Uncertainty, I think you’re trying to seduce me

Published July 8, 2010 by Peter Goffin

Peter Goffin
Executive Editor

I graduated. It sounds like a big deal. And in a lot of ways it was. I went to convocation, which was put on just for me, or we, the graduating class. I met the university’s chancellor, I shook his hand, I wore a robe, I got my picture taken. It was a good day. And it was supposed to be. I had graduated, I had crossed one of life’s defining planes.
I am told that pride is the recommended sentiment. And I feel it from time to time. I know some other people are proud of me, and that makes me prouder. But most days, I don’t feel any different, no different from the way I did before graduating. I’m out of class, I’m working, it feels just like any ordinary summer.

Congratulations, it’s a newspaper

Published June 3, 2010 by Peter Goffin

Peter Goffin
Executive Editor

Ladies and gentlemen of the reading public, what you see here and in the surrounding pages are the first words of a newborn infant. The child in question is the eighty-first volume of the Silhouette. This is issue one. Cute, isn’t it? We couldn’t be prouder.
Now take a look at the genes for a moment, if you please. The Silhouette may appear to have our News Editor’s nose, our photographer’s eyes, and the Executive Editor’s great head of hair, but recognize one trait above all else: this newspaper has your voice. This is your baby. We the editors are essentially just nursemaids. We tend to it, nurture it, put it to bed each week, but in the end she’s all yours.

The real world

Published April 6, 2010 by jeff green

Are students customers?
It’s a simple question for which no one in the realm of academia has a real answer. We pay to earn a degree,… Continue Reading ›

Editorial: Save our CLAs

Published March 21, 2010 by jeff green

Contractually Limited Appointment Professors know the risk when then sign up for the job. They know that they are walking a fine line of employment… Continue Reading ›

Editorial: General Assembly, for who?

Published February 25, 2010 by jeff green

If you were the MSU, you probably wouldn’t want to go to General Assembly. Listen to the students? Fuck that!
Why, you sold a service (the… Continue Reading ›

Editorial: 10.5 years. Ugh.

Published February 11, 2010 by jeff green

This past week, we learned that the MSU has sold The Short Stop to McMaster Athletics & Recreation. Who cares, right? Most people probably don’t… Continue Reading ›

Editorial: Facebook, for the win

Published February 4, 2010 by jeff green

Thank god it’s Friday.
Well, not yet (at least as this goes to print), but I can’t wait. Take a walk through the student centre. Beautiful… Continue Reading ›

Editorial: Find your voice and vote Feb. 3 & 4

Published January 28, 2010 by jeff green

What can a President achieve in a year? While here in the Editorial position, I have been strongly critical of what past and current presidents… Continue Reading ›

Editorial: Choose to help

Published January 22, 2010 by admin

200,000 people. Most people can’t even fathom that many people, let alone the black hole that most hearts find when upwards of 200,000 leave this… Continue Reading ›

Editorial: Empire state of mind

Published November 19, 2009 by jeff green

There’s something to be said for 80,000 people breathing in at exactly the same time. It gives you that tingle, that hair-raising feeling. And then,… Continue Reading ›