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April 6, 2005

University Librarian begins new chapter

Graham Hill remembers Jan. 2, 1971 well. It was a blustery snowy day on McMaster's campus when he started his first day on the job as a reference librarian in the serials department. Thirty-four years later, on the verge of retiring from the library's top post, he reminisces about that day, when things were quite a bit different. "When I started at McMaster almost everything was printed on paper and we worked with punch cards and telexes," he says. "I would say the advent of digital technology is the biggest change I have seen."

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April 6, 2005

Classes end at McMaster

Students have closed their books on the 2004-05 academic term. Classes ended Wednesday, April 6, and students will now prepare to write a total of 72,641 exams from April 8-26. Exams will be held at 8 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. each day, excluding Sundays. For the exam schedule, click here. Due to construction activities on Main Street West and at the Ivor Wynne Centre, students are encouraged to leave early and allow extra time when traveling to campus to write exams.

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April 5, 2005

Kinesiology student presented Liam Stevens Award

Kinesiology student Matt Wood was honoured on Sunday evening, as this year's recipient of the Liam Stevens Award. The award was presented at the McMaster Marauders Courtside Club year-end banquet, by Liam's parents, Angela and Dale Stevens. Wood, a long-time manager of the men's basketball team, donned the maroon and gray uniform for the last half of the 2004/2005 season.

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April 5, 2005

Suzuki praises McMaster for its ‘green’ campus

David Suzuki helped McMaster celebrate the midway point of a comprehensive campus initiative to make the University's buildings and grounds more environmentally healthy and energy efficient. McMaster is the only university in Ontario to embark on such a large-scale rehabilitation project. At his lecture on "Rediscovering Our Place in the World", attended by more than 500 people, Suzuki had praise for McMaster's initiative.

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April 5, 2005

Professor appointed editor-in-chief of new Canadian journal

A new Canadian journal is being launched to address the need for dialogue about the development, implementation and impact of health care policy. McMaster University professor Brian Hutchison has been selected as the first editor-in-chief of the new quarterly journal, Healthcare Policy, which will produce its first issue in the early fall this year.

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