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 […]
When Amina Khan and Yusra Munawar were told last year that their on-campus prayer room would be torn down, they didn’t hit the panic button. Khan and Munawar, executive members of the McMaster Muslim Students Association, were assured by the university that they would be relocated before Wentworth House, home of their space, was demolished. […]
Once a year, students take the time to pay tribute to those people who make their education possible: their professors. After the recent announcement of this year’s MSU Teaching Awards, and the ceremony on March 14, the Silhouette sat down with some of the award winners to get their take on what it means to […]
Elections for the sole seat for student representatives on the Board of Governor’s were held Tues. March 19 and Wed. March 20. But the question most candidates asked was how many students even know what the Board of Governors is? The Board of Governors (BoG) is the chief governing body that oversees the University’s financial […]
In a referendum attached to this year’s Presidential Ballot, students voted ‘Yes’ to award the McMaster Marching Band 90 cents from student fees next year to support their actions. Marching Band President Joshua Patenaude, a fourth-year BioPsych student, explained how the club has made both short-term and long-term plans for this new wave of funding. […]
Kacper Niburski / Silhouette Staff My bike is hardly fashionable. Each time I ride the metallic mammoth, the gears remain a curious experiment long forgotten, the chain rattles back and forth like the coming of the Grim Reaper, and the seat shifts, slithers and shakes uncontrollably. I’ve had it since I was eleven and I remember […]
Sarah O’Connor / Silhouette Staff Whenever any sort of religious conversation surrounds me, I always feel myself shrink, afraid to pipe in. Whenever such conversations occur, someone almost always mentions Christianity and how horrible followers of the faith are. This is when I find my voice. Half afraid, I say, “I’m Catholic.” And obviously conversation ceases. […]
Johnny-Wei Bai / Meducator It is a well-known fact that a healthy diet can lower the risk of various types of cardiovascular disease. How far can the benefits of healthy eating go, especially for someone who already has cardiovascular disease or other age-related pathologies such as diabetes mellitus? Every year, more than 20 million people […]
With seven seconds left in the 2012-13 season, Scott Laws exited a game for the final time as a McMaster athlete. It wasn’t dramatic. There was no romantic end. It was a playoff game at Lakehead University; this moment was not important to the people in attendance. Laws gave his coach a firm handshake and […]
On the surface, 2012-13 was a great season for the McMaster women’s basketball team. They improved as the season went on, they produced an OUA All-Star and an All-Canadian Rookie, and they won more games this year than in the past three. But head coach Theresa Burns has more to be excited about than the […]
