March 16, 2006
March 16, 2006 McGill University
User Tools (skip):
If you act it they will build. Students are putting on a performance of Private Jokes, Public Spaces, a play by Oren Safdie (son of architect Moshe Safdie) to raise money for BuildAid, a group committed to post-disaster reconstruction who hope to help rebuild Asia's Tsunami-stricken area this summer. The play runs March 17 at 7 pm, and March 18 at 2 pm and 7 pm in Rm 114, Macdonald-Harrington Building, 815 Sherbrooke St West. For more info call 398-6704. From left to right: Kurtis Elton (U3 arts & science), Michal Gorczyca (U3 architecture), Emily Gan (Concordia fine arts), Jonathan Karpfen (BA'04 philosophy & literature)
Owen Egan
Manfredi to take the reins
Political science teacher Chris Manfredi is named the new Dean of Arts.
Manfredi bravely vows to tackle all challenges head on - including the Darth
Vader of all bugaboos; undergrad advising!
Tax time brings Chair for law
faculty
Talk about a tax return! The Faculty of Law creates the H. Heward Strikeman
Chair in the Law of Taxation - already having attracted more than $1.6
million in donations.
McGill Headliners: From a tempest in a
coffee cup to primetime McGill
McGill experts weigh in on everything from the ongoing controversy about the
prize-winning Tim Hortons' coffee cup to why users of London's Underground
are humming Vivaldi. The big news? McGill merch hits primetime on two
episodes of House.
P.O.V.: Olympic ideal
After the world's obsession with gold medal counts during the Torino
Olympics, McGill BCom student Laura Ruhnke gives a refreshing firsthand
account of what it was like to play for the Swiss national women's hockey
team at the Games.
Profile - Julie Lafford: Taking you to
school
Alumni Education guru believes in Montreal, Madame Bovary, forensic
detectives and the power of learning.
Grad students explore space and art
in new speaker series
Hell in cinema, Fluxus performance art and... necrophilia?!?! With topics
like that, the new grad student speaker series promises to keep people awake
if nothing else.
Entre Nous with Bruce Shore, Dean of
Students
Shore provides students with safe harbour Bruce Shore gives us the skinny on
the various services his office provides for McGill students. He's come a
long way from his days stocking shelves at the Chrysler warehouse.
Techno-farming goes global
Welcome to farming in the 21st century, where the cell phone and the internet
are proving to be just as important as tractors and combines for farmers in
developing countries.
Global warming expert not full of hot
air
Think that nasty old industrial revolution was the event that started
punching holes through the ozone layer? Guess again. Mini-Beatty lecturer
William Ruddiman says people have been messing with global warming since we
started farming the land and domesticating animals some 10,000 years ago.
Righting a wrong
Wrongly convicted of a crime you didn't commit? You might want to contact
Innocence McGill - a group of undergrad law students seeking to overturn
wrongful convictions.
Shedding light on poverty
Researchers from across McGill's faculties take aim at a social ill that has
long prowled in the shadows.
- Poverty: An insidious social sickness
- Protecting society's most vulnerable
- Street smarts
- Students serve
- When empty pockets mean ailing health
Gimme shelter
A trio of enterprising McGill students help provide street children in India
with much-needed refuge.
Streamlining breakthroughs
To heck with unlocking keys to scientific mysteries, Robert Nadon tackles the
truly daunting subject of what makes researchers do what they do.
Senate goes green
Our intrepid reporter regales all with another installment of exclusive
Senate coverage. Special guests, crime sprees and a presentation that brought
the house down.
In memoriam
André Laplante and Fred Sagel
McGill Matters
WebCT Vista update
This just in
CKUT plays on; New president for SSMU
Around campus
Branding places; Wild expectations; Do the green thing; Pizza parlour
prodigy performs; Gem of a fundraiser; Afghan ambassador to speak at
McGill.
Philippe Richard, 8, of Cedar Park School in Pointe-Claire stands beside his picture, The Right to Peace as part of an art exhibition at the Law Faculty showing Montreal children's representations of human rights. The event was hosted by the Right to Education Project with support from the Rights and Democracy Delegation and the Human Rights Working Group. For more: emilia.ordolis@mcgill.ca
Owen Egan
