By Laurie Devine Biking to build schools Even with some 3,000 kilometres already behind her, McGill grad Karen Schlatter still has a lot of pedaling left to finish her cycling journey from Tierra del Fuego to Paraguay – and to raise $35,000 to help the NGO CECTEC build schools, playgrounds and bathrooms in the impoverished [...]
Kudos
Build it and they will say “wow” The Ordre des architectes du Québec announced the 43 finalists for the 2009 Awards of Excellence in architecture. One of the finalists is the McGill Life Sciences Complex by the consortium of Diamond & Schmitt Architects Inc. and Provencher Roy & Associates.
Athletics
Former sprint star nearing quarter century of service By Neale McDevitt Dennis Barrett has a pet peeve. “Most of the athletes I work with are great,” said McGill’s longtime track and field coach. “But every now and then I get one of those kids with a real sense of entitlement who’s been babied by their [...]
Athletics
Both McGill hockey teams to play for national title By Jim Hynes You win some, you lose some. But the good news for the McGill hockey team that fell short of a league championship this past weekend is that the ultimate prize is still within reach. The hockey Martlets fall under “win some” after taking [...]
Entre Nous
Fostering democracy from the frontlines to the classroom By Neale McDevitt More than most of us, poli-sci professor Phil Oxhorn has a deep and intimate understanding of democracy. Much of his knowledge has been gained from his work as a leading scholar focusing on theories of civil society, democracy and processes of democratization.
Profile
Student journalist combines passion for sports and writing By Jim Hynes There are so many different things to study at McGill, but journalism is not one of them. What to do then, when your dream of a career as an ink-stained wretch is matched only by your desire to attend the University? Matt Chesser faced [...]
Point of View
By Shirley Steinberg This is the book of the generations of Barbie. (1) In the beginning, Ruth Handler created her, the third day of March in 1959 – in the likeness of Ruth’s daughter and Lily, a German whore, she made her. (2) Female first she created, and blessed her and called her name Barbie [...]
Green corner
The trillions of plastic bags produced worldwide annually have a knack for ending up everywhere from our rapidly growing landfills to the tops of trees and even the seven seas, where they threaten marine species. Made from petroleum, a non-renewable resource, plastic bags also contribute to air pollution and global warming, giving them the air-land-sea [...]
Around Campus
The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy in McGill’s Faculty of Education will be hosting the Canadian screening premiere of Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class this Thursday. The producer and writer of the film, Dr. Pepi Leistyna, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, will introduce [...]
Headline News
Brandenberger earns prestigious research fellowship By McGill Reporter Staff Although he had just been singled out as one of only nine outstanding Canadian researchers to be awarded a Killam Research Fellowship, physicist Robert Brandenberger, was quick to share the spotlight with the people who had helped support his work. “I’d like to thank all of [...]