Fraser Caldwell Sports Editor It’s been an eventful preseason for the Marauders, and one chalked full of high-profile competition. For their part, the members of the Maroon and Grey will be hoping that such preparation puts them in good stead as they face up to the beginning of their conference campaign on Oct. 21. The […]
Farzeen Foda Senior News Editor Imagine making your usual half-hour trek to school in five minutes. Imagine tackling this journey to school not on your own two feet, or with your bike, not even with the loyal but often tardy HSR transit bus, but with a cross-breed vehicle- a mix between a bus and a […]
Kacper Niburski Assistant News Editor Even though a slam poetry competition may suggest to some the makings of a failed WWE pitch, it currently serves as one of the most progressive forms of modern poetry. McMaster poet Oskar Niburski knows this better than most, as he recently slammed on the national stage. From Oct. […]
Dina Fanara Assistant News Editor Researchers from McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany have joined together to collaboratively and successfully uncover the long sought out secret behind one of the most catastrophic diseases of European history. The genome most commonly known as Black Death, but also known as the Bubonic Plague, […]
Kacper Niburski Assistant News Editor There is no question about it: over the years, the MSU finances have often been in a state of bedlam. With a tendency of incurring a greater expenditure than revenues could match, the MSU saw a deficit of $925,799 in 2009/2010, followed by a deficit of $149,078 in 2010/2011. While […]
Alex Rockingham Silhouette Intern On Tuesday, Oct. 18. McMaster students were invited to take part in the Red Bull Racing Can. The Red Bull-sponsored event was held in the atrium of the student centre and saw five teams design, build and race cars using only recycled cans of the popular energy drink. The teams […]
Ruth Tshikonde The Silhouette On Tuesday, Oct. 12 McMaster hosted a conference entitled “Stop Stealing our Steel: The Struggle of the Steelworkers”. The conference, organized by McMaster’s Labour Studies Student Association, and sponsored by OPIRG, began with an introduction by Brendan Sweeney, from the Department of Labour Studies. Sweeney explained the importance of labour studies […]
Brianna Smrke Silhouette Staff In 1971, a group of Stanford science students tied balloons to their heads and interpreted protein synthesis through dance to a remixed version of “Jabberwocky”. In 1991, dancers in sumo suits, in collaboration with a University of Minnesota biomedical engineer David Odde, repeatedly collided in an abandoned gym to represent the […]
Violetta Nikolskaya & Sumeet Khanna Co-Presidents, McMaster Debating Society Q: Occupy Wall Street is quickly spreading as a movement. Is protesting an effective method of combating injustice, or do the drawbacks distort the message? VN: Right now, we find ourselves witnessing perhaps the closest example of what Marx foresaw when he wrote that the proletariat […]
Mozafer Rajabali The Silhouette Prisoner swaps have been at the center of many political ploys – none more exaggerated than the one between Israel and Palestine. Late Friday evening, the political group of Hamas, which currently runs the Gaza strip, will release a number of Palestinians in what is dubbed “phase one” of two phases […]
