The 2011 Rugby World Cup is a love-driven addiction for fans and players alike around the world. Canadians and expats will be staving off sleep to watch games in New Zealand that start at ungodly hours over the next two months. Similar to the FIFA World Cup, the Rugby World[Read More…]
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National champs drop two to Concordia
Ryan Reisert Ryan Reisert It was a beautiful day for baseball Saturday, as many fans made the trek to Trudeau Park in Côte-Saint-Luc to watch McGill battle the Stingers in a doubleheader. The defending national champions were looking to bounce back after their first defeat of the season to divisional[Read More…]
NFL Season Preview
AFC North Baltimore Ravens – The Ravens are the team to beat in the AFC North this season. Joe Flacco is only improving with age and is becoming one of the elite young quarterbacks in the league. With Anquan Boldin at wide receiver and the addition of Lee Evans, Flacco[Read More…]
Carol Fraser – VP Clubs & Services
Tell us about your portfolio: We’re doing a lot of restructuring on the C&S portfolio, because it’s so huge and the VP of Clubs & Services just tends to burn out in various scenarios. In the past, there have been two major publications associated with the portfolio: Old McGill, which[Read More…]
Reflections from four years abroad
Almost four years ago, I helped my father load our station wagon with the basic accoutrements I needed to begin university life: clothes, bedding, and a new laptop. I also packed one more thing: my recently approved Canadian student visa. As a relatively apolitical New Yorker, I assumed going to[Read More…]
President Zach Newburgh reflects on his time in office
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…]
Scrap the mandatory Arts minor
A recent report from the Dean of Arts’ Working Group has suggested the removal of the mandatory minor from the current Faculty of Arts program. As it stands now, McGill Arts students are required to have at least one major and one minor. From both personal experience and a simple[Read More…]
Novelist Carlos Fuentes speaks on literature and law
Last Wednesday, renowned Mexican author Carlos Fuentes delivered a lecture at the McGill Faculty of Law. His talk covered a broad range of topics in an equally broad range of languages, employing English, French, and Spanish. Fuentes’s talk was titled “Literature and Law,” but it ranged over numerous subjects, including[Read More…]
Diversify the strategy against higher tuition
McGill Tribune The Quebec government’s recently tabled proposal to gradually increase in-province university tuition from $2,168 to $3,793—which would still make it 30 per cent lower than the present Canadian average—has predictably raised the ire of activists who favour free education for all, and engendered promises of walk-outs, demonstrations, and[Read More…]
Political clubs gear up for election
Miranda Whist On March 25, the Conservative government of Canada fell after a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons. Students in campus political clubs are getting as actively involved as they can, even with exams only a week away. Charmaine Borg and Matthew Dube, co-presidents of NDP[Read More…]
