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Piñata diplomacy

As someone who has worked closely with this year’s SSMU exec, I found Jake Heller’s Hyde Park (“We’re spending $120,000 on what?”, March 30) to… Read More »Hyde Park: SSMU works damn hard

We count ourselves lucky that we’ll be back next year, despite increasing competition on and off campus, and with the recession exacerbating the already troubling… Read More »Editorial: The growing importance of Independent Media

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”… Read More »Piñata Diplomacy: What Matt Damon teaches us about education

I’m a pretty gentle gent. I drink green tea and buy wine for the pictures on the bottles. I own a plant, believe in true… Read More »Life Lines: A gentle gent’s appeal to the world’s weather jocks

For years, students moving into residence at McGill have been asked to live according to two rules: “Respect,” and “Don’t fuck with the fire equiptment.”… Read More »Editorial: Residence director must improve, or go

Here’s the deal: I do not care to know about your views on abortion, your stance on the legalization of marijuana and, no, not even… Read More »Hyde Park: Questioning Canada’s ban on free speech

The generation of waste is a built-in feature of the consumer-based society we live in; more often than not, a product’s life ends in a… Read More »Editorial: Waste isn’t normal

Another year, another SSMU election. And as usual, nobody cared. This year’s explosion of indifference saw approximately 24,000 undergraduates cast just 3,631 ballots: a whopping… Read More »Hyde Park: We’re spending $120,000 on that?

When Pope Benedict XVI said that condom distribution wouldn’t solve the AIDS crisis – but would actually exacerbate the epidemic – he put millions of… Read More »Editorial: The myth of Papal infallibility

Put aside the politics to spice up your life on the dance floor – no strings attached

Earlier this semester, two fellow activists writing on behalf of the McGill Anti-Racist Coalition sought to challenge academic content that creates oppressive learning environments or… Read More »Hyde Park: Dismantling the Ivory Tower goes beyond identity politics

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I started at noon, delving through Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Burns. Then I exhausted my famous quotes collection, reading one-liners by Jefferson, Galilei, and Huxley. Still… Read More »Life Lines: Sunshine on an unanswered mind

Unbeknownst to anyone involved with the Midnight Kitchen, the proposal for its expansion recently became a focal point in Marshall Peters’ campaign for SSMU presidency. In… Read More »Hyde Park: Clarifying the kitchen’s plans