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Don’t dismiss emotions: panel

A panel of three speakers offered psychological, philosophical, and practical perspectives on the role of emotions in public policy on Tuesday. The panelists were McGill political philosopher Christina Tarnopolsky, David Ptzarro, a political psychologist form Cornell University, and Bob Rae, the Liberal foreign affairs critic. They spoke as part of the Walter Gordon Massey Symposium […]

Gumbo to go

The smell of gumbo and cornbread wafted through the fourth floor of the Bissell Building on Thursday, as three graduate students in U of T’s museum studies program offered up a hot lunch for $4. Alicia Cherayil, Erin Offord, and Zella Llerena have been stationed at Bissell every Thursday since last November to pay for […]

Fur flies at UTSU forum

The slates hoping to run UTSU next year came to the Bahen Centre on Wednesday evening to take questions from students. Stronger Together, running with two incumbent execs, faced off against challengers from Change U of T, who have experience on college councils. Both sides had to answer to specific and pointed criticism about their […]

Whose house?

Complaints to U of T’s Student Housing Services have doubled since U of T’s Home Ranger Program was introduced in September. The program allows students to book private appointments with a staff member to discuss housing concerns. “We don’t know if that increase is because of an increase in problems and complaints, or because our […]

News in brief

Niqab-wearing woman expelled from language class Naema Atef Amed, a Muslim woman living in Quebec, has been kicked out of a government-sponsored French class for the second time for refusing to take off her niqab, a religious face covering. “Why is the government doing this? I wonder if they have other things to do in […]

A call to faith

The life and works of Mother Teresa were the basis for “Social Justice beyond Compassion and Politics,” a lecture by professor Mary Poplin at the Veritas Forum on Thursday. The Veritas Forum works with Christian students on campuses across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The group states that it seeks to explore, rather than defend, […]

Rebel prof not done yet

Denis Rancourt, a former tenured University of Ottawa professor who was fired last year after giving everyone in his fourth-year physics class an A+, wants his job back. Rancourt hopes to win a labour law arbitration case against the university so he can recover his job and laboratory. “The truth is my dismissal was a […]

News and crime in brief

York student suspended for anti-Semitic postings Salman Hossain, a student at York University, has been suspended from school for posting anti-Semitic messages online. Hossain, a former U of T student, is also currently under investigation by the OPP Hate Crimes and Extremism unit for writing online material promoting genocide against Jews. The Canadian Jewish Congress […]

Ontario wants more students

Ontario plans to add 20,000 post-secondary students this year as part of its ambitious five-year plan, announced lieutenant governor David Onley in the Throne Speech Monday, opening the second session of the province’s 29th parliament. “That’s the equivalent of a whole new University of Guelph,” read the speech. “Every qualified Ontarian who wants to go […]

Gimme GC

Graduate Constituency I—Humanities and Social Sciences: 4 candidates, 1 seat Olivier Sorin, the incumbent candidate, said that one of his accomplishments was improving communication between students and admin by setting up regular meetings with deans and vice-deans. His goals for next year are to increase support for first-time TAs. Sorin said he was putting the […]

Orange you glad it’s election season?

Accessibility threatened by GC decision: Candidates

Two GC candidates with disabilities say U of T is failing its equal opportunity mandate by denying them suitable campaign support. Joeita Gupta and Jeff Peters appeared before election officials on March 9 to appeal a decision by the CRO, Anwar Kazemi, that gave their attendants less paid hours and a lower rate of pay […]