Sena Ho

1 month ago | mcgilldaily.com | Sena Ho

On March 7, the American Joint Task Force to Combat Anti- Semitism – which includes members from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the General Services Administration (GSA) – effectively threatens to cancel 400 million USD in federal grants to Columbia University.

2 months ago | mcgilldaily.com | Sena Ho

With the advent of larger cuts at McGill, teaching assistants (TAs) in the Faculty of Arts are expected to experience a 15-20 per cent cut in hourly wages. The Daily spoke with Donald Morard, a third-year PhD student in the History department at McGill, on the details and implications of these cuts for the Arts, and for positions within the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM).

2 months ago | mcgilldaily.com | Sena Ho

At a town hall meeting on February 7, McGill President Deep Saini, Vice-President Fabrice Labeau, and Provost Christopher Manfredi announced a $45 million budget cut for the upcoming 2025-26 fiscal year. The university has been facing financial pressures from the Quebec government that have led to the current $15 million deficit.

Jan 20, 2025 | mcgilldaily.com | Sena Ho

Inez Victor embodies everything, and yet nothing, about the flaws in our current political system. Her story, told through fragmented moments that jump anytime between the 1950s and March of 1975, becomes a very obvious stand-in for the fragility of memory in both the political climate and one’s personal experiences. Joan Didion is herself a character in Democracy (1984), wherein she reconstructs Victor’s life as if picking up scattered puzzle pieces.

Nov 27, 2024 | mcgilldaily.com | Sena Ho

I could almost smell the smoke-filled screen where Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung were seated in In the Mood for Love, or the dusty basement Takeshi Kaneshiro’s character returned to after a day’s worth of swindling in Fallen Angels. The ambiance of Hong Kong in the late 90’s frozen in time on the small, grainy screen.