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The ninth-ranked McGill Martlets won two games out of three but, because of the tourna m ent’s form at, finished 5th of eight teams at the 32nd Annual Theresa Humes Invitational Tournament held at Concordia Arena last week-end. With five of the eight partic ipating teams ranked among the top . ten in the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union, the tournam ent allow ed the Martlets to kick start the second half of their season by facing some of the best com petition in Canadian varsity women’s hockey. “Coming off a two or threeweek break it really helps you to start focusing back on hockey,” said Martlets centre Julie Hornsby. “It helps you determ ine where you’re at as far as team play and where you’d like to be in a few weeks. We know we don’t have a lot of time before the playoffs where we have to pace UQTR for the Nationals.” “Rather than playing league games and teams we’ve already played, we have a chance to play teams we haven’t faced,” she con tinued. “We can kind of set our own standards and we can build on those standards when we play familiar teams.” They would be put to the test soon enough as they drew the third-ranked Calgary Dinosaurs in the opening match, which they lost 2-1 in a thrilling shoot-out. After giving up the first goal 49 seconds into the first period, the Martlets and their Team Canada goaltender Kim St-Pierre shut down the Dino offence for the rest of regulation time. Hornsby obtained the lone McGill goal midway through the third period to force a scoreless overtime and the shoot-out.
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Has an era of privatization arrived at McGill? Faculty o f Science rejects prop osal fo r a p riv a te lib e ra l arts co lleg e w ith in u n ive rs ity B y T a s h a Em m e r t o n
A proposal for the creation of a private liberal arts college at McGill, tentatively named McGill College International, was rejected at the Faculty of Science’s general meeting on December 7th, 1999. The MCI Committee is made up of McGill professors and staff and has been actively working on the idea since April of last year. They developed a plan that would see the creation of a college of lib eral arts and sciences separate from any existing McGill programs. If this college were successful , MCI could potentially grow to include other faculties as well. The college would be funded entirely by its own tuition fees, which have been estimated at about $28,000 per year. It would focus on international content and target international stu dents. In addition, the plan calls for
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the creation of scholarships and bur saries funded by the tuition for the program. Although there would likely be revisions to the plan if it ever came into effect, it lays out specific details of how the program would be structured. The suggested curriculum would require that all students take both arts and science courses. Students would earn a B.A. or B.Sc. degree, or a combined B.A./B.Sc. degree, depending on how the pro gram would be implemented. The core would include arts and science courses, with other electives avail able. Among the anticipated subjects are literature, languages, history, economics, logic, music, art, chem istry, biology, technology and a set of global studies courses. Students would also participate in a four month internship, write a 10,000 word thesis and take a comprehen sive written and oral exam at the
end of their final year. The result, according to the report, would be a very broad based degree. The proposal suggests that the program would eventually grow to include 3,000 students, many of whom would be international. It would aim to attract top candidates with an International Baccalaureate or who had high marks in grade twelve or on the SAT. Students would be taught in small classes by recent doctoral graduates who had not yet found more permanent posi tions. They would live in residence for at least two years so classes and discussions could be held in the evenings. Despite this detailed plan, many questions and concerns remain about MCI or any plan for privatization at McGill. The motion that was rejected by the Faculty of Science on December 7th would have provided for the establishment of a committee with representation
from all departments and from the student body to “consider the pro posal that McGill establish a private liberal arts college within McGill”. Andrew Kovacs, President of the Science Undergraduate Society of McGill, believes that the pro posed committee may have been helpful in allowing the Faculty of Science to form a position on priva tization regardless of whether it supported MCI. “I supported the motion because the motion was to form a working group to discuss this. While I am not in favour of privati zation, I am in favour of opening up dialogue. I don’t think its an issue that’s going to go away, especially given that British Columbia has a private college and Ontario is con sidering allowing private institu tions.” One of the primary concerns Continued on page 4
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