This Wednesday, November 2 at 6 p.m., the Hindu Students’ Council will celebrate Diwali at Hart House. The Council is planning traditional games and foods for the festival of lights.
“Diwali is the biggest celebration of the year for Hindus’ all around the world,” said Durgesh Singh, executive of the council, in an email.
The Hindu Students’ Council boasts over 400 members at U of T.
St. Mike’s welcomes first Jewish fellow
Rose Wolfe, a former U of T chancellor, has been named an honorary fellow at St. Michael’s College. She is the college’s first Jewish honorary fellow, a fact worth mentioning at U of T’s Catholic college.
The first female head of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, Wolfe raised funds for U of T, helping to endow a professorship and four chairs in Jewish and Israeli studies. She is a member of the Order of Canada.
The Annual New College Conference on Racism and National Consciousness ran all weekend. This year’s theme was “Race, Nation, State and Racial Profiling” and included a dozen speakers, mostly graduate students and professors. Free of charge, the conference usually attracts over 300 participants, including, according to a press release, “a wide spectrum of social and cultural workers, activists, intellectuals, artists, writers, students and concerned individuals.”
Frat houses might symbolize university debauchery, particularly around party-heavy days like Halloween, but it’s not all they’re about.
This Halloween, Sigma Chi and the Alpha Gamma Delta Women’s Fraternity will dress up, but instead of (or before) partying, they will head out into the Annex to “Trick-or-Eat” for food donations. University College, which already participates annually, will also be hitting the streets.
The event is a program of Meal Exchange, which works on campuses across the country to combat local hunger. In the past three years, Trick or Eat has raised 424,000 pounds of food.
