Michael Ryu The Silhouette It was 5:00 p.m., Sept. 20, a Friday night. Despite this, the Lyons New Media Centre in Mills Memorial Library was full. The drone of conversation filled the room as students and McMaster alumni waited eagerly for the commencement of the second annual McMaster 24 Hour Film Festival. The festival, co-founded […]
Aurora Coltman Silhouette Intern The wreckage of a rental car belonging to 24-year-old McMaster alumna Joanna Lam and her boyfriend, Connor Hayes, 25, was discovered in a gorge off the Haast Pass road, towards the western coast of South Island in New Zealand on Sept. 10. The investigation is on going, but one body, presumed […]
For many students, water-damaged windows and roofs, out-of-order toilets and insulation peeking out of broken ceiling tiles are familiar sights. Throughout the year we experience dozens of minor, everyday inconveniences and brush them off as something that will be fixed, eventually. Until then we do our best to ignore the water dripping from the ceiling […]
J.J. Bardoel Silhouette Intern The case of a former McMaster PhD student, claiming he was not accommodated after suffering a head injury, continues. In 2008, before Jason Tang was about to complete the exams required for his degree, he suffered a serious brain injury, which left him with post-concussion syndrome. The symptoms called for certain […]
After being fired as the executive director of MAPS in January, Sam Minniti is alleging that he’s the victim of wrongful dismissal. He’s suing MAPS, McMaster University and some of his former colleagues for more than $500,000 altogether in damages. The University and MAPS are now each in the process of reviewing their legal options. […]
Justin Wei / The Silhouette “We’re loud, but we’re not proud.” Perhaps these words should replace McMaster University’s motto “All things cohere in Christ.” McMaster’s motto does more than fail to capture religious diversity on campus today — it fails to capture what McMaster is really all about: student disengagement. The student population seems to […]
On Thursday, McMaster University released its 2013 "sunshine list" [link], which publicly discloses the reported salaries of its employees that made at least $100,000 in 2012. Top earners included: Mo Elbastawi, Vice-President of Research and International Affairs, with earnings of $506,246.80 Dr. John Kelton, Deane and Vice-President of Health Sciences, with earnings of $455,504.40 […]
Scott Hastie Assistant Sports Editor Over the past week, the McMaster Marauders curling team took a trip to Thompson Rivers University to compete against the best colleges and universities in the nation. After finishing with a silver medal at the OUA championships, McMaster qualified for the CIS/CCAA tournament and put together a respectable result. Despite […]
Spencer Nestico-Semianiw / The Silhouette McMaster's ImMACculate dance team came away with a first-place finish at last weekend's North American Culture Show (NACS) competition in Brampton, ON. On Mar. 9, dance teams from ten universities and six colleges across Ontario competed at the NACS. The show featured four types of South Asian dance forms: Bollywood, […]
