September 22, 2005
September 22, 2005 McGill University
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Cover boy Murray McKay does his Paris runway model act for a freehand drawing class for architecture students. Part of the School of Architecture's curriculum since it opened in 1896, 'life drawing' is designed to develop in students a love of drawing and an appreciation for its power as a mechanism for understanding the world.
Owen Egan
Sports complex flexes muscle
Pilates enthusiasts, martial artists and barbell devotees have a vastly
improved space in which to practice at McGill's Fitness Centre. Plus, just
how did an architect become interim athletics director?
Katrina's victims welcomed
New Orleans' Tulane University students to study at McGill until their school
reopens.
O'Brien invests in human rights
Philanthropist and Faculty of Law alumnus David O'Brien creates major
fellowship awards for new McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.
Sex and the city
Novelist William Weintraub takes on McGill and Montreal in the '40s with a
bit of zip, bump 'n' grind.
Everything you wanted to know about… just about everything
Classes Without Quizzes needn't intimidate those returning to school for the
first time in decades for Homecoming. As well, the fun and educational
lectures are open to all the McGill community.
Sounds of the future
McGill's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology
will scale new heights of digital expertise and plumb new depths of sound
understanding.
Legacy of exploration and discovery
The Faculty of Arts has launched an interdisciplinary program for undergrads.
The pleasure will clearly be in the voyage, not the destination.
Sept. 14 Senate: Librarian tenure, sexual diversity and human rights
The first session of the academic year saw vigorous discussion over the
tenure process of librarians, and shoo-in approval for a minor in sexual
diversity and a new centre for human rights and legal pluralism.
Fiske plugs McGill
The Fiske Guide to Colleges gives McGill an enthusiastic thumbs-up.
Letters
In focus
Student and staffer Joseph Kimani swims against the tide at world championships; how to get worms to turn garbage into fertilizing gold
Janine Schmidt, Trenholme Director of Libraries
Books, e-zones and beyond Google: Schmidt talks about the many developments at McGill libraries.
Around campus
McLennan illuminated; Remembering amnesia saga; March of 1,000 umbrellas; Public experiments, private doubts; Parent of Pi
