Fagstein » McGill http://blog.fagstein.com Can you think of a better name? Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:03:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Snowball fight tonight at 7 http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/12/20/snowball-fight-tonight-at-7/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/12/20/snowball-fight-tonight-at-7/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:27:46 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/12/20/snowball-fight-tonight-at-7/ It’s a bit last-minute, but a snowball fight is being organized (Facebook link) at McGill at 7pm. They’re meeting just inside the Roddick Gates on Sherbrooke at the James McGill statue.

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]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/12/20/snowball-fight-tonight-at-7/feed/ What’s in a university’s name? http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/10/30/whats-in-a-universitys-name/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/10/30/whats-in-a-universitys-name/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:10:20 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/10/30/whats-in-a-universitys-name/ McGill has a bug up its butt.

The university, whose name has apparently been left unprotected for almost 200 years, has begun clamping down on the use of the name “McGill” by organizations on campus. It started with CKUT, which was blackmailed into dropping “McGill” from its name last month. Now they’re reviewing all student-run groups, forcing them into mounds of paperwork to justify using the McGill name in theirs.

Concordia University has had a similar policy (PDF) since 2001, with one significant difference: Concordia’s policy grandfathered existing student groups, and as far as I can tell they don’t sweat the small stuff: Only for-profit enterprises and large groups bother with approval.

McGill’s move is just silly. Well-intentioned, but silly. A student club devoted to stamp-collecting at McGill is obviously going to call itself the McGill Stamp-Collecting Club or something similar, just for clarity’s sake. The name implies only that it is at McGill, not that it is run by McGill’s administration. Requiring such a complicated process as board approval will only create unnecessary work for volunteers and discourage students from creating social clubs on campus.

McGill says they’re “reviewing” the policy. Let’s hope they come up with some sane guidelines that have more to do with encouraging a vibrant and active student populace than it does with over-regulation and paperwork.

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]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/10/30/whats-in-a-universitys-name/feed/ Journal still trying to manufacture scandal http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/09/18/journal-still-trying-to-manufacture-scandal/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/09/18/journal-still-trying-to-manufacture-scandal/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:28:01 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/09/18/journal-still-trying-to-manufacture-scandal/ As Kate so succinctly points out, the Journal de Montréal is taking yesterday’s OMG-McGill-is-giving-out-free-cocaine!!!111oneone story and republishing it with little new information to try and get people to agree with them that it’s a scandal. So far other media are talking about the story, but with the seriousness it deserves. They’re studying a drug, and unfortunately that means people have to take it under controlled conditions.

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]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/09/18/journal-still-trying-to-manufacture-scandal/feed/ CKUT license renewed until 2014 http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/08/15/ckut-license-renewed-until-2014/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/08/15/ckut-license-renewed-until-2014/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:42:25 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=661 The folks at CKUT Radio-McGill can rest easy. The CRTC today renewed their license for seven years until 2014, with only a minor change to its Canadian content rules. The decision also includes “suggestions” (to have board positions be longer than a year) and “reminders” (that board positions must be mostly university community members and at least 80% Canadian citizens).

Oh yeah, and make sure not to be discriminatory and stuff, even though you weren’t actually discriminatory before.

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]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/08/15/ckut-license-renewed-until-2014/feed/ Can you get aroused with probes on your penis? http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/27/can-you-get-aroused-with-probes-in-your-penis/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/27/can-you-get-aroused-with-probes-in-your-penis/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:42:18 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=570 All sorts of medical studies ask strange things of their guinea pigs. Taking new pills, sleeping, not sleeping, changing their eating habits.

But I hope the compensatory indemnity was high for the group who volunteered to have their sexual arousal monitored by taking readings of their penises, in a study to show whether circumsized men are less sensitive. The conclusion: they’re not.

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]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/07/27/can-you-get-aroused-with-probes-in-your-penis/feed/ So you can pass out while unconscious? http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/04/02/so-you-can-pass-out-while-unconscious/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/04/02/so-you-can-pass-out-while-unconscious/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:49:19 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=226 The McGill Daily has an interesting look at the science behind alcohol-induced blackouts.

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