The annual Marauder Weekend tradition aims to celebrate the alumni who have previously donned the Maroon and Grey. But, this year, the celebration may be for the future, as the Marauders men’s basketball team seems to have turned a corner in their rout of the Brock Badgers. Just under a month ago, Mac hammered out […]
Head coach Dave Preston will be honest with you. McMaster’s undefeated record through 15 games comes as a surprise to him. “At the start of the year, you hope it goes this way. But you don’t really know until it starts to play itself out,” said the men’s coach. McMaster started out the gate hot. […]
The next McMaster Students Union president is a man. At press time, we didn’t know which man. But we knew this: out of the seven candidates for CEO of the MSU this year, there were no females. Last year, only one of the five candidates, Siobhan Stewart, was a woman. The ratio was the same […]
Peacefully on location on King Street West in its sixth year, surrounded by loyal staff and customers. Parent to scorching Habanero Hot Sauce, Paper-Bag Tortilla Chips, renowned Pulled-Pork Burritos and Dirty Herb’s Chili (which did not survive infancy). Child of Ewan McLachlan and Joe Catanzano. Predeceased by the north-most section of Ann Décor (nee Chez […]
McMaster’s award-winning coaching staff could be getting a little more help. As reported first by The Waterloo Record, former Laurier head coach Gary Jeffries is close to joining the Marauders as a special-teams co-ordinator. After a 3-5 record in the 2012 season, the Golden Hawk athletic department dismissed Jeffries despite a 40-year service to the […]
A group of more than 30 students, professors and community members gathered on campus this morning to raise awareness for the Idle No More campaign. The rally was organized in solidarity with community action in 25 cities across Canada opposing Prime Minister Harper's leadership on various issues. The rally at McMaster, organized by members of the McMaster […]
In case you missed it (or want to see it again), here's the live stream of Sunday's MSU presidential candidates debate. Skip to 1:17 for the start. During the debate, McMaster students, staff and alumni took to Twitter to discuss the candidates. Below is a selection of their tweets. [View the story "Your responses to […]
The following are selected questions and answers from the Sil’s interview with MSU presidential candidate Haman Man. Why are you running to be MSU president? One of the factors in my decision was that fact I had been trying to have a couple changes coming to McMaster and the avenues I took to get those […]
The following are selected questions and answers from the Sil’s interview with MSU presidential candidate James Dowdall. Why did you come to McMaster? I grew up in the UK, actually, and moved out to Canada, out west, when I was eight. I grew up in Calgary. When I was choosing a university … I applied […]
The following are selected questions and answers from the Sil’s interview with MSU presidential candidate David Campbell. Why did you decide to run? When I ran for this position [last year], I had no intention of running again. And then at some point over the summer, I learned that it used to be a fairly […]
