Scott Hastie Assistant Sports Editor Head coach Amos Connolly’s season may have ended Feb. 23, but that does not mean the bench boss took any time off. The most important aspect of the early offseason is recruiting, and the Marauders go after the top recruits very hard. Connolly says he does not […]
Devra Charney / Silhouette Staff Mac students have been working off campus and volunteering in a new frontier: North Hamilton. The Hamilton branch of Frontier College, which promotes reading and literacy in high-need areas of the city, is undergoing plans to start a new homework club program beginning in October 2013. Community Coordinator Shannon Stevens […]
The buzz around the MSU’s General Assembly is noticeably quieter this year. In 2012, then-MSU President Matthew Dillon-Leitch orchestrated a major marketing campaign. The posters were well designed, the event had its own website, the Facebook page exploded, and it was hard to walk around campus without learning that 601 students would make quorum. The […]
McMaster is known to have the cheapest but sparsest student health insurance plan in the province. But at Sunday’s SRA meeting, a motion was passed to allow for a referendum to ask students if they want an extended health plan that would include vision care, oral contraceptives and paramedical care. Extending coverage to all three […]
Co-Written by: Aissa Boodhoo-Leegsma and Jemma Wolfe For one day only, students received a McMaster-issued passport to travel the world, all within the confines of the student centre. On Sunday, March 10, Pangaea 2013 transformed the student centre into a global bazaar and performance hall where students could experience 21 different regions of the world. […]
Sue Grafe and Nikki Bozinoff have a first-hand look at how last year’s changes to the federal health care program affect refugee health care in Hamilton. Grafe is a nurse practitioner at REFUGE, a Hamilton refugee clinic, as well as a nursing professor at Mac. Bozinoff is a McMaster medical student and member of Hamiltonians […]
Devra Charney/ The Silhouette On Friday March 8, the global community celebrated International Women’s Day. The 2013 theme focused on promoting gender equality in a modern progressive world. On campus, McMaster hosted multidisciplinary activist and educator Kim Crosby. Her workshop on anti-racism as well as her keynote address were much-anticipated events for a number of […]
With the second round of negotiations on the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty to be held in New York on March 18, students at McMaster are joining the mission to spread awareness about the issue. The December shooting in Connecticut reignited the gun control debate in the United States and abroad. Months before this shooting, […]
Nicole Jedrzejko The Silhouette Whether you’re having it or not, everyone has strong opinions about sex. What it really is, who should be having it, good vs. bad, fears, fantasies, successes and shames. We have left high school, often the first environment where sex becomes a factor in interpersonal communication, and entered the big, new […]
Alon Coret / The Silhouette Every March, the tensions of the Middle East are felt at McMaster University in the form of Israeli Apartheid Week. This campaign intimidates Jewish and Israeli students on campus (as well as passersby), spreads propaganda under the guise of “human rights” and demonizes the only liberal democracy in the region. Don’t […]
