[timeline_excerpt]SSMU security was introduced when SSMU council restricted SSMU executives from calling in Montreal police to arrest anti-zionist protestors. Originally SSMU hired two agents to patrol and secure the University Centre. In the 1980s and 90s, SSMU security began to employ McGill Redmen football players. SSMU eventually felt the need for more a professional non-student security force and in the 2000s SSMU security became a more integrated operation of the Society. The service prevented thefts in the Schatner building and even worked on defences to computer threats. In the later part of the decade however, McGill security services made the decision to staff SSMU on-campus activities. The cost of McGill security amounted to a downturn in SSMU’s security services.[/timeline_excerpt]

[timeline_excerpt]Ray Masai Hewitt, Minister of Education for the Black Panther Party, speaks at McGill university “to roughly 400 McGill students in an address about the civil rights struggle.”[/timeline_excerpt]

[timeline_excerpt]Students occupied the offices of the Political Science Department, demanding greater control over the hiring of faculty. Check out this documentary on the occupation![/timeline_excerpt]

[timeline_excerpt]The Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) of McGill’s School of Architecture is a research unit concerned with the human settlement problems of the poor. Its research has primarily focused on poor countries, but it has also conducted research projects in wealthier countries. Research has been carried out on construction materials, small building components, low-cost sanitation and servicing systems, human settlements planning, and urban architecture. For more information about the unit’s past projects, click here![/timeline_excerpt]

[timeline_excerpt]The second international Congress for Black Writers was held at McGill, and brought together intellectuals of African descent to examine, discuss, and debate concerns related to culture and identity. The event was attended by thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean – including C.L.R James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. It took place during a historic moment of transnational social and political change.[/timeline_excerpt]