Smash Bros. kor charity.

Colin Slark
Team Member

D: you enjoy cartoon violence in video
game form? Do you take pleasure in
helping out your community? Do you wish
that there was some kind of marriage of
these two concepts? Well, take heart: NUGSS
has you covered with their Smarch the 14th
event. And no, it’s not a Simpsons reference
(“Lousy Smarch weather.’).

On Saturday March 14, starting at 6 pm,
NUGSS (in conjunction with Game Quest)

is putting on a Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
tournament in the NUSC event space. For an
entry fee of five non-perishable food items,
you can enter into either a competitive or
casual tournament with several friendly
matches also being played on the side.

The winners of each of these brackets

will win yet-to-be announced prizes.

The organizing partners, as well as certain
Smash enthusiasts from around town,

will assemble enough equipment to have
competitors duking it out on several

G day from Australia: exchang

Gregory Hues
Contributor

just wanted to say a quick hello from

Australia. I am a double major in
Commerce at UNBC, and decided to utilize
the exchange program offered through our
university. Now I’m at the University of New
England in Armidale, New South Wales,
Australia.

The reason I decided to go on this
adventure was because it is a fantastic
opportunity to experience learning in a

Nintendo Wii U consoles at the same time.

If you have a Nintendo 3DS and a copy of
Super Smash Bros., you are invited to bring it
along as your 3DS can be used as a controller
for the Wii U version, and with enough
participants, battles can be held between
owners of the handheld version. If you have
a personal controller compatible with the
Wii U you prefer to battle with, you are also
invited to bring it along. Rules for the event
will be based on those used at the Apex 2015
international Smash Bros. tournament.

Smarch the 14th is the brainchild of NUGSS
VP Social Shawn Caldera. Caldera is hoping
that this event will not only serve to create
a Prince George Smash Bros. community, but
also show the good character of gamers. “I
want to change the attitude people have
towards gamers. I want to show people that
gamers can make change,” Caldera told Over
the Edge. To achieve this goal, NUGSS will be
donating all the food collected during the
event to Carrier Sekani Family Services.

For those worried about an overly

different environment (while not having

to pay the international tuition costs).

The university is absolutely gorgeous; on
campus we have kangaroos as well as Koalas
(it is funny to See Ui Australian reaction
when you refer to the Koala as a bear).

Along with the cute animals, I do have to
be mindful of the poisonous spiders and
the vicious brown snake (which if I see I~
have been informed to walk quickly away
from, but not to run or they will think I am
prey). The city of Armidale is the highest
geographical city in Australia, sold on the

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competitive atmosphere at the event,
Caldera says that his main objective is for
those in attendance to enjoy themselves:
“T want people to come out, have fun, and
help the community in the process.”

fact that it gets all four seasons. I have
even been told that they get snow here
once every five years. I will admit it is
really funny to hear people on campus talk
about how cold it gets here, as sometime

it goes below zero (I hope I will survive).

The university itself has about 4000 people
that attend lecture in school. However,

‘the full count of students is around 22,000
people because of an excellent online
program. There are about 1000 students
enrolled from 80 different countries! I chose
to live on campus; most of the residences

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For those interested, pre-registration will be
available both at Game Quest downtown and
at the NUGSS office. Also keep an eye out for
Smarch the 14th information on Facebook.

e programs at UNBC

here are referred to as colleges, and most
of the colleges are more the dormitory
style similar to home. I chose to stay in
Wight Village so my home is more like

a 4-person cottage. One thing I like best
about being an international student is that
there are always adventures set up for us.

Next week, there is going to be a ceremony
and I am going to get made an honourary
Armidale citizen and get my photo with
the town's mayor! This week classes begin
for us, so let the crazy studies begin!