McGill Tribune North American society has an intense focus on individualism and subsequently placing one’s self-interest and personal pursuits above all else. The consequence of this is a narrow, linear view of personal goal pursuit that does not always fit properly with our basic need for close intimate interactions and[Read More…]

Does the slowly rising Canadian economy indicate better job prospects for university students and recent graduates? A recent New York Times article on the unprecedented number of unpaid and often illegal internships held by college students might be of concern for Americans, but things up here seem to be in[Read More…]

President Zach Newburgh started the year strong, acting as the ever-present public face of the movement to re-open the Architecture Café. Shouting through a megaphone outside of Leacock prior to the September McGill Senate meeting, Newburgh presided over one of the most significant and coordinated displays of student engagement and[Read More…]

ARCH Café: This fall, students returned to McGill to find that the beloved Architecture Café wouldn’t be reopening for the school year. In early September, Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Morton Mendelson claimed that the café had been losing money for the last several years but refused to cite[Read More…]

How would you evaluate your year as the SSMU president? With every year, there are certainly ups and downs. I think that the great things we were able to achieve far surpassed the others which individuals might consider to be not so successful. This year featured the very first student-run[Read More…]

koolcampus.wordpress.com Sucker Punch is the kind of movie that will satisfy only the most hardcore action-fantasy film buffs, and alienate almost all others. The film was written, directed, and produced by Zack Snyder, who is best known for directing such graphic novel hits as 300 and Watchmen. Sucker Punch seems[Read More…]

March is mad for many reasons. In addition to college basketball and extreme weather variations, this is the time when many of us suddenly realize there are only a few weeks left in the semester. If you’re anything like the general population, chances are slim that you’ve kept your New[Read More…]

In the space between the bottom of my bare feet and the ground—that is where you loved me. No matter where you are standing, you’d say. An area of mosquitoes and dirt, but to you as captivating as any. Unfazed by your own strangeness, basking and romantic. At dusk we[Read More…]

She’s looking across the table at me, but only because she’s trying not to look at him. We met a couple weeks ago at some friend’s friend’s party and got to talking about our mutual hatred of our Russian Lit. conference. (I recognized her right away but I let her[Read More…]