With the SRA general election underway (polling on March 12 and 13, 2014), we wondered how much McMaster students really know about their Student Representative Assembly.

Please click the link below to watch this evening's SRA meeting LIVE: SRA Meeting - Sunday, March 9, 2014

The fee that undergraduate students pay to the MSU each year will not be going up next year. The Student Representative Assembly voted, almost unanimously, to freeze the fee at its current level of $122.61 per student after MSU Vice-President (Finance) Jeffrey Doucet presented the freeze to the Assembly. [thesil_related_posts_sc]Related Posts[/thesil_related_posts_sc] Doucet felt that the […]

By Alon Coret, Erin Dessau, Yardena Winegust It is easy to look at a complex political issue and see two opposing sides, and to think of their goals as conflicting. In the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this seems to be the case. However, a closer look reveals that both parties have a common goal: […]

Israa Ali is concerned about creating spaces - be these spaces physical, legal or spiritual - for students on campus. Ali is perhaps most passionate about the establishment of a spiritual centre on campus. She points to buildings like Wilson Hall as potential properties for this space, or for the spaces the services moving to […]

After months of negotiation with the HSR, the McMaster Students Union has reached an agreement with the transit organization to offer two options for service improvements to McMaster students. With student electoral support, McMaster’s student bus pass could include extended service for Route 51-University, a 12-month bus pass, or both. MSU President David Campbell and […]

The 2012-13 Student Representative Assembly had its final meeting on March 24. Items on the agenda included year-end reports, a delegation from the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance and a presentation from the women and trans* centre committee. Nominations were also opened for next year's MSU vice-presidents. RELATED: Six nominees submitted for MSU VP positions The […]

Re: “Editorial: Need for SRA reform persists” by Sam Colbert [Published March 7, 2013 in Opinions] By David Moore, MSU Alumni Association President   In “Time for reform,” The Silhouette argues the Student Representative Assembly is broken and prescribes ways to fix it. Is the SRA perfect? No, but a closer look of The Silhouette’s arguments is […]

Re: “Israel Apartheid Week: divisive and deceptive” by Alon Coret [Published March 14, 2013 in Opinions] By Will Innes, Humanities III   Mr. Coret might have a point, and I can’t help but agree with him that IAW does focus too much on one country. However, I disagree with his assertion that IAW is a cypher for anti-semitism […]

Voting in the Student Representative Assembly general election concluded Thursday evening, and results of an extended ballot for Humanities were in by late Monady. In the initial count last week, All but one of the 31 seats were won. For the fourth Humanities seat, there was a three-way tie between Krystina Ali, Tiffany Leslie and Daniella […]