In just over a week’s time, students will have the chance to vote on the continued funding of Radio CKUT and the Quebec Public Interest Research Group at McGill. Yet in a way this is also a referendum on the current opt-out system, and whether it was a mistake to[Read More…]
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Keep it off Facebook
Facebook and privacy are two words with a long, tenuous relationship. At 750 million members, the site houses a lot of information about a lot of people. It is no surprise that the company has been the frequent subject of scrutiny over its privacy policies. What is often overlooked is[Read More…]
Mansur on clash of civilizations
Sam Reynolds Salim Mansur, himself an immigrant to Canada from India, may seem like an unlikely candidate to talk about the dangers posed by other cultures, yet he discussed just that in his McGill lecture on Oct. 17. Mansur, a professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario,[Read More…]
SSMU joins tuition hike protests
Incensed by recent tuition increases, a number of SSMU execs organized a bus trip on Oct. 22 to Quebec City to protest tuition hikes outside of the Quebec Liberal Party Convention. This marks the latest in a series of protests that began over a year and a half ago, pitting[Read More…]
Desautels welcomes back alumni for CEO Speaker Series
The CEO Speaker Series, held on Friday Oct. 21 by the McGill faculty of management, introduced young business students to three successful entrepreneurs, all graduates of Desautels. The three CEOs discussed their business successes and failures. David Segal, who graduated in 2004 with a BCom, is now the CEO of[Read More…]
Iced Earth: Dystopia
That Iced Earth’s newest album Dystopia is nearly identical to its predecessors does not necessarily condemn it to mediocrity. The band’s leader (and sole fixture), rhythm guitarist Jon Schaffer, has been cutting songs from the same cloth for a long time, but has managed to produce a number of very[Read More…]
Justice: Audio, Video, Disco
Webster’s English Dictionary should go ahead and put the album art for Audio, Video, Disco beside the definition of sophomore slump. The first album from the French electrohouse duo, †, was just about perfect in every regard. However, Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay took many of its positive aspects[Read More…]
M83: Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
M83’s Anthony Gonzalez has openly admitted his obsession with 1980’s synth-pop. If he were a new wave fanboy, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming would be his loving tribute. And although it’s labeled as a two-disc set, the album clocks in at a relatively short 73 minutes and plays nicely in one[Read More…]
Rivals ruin Redmen’s run
Ryan Reisert Ryan Reisert The McGill Redmen suffered their first loss of the 2011-2012 season on Friday night, falling to the UQTR Patriotes in overtime by a score of 4-3. Despite getting a point in the loss, the second-ranked Redmen were outplayed for the majority of the game and scored[Read More…]
Two-dimensional plot, 3D action
Hollywood seems to be lacking in original ideas. If they can’t revamp an older movie and call it a prequel they turn to books for inspiration, to varying degrees of success. The remake of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers is one of the better efforts. It walks the fine line[Read More…]