Fraser Caldwell Sports Editor If the Marauders were looking for a nemesis, they seem to have found one in the unlikely form of the UOIT Ridgebacks. Having held the high-powered offence of the Maroon and Grey off the score sheet earlier this season en route to a 0-0 draw, the OUA West doormats repeated the […]
Brian Decker Executive Editor Bright spots have been hard to come by in 2011 for the McMaster men’s golf team. With exactly zero team medals and only a few individual top-10s to show for in 2011, a season that began with hope was quickly becoming a struggle. For fourth-year senior Mark Young, one day at […]
Maggie Cogger-Orr Silhouette Staff On a grey dreary day and muddy and slick field, the Marauders could not weather the Mustang storm. The McMaster men’s rugby team fell to a hearty Western Mustangs team 19-3 on Oct. 15. Western, aiming to avenge their last lost to McMaster in the 2010 OUA Finals, came out hard […]
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 […]
