Tekes raise 10k for MD: Big-hearted brothers from the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity camped out on March 24-25 and raised $10,000 for the Action Centre, a drop-in spot in LaSalle for the physically disabled, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. They kicked off their Teke in a Box overnighter with a comedy show in the Hall Building. The tarp-covered shelter can be seen in the background.
Photo by Gregory Fretz
New chairs boost research
Concordia has just acquired seven new Canada Research Chairs, bring the university’s total to 10. All the recipients are on the cutting edge of their fields of study, and will greatly enhance the university’s research profile.
Mark A. Ellenbogen, CRC in Psychopathology, looks at what makes children vulnerable to social, academic and mental health problems. He looks at the developmental antecedents of behavioural and emotional problems in high-risk adolescents and young adults. He comes to us from the Université de Montréal. More
Lillian Robinson with a candy dispenser, one of many commercial products licenced using the likeness of Wonder Woman.
Photo by Andrew Dobrowolskyj
A critical look at the Wonder Woman myth
Contemporary feminists seeking models of female empowerment should look in the direction of the comic book aisle. This is just what Simone de Beauvoir Principal Lillian Robinson did for her latest work, Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes, released March 22.
In a tribute to Wonder Woman, Robinson offers a thoughtful cultural critique of the female stars of American mainstream comic books, situating them within More
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In this issue
- Students re-imagine Griffintown
- SSHRC consultation raises many questions for researchers
- Applications are up: Vo-Van
- Chris Wilds comes home for a Canada Research Chair
- Little to cheer about for universities in budgets
- 10th anniversary marked of Rwandan genocide
- Street-savvy Beat Boxer pulls no verbal punches
- Connecting the dots: Concordia PhD student wins top prize for world's fastest FIM data mining program
- CCSL celebrates those who enhance campus life
- Garnet Key celebrate another year of wearing red blazers
- Recipe for business success
- Student journalists love to debate their craft
- AI brings mind to bear on matter
- Dismantling apartheid without retribution
- There are secrets to marketing the Habs
- ASFA Awards are a first
- Paquette, Dugrenier are Stinger idols for 2003-04
- Stingers roundup