September 12, 2008
Vol. 136, Issue 6

(Emily Sicilia)

Selling education short

Some McMaster University students have allegedly been selling their seats in courses to fellow students, McMaster’s student newspaper, the Silhouette, reported in April.

‘Village’ term misleading

The student Ghetto has been renamed the Village in all institutional references, AMS Municipal Affairs Commissioner Paul Tye said Sept. 9. The change means AMS initiatives such as the Key to the Ghetto awards will remove references to the term.

Don’t have a little faith

Next year will mark 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years since the publication of On the Origins of Species. Biologists have since discovered DNA and mapped the human genome, yet Darwin’s theory of evolution is still under attack. Creationism, or Intelligent Design if you wish to delude yourself, argues that life is too complex to have developed through natural processes, leaving God as the obvious designer.

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