I started writing Pinata Diplomacy three and a half years ago in the McGill Daily. I had included in my columnist application a few clips from high school, where I used my position as opinion editor of the student paper to complain about the many hypocrisies of my suburban New[Read More…]
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Kienzle@McGill – Research Profiles
Jörg Kienzle The term ‘video game’ means different things to different people. For some, it brings back suppressed high school memories. For others, it’s on the Friday night agenda. For a group of computer science and software engineering professors and students at McGill, however, a video game research project is[Read More…]
Quitoriano@McGill – Research Profiles
Sometimes research on the tiniest things can have the biggest impact, a fact that has driven the computer industry for the last 50 years. Professor Nathaniel Quitoriano, head of the Semiconductor Nanostructures Lab in the department of mining and materials engineering at McGill, researches silicon and other semiconductor materials on[Read More…]
The McGill Electric Snowmobile Team
McGill Electric Snowmobile Team In the age of electric cars, there is less focus on regulating emissions from other vehicles. From Sea-Doos to Ski-Doos, the small vehicle market is largely immune to the hybrid revolution. The McGill Electric Snowmobile team, a group of 12 undergraduate engineering students, is looking to[Read More…]
With new novel, Jeffrey Eugenides is keeping it real
interviewmagazine.com Jeffrey Eugenides began his new novel, The Marriage Plot, with a single idea: his female protagonist, an English student at Brown University in the early 1980s, is discovering love while the postmodern theorists she reads in her classes are deconstructing the very concept. The book, as he conceived it,[Read More…]
Justin Bieber: Under the Mistletoe
At this point it’s a social obligation to scoff at any Justin Bieber release, but where’s the fun in that? Justin’s lyrical contributions, trite as they are, provide seven original tracks on his new holiday album. The other four are ‘classic’ holiday songs in which Bieber adds miniscule doses of[Read More…]
Single-minded determination
Ryan Reisert / McGill Tribune Ryan Reisert / McGill Tribune Last summer at McGill, a crew of players met regularly to play pickup. Week in and week out, you’d see the same people on the court. Of the regulars, there was one figure who stood out from the crowd. He[Read More…]
A semester without MUNACA
Marri Knadle / McGill Tribune When the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association (MUNACA) began striking on Sept. 1, many members of the community were unsure of how the strike would affect them. Almost three months later, after numerous staff shortages and contingency plans, community members have felt the effects of[Read More…]
Cubs decide on a fine Shiraz
sports.espn.go.com picasaweb.google.com A B.Com. from McGill’s management program, an MBA from Columbia, and experience as a commodities trader: not exactly the credentials one would expect from a high-ranking member of one of baseball’s premier front offices. While Shiraz Rehman may not fit our traditional idea of what makes a mover[Read More…]
Cheap seats travel guide
1. Winter Classic The NHL will further prove it has a Pennsylvania fetish on Jan. 2 (the NFL gets New Year’s to itself because it’s a Sunday) as the Flyers host the New York Rangers in the league’s showcase event at Citizens’ Bank Park. The Flyers are participating in their second Winter[Read More…]