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22 SEPTEMBER 18.08 GAUNTLETEditors: Ryan Pike, Christian Louden & Ændrew Rininsland—ap@gauntlet.ucalgary.caacademic probationHow to make your own clubA Gauntlet guide to fun and profit*At the beginning of each semester the fine folks at the Students’ Union host Clubs Week, a chance for the unwashed masses to get15 per cent discounts at the Den by joining a club. After roaming the rows of clubs, the Gauntlet’s Academic Probation sectiondecided that none of the clubs were quite what they were looking for. So they decided to form their own club. A club dedicated to theone cause that they could all agree on: proving Sir Charles Darwin’s survivalist theory of evolution correct through releasing harmfulamphibious animals into ecosystems to test their mettle. Thus, the Society for the Introduction of Harmful Amphibious Species IntoDelicate Ecosystems (SIHASIDE) was born. Its inaugural mission? To release bullfrogs into Kananaskis Country.The saga began as many do: with rigorous paperwork. The SU’s websitehas all the forms needed to form a club, as well as foolproof instructionson how to get things started. Once our forms were fi lled out, we sent themoff to the SU and headed off to the pet store to begin our mission.We learned, through perusing a few pet stores, that it is diffi cult to fi nd abullfrog in Calgary. However, we did locate a suitable specimen. Not wantingto force our new friend to do anything against his will, we asked him ifhe was cool with exploring Canada’s wilderness. He indicated he was.* — Not a guarantee.Now that we had a bullfrog, our teamTrans-Canada Highway for the drive twe were bored enough to do dangerofrog and dangle him from the moving
GAUNTLET ACADEMIC PROBATION SEPTEMBER 18.08 23THE SAGACONCLUDESON PAGE 24!After shedding tears for Señor Hoppington, we released him. Like mostparents, we wondered if we did enough to prepare him for the world, particularlyfor the various animals in the area that were likely to eat him. Butultimately it was decided that we were hungry, so we headed for home— after a brief stopover at the casino beside the highway.Our maverick adventurers fi nally arrived in beautiful Kananaskis Country.We introduced Señor Hoppington, as he came to be named during thehour-long drive, to his new home. The hardest part was saying goodbye.hopped into a car and headed to theo the mountains. Within 10 minutes,us things like play catch with ourcar. He didn’t seem to mind.
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