Annual BGSA Holiday PARTY!!!!!!!!!

Biology Holiday Party

Thursday, December 10^th, 2009 - 5:00 pm

Thompson House, 3650 McTavish

Let’s celebrate the season with a night of

departmental drinking, dining and dancing!

It's that time of the year again! Come for a night of dinner, dancing, games, prizes, kid's crafts and performances by your colleagues/students/labmates!!

We have a full evening planned so don't forget to:

Buy a ticket!

Bring a dessert for the dessert potluck contest - fabulous prizes to be won!

Bring a gift you would like Santa to distribute to your kid/supervisor/labmate/colleague

Non perishable food items for donation to a local food bank

Ticket Prices

Faculty $15

Staff and Post-Docs $12

Grad students $8

Kids (4+) $4

Significant others, kids, friends and family are all welcome! There will be activities for the kids! Significant others pay the same price as the person purchasing the tickets.

Adult ticket prices include one drink ticket!

Get your tickets from:

- Lydiane Gaborieau Stewart N5/12

- Monica Radovski Stewart W6/15

- Michael Noujaim Bellini 235

- Kiyoko Gotanda Redpath 008

For more info contact Lydiane (lydiane.gaborieau{at}mail.mcgill.ca).

Ray Comfort, Origin of Species and Creationism

Hello fellow biologists

Los Angeles-based creationist Ray Comfort plans to distribute thousands of free copies of Darwin's On the Origin of Species to students at 100 U.S. universities on November 19th. The same event will take place in at least 21 Canadian universities (including McGill) on November 24th.

This version of On the Origin of Species includes a 54-page introduction written by Comfort which contains false information and old Creationist arguments which you can read here:
http://assets.livingwaters.com/pdf/OriginofSpecies.pdf

For more information, please see the NCSE site for more information.
http://ncse.com/dont-diss-darwin

The NCSE made fliers and bookmarks containing correct information and the reasons why Ray Comfort is wrong.

While we have been unable to locate the place where the books will be distributed, we think it would be great if we could find them and hand out flyers on the 24th. Students across Canada are mobilizing at Universities where the books are reported to be distributed.

PGSS update

Hi BGSA Members,

I'm writing to you from beautiful Mac campus with news from the Post-Graduate Student Society of McGill University (PGSS):

CFS REFORM & MEMBERSHIP
The current PGSS VP External has submitted proposals to reform many of the policies and procedures of the Canadian Federation of Students.
At the same time, a petition has been submitted to the PGSS to hold a referendum on whether or not the PGSS should de-federate (i.e. cease to be members of and pay membership fees to) the Canadian Federation
of Students.
More information at: http://pgss.mcgill.ca/EAC/index.html

QUESTIONS FOR PRINCIPAL HEATHER MUNROE-BLUM?
The Principal of the University, Heather Munroe-Blum, will be at the next PGSS Council meeting and be available to answer questions. Council will be collecting questions and choose which ones to ask our Principal. There will also hopefully be time for her to take questions from the floor, if there is time available.
Do you have a question you'd like to ask our Principal? Let us know!

Cheers,

PGSS Councillors for Biology
Jonathan Whiteley
Caitlin Friesen
Michael Noujaim

Pumpkin carving pictures are up!

Thanks to all who came out to this year's pumpkin carving contest! It was a great success and I'm sure some inter-lab friendships/rivalries have been formed.

Congratulations to the winners!
1st place: Colin Chapman Lab!
2nd place: Rudiger Krahe Lab!
3rd place: a joint effort by members of the Moon/Lasko/Dankort labs!

And a special thanks goes out to Kiyoko and Dragana for organizing the fun event.

Check out the pictures in the BGSA Picasa web album by clicking on the title of this post :)