On Thursday night, a confident McGill Redmen lacrosse team took to the field at Percival Molson Stadium for the first time this year, entering with momentum from a decisive 2-0 start to the regular season. The contest was played out in front of a vocal and raucous crowd as the[Read More…]
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Researchers discover new star cluster
While thousands of freshmen participated in “Discover McGill” as part of orientation last month, the McGill Physics Department took part in some exciting new discoveries of their own. 5.7 billion light years from our humble speck in the cosmos is a galaxy cluster 2.5 million billion times more massive than[Read More…]
McGill unveils new and streamlined myCourses
McGill students are getting a new taste of a refined myCourses recipe this fall. The new myCourses is the product of a two-year process that included focus groups to assess the needs of the course site users, interviews with faculty and students, and finally, finding the right vendor to deliver[Read More…]
Don’t panic
As the add/drop period comes to an end, students seem frantic to get those last spots in their desired classes. These 13 days of testing the waters provide a good sense of what the classes are like, but the pool can only hold so much. Instead of refreshing Minerva every[Read More…]
Translating the human instruction manual
Humans are a complicated bunch. We all have different hopes and aspirations, likes and dislikes, dreams and realities. We like to think of ourselves as the most complicated and advanced species on this earth. Given this presumed complexity, the results of the Human Genome Project—a massive effort to record every[Read More…]
Vol. 32 Issue 2
Check out some of the photos from Issue 2 of 2012-2013!
FEATURE: Free Education Goes Online
Many McGill students see recorded lectures as an invitation to take courses from the comfort of their sweatpants and couch. While many students just don’t want to get out of bed, professors at Stanford and educational researchers are thinking bigger: why not offer a course that can be taken from[Read More…]
Renovated Gerts and SSMU cafeteria feature new options
Following a summer of renovations, the Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) Building now features a new selection of restaurants in its second-floor cafeteria as well as a refurbished Gerts bar. While SSMU executives have been planning changes to Gerts for three years, the new restaurants in the food court[Read More…]
Why I eat organic
I prefer to buy organic products as opposed to non-organic products. “Why?” you might ask. Although the concept of “organic” is an attractive one, it is an expensive diet and lifestyle to uphold. Some people wonder if it really makes that much of a difference. However, the “expensive” argument is[Read More…]
Open Air Pub donates $15,000 to children’s charity
Last Friday, the Open Air Pub (OAP) management team donated $15,000 to the President’s Choice Children’s Charity (PCCC), a national organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged kids across Canada. The cheque, composed entirely of profits from OAP Lite this past spring, was presented to Loblaw Companies Limited Senior Vice-President Roch Pilon[Read More…]
