Through the 21 years that I’ve seen – unless you take out the first one to two-and-a-half, as they remain a blur – I’ve always… Read More »Aristotle’s Lackey: How suburban education brainwashes women
Ricky Kreitner was hacking pretty hard at the Piñata Diplomacy when this tasty morsel came flying: “After all the uproar about Bush’s surge – the… Read More »Comment: Bloody Iraq is no success
Every Tuesday afternoon, Daily editors stop by the CKUT studios to discuss hot-button topics covered in the paper with our community radio station. The segments… Read More »Making the Daily
So what is a geek? Is it a pejorative term for the technologically-minded, or maybe does it just require excessive knowledge of something inglorious and… Read More »Editors’ note: Celebrating geeks
“I don’t know how you feel about coriander. I like it, but not everybody does. Some people find that it smells like cat urine; others… Read More »The Conversationalist: Seeing ourselves in the fruits of life
Publicity should not invite violence Re: “Why don’t you just do it inside?” | Letters | February 12 In response to Stephanie Ränkin and Hillary… Read More »Letters
Four members of the Arts Faculty criticized (The Daily, 12 February) those who had signed an open letter appearing in Le Devoir at the end… Read More »Hyde Park: McGill profs defend call for boycott
There’s a urban legend about influential comics scribe Will Eisner that claims he coined the term “graphic novel.” The tale says that while pitching his… Read More »Hyde Park: Comics in the mainstream: boobs and the X-treme
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has recently ordered an inquiry into the attacks against UN facilities in the Gaza Strip, including educational facilities. While Ban Ki-moon,… Read More »Hyde Park: McGill must rally around equality and freedom
Across the country, university student associations have been revoking club status from pro-life student groups. And while Choose Life – which SSMU Council granted full-club… Read More »Editorial: Campus is no place to limit choice
“We might test judgement by asking, on the issue of Iraq, who best anticipated how events turned out.” – Michael Ignatieff, in his 2007 essay… Read More »Piñata diplomacy: Righting our wrongs over Iraq
There is an all-too-familiar litany of complaints that follow the question, “So, how do you like McGill?” posed so frequently by probing family members: the… Read More »Hyde Park: Taking diversity to class
Would the real Harvard nix Humanistics? Re: “In defence of Humanistic Studies” | Commentary | February 9 I stand with Richard Kreitner in support of… Read More »Letters
Last week, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum released a statement on the economic downturn and the effects it will have on the University. Her observations paint a grim picture: McGill is underfunded, and has been since long before the downturn; its endowment
As Cultural Studies buzzwords dance flippantly over my head, I abandon my lecture for sanity in the form of online news reports. First, BBC tells… Read More »Comment: Martha’s hotness isn’t news
