Board approves revised Student Code of Conduct, Statement of Principles
By McGill Reporter Staff
McGill’s Board of Governors approved a new Procurement policy, a revised Student Code of Conduct and the Statement of Principles Concerning Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly at its April 26 meeting.
Harold “Shorty” Fairhead (1926-2013)
By Earl Zukerman
Harold “Shorty” Fairhead (BA, ’51), former McGill football team captain, died in Cowansville, Que., on April 19, 2013. He was four days shy of his 87th birthday.
Once described as a small but aggressive and effective quarterback and defensive back for the Redmen, from 1947 to 1951, the 5-foot-9, 160-pound Fairhead served as team captain in his final campaign. He won the team’s Vic Obeck Trophy as most improved player in 1949.
No popcorn with these exams
McGill holds examinations in Cineplex as City construction means Currie Gym unavailable
By Doug Sweet
No, they won’t serve popcorn or soft drinks when hundreds of McGill students sit down to write final exams this month at the downtown Banque Scotia Cineplex on Ste. Catherine St. Nor will there be free movie tickets.
Students talk politics with Tony Clement
By McGill Reporter Staff
About 25 McGill students took part last Friday in an informal discussion on government and politics with the Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board and Conservative MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka (Ontario).
Larson wins SSMU presidency in a cakewalk
Takes 60 per cent of the vote
By Neale McDevitt
Katie Larson was the big winner of Friday’s Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) elections, prevailing in the race for SSMU President over Chris Bangs. Despite the fact all three student newspapers endorsed Bangs going into the election, Larson won by a wide margin, taking 59.5 per cent of the vote against Bangs’s 40.5 per cent. Voter turnout for this year’s election was 29.1 per cent – almost identical to last year’s participation rate.
Mediation @ McGill offers a kinder, gentler way to resolve conflicts
By Dan Lawlor
Varsity basketball: McGill sweeps both titles for 2nd time in school history
By Earl Zukerman
McGill’s men’s and women’s basketball teams won their respective RSEQ championships and qualified for the national championships later this month. The victories were made all the sweeter because both teams prevailed in games that could be best described as nail biters.
Government proposes 3% hike in tuition fees
By Neale McDevitt
Yesterday morning, at the opening of the Summit on Higher Education, and during the two sessions that followed, both Premier Pauline Marois and Higher Education Minister Pierre Duchesne, spoke in terms of unity and coming together to find consensus following last year’s “social crisis” marked by a summer of student unrest.
Unions, students, profs, administration join to denounce cutbacks
By McGill Reporter Staff
McGill is pulling together to fight the Quebec government’s Draconian cutbacks to universities.
Associations representing McGill faculty members, support staff, students and the administration yesterday agreed to a joint statement denouncing the cuts.
In an initiative led by the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT), the statement demands that the government reverse its decision to cut funding to Quebec’s universities by $124 million this fiscal year and by a similar amount next year.
Somber Senate discusses McGill’s response to government-imposed cuts
By Neale McDevitt
Greg Dudek, Director of McGill’s School of Computer Science, spoke for many in attendance at Tuesday’s Senate meeting when he said “I wouldn’t trade jobs with [Provost] Tony Masi for anything on Earth right now.”
Masi had just finished presenting a grim report outlining the government-imposed cuts to McGill’s operating budget – $40 million has to be slashed within the next 15 months. “This is a fairly devastating picture,” said Masi.