By Mike Nickerson The biggest news on planet Earth today is that the human family has grown to fill its habitat. While this situation effects every issue from economic stagnation to climate change, it is actually good news. Realizing that we are now mature as a species clarifies the task of adapting to our mature […]
Welcome Week has the potential to make or break a first year’s experience at McMaster. But it’s difficult to say what this year’s batch of first year students thought about their Welcome Week. The Student Success Centre (SSC) had originally scheduled Welcome Week focus groups for Nov. 21 and Nov. 22 in which first-year students […]
The McMaster Museum of Art opened a new exhibition, Breaking Black, on Nov. 15 in their main floor gallery. Breaking Black is less abstract than the gallery’s previous exhibit, Conspiracies of Illusion. The curator, Nicole Collins, professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design, chose alchemy as the theme of her show, with the […]
The McMaster Marauders are headed to the Vanier Cup for the second straight season after beating the Calgary Dinos on Saturday by a score of 45-6. The Nov. 17 Mitchell Bowl at Ron Joyce Stadium in Hamilton marked the first ever meeting between the two teams. A crowd of 5,442 packed the stadium to watch […]
By: Laura Sinclair The Marauders men’s volleyball team had an eventful weekend hosting the Guelph Gryphons on the evening of Friday, Nov. 16 and the Waterloo Warriors on the following Sunday afternoon. The Marauders came out of both games victorious, but the victories did not come easily. In the Friday night game, the Gryphons got […]
Kathleen Wynne, a Toronto MPP who recently entered the Ontario Liberal leadership bid, met with members of the McMaster Young Liberals at My Dog Joe in Westdale on Nov. 20. At the small gathering, Wynne addressed topics including affordable housing, healthcare, economic growth, and a struggling post-secondary sector. Wynne said she would keep Premier McGuinty’s […]
By: Alexandra Reilly The McMaster women’s volleyball team had another busy weekend, playing a double-header on Nov. 16 and 17. Both games saw the Marauders take on the competition with home court advantage, which proved to make a difference for the women in both of their matches. McMaster began with a battle against the visiting […]
Canada’s capital was not kind to the Marauders this past weekend. Mac hit the road to take on the Ottawa Gee-Gees and Carleton Ravens. Despite dropping both games, it was a weekend of growth for the young team. After getting run out of the gym against the Gee-Gees by a score of 82-55, the Marauders […]
By: Mohsin Ali It may be as simple as probiotics, suggests a study led by McMaster professor Dr. Bradley Johnston. His colleagues analyzed twenty randomized-controlled trials, totalling almost 4,000 patients. They asked whether the use of probiotics—‘good’ bacteria found in yogurts, powders, or capsules—influenced rates of diarrheal illness related to the bacterium Clostridium difficile. […]
Canadian West Coast artist Takao Tanabe has gained acclaim as one of Canada’s most important and influential painters. Born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Tanabe has studied in Winnipeg, New York, London and Tokyo, which provided him with an opportunity to explore and master varied approaches to landscape painting. He has exhibited both nationally and […]
