Iranian human rights lawyer delivers her vision
Democracy and human rights are universal needs that are essential for peace around the globe, Shirin Ebadi said Saturday to an audience of McGill alumni, professors, and students. Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist who has been imprisoned more than once for her activism, and last year she became the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
High demand for services leaves students waiting
An increase in demand at the McGill Student Mental Health and Counselling Services has waiting periods lengthening and staff overworked. At Mental Health, where demand doubled between 1999 and 2003, competition for the limited space available has become so fierce that the department is now sending many students to the non-profit Argyle Institute.
Muslim Students' Association will lose room in Peterson Hall
At the end of next May, Muslim students will no longer have a prayer space on campus, and as the deadline to find new space approaches, students and administrators are disagreeing over who should provide a new one. For the past two years, Muslim students and faculty have been praying in a room in the basement of Peterson Hall.
Petition asks for suspension of three campaigning rules
The Daily Publications Society submitted a petition to the Judicial Board Friday that asks for three campaign by-laws to be suspended in the upcoming referenda pertaining to the Daily. This petition was filed on behalf of Coordinating Editor Daniel Cohen and fellow DPS Board of Directors member Marie-Eve Clavet.
Jaywalkers could pay the price
Students have resurrected the vintage video game known as Frogger-but it could end up costing more than a few quarters. At the corner of rue Metcalfe and rue Sherbrooke, where construction has torn up the intersection and crosswalk, they assemble on both sides of the street, waiting for the right moment to jump in.
A psychologist and human sexuality expert at Brock University has found that one in 100 people have no interest in sex at all. l In a recent speech, McGill Principal Heather Munroe-Blum said that the university's goal of being one of the top 10 research universities in the world is within reach.
First-rate physicist discusses his research on atoms
McGill's scientific community received a double dose of Nobel insight last week. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics and professor of atomic and molecular physics at the Collège de France in Paris, delivered a pair of lectures to packed audiences on the properties of interactions between light and matter.
If the city agrees, the street will become a pedestrian mall
McGill's plans to turn rue McTavish into a pedestrian walkway have gone largely unnoticed by the city of Montreal, despite the university's formal announcement of the proposal to the Quebec Education Commission three weeks ago. "I've never heard of [the plan]," Ville-Marie borough spokesperson Michel Champoux said.
The insatiable hunger of growthmania
"We must build an appetite for conservation, not consumption." - Jane Goodall, Globe and Mail (Oct. 13) The traditional economic Weltanschauung takes growth to be a panacea-a silver bullet for all that ails the world. Want to eliminate poverty? Growth increases income.
Discussing human rights and religion Students explored the relationship between human rights and religion at a discussion group hosted by the Association for Baha'i Studies Thursday night. "The question is, can individual human rights be a universal ideal?" said Lisa Kirsh, U3 International Development Studies, who is writing her honours thesis on the universality of human rights and how they pertain to several religions.
Student fees should show results. Especially when the main premis of the fee is that it will be timely and benefit the students who are paying it. Proposed renovations to the Sports Complex, slated to have been completed last month, have still not begun, and university administrators admit they have no idea when they will start.