Sports Medicine Clinic isn’t just for athletes; musicians face similar injuries By Cynthia Lee Say “McGill Sports Clinic” and most people conjure images of hockey or football players rehabbing wonky knees. Chances are they wouldn’t imagine concert pianists icing sore wrists.
Research and Discovery
By Chris Chipello Maybe if Kenny Perry had tried neurofeedback training, the coveted green jacket of Masters Tournament champions would be hanging in his closet now. Instead, after botching the pressure-packed closing holes at Augusta National earlier this month, the veteran golfer settled for runner-up. “It just seems like when it gets down to those [...]
Entre Nous
Experiences and lessons will last well after the last puck is dropped By Neale McDevitt Two consecutive undefeated seasons capped by a pair of national championships – by now, most McGillians are well aware of what the McGill Martlet hockey team has accomplished. We’ve been reading about their inexorable march to perfection in the sports [...]
Profile
Hockey star turned law student brings well-roundedness to new levels By Pascal Zamprelli Back in 2004, Eric l’Italien was completing his final year in the Quebec Major-Junior Hockey League, playing for the Rimouski Océanic alongside none other than Sidney Crosby. Over the course of his five-year major-junior career, he had also played in Quebec City, [...]
Point of View
By Drew Love The two-time national champion McGill Martlet hockey team exemplifies all that is worthwhile about varsity sport. Their win jives with McGill’s reputation for excellence and the sense of pride that comes with raising a championship banner is shared university-wide. Add to the celebration that almost half of the women’s team boasts a [...]
Around Campus
Another voice, another bridge? The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is currently considering an application to distribute Al Jazeera English (AJE), the Qatar-based, 24-hour international news network, in Canada. On April 28, Media@McGill will host a panel discussion focusing on what the presence of AJE would mean for the diversity and quality of the news [...]
Other News
By Chris Chipello Orbiting the Earth 450 times has given Marc Garneau a bit of perspective. Seeing the ravages of rainforest deforestation from space, for example, “you realize we are damaging our planet,” the astronaut-turned-politician told Prof. David Lank’s entrepreneurial leadership class at the Desautels Faculty of Management earlier this month. “That’s probably what stays [...]
News
Ambitions described as ‘realistic and attainable’ despite economic downturn By Pascal Zamprelli Principal Heather Munroe-Blum used the most recent Senate meeting to present an ambitious set of priorities and an action plan for the next four years.
Around Campus
Charlotte Gray, one of Canada’s best-known non-fiction writers, explores the line between imagination and invention in contemporary biography, in the Hugh MacLennan Memorial Lecture, presented by McGill University Library, Friends of the Library and Blue Metropolis Foundation on Thursday, April 23 at 5:30 p.m.
Other News
By McGill Reporter Staff Students from McGill’s School of Architecture took seven of the top ten awards, including the top three, in a contest sponsored by a New Orleans firm that challenged entrants to create new home designs for areas of the Big Easy ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Top architecture schools in North America were [...]