2008 Woodie Awards
University reps and community flip-flop on increasing police presence
In a meeting last Wednesday at Église Notre-Dame, 70 permanent residents of the Milton-Parc Community came together with student and administrative representatives from McGill and the Montreal police, to vent their frustrations surrounding off-campus student behaviour.
Grad students' General Assembly decides next step in negotiations
In the first General Assembly of 2008, the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill debated bargaining techniques for a new collective agreement with the university and held a vote on a new pressure tactics mandate last Wednesday at Thomson House.
Former child soldier brings message of hope
Best-selling author and former child soldier Ishmael Beah is set to speak at McGill on Sunday, Feb. 3 in an event organized by Hillel McGill, the Student Coalition Against Hate and Students Helping Others Understand Tolerance. Beah's speech, A Long Way Gone: A Story of Redemption and Hope, is titled in part after his autobiographical novel, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, which recounts his experiences in Sierra Leone.
They definitely need a knowledge of English, because the courses are in English, but not really French because there are no classes in French. -Raphaël Thézé, U1 biology No. McGill is an English University. -Julia Gillman, U1 environment No. If that were the case, I would not have been admitted to McGill.
Esmail calls for governments to realize physicians' full potential
Economist and analyist Nadeem Esmail is the Director of Health System Performance Studies and Manager of the Alberta Policy Research Centre at The Fraser Institute. As part of the Institute's seminar on public policy issues, Esmail discussed the potential for changes in Canada's healthcare system.
Fraser states that bilingual graduates will have more opportunities
Addressing a small crowd last Friday as part of the Students' Society's Francofête celebrations, Canada's Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser asserted that working knowledge of both English and French should be an entrance requirement for Canadian universities, or at least a part of the curriculum.
Microbiologist reviews breakthroughs in virology
Leading microbiologist and HIV/AIDS researcher Dr. John M. Coffin presented a Mini Beatty lecture last Friday entitled Retrovirus Evolution. An American Cancer Society Research Professor and Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University in Boston, Coffin spoke for an hour on topics spanning the field of retrovirology.
MUS resignations lead to winter election The Management Undergraduate Society will be holding elections beginning tomorrow morning for the positions of Vice-President Academic and VP Information Technology after receiving resignations late last semester. Vying for the position of VP Academic, formerly held by David George, are Bianca Bolouri, Jeremy Schwartz and Viki Siwic.
Raymond preaches Assassin's Creed
Academia Week keynote speaker Jade Raymond addressed a packed crowd last Tuesday, on everything from killing aliens to stresses in the workplace. A McGill alumna, Raymond spoke of her experiences as a game programmer, television personality and producer of Ubisoft Montreal's action-adventure game, Assassin's Creed.
