Business students, put away your books; James Cameron and Fox Studios are about to give you a marketing lesson to remember. Some of you might have had a feeling of déjà vu if you bumped into an Avatar: Soon in Theatres poster. I thought I was suffering from a space-time[Read More…]
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Chemical Brothers : Further
Released earlier this year, the Chemical Brothers’ seventh effort, Further, can start to sound like a concert album after a few plays. Unlike many of the Brothers’ earlier releases, the album captures the raw intensity and structureless flow of a live set, filled with unexpected drops, blips, and volume shifts.[Read More…]
Panelists urge greater actions to defend children’s rights
Holly Stewart How can it be that 250 million children under the age of five are alive right now and don’t have a birth certificate? How can there be 13 countries currently listed by the United Nations’ Security Council that are at war with children engaged as combatants, as cooks,[Read More…]
Hipsters aren’t hipsters
Nowadays, it seems that when a subculture springs up it’s given a name before a proper definition. Remember the word “emo?” All of a sudden there was an umbrella term for a group made up of wildly different characteristics: Dashboard Confessional fans lumped in with The Cure fans, people who[Read More…]
Library Reviews: Episode 4 – Redpath
flickr.com Redpath isn’t so much a library as a hallway with some desks set up in it. The main study space in Redpath lies in the high-traffic connection between McLennan and the cafeteria/Cybertheque. The library houses some of the more technology-based parts of the library system, such as computer labs,[Read More…]
Architecture students vote to stand under EUS’s umbrella
The Engineering Undergraduate Society passed a motion at their council meeting on November 9 finalizing the incorporation of the Architecture Students Association as their seventh departmental society. The ASA held a formal referendum on the potential incorporation, which ended the week before council. Sixty-five per cent of ASA students[Read More…]
At UBC, Innocence Project marries law and journalism
The wrongfully accused in British Columbia have a new ally. Earlier this month, the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law’s Innocence Project, which works to overturn misappropriation of justice, announced a new partnership with the UBC School of Journalism. The model is based on similar successful collaborations in the[Read More…]
Mordecai Richler: Montreal icon or Anglophone bigot?
Internationally acclaimed author and journalist Mordecai Richler died nearly a decade ago, but two Montreal city officials have spearheaded an initiative to see that the Montreal native is not forgotten. Michael Applebaum and Marvin Rotrand have begun an online petition requesting “the City of Montreal make an appropriate gesture[Read More…]
Redmen win fifth consecutive QURL championship
Ada Sonnenfeld Ada Sonnenfeld The McGill Redmen Rugby Team earned the right to be called champions on Sunday night, avenging their single regular season loss by defeating the Concordia Stingers 22-10 in the Quebec Student Sports Federation Championships. In the biggest game of their season, the Redmen turned in their[Read More…]
Return to the shinny rink for NHLers
The North American professional sporting world is primarily made up of the so-called “Big Four” leagues—the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League. Still, while the NHL will always have a strong base in Canada, it’s an afterthought for the majority of[Read More…]
