Dan Fahey is not your typical MSU presidential candidate. To start, he’s the first student of the young iSci program to run. But most notably, he’s not from McMaster. Fahey is an exchange student from the University of Leiceister in England. RELATED: Selected questions and answers from our interview with Dan “I’ve not met a […]
He has seen chickens scrambling across the JHE lobby, attended twenty-nine out of thirty Welcome Week concerts and has his own soul-rock and basketball radio show on CFMU. In his three decades at McMaster, Dr. Phil Wood has seen it all. Dr. Wood celebrated his 30-year teaching anniversary on Jan. 2 this year, having arrived […]
Nearly 30 ‘forward with integrity’ projects have been funded by McMaster University, with a total of $122,245 awarded to successful applicants. In September, a call for proposals went out for projects that would enhance the student experience. The call was answered by 54 applicants, which included students, staff and faculty from a number of departments. “We […]
Starting in May, no one under 19 will be allowed into club nights at TwelvEighty. The rule change does not apply when the campus bar is acting “in the capacity of a restaurant or a bookable venue.” Campus groups that book the space for an evening event, then, could invite students of all ages. But […]
Adam Van Koeverden visits for 125th Anniversary McMaster alumnus and Olympic medalist Adam Van Koeverden visited Hamilton on Monday as part of McMaster’s 125th Anniversary celebrations. The luncheon, hosted by the Alumni Association at the Hamilton Convention Centre, was sold out. Van Koeverden spoke about the City of Hamilton and his time at McMaster […]
SRA passes motion to allow club to ask for a levy of $0.90 per student Three years ago, Joshua Patenaude attended the very first general meeting of the McMaster Marching Band. It was small then. It had just received ratification as an MSU club, and was finding its feet with meager funding and only a […]
By Sabeen Kazmi On my way home from McMaster on Wednesday evening last week, my sister texted me exclaiming that Israel and Hamas had agreed on a ceasefire. According to Owen Jones - an independent columnist - the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza began in early October when Israel ignored the ongoing ceasefire negotiations […]
By Edward Lovo History attests to the suffering of indigenous peoples under colonial rule. India, Algeria, and South Africa are all nations that were formerly under colonial rule. There are two principal forms of colonization. One form of colonization is motivated by the desire for settlement and the other is motivated by the extraction of […]
By Waleed Ahmed Barack Obama, when commenting about the recent warfare in Gaza, stated that he supports Israel’s right to defend itself from Gazan rocket attacks. He declared, almost chided, “Israel has every right to expect that it does not have missiles fired into its territory”. Our Foreign Minister, John Baird, also sang the same […]
Rick Gunderman Hamiltonians gather to protest siege on Gaza Over a hundred protesters gathered outside of the Federal Building in downtown Hamilton on Nov. 18 to call for an end to Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip. The conflict has claimed the lives of over 100 Palestinians with an additional 850 wounded as Israeli airstrikes […]
