If you’re new to the McMaster community, there are a lot of things to learn. Mac has its own set of standards and rules—some of which may seem more unusual than others. Among these unusual norms is a rule at the Pulse, the fitness and cardio facility at Mac’s David Braley Athletic Centre. While this […]
Rachel Faber The Silhouette On the first day of class, the course outline for Health Sciences 4ZZ3 was thrown away. Instead of learning about advocacy, students would be practicing it. Though the course has been running for four years at McMaster, this is the first year that experiential education has been a part of the […]
Cassandra Jeffery The Silhouette There are very few places, if any, that are completely untouched by the rapid modernization that has come to overwhelm much of the globe. North American culture, for example, is largely based on a capitalist system that reinforces the spread of globalization. We’ve become not only fully immersed within a […]
McMaster has been ranked by Maclean’s as the fourth best cycling university in Canada. This is due to the city of Hamilton’s ongoing efforts to improve cycling infrastructure, and the ease of biking on McMaster’s spacious campus. The cheepest generic viagra following infographic explores some of the facts and figures that influence the student biking […]
Natalie Doland The Silhouette The parking cost at McMaster from September 2013-April 2014 is about $556, and the average Canadian university tuition is $5,772. This makes parking at McMaster for eight months approximately one-tenth of the average Canadian tuition. There have been numerous cases of illegal parking this academic year. Approximately 75 tickets have been […]
Joshua Patel Discover Your City December is just around the corner and along with the festivities of the month comes the word that most students dread – exams. Exams are a stressful time for most students (if not all) as we all work tirelessly to ensure that our semester ends off on the right note. […]
With a number of Ontario universities facing large pension deficits, the province recently gave universities and other public sector employers a three-year extension to put sustainable pension plans in place. Prior to the extension, several universities were running pension deficits in the hundreds of millions and had applied for solvency relief from the government, with terms expiring […]
J.J. Bardoel Silhouette Intern Humanities has introduced a new honours program to McMaster, Justice, Political Philosophy and Law, following approval from the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. The program is the outcome of two years of steady preparation from the Department of Philosophy. The program went through a long process of approval from […]
Following a 1-1 weekend, head coach Amos Connolly is a frustrated man. In the halls outside of the Burridge Gym, he recapped the 87-84 loss to Laurentian. “We played basketball hard for about four minutes, at the end of the second quarter,” said Connolly. Those four minutes saw McMaster go on a 17-3 run that […]
William Lou The Silhouette The McMaster women’s basketball team kept the ball rolling last week with yet another pair of dominant victories, improving to 4-0 on the OUA regular season. On Nov. 8, the Marauders travelled north to Sudbury to take on the Laurentian Voyageurs. The women got off to a hot start as they […]
