admin • March 12, 2009

When Alexandra Brown – SSMU VP Internal candidate against Brendan Sullivan – came into The Daily office to have her photo taken, she joked that she was in a good old democratic race. We’re dismayed that only two of the six SSMU exec positions were contested in this year’s election. Read More

Rosie Aiello • March 12, 2009

W estern society’s communicative ability has been ruined! Ruined by advertising, and all that second-by-second grabbing of our attention with bright lights and colours and naked bodies appealing to our urges and whatnot. Harold Innis foresaw this threat back when television was just coming to popularity: he characterized the threat… Read More

Stephen Davis • March 9, 2009

Why the Birks building shouldn’t promote half-baked academia Read More

Ricky Kreitner • March 9, 2009

“The Palestinian martyr replaces the proletarian struggle for a communist society.” – Pierre-André Taguieff, French philosopher Last week, several McGill groups hosted the annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), a weeklong event at which various speakers were brought in to discuss such catchy topics as “Reclaiming a Jewish Culture of… Read More

Johanu Botha • March 9, 2009

“Like all madmen, I thought everyone was mad except myself.” – Leo Tolstoy That was me, sitting shivering in a Manitoba ice rink, gawking at people yelling furiously at the little skating figures and the piece of rubber they were hammering back and forth. I had returned home for reading… Read More

admin • March 9, 2009

If I have to read about that one more time… Dear McGill Daily, Can you please stop printing articles and letters about the following topics: 1) The Humanistics Department and its improbable future. 2) Choose Life and its (for some reason) very controversial acceptance as a full-status SSMU club 3)… Read More

admin • March 9, 2009

We are delighted to read that the goal of the boycotting professors is “a just and lasting peace between two viable states,” and with “security for all.” We share similar goals. But the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) approach to Israel will not get us there. Quite the opposite. The BDS… Read More

admin • March 5, 2009

Every Tuesday afternoon, Daily editors stop by the CKUT studios to discuss hot-button topics covered in the paper with our community radio station. The segments start off the Tuesday edition of CKUT’s 5 p.m. news show, Off The Hour. You can find Off The Hour, as well other fine news,… Read More

admin • March 5, 2009

Dear Professor Manfredi and the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee: I am writing to express my disappointment upon hearing that there has been a recommendation to dismantle the Humanistic Studies Program. As a graduate of Humanistic Studies (BA’ 06), I was lucky to experience the rewards and intellectual challenges of… Read More

admin • March 5, 2009

I had been looking forward to The Daily’s special issue on geeks for weeks. I was really excited, but I didn’t tell any of my friends about it in case they dismissed my enthusiasm as some geeky quality of mine. I had some hope that The Daily would show the… Read More

admin • March 5, 2009

New student initiatives aim to address ineffective systems for processing harassment complaints Read More

admin • March 5, 2009

Choose Life or choose censorship? Over the past couple weeks, I’ve had numerous close friends approach me and say “Can you believe SSMU granted club status to Choose Life!?” And when I say, “That’s great!” they seem especially appalled that I, a women’s studies student, could possibly support the existence… Read More

Sana Saeed • March 5, 2009

Through the 21 years that I’ve seen – unless you take out the first one to two-and-a-half, as they remain a blur – I’ve always kept the male sex at arm’s distance: military arms distance. Rommel would have been proud. There was a time when chasing boys across the school’s… Read More

admin • March 5, 2009

Ricky Kreitner was hacking pretty hard at the Piñata Diplomacy when this tasty morsel came flying: “After all the uproar about Bush’s surge – the Iraq War is well on the way to being a success.” As evidence, Kreitner cited the recent provincial elections in Iraq that took place with… Read More

admin • February 20, 2009

So what is a geek? Is it a pejorative term for the technologically-minded, or maybe does it just require excessive knowledge of something inglorious and bizarre? Throughout this special issue – with articles ranging from bridge to Battlestar Galactica, the McGill Computer Task Force to beer – we wanted to make… Read More