiness
Happiness is a lasting state of mind where you feel that life is generally good and where you experience frequent positive emotions such as joy, delight, enthusiasm, interest, curiosity, vitality, pride and contentment. Happiness does not mean walking around with a...
Television: Best and worst of 2017
Once upon a time, television used to be the poor man’s cinema. If you were a film actor who transitioned to TV, your career in film was over. The same went for filmmakers. That being said, the last 25 years have seen a renaissance for the television format. As a...
Best flicks of 2017
Bryn Lipinski - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hit theatres in May and grossed more than $865 million worldwide, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of this year. Most people can tell when a movie has a strong entertainment factor...
A jedi for all seasons
By the time this paper is in your hands, the latest in the Star Wars saga will have hit theatres. Hype is at an all-time high; Star Wars is practically synonymous with the holiday season now. Following Disney’s acquisition of the franchise from Lucasfilm, a new entry...
John Dies at the End: Horrifying and educational
“WARNING: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. This is not a metaphor.” This is the first line and premise of This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Don’t Touch It, which is part of the John Dies at the End series. It captures the insanity of...
Special moments in athletics
This year, like most years, feels like it has flown by, despite it being 365 days, 8,760 hours and 525,600 minutes long. This year, the Ooks have seen a fair share of ups and downs, from hosting the nationals in basketball to the heartbreaking overtime loss to rival...
Death of Eddies hits former Ook
FC Edmonton is leaving the North American Soccer League after seven years. On Nov. 24, they made a press statement that they will not return in 2018, and as players start to clean their lockers, it’s worth a look at a player who started here with the NAIT Ooks. Now on...
Ooks no match for Golden Bears
Face-Off 2017 is over, and the U of A trumps the NAIT Ooks again in a charity classic game. Having an 11-1-1-1 record in the ACAC, the Ooks are the best the ACAC can offer, but the first place Golden Bears proved to be better beating NAIT 4-0 during the charity hockey...