This is a developing story and the Tribune continues to monitor the situation. Developments will be added as they occur. Around 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday Jan. 7, a group of about 20 students occupied the office of Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Morton Mendelson on the sixth floor of the James Administration[Read More…]
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Students occupy James Admin, call for Mendelson’s resignation
Sam Reynolds / McGill Tribune This is a developing story and the Tribune continues to monitor the situation. Developments will be added as they occur. Around 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday Jan. 7, a group of about 20 students occupied the office of Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Morton Mendelson[Read More…]
Science & Technology Calendar Feb 7-10
EUS Academic Week The Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) is holding its annual A-week—a week-long series of talks by professors, and other faculty events aimed at promoting post-graduate career options for engineers. On Tuesday evening, the EUS will host a wine and cheese networking event for engineers interested in careers in[Read More…]
UN Special Rapporteur discusses rights of migrants
François Crépeau, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, gave a talk on Feb. 1, hosted by the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. The talk, entitled “Inception of a Global Migration Management Regime,” focused on some of the problems facing international migrants, and on what[Read More…]
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Oscar Wilde once said, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates
Panel looks beyond the labour dispute
Ryan Reisert / McGill Tribune Last Wednesday, the Newman Centre and McGill Chaplaincy hosted a forum titled “The Strike and the Academy: A Forum on the Ethics of Conflict and Collegiality,” to discuss concerns regarding the ongoing MUNACA strike. The panel emphasized the strike’s effects on the university community, and[Read More…]
‘Exposing MUNACA’ stirs controversy
Ryan Reiset / McGill Tribune In the first week of November, two students created Exposing MUNACA, a blog aiming to denounce many of MUNACA’s claims and positions in the recent labour dispute. As stated on the blog, which has received over 40,000 hits to date, the students’ mission is to[Read More…]
A semester without MUNACA
Marri Knadle / McGill Tribune When the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association (MUNACA) began striking on Sept. 1, many members of the community were unsure of how the strike would affect them. Almost three months later, after numerous staff shortages and contingency plans, community members have felt the effects of[Read More…]
Shake and half-baked conspiracy theories
mcgill.ca Shakespeare has joined the ranks of Godzilla, alien invaders, and apocalyptic Mayan predictions, with the release of Roland Emmerich’s latest film, Anonymous, in which we, the English-speaking world, are the unknowing victims of a political and literary conspiracy of titanic proportions. A conspiracy involving Queen Elizabeth herself and the[Read More…]
Cyber-bullying a growing concern in Canadian schools
Alissa Fingold The issue of cyber-bullying has increasingly become the subject of media attention, particularly after the recent suicide of 15-year-old Jamie Hubley. Hubley’s parents attribute his death to cyber-bullying targeting his sexual orientation. On Oct. 21, the Ontario Student Trustees’ Association released a study that revealed that almost 70[Read More…]
