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By Neale McDevitt and Jim Hynes

Principal Heather Munroe-Blum wasted no time having her voice heard in the opening session of the Summit on Higher Education Monday.

“As [Education] Minister [Pierre Duchesne] said yesterday, our universities are well managed,” said Munroe-Blum, the first speaker in the conference’s opening session. “We are opposed to any action that casts doubt upon the mandates, the responsibilities or the makeup of our Boards.”

Summit countdown: T-minus 8 days 

By McGill Reporter Staff

Government-imposed cuts to universities’ operating budgets will have a profoundly detrimental impact on an education system already left vulnerable after years of underfunding, said university leaders at a press conference Friday, just 10 days before the much-debated summit on higher education to be held in Montreal Feb. 25-26.

By McGill Reporter Staff

For Jean-Bernard Ng Man Sun, his experience in Monday’s flood was “like a scene from a movie.” Most probably A River Runs Through It or The Poseidon Adventure.

By Jim Hynes

The sixth Senate meeting of the academic year and the first of the winter term featured some brisk news about government relations and the University’s financial situation befitting the sub-zero temperatures outside.

By McGill Reporter Staff

McGill administrators, citing feedback from the University community, have adjusted their course on the proposal for a protocol governing demonstrations.

Another action-packed year at McGill is drawing to a close. Heading into 2012’s final stretch, the Reporter looks back on the year that was, highlighting some of the key happenings over the past 12 months in words and pictures.

JANUARY:

-Life Sciences Complex receives Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold medal. Read more.

By Doug Sweet

And so we get to the end of another year that media types would describe as “event-filled.”

It’s hard to think of one that hasn’t been.

By McGill Reporter Staff

From a resolution at last week’s Board of Governors’ meeting to a strongly-worded statement from Principal Heather Munroe-Blum, McGill has made clear its opposition to budget cuts recently announced abruptly by Pierre Duschene, Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology.

The cuts, which would compel McGill to lop about $19 million off its spending between now and the end of April, have been widely denounced throughout Quebec’s university community as unworkable and unrealistic..

By Doug Sweet

The Quebec government’s sudden announcement this week that the province’s universities will have to chop about 5 per cent, or $140 million (later revealed to be $124 million), out of their current budgets over the next four months will have an impact of tens of millions of dollars on McGill’s budget, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum told Senate Wednesday.

By McGill Reporter Staff

Researchers from McGill and the Université de Montréal have identified a crucial link between protein synthesis and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), which can bolster new therapeutic avenues.