McMaster University

McMaster University is a medium-sized research-intensive university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with an enrollment of 16,771 full-time and 3,599 part-time students (as of 2004).

Student life

Full-time undergraduate students belong to the McMaster Students Union, which operates a pub and publishes a broadsheet newspaper called The Silhouette. It also funds scores of other clubs, associations and societies organized by academic department, ethnic origin or extracurricular interest. Part of a larger body of environmental groups on campus, McMaster is one of only two universities in Canada that has a bicycle cooperative.

Related Topics:
McMaster Students Union - Newspaper - The Silhouette - Cooperative

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The university's campus radio station is CFMU.

Related Topics:
Campus radio - CFMU

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Welcome week is something special to look forward at McMaster. In 2005, the theme for welcome week was "Make Mac Yours". It is an important aspect of student life that it is highly regarded as a showcase of school-spirit. First-year students are in for a funfilled week, that will definitely give students a lifetime of good memories.

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Other student groups on campus include the McMaster Association of Part-time Students and the Graduate Students Association.

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McMaster students have a history of being innovators. For example:

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In 1991, during the first Gulf War, hundreds of students created a tent city in the middle of winter in the central commons in support of peace.

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McMaster's Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada chapter gained recognition through the 1990's when they pioneered rock and roll church services in the campus bars (i.e. Church in the John - named for the Downstairs John bar in Wentworth House) moving to larger and larger bars as the popularity of these events grew. In the mid 1990's, these monthly events were attracting thousands of students from all over Ontario and parts of New York, eventually spawning similar events at universities throughout the province.

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McMaster is the home to the McMaster Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (Canada), one of the fastest growing chapters in Canada.

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McMaster's Student Centre proudly displays the innovative Iron Ring Clock, designed and built by four Mechanical Engineering students as their final-year thesis project in 2003. Money for the clock was donated from a variety of local citizens and businesses. The clock contains what is believed to be the largest iron ring in the world as in integral part of the mechanism. The clock is located over the North entrance to the Student Centre, against a bank of windows which provide backlighting to the stained-glass University crest, the centrepiece of the clock.

Related Topics:
Iron Ring Clock - Clock - Iron ring

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