World champ is a smooth talker
Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 2:18 pmMeet McGill economics student Joe McGrade, a young man with no fear of public speaking whatsoever. And he’s got the world title to prove it.
Bewitched by Quidditch
Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:08 amThe McGill Quidditch team won the national championship, proving that they’re no run-of-the-mill Muggles. Harry Potter’s favourite sport has crossed over into our world and it’s taking college campuses by storm.
Remembering Richler
Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 6:06 pmby Saleema Nawaz When Noah Richler, BA’83, was a child, his father Mordecai would sit him down on Saturday mornings with a writing exercise. “I would be given four words typewritten on a blank sheet of paper, or maybe a first or last sentence, and instructed to write an essay using them.” It’s no accident [...]
A Savvy Auntie Indeed
Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 5:00 pmby Vicki Salemi Aunts don’t always get the best press. They’re often portrayed as sweet, but dull (The Andy Griffith Show’s Aunt Bee) or as eccentrics who care little about kids (Aunts Patty and Selma from The Simpsons). Melanie Notkin, BA’92, is redefining what it means to be an aunt. In her view, aunts are [...]
The Greatest of the Greats
Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 4:58 pmby Daniel Chonchol, BCL’81, LLB’82 After nearly 60,000 votes and months of sometimes furious debate, the results are in for the Greatest McGillians contest. And the winner was a bit of a surprise. Thomas Chang, BSc’57, MDCM’61, PhD’65, might not have the Nobel Prize pedigree of third place finisher Ernest Rutherford, or the worldwide celebrity [...]
Beating the Off Campus Blues
Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 4:56 pmby Niyosha Keyzad McGill has come a long way since it first opened its doors in the 1840s to a handful of students who studied in the Arts Building and probably slept there too. Today, more than 90 percent of McGill’s roughly 35,000 students live off campus and that poses challenges. “It became clear that [...]
Triumph and tragedy
Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 4:54 pmby Daniel McCabe, BA’89 First the news was sensational. Then it was sad. Then it got a little strange. On Monday October 3, the Nobel Prize Foundation announced that Rockefeller University immunologist Ralph Steinman, BSc’63, would be the seventh McGill graduate to become a Nobel laureate. No sooner had the celebrations begun before they were [...]
Fired up about basketball
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 4:49 pmby Daniel McCabe, BA’89 When an internationally celebrated rock star visits his alma mater, fresh on the heels of winning both the Grammy and the Polaris Music Prize, one might expect hoopla, not hoops. But Win Butler, BA’04, really likes basketball. On September 24, two days after Arcade Fire attracted an estimated 100,000 concert-goers to [...]
This School is for Learning
Posted on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 12:37 pmInterested in picking up some knowledge for business or pleasure? Judith Potter believes McGill’s School of Continuing Studies might have just what you’re looking for.
Blowing the whistle on sex trafficking
Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 4:31 pmIn her feature film debut, director Larysa Kondracki, BA’99, is making waves by focusing on the plight of young women forced into prostitution while the international community looks the other way.
