Dan’s Landing

There are nine candidates for MSU president this year which is quite a turn out compared to previous years. MacInsiders has a few threads dedicated to the election so I encourage you to check out their site for links to the candidate’s website/Facebook groups.

I attended the second MSU presidential debate yesterday at 12:30pm in Gilmour [...]

Poster welcoming Rick Mercer

Rick Mercer, known for The Mercer Report and Talking to Americans graced the squash courts of the David Braley Athletic Centre.

Rick Mercer playing squash at McMaster

He was there filming a segment for his show which will air next week (or the week after).
I managed to grab some video of him [...]

The time when McMaster University students try to change or add courses to their timetables and are locked out because the server cannot handle more than X connections.

At least they have a warning message unlike previous years. Why can’t this university’s IT department get its act together? How many students could there possibly [...]

…Homelessness
McMaster students are once again embarking on the pointless exercise of sleeping outside the McMaster University Student Centre for a week. In an effort to “draw their fellow students’ attention to the fact that true homelessness is a serious problem in Hamilton and across Canada,” (read: add to their resumes that they camped out, the [...]

McMaster University is always fun to write about. McMaster administration is a veritable collection of stooges (and in my mind they walk in packs of 3 and look like Larry, Moe and Curly but you know, more than three).

In June 2007, the Board of Governor’s approved a fee of $40 to be charged to students [...]