Mac farm stand up and running
SAM COLBERT
SENIOR NEWS EDITOR
One of MSU President Mary Koziol’s pet projects has come to life.
The weekly campus farm stand celebrated its grand opening last Thursday. Fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as honey and other preserves, were available for sale in two tents in front of the oval garden outside University Hall.
The food was provided by three local farms: Simpler Thyme Organic Farm of Flamborough, Liz’s Busy Farm Shop of Campbellville, and Two Century Farms of Grimsby. The farmers sold their products to the MSU, which set up shop and sold it to students and McMaster employees in a non-for-profit practice.
News
Ban on homosexual blood donors repealed
SARAH PETZS
THE MANITOBAN (U. OF MANITOBA)
WINNIPEG (CUP) — The Canadian Federation of Students is hoping to end the Canadian Blood Services’ controversial lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men (MSM).
The CFS called it a discriminatory policy — it currently denies donations from men who have had sex with men anytime after 1977 — saying it draws attention to a person’s sexual preference rather than sexual practice.
“A man who has sex with a man has just as much chance of contracting HIV as a man who has sex with a woman, so we can see that we need to be focusing on more sexual practices than sexual preference,” said Alanna Makinson, CFS-Manitoba chairperson and national representative for the province.
Opinions
I’ve gotta get out of this place (and back to school)
Peter Goffin
Executive Editor
It’s not that I don’t appreciate it you know, because I do, Jim, I really do. It’s just that it’s getting to be a bit much. Not that I think it’s too much of a good thing, mind you, but more that it’s too much of a so-so thing, see? Too much of a bland thing. Too much of a shoulder-shrug, lay-about, atrophying, drowsy, nothingness thing.
Sports
Get acquainted with Mac sports
BRIAN DECKER
SPORTS EDITOR
It’s nearly Welcome Week, and there will be endless events and people around you to show you what Mac is all about. But when you’re done with the faculty-themed chants and $10 breakfasts at Commons, consider the following about the university you’re about to spend the next few years at.
Take a stroll behind the David Braley Athletic Centre and look at the 6,000-seat Ron Joyce Stadium. Wander beyond Les Prince Hall and check out the Back Ten fields. Stop by the Burridge Gym and stand at centre court with the big maroon M in the middle.
Inside Out
Travel, eh?
GRACE EVANS
THE SILHOUETTE
With the red-coated, country bumpkin Mounties that appear on American television with exaggerated Newfoundland accents as the precedent for Canadians’ outward projected image, it’s no wonder Canadians are self-conscious about our national identity.
The elaborate closing ceremonies to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics earlier this year were a good-natured tribute to our ability to poke fun at ourselves, with Michael Bublé patriotically singing “The Maple Leaf Forever” in a Mounties uniform, surrounded by gigantic inflatable beavers and maple leaves, dancing lumberjacks and canoe paddlers.
As Canadians we’re told that when visiting abroad we should sew a flag on our backpacks in order to be treated with courtesy, and in order not to be mistaken for an American.
Business
Road to recovery
SIMON GRANAT
BUSINESS EDITOR
The collapse of the auto industry in 2008 still haunts North American markets. Maclean’s called it, “the long, sorry decline and ultimate crash of the mighty auto industry”. In quick succession, General Motors, and Chrysler accepted Canadian and American government bailouts.
Of the two, GM would eventually face a bankruptcy tribunal. Once, the second largest company in America, GM’s bankruptcy left countless businesses as well as the cities of Windsor and Detroit in ruin. In June 2010, Windsor’s unemployment rate was 21.4 per cent, according to Statistics Canada. While Wall Street hurt bankers uptown, the collapse of the auto industry hurt workers down on the shop floor.
Samuel Hernandez
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