Denim Photo by: Stephanie Vizi

These aren’t your parents’ acid-wash jeans. Denim is everywhere this season.

Neutrals Photo by: Stephanie Vizi
Fresh neutrals provide an organic look for spring.

Rain Boots Photo by: Jessica Bruno
Hunter and Tretorn sparked a rain boot revolution, but any Carleton student who commutes on the canal knows they’re essential spring gear.

The Poet
This look caused us to travel back in time. The ascot and the boots are perfect vintage accents.

The Reader
His boots add a sense of history to an otherwise tidy and neutral outfit.

Tonal Colour

Her solely brown colour palate creates a crisp look.

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Hatman: This look is very well rounded; the hat, the bag, the well-layered textures and colours, and the scarf are just so.

Mix Master: We love the contrast between the soft grey sweater and feminine tank with the hardness of her thick-framed glasses and sturdy, lace-up boots. The consistently neutral colour scheme allows the cottons, denim and leather to work together to create a great look.

This collection of deep, rich rust tones and chocolate browns caught our eyes this fall.

Brown seems to have a grounding effect on an outfit, a solid brown boot has a presence all its own.

The buckles on these boots and shoes are great, they give an edge to the footwear.

Many people in the world deserve respect from those around them. Most have earned it individually, but some have earned it globally. Rubin “the Hurricane” Carter is one of the few who deserve respect solely for the hardships they have struggled through. There is no way a person can hear his story and not feel respect and admiration for the 73-year-old man.

Hurricane (his boxing nickname) was on top of the world, poised to win the international middleweight boxing championship, when he was arrested and charged with a triple murder that occurred in his hometown of Paterson, N.J. Carter maintains this was a crime he did not commit.

It has been beautiful to see how the Olympics have brought unity to Canada.

The nation became electrified by the excitement of the Games, believing that

Canada is the space where we can realise our dreams.

I was impacted by the poem “We are More,” by Shane Koyczan during the opening ceremonies. Shane so beautifully opened up a true definition of Canada, and as a 21-year-old sitting in this land, I resonate with the vision that Canada is more.

There was a lot of talk about owning the podium during the Vancouver Olympics. The obsession for Canadian athletes to win the most medals cost the federal government almost $120 million dollars.

I don’t understand the big frenzy around this need to be No. 1 through the merit of medals. Canada did end up with the top gold medal count, but even if we hadn’t, we proved ourselves to be one of the greatest nations, not through medals won but through our hospitality and graciousness.

I’m not a big sports fan, and I was a casual observer of the Olympics games, but I’m sure there were a few moments that touched every Canadian.

Joannie Rochette went on the ice and performed an emotional skating program felt round the world just days after the death of her mother. Her poise and determination can’t be quantified in gold, silver or bronze — although she did win third place.

There was a lot of talk about owning the podium during the Vancouver Games. The obsession for Canadian athletes to win the most medals cost the federal government almost $120 million dollars.

I don’t understand the big frenzy around this need to be No. 1 through the merit of medals. Canada did end up with the top gold medal count, but even if we hadn’t, we proved ourselves to be one of the greatest nations, not through medals won but through our hospitality and graciousness.

I’m not a big sports fan, and I was a casual observer during the Olympics, but I’m sure there were a few moments that touched every Canadian.

Joannie Rochette went on the ice and performed an emotional skating program felt round the world just days after the death of her mother. Her poise and determination can’t be quantified in gold, silver or bronze — although she did win third place.

You may have that one Muslim friend who, for the past month, postponed a coffee date, turned down that bubble gum and avoided the cafeteria. Yes, these are the symptoms of the holy season of Ramadan, during which more than one billion Muslims unite around the world to devote one month to fasting from sunrise to sunset, including your fellow classmates.

The act of fasting is so visible to the majority of people that they often mistake it as the main purpose behind Ramadan. The truth is there is so much more meaning to Ramadan than just the physical act of fasting, especially for those of us Muslims living in Western society.

For example, with all the money one would save from cutting back on groceries, going to restaurants, and not buying that daily coffee, a portion of this money has to go to some form of charity. All young and old do this, and this instills a great value of giving back to the community. This immediately humbles all Muslims. It’s a constant reminder of how lucky we are to have all the food in our fridge, readily available to satisfy our midnight hunger. It is important to remain humble especially for those of us who live in a materialistic culture supported by the capitalist economy.

“Being an immigrant is hard,” said a family friend to me a few days ago. She has just moved to Europe for her retirement and is quickly realizing, as I am, that we are not in Kansas anymore. Everything is just different enough to realize that this isn’t quite home — yet — as much as we want it to be.

I arrived in Grenoble nearly two weeks ago and my spacious bachelor pad is just beginning to feel like it’s mine. Having gone from living with three roommates to now living on my own, the evidence is stark that living in France is basically like turning my Ottawa lifestyle upside-down.

While my friends back home are anxiously starting up their final years of university, thinking about careers or graduate school, and are probably all meeting up with one another again after spending the summer scattered across Canada, I am sitting here in a foreign country — and that is pretty much all I’m doing.