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Running out of room in Ghetto and residences Jam es Grohsgal
JENNY GEORGE
Students arriving in Montreal this week hoping to find affordable apartments close to school are fac ing the tightest housing market in decades. This is happening particu larly in the McGill Ghetto, the area east of campus bounded by Sherbrooke Street, University Street, Avenue des Pins, and Avenue du Parc. Others are living in temporary accomodation until McGill Residences give them a room. Ditte Sayers a U0 “temp” in a Solin Hall 2 1/2, considers herself lucky to have a room, as 6 students are sleeping in bunk beds in the basement. “They’re calling it Camp Solin,” said Sayers. “They look like refugees down there.” While first year students received special assistance from McGill Residences, and returning students had the chance to sign
leases in the spring, incoming international and exchange stu dents may find it hard to lease an apartment or get a roommate, especially for students staying for only one semester. After the housing guarantee for qualified first-year applicants was dropped two years ago, stu dents have been chosen for resi dences by a lottery system, with 85 percent of incoming students receiving housing through McGill Residences. The remaining 15 per cent, approximately 300 students, have been matched with apart ments in the McGill Ghetto. McGill has five dormitories for new students: Douglas, McConnell, Molson and Gardner Halls, and Royal Victoria College, together housing 1100 students. McGill Residences also has apart ments and shared facility space for 600 students at Solin Hall near the Lionel-Groulx Metro, in See LACK, page 3
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“I have never let my school ing interfere with my educa tion. ” - M a r k Tw ain
Roberta Yeo
McGill was the only Canadian university to appear on a list of “hot” colleges released by Newsweek and Kaplan Education Services Provider this August, raising the ire of those at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario who feel that their institution was more deserv ing. The list of 12 colleges, which includes both well-known schools such as the University of California
at Santa Barbara and smaller insti tutions, namely Davidson College in North Carolina, cites McGill’s location as a major part of its appeal. List authors Barbara Kantrowitz and Susan Smalley describe Montreal as “a popular col lege town that’s exotic yet still rela tively close to home for students from the Northeastern states.” However, location was only one criteria for list winners. The article claims schools making the list were those offering “excellent
academics at more affordable prices” than private Ivy League schools. It was McGill’s compari son to one of those Ivy League schools that drew the most criticism from Queen’s. The article opens with the commonly-made assertion that McGill is the “Harvard of Canada.” Queen’s alumnus Mike Lindsay, president of the school’s alma mater society, offered a rebut tal in the August 27 edition of the National Post, claiming that
Queen’s students “love to call them selves the Harvard of the North” and that Newsweeks comparison of McGill with Harvard would be a “devastating blow” to the universi ty’s students. He further argued that Queen’s had more in common with the Massachusetts school, including a high academic admission require ment and historical campus archi tecture. While Principal Shapiro could have readily argued that McGill also See M cGILL, page 2
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