For the first time in two years, McGill’s Department of English Drama & Theatre will be welcoming a full house back into Moyse Hall when its production of Pomona by Alistair McDowall opens on Nov. 23. Originally commissioned for The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2014, the[Read More…]
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Un-bird-ening your winter semester
With nearly half of the academic year over, students are busy rethinking their schedules and re-adjusting their degree plans for the semester ahead. Whether you’ve failed a class, overestimated the demands of your program requirements, or realized that your GPA might not be high enough for the exchange semester of[Read More…]
Community spirit thrives at Chabad’s Shabbat dinner
Every Friday night, Chabad at McGill hosts its weekly Shabbat dinner for the local student and downtown Jewish community. This is something I’ve always wanted to write about. There’s nothing more cultural than food—and the occasion it brings. So, this week, my friend Maya and I joined the other 100-something[Read More…]
Why McGill needs a uniform
There goes one. Oh, and another—and another. Sorry, don’t mind me, I’m just sitting on the benches outside McLennan counting the number of McGill students dressed like extroverted, self-obsessed melons. Have you noticed McGill students have this rather psychotic fixation on dressing uniquely? Well, of course you have. The pathway[Read More…]
McGill Senate wrangles over ‘academic excellence’, New Vic, and donations
The McGill Senate convened in room 232 of the Leacock Building for the third meeting of the academic year on Nov. 16. Senators delved into reports from the Senate Nominating Committee and Academic Policy Committee, and participated in an open discussion on the university’s evaluation of “academic excellence” among professors.[Read More…]
Fashion at McGill
Multimedia Editors Wendy Lin and Anna Chudakov are joined by Contributor Atta Wongsuchat talk to McGill students about fashion on campus.
Dr. H. Deep Saini to become McGill’s next Principal and Vice-Chancellor
On Nov. 14, McGill announced that Professor H. Deep Saini will be the next Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the university. The Principal is tasked with representing the university on the global stage and helping shape the future of the institution. Saini will take over the role from Christopher Manfredi, who[Read More…]
Unionize McGill
On Nov. 8, the Association of McGill Professors of Law (AMPL) became McGill’s first professor’s union. The AMPL, which represents tenured and tenure-track professors, filed to certify their union in November 2021. However, they faced a combative McGill administration that attempted to discredit the AMPL’s attempts every step of the[Read More…]
McGill Policy Association hosts ‘Indigenous Voices in Resource-Sector Policy’ panel
On Nov. 9, the McGill Policy Association (MPA) hosted a panel titled “Indigenous Voices in Resource-Sector Policy,” which centred around Indigenous activism within environmental policy. The first of the two panellists was Yolanda Lopez-Maldanado, an Indigenous Maya from Mexico and the recently appointed Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Affairs Officer[Read More…]
Association of McGill Professors of Law to become first faculty union at McGill
A decision rendered by Quebec’s Tribunal administratif du travail (TAT) on Nov. 7 certified the Association of McGill Professors of Law (AMPL) as a union and bargaining agent for tenured and tenure-track professors at the Faculty of Law. This is the first time in McGill’s history that an individual faculty[Read More…]
