We here at the McGill Tribune are dedicated to community service. As such, we have taken it upon ourselves to share certain people's holiday wish lists with the general student body. It took months of planning, but we were able to break into Santa's office and steal the wish lists just for you, dear readers.
Remember puberty? With bodies changing and hormones racing, who didn't love those early years of sexual development? Not to mention those laughable health classes, where we learned about boy bodies, girl bodies and "sexual reproduction." I don't know about the rest of you, but somewhere during my elementary school's lesson about how "sex is a wonderful gift from God that adults share when they're in love," we all picked up on the do's and don'ts of safe sex.
On the evening news since the taser incident last fall, and in the wake of Robert Dziekānski's death this October, electroshock weapons have been making headlines as the foremost threat to individual rights and public safety (with the Jigsaw Killer coming in a close second).
While many scheme about how to get what they want in life, I more often find myself pondering, "What is it that I want?" Whenever I voice these concerns to my dad, he immediately launches into a speech about how these years are meant for asking such questions.
A generation ago, the mention of sex-let alone the use of contraceptives-was taboo in mainstream media. Nowadays however, advertisers push condoms, birth control pills and other forms of contraception as if they are a form of self-expression, and even ZoomMedia-the bane of the student anti-corporatization movement-is helping to promote Plan B, or "the morning-after pill.
The Gandalf vs Dumbledore smackdown
Ladies and gentlemen, here it is-the long-awaited smack-down between Dumbledore, former head of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and wizardry, Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, Order of Merlin 1st class; and Gandalf the Grey, Mithrandir, head of the gathering storm.
Le Délit takes offence The editorial board of McGill's francophone newspaper Le Délit takes great issue with the letter of Mr. Lucas Kilravey, published in the Nov. 13 edition of The McGill Tribune. This letter should not have been published. Mr. Kilravey's letter inappropriately attacks Le Délit's coordinating news editor, Zoé Gagnon-Paquin, in a manner that is beyond the bounds of acceptable limit, containing inaccuracies, distortions and outrageous comments.