McGill Daily Newspaper Index
The following articles were written at McGill University, for the student paper when I was having fun as a Rabble Rouser. They cover the time from 1955, when I was a student at McGill, through my early teaching career in McGill's Mathematics Department. I stopped writing for the paper in the early seventies. At that time the conservative student government fired the whole Daily staff as being too radical and so the paper lost its thread of continuity. But McGill's conservatives had neither the energy nor the attention span to put out a newspaper themselves and so its corpse was taken over by the Maoists who felt that publishing articles by a reactionary in his forties (like me) would not be responsible journalism.
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1955 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1955 Oct 17: Career Women: an introduction to multigamy.
In the fall of 1955, when I was a senior in mathematics at McGill University I decided to join the staff of the student newspaper, the McGill Daily, for a little intellectual fun. My lovely wife, Mireille, was about to give birth to my son Dani and I was thinking about families in a science-fictional way. There are many possible forms of family. This was the first time I wrote about the kind of multiple marriage that I later used as the social basis for my novel "Courtship Rite."
1955 Oct 21 The Sins of Christianity
As a 26-year-old I despised the smug Christian attitude that if a Christian was a monster it was because he was human, but that if he was good it was because he was a Christian. I felt then, and still do, that a faulty Christian is the product of a faulty theology. If a religion produces monsters it can be traced to something monstrous in the religion.
1955 Oct 24 The Immorality of God
My young mind was never convinced that the mysteries which I didn't understand were a proof of God's existence. As Einstein said, it is important to have simplicity in our explanations -- as long as they are not too simple. To me the concept of a God who can do anything is a simplistic cop-out. It is an explanation which covers everything and consequently explains nothing. In this article I had my fun by assuming that the Bible really did define the nature of God and really was His Word. On that assumption He doesn't turn out to be a nice guy. The article gave me a certain notoriety on campus, and I was challenged to various public debates.
1955 Oct 31 The Radical and the University
I consider myself to be someone with radical views, but have a jaundiced view of most radical positions. A conservative is safe because he follows evolutionary wisdom -- his views may be deficient, and even inappropriate to the "modern" era, but they have been tested by time. A radical has to think because his ideas have yet to be validated by the evolutionary process. Most young radicals never bother to make the effort to learn how to think. They "fly" by jumping out of airplanes sans parachute. Splat!
1955 Nov 11 One Hundred Crumbs
University English departments are always trying to teach their woefully illiterate freshmen how to write -- usually with little success. At McGill they instituted a course with the catalog number 100C. I had to take it and this was my advice to new freshmen. I deliberately chose to violate all the grammar rules that I knew, and much to my horror found that the student copy editor at the McGill Daily was so shaken that he didn't dare make any corrections, and so the article was printed with all my deliberate irreverence plus a lot of ungrammatical typos. I have copyedited the piece so that only my "errors" remain.
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1956 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1956 Jan 20 Justice and Morality
1956 Feb 03 By Request (a photo)
1956 Feb 10 Come Ze Revolution (humor)
1956 Feb 13 Gutter University
1956 Feb 20 A Study of Censorship
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1956 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1956 Nov 07 The Failure of Religion
1956 Nov 16 Evolution
1956 Nov 22 Technology No Sign of Culture (letter)
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1957 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1957 Oct 10 The Silent Generation (editorial)
1957 Oct 28 The Conservative's Role
1957 Nov 07 All For Love
1957 Nov 18 Body and Soul (editorial)
1957 Nov 28 Corby's and the Little Boy
1957 Dec 02 Our Loud Friend (editorial)
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1958 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1958 Feb 03 Communication
1958 Feb 06 The Deviant and Society
1958 Feb 19 Experimental Morality
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1960 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1960 May 24 Two Fables
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1961 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1961 Feb 08 A New Religion? -- Scientology
1961 Feb 09 Scientology and Opposition
1961 Feb 10 ISRAEL versus JORDAN: A Scientological. Solution
1962 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1962 Oct 26 Education Without Lectures
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1963 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1963 Feb 13 Your Sins and Insanity
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1965 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1965 Feb 26 The Verification of Psychotherapy
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1965 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1965 Oct 29 Fossils in McGill's Structure
1965 Nov 26 A New University
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1966 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1966 Jan 25 Organize to Effect Reforms (news)
1966 Jan 26 The Thring (letter)
1966 Feb 21 Take Gas (letter)
1966 Feb 26 Summer Revolution
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1966 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1966 Aug 06 Students Aim to Revise McGill (Montreal Star)
1966 Sep 30 Questions the Course Guide Raises
1966 Sep 30 The Lecture Hall: Imperatives of Change
(by Mark Wilson & John Fekete)
1966 Oct 27 Student Gets Apple (letter)
1966 Oct 28 McGill Conference on Teaching Affairs (Wilson)
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1967 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1967 Feb 08 What Will McGill Be Like in 1987?
1967 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1967 Sep 25 Scientist Wins Professor's Raft (news)
1967 Oct 30 We Send Her To The Butcher Shop
1967 Nov 23 Where The Real Obscenity Lies
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1968 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1968 Jan 29 Kingsbury Report (news)
1968 Jan 29 And It Is Constructive (editorial)
1968 Feb 14 What Is the Matter With Old McGill?
1968 Mar 01 A Hard Look At Old McGill
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1968 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1968 Septem Pregnancy & Social Action (BCH)
1968 Oct 04 Does the Course Guide Do Its Job?
1968 Nov 22 Why Students Don't Learn
1968 Dec 13 An Experiment In Education
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1969 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1969 Jan 31 Spoken French By 1971
1969 Feb 03 A Letter for Desn Woods
1969 Feb 11 The Plague Will Continue
1969 Mar 14 Psychology 200 Is Obsolete
1969 Mar 23 French Now (letter to McGill Reporter)
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1969 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1969 Oct 08 Kingsbury on Course Design (Plumber's Pot)
1969 Oct 16 Honesty & the Reporter
1969 Oct 22 How the Law Handles Women
1969 Nov 12 Educational Reform: the Beachhead
1969 Nov 14 A Mathematics Learning Center (McGill Reporter)
1969 Nov 24 Environment Power (news)
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1970 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1970 Mar 05 The Learner Oriented Resource Center
1970 Mar 13 McGill (cartoon by George Kopp)
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1970 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1970 Oct 26 A Deadline for Change at McGill
1970 Nov 02 Into Battle at High Moon (letter)
1970 Nov 18 Building a Brain for McGill
1970 Nov 23 A Brain for McGill: first step (news)
1970 Nov 24 Claptrap (A cartoon by George Kopp)
1971 SPRING SEMESTER MCGILL DAILY
1971 Mar 04 The Learning Center Package
1972 FALL SEMESTER McGILL DAILY
1972 Sep 01 Breeding Curiosity (McGill News)
