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Can peaceful assembly take place in any location on campus? Are there justifiable limits to the rights of free expression in the context of demonstrations, protests and demonstrations on campus? Two panels of experts convened to discuss the subject of dissent and the limits of expressing it in public at the Symposium on Free Expression and Peaceful Assembly at the McGill Faculty Club on Wednesday.

Highlights from the Ask the Principal webcast

Principal’s Awards celebrate staff members who go above and beyond

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The show must go on: Staffers to stage controversial play

In the hierarchy of Christianity’s Seven Deadly Sins, pride is usually considered the most serious of sins and the cause of Lucifer’s fall from grace, as he tried to usurp God’s power. For Michael Mitchell, however, it’s OK to be proud – or at least to stage it. Mitchell, Deferral Coordinator, Enrolment Services, is producing and acting (along with four other McGill staff members) in a dramatic reading of Michael Healey’s Proud, on May 9 atthe Mainline Theatre on St. Laurent.

Arts student wins EU young journalist award

Hip-hop hurray for student life at McGill

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Athletics

McGill hockey stars score top CIS honours

Martlets forward Ann-Sophie Bettez and Redmen defenceman Marc-André Dorion were named the 2012 BLG Award winners as Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) female and male athletes of the year at a ceremony in Calgary Monday. It marks the first time that the BLG Awards go to athletes from the same university, and the first time that two hockey players are honoured in the same year.

Celebrating our success: McGill Varsity Sports 2011-12

Redmen win OT thriller

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Research Round-Up

From organic farming to off-label drugs to insect sex

The latest in McGill research news.

Research round-up for the week of February 27, 2012

CLEAR project uses primary health care to combat hazardous child labour

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Headline News

Beauchamp resigns: “I no longer believe I am part of the solution”

Education Minister and Deputy Premier Line Beauchamp dropped a bombshell on Monday, abruptly resigning from politics in the face of the ongoing student protest that appears to have no end in sight.

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Maintaining our architectural heritage

Most homeowners, especially those residing in older houses, can identify with the people charged with maintaining McGill’s buildings and infrastructure. For they often share a common tale of reno woe, the one where a seemingly minor task, like the plugging of a leak, the preparation for some cosmetic improvements, or even a routine house inspection as part of a sale, actually reveals big problems with complicated and expensive solutions. That’s essentially what happened in the summer of 2009 when the University hired contractors to wash years of accumulated grime from the main facade of McGill’s signature structure, the Arts Building.

Queer Engineer: Fostering community and breaking down stereotypes

Me and my shadow

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Notes from the field

My experience in the Panama Field Study Semester

I spent the winter term in Guna, along with 25 other McGill students (and three Panamanian students), as part of the Panama Field Study Semester (PFSS), a joint venture between McGill and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. The four-month, 15-credit program focuses on issues relevant to the understanding of the Latin America tropical environment.

Galapagos 2012 and the “Distant Baseline”

South Africa: Bridging the gap between disparity and progress

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Research and Discovery

Making beautiful music together…virtually

Stepping off the elevator on the eighth floor of the Schulich School of Music, the sound of a full chamber orchestra fills the hall. The orchestra sounds good – very tight – with notes that are crisp and clear, and a rich enveloping sound. But on closer inspection, it turns out that there are only two violinists in the rehearsal room. The rest of the orchestra, along with the conductor, is actually part of a recording being played back on three giant 32-inch screens that have been set up to test Open Orchestra, an immersive music system being developed at McGill with collaboration from the University of British Columbia.

New website offers help and information for recovery from self-injury

On music theory: from Mozart to Marilyn Manson

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Other News

Dr. Howard Bergman takes over as Chair of Family Medicine

Family doctors are at the heart of any efficient, sustainable healthcare system and are a priority for McGill’s Faculty of Medicine. To continue bolstering its educational, research and clinical strengths in this critical specialty, McGill has announced the appointment of Dr. Howard Bergman to the position of Chair of the Department of Family Medicine.

Déboulonner les mythes sur le bilinguisme

Tuition protest drags on, few incidents at McGill

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Entre Nous

With Olivier Marcil, Vice-Principal (External Relations)

When Olivier Marcil joined McGill as Vice-Principal (External Relations) he was looking forward to immersing himself in a little collegiality. Marcil had, after all, spent the previous eight years in the turbulent, often adversarial, milieu of Quebec politics where, among other posts, he had served as an advisor to Premier Jean Charest and Chief of Staff to Ministers Benoît Pelletier and Clément Gignac. “I had the expectations that, coming to the university setting things would be very calm,” he says with a laugh. “No such luck.”

With Steven Shaw, Dept. of Educational and Counselling Psychology

Angel Ong, Clinical Coordinator for Professional Practice in Dietetics

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Four Burning Questions

For palliative care expert Michael Kearney

Michael Kearney is an Irish physician with over 30 years’ experience in end-of-life care in England, Ireland, at Our Lady’s Hospice, and in Canada, at McGill. Currently based in California, Dr. Kearney is the Medical Director of the Palliative Care Service at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and Associate Medical Director at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care. Dr. Kearney teaches internationally and has published two books on psycho-spiritual aspects of end-of-life care: Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing and A Place of Healing: Working with Nature and Soul at the End of Life.

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