Vintage collection of Silhouettes proves that the more things change…
Former MPP Garfield Dunlop with a bound collection of Silhouette newspapers from 1975. Dunlop purchased the collection and has given it to McMaster.
The health of Cootes Paradise. Rallies for social justice issues. Making campus more bike-friendly.
Sound familiar?
These issues – of concern to many in 2016 – were also some of the hottest topics covered by reporters at The Silhouette in 1975.
A bound collection of every paper from that year was recently discovered at an antique shop by Garfield Dunlop, the former MPP for Simcoe North and current education and safety advisor to Ontario PC Party Leader Patrick Brown.
Dunlop passed the collection along to the University.
Other Silhouette stories of note include the introduction of a telephone-based peer-support line (sound familiar?), coverage of the Marlins hockey team and a discussion about the rights of smokers on campus.
The former critic for Training, College and Universities, previously made another unique contribution to the University.
Last year he learned that students in the Integrated Science Program were studying the pileated woodpecker to better understand head trauma. The woodpeckers are frequent visitors at his property so he sent along a piece of a tree with holes made by the woodpecker to help the students with their studies and research.
