In his recent article, “Moral superiority and student politics,” Abraham Moussako argues that students have no duty to participate in campus politics. I’d like to refute that idea by arguing that judgements about the duty to participate are necessarily made in reference to particular facts about a particular issue. In[Read More…]
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Letter to the Editor
As a known student radical and victim of police brutality, I find Abraham Moussako’s Guest Column (“Moral superiority and student politics”) generally callous and presumptuous. In particular (and more relevant to my critique), I found the text personally offensive. In his recent opinion piece, he looks down upon the complex[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor
I write this fully admitting that I am a bit of a nerd: I grew up listening to the radio. Mostly I enjoyed the National Public Radio (NPR) in the States, but at the ripe old age of five, I also happily proclaimed to my dad that our local[Read More…]
Aboriginal Studies Program at McGill long overdue
Last Friday’s fantastic Pow Wow brought an explosion of native culture to McGill’s campus. The events of Aboriginal Awareness Week bring the discussion of First Nations issues to the forefront, and though the week has only just begun, it has already rekindled calls from students and faculty for McGill to[Read More…]
Cheering for Israel in the World Baseball Classic? It’s not just my imagination
Benedict Anderson, political scientist and scholar of nationalism, defines a nation as an “imagined community”; a group of people too large to have all met but with bonds—including any or all of blood, language, a common history, specific territory, and so on—that allows them to believe that they are travelling[Read More…]
Where’s representation when you need it? In defence of a student-run café on campus
Last year, the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) hurried to finalize plans for a student-run café project, both in response to the closure of the Architecture Café and due to high student interest. The Student-Run Café (SRC) has been highly discussed and anticipated in recent years. It first gained[Read More…]
Moral Superiority and Student Politics: on the sanctimoniousness of student radicalism
As this term progresses, many of the usual routines of the year are fast returning to focus. Due dates are beginning their slow, inexorable evolution from abstractions printed on syllabi to concrete time commitments and nights of lost sleep. Libraries are, again, beginning to fill with students, and class schedules[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Eliyahu Freedman
As a former SSMU Councillor, two-time meal plan holder, and frequent visitor of the Shatner Building, I was extremely disappointed to read of the current SSMU executives’ plan to delay the creation of a Student-Run Café in the Shatner building. A Student-Run Café is about social and environmental sustainability; it’s[Read More…]
Search for next principal, a chance to start anew
An advisory committee was formed in April to find a successor to Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum, whose second term ends on June 30, 2013. The committee will nominate a candidate it feels is best suited for the role, from an administrative and governance standpoint; the following are some key[Read More…]
Off the Board
There are few things that I completely treasure. For some inexplicable reason, everything for me comes with a caveat, something that prohibits me from fully embracing its excellence. The Miami Heat was the best team in basketball last season, but don’t speak to me about it until LeBron wins his[Read More…]
