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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Two Days of Protest Against Four Days of Furlough at Lakehead University

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

[A version of this post was published in the December-January edition of the MUFA Newsletter] On December 20-21, I went to Lakehead University in Thunder Bay as representative of MUFA to participate in a protest against the Lakehead administration’s decision to put faculty and staff on a four-day furlough to save money. The protest was [...]

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CLIR Workshop in Washington DC

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

From December 14-16, I had the distinct pleasure of traveling, with McMaster’s Chief Librarian, Jeff Trzeciak, to Washington D.C. for the annual workshop of the Council on Library and Information Resources. It was an amazingly good workshop, held in the Cosmos Club, in D.C. – a club whose members are all somehow linked to science, [...]

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Liberal Caucus Christmas Party

Thursday, December 10, 2009

On December 9, I went to the Liberal Caucus Christmas Party, which was  a really nice time. The snow storm that hit on the day of the drive up something right out of an action thriller and a drive that should have taken about 5 hours took more like 7. I got a late start [...]

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Terry Fallis Visits Hamilton

Monday, December 7, 2009

Today was a very literary day. I got a chance to meet Terry Fallis and listen to him read excerpts from his first book, The Best Laid Plans. Terry is a McMaster alumnus (Engineering), a former political staffer and organiser and is current one of the principals at Thornley-Fallis, a marketing agency based in Toronto. [...]

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Communication Studies and Multimedia Christmas Party 2009!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Tonight was the CSMM Christmas Party, organised by the Communication Studies and Multimedia Students Society. It was a great time. The students booked a room in 1280, McMaster’s newly-renovated undergraduate student pub, which used to be called Quarters. At first, there was a little noise, as just beside us, the Social Sciences students were having [...]

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