Shelagh Rogers, CBC Radio Two host of Take Five, was at McGill on Monday for a live broadcast from the Strathcona Music Building. One of her guests was conductor and music professor Timothy Vernon, whose latest work with the 110-member McGill Symphony Orchestra, Mahler's Fifth Symphony, was featured on the program. PHOTO: OWEN EGAN
Teaching assistants ratify first collective agreement
ERIC SMITH

It took four years of negotiating, but McGill and AGSEM, the TA union, finally have a contract both sides can live with.
MRC increase raises morale
DIANA GRIER AYTON

For the first time in several years, a federal budget restored money to research fund councils instead of cutting. The extra money available to the Medical Research Council means some projects turned down last year will be funded after all, but Canada is still dead last among the G7 countries in supporting basic research.
Dream teams, drugs and dubious judging
SYLVAIN COMEAU

McGill's Olympic insider, Board chair and IOC vice--president Richard Pound, answers some questions about the Nagano Winter Games.
Gifts mark rebirth for Jewish Studies
DANIEL McCABE

A pair of million--dollar gifts will ensure that this small but influential department has a future.
Canadian poets get helping hand
DANIEL McCABE

The late Hugh MacLennan bequeathed royalties from his works to McGill, where he taught in the Department of English for more than 30 years. He was always interested in supporting new writers and his legacy will be used to fund a poetry series established by McGill--Queen's University Press.
Letter
At issue
Spreading cuts
KARL JAROSIEWICZ
Universities join forces again to improve services
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