Michele Clarke, a first year doctoral student in clinical psychology, got a hand from mom Francilla Charles as she moved into her new digs on Labour Day weekend PHOTO: OWEN EGAN

Differential tuition drains resources, draws lawsuit ALISON RAMSEY Eight thousand McGill students must pay $1200 more in tuition this year, an increase since last fall of $40 a credit. Shapiro to head CREPUQ DIANA GRIER AYTON Principal Bernard Shapiro succeeds Université de Sherbrooke's Pierre Reid as president of the Conférence des recteurs et principaux du Québec. A world-wide welcome ERIC SMITH The Reporter caught up with students at a welcome party for the McGill International Students' Network last week at Martlet House to ask students what drew them here from all corners of the globe. The principal's perspective DIANA GRIER AYTON Principal Bernard Shapiro is settling down in his native city and also settling into a new term as McGill's top administrator. In a conversation last week with Reporter editor Diana Grier Ayton, he talked of his unstinting enthusiasm for the job, his pride in McGill and where he hopes to lead the University in the next five years. Professor takes the sting out of statistics DANIEL McCABE She's one of the country's best teachers, but self doubt nearly ended Rhonda Amsel's career before it began. It's all in your head: The biology of pain ELLYN KERR Catherine Bushnell is exploring the mysterious mechanisms that heighten the way we feel pain. The ultimate goal of her research is to save patients from needless suffering. A Nobel gesture The Department of Chemistry invited Nobel laureate Rudolph Marcus back to the campus where he completed two degrees in chemistry (BSc'43, PhD'46).

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