Sarah O’Connor / Silhouette Staff During a Linguistics tutorial last term, I overheard a classmate complaining about an article written in The Silhouette, eagerly wanting to write an editorial reply. I turned to her and said, “I write for The Sil, I can help if you want.” I was then greeted with a few shocked stares […]
On Feb. 3, the SRA opposed a motion that would have brought seat reform to the assembly. The motion would restructure faculty representation based on a formula that would use pure proportionality to allocate seats to faculties. A separate motion, though, was passed that could see seats added to the SRA for new academic divisions. […]
With its close proximity to the Six Nations of Grand River, Canada’s largest population of First Nations, and an independent ISP with a sizeable number of First Nations students, McMaster should be considered an accessible campus for Aboriginal students. But is our student population aware of the issues that Aboriginal students experience in accessing their […]
Chad Regan / The Silhouette This past week, the Faculty of Humanities had Jasper Puar to speak on her work ‘Ecologies of Sensation, Sensational Ecologies: Sex and Disability in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine’ for their Whidden Lectures series. If the verbiage of the title doesn’t lose your interest, hopefully the borderline anti-semitic sentiment encapsulated by […]
Jemma Wolfe / Managing Editor In the midst of the MSU presidential election flurry, it’s easy to forget that other elections are happening on campus. You can’t miss the campaign posters, ignore the candidates addressing crowded lecture halls or overlook the email telling you to vote. What you probably didn’t see was the small, quarter-page advertisement […]
When former MSU President Mary Koziol read the list of candidates running this year, her first instinct was to e-mail Suzan Fraser, who was president in 1988. “Seven people running, not a single woman” was the gist of the message. The lopsided ratio this year has raised eyebrows, but it’s not extremely unusual at […]
The next McMaster Students Union president is a man. At press time, we didn’t know which man. But we knew this: out of the seven candidates for CEO of the MSU this year, there were no females. Last year, only one of the five candidates, Siobhan Stewart, was a woman. The ratio was the same […]
The following are selected questions and answers from the Sil’s interview with MSU presidential candidate Dan Fahey. What made you come to McMaster? Well, my course at my home university is also in integrated sciences, and there’s a partnership between the two schools. And I heard about this [exchange program] and thought, right, go to […]
The following are selected questions and answers from the Sil's interview with MSU presidential candidate Jacob Brodka. Q: How does your campaign plan to motivate and inspire students to care about a) voting and b) the MSU? When we first started envisioning how our campaign would come out, something we wanted to do was have a […]
Last night’s informal debate at TwelvEighty offered a look at how the candidates stand out in a crowd, but it wasn’t the night for tough questions or head-to-heads. Personalities and common goals emerged early in the hour-long panel talk, which allowed candidates who have fallen under the radar to share the floor with the frontrunners. […]
