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March 20, 2008

Carleton student still missing

Nadia Kajouji, an 18-year-old student at Carleton University in Ottawa, has been missing for over a week. Her roommates last saw her leaving the Prescott suite residence the night of Sunday, March 9, when she returned from spending reading week with her family in Brampton. Kajouji’s parents have offered a $50,000 reward for her safe […]

March 20, 2008

The future ain’t Purdey

“Would people have been inspired had Martin Luther King said ‘I have a nightmare?’” That was the question put forward Wednesday night at the Munk Centre, in a lecture strikingly titled “Spectacular Success, Spectacular Failure? Modern Human Society at the Crossroads.” Despite the sobering and grandiose nature of his presentation, speaker Stephen Purdey emphasized the […]

March 20, 2008

Occupation Is a Crime?

(updates below) A student protest organized in response to New College’s 20 per cent residence fee increase took a dramatic turn at approximately 1:30 this afternoon, when roughly 35 students entered Simcoe Hall, the university’s main administrative building, and refused to leave, chanting “occupation is a crime.” Though the demonstration began as a protest of […]

March 20, 2008

Breaking up UTSU’s balancing act

Students highly critical of UTSU’s officially neutral stance on the $18 levy Bubble plebiscite held an event entitled “Take Back Your Student Union” on Wednesday, March 19. The event consisted of a series of workshops and discussions aimed at pushing the student union’s executive board toward taking strong stances on social justice issues. The day-long […]

March 17, 2008

Pettigrew tells china to ‘open up’

Last Saturday, U of T held its third annual China Conference to discuss the country’s rose and its swiftly growing economy. The conference held panels on trade, fi nance, social responsibility, education, and the environment. Close to 200 people attended to hear presentations given by some of the leading experts on China. The conference is […]

March 17, 2008

Saudi school scores Sargent

Electrical and computer engineering professor Ted Sargent was recently awarded a $10-million grant from the brand new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Sixty universities worldwide put forward nominees for the founding scholars of the new university, which will open its doors September 2009. Sargent, 34, is relatively young for a […]

March 13, 2008

A slap in the face

As Chris Avenir walked out of Tuesday’s appeals committee hearing, the 40 or so students gathered behind a sea of reporters erupted in cheers and applause. “I feel pretty confident and optimistic about the meeting,” said Mr. Avenir smiling. “I don’t have any regrets about what happened inside.” The committee, composed of three professors from […]

March 13, 2008

Temporarily at the top

Cheryl Misak is a longtime professor and administrator at U of T. A member of the university’s philosophy department, she has held top admin posts at UTM and the St. George campus. Now, with VP and provost Vivek Goel departing, Misak is gearing up to take on U of T’s senior academic post. The Varsity […]

March 13, 2008

Paging Dr. Lam

Dr. Vincent Lam burst into bookstores across Canada in 2006 with his debut collection of short stories, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures. The series of connected tales about the trials and triumphs of medical students and doctors won the Giller Prize, Canada’s richest and most prestigious literary award. Lam, an emergency physician in Toronto, is now […]

March 13, 2008

UPass nears the end of the line

The fight is on. In one week students at UTSC will vote in a referendum that could implement the GTA’s first UPass with access to the TTC. Coinciding with the Scarborough Campus Student Union’s executive elections, the vote will need a minimum of about 500 students to be considered valid, with full-time and part-time undergraduate […]

March 13, 2008

How do you feel about Steve Howlett, the Varsity Blues football coach with a record-losing streak, getting tenure at U of T?

Clockwise from top-left Sasha , 3rd-year Art History: I don’t know anything about him myself, but based on the football team’s record, I don’t think its a good idea to give him tenure. If we’re going to promote him, what does he have to offer? Cory , 4th-year Music: Yes, i think he should. I […]

March 10, 2008

Governing Council— an ‘exercise in futility?’

Discussion was brief and confused at the March 4 Governing Council meeting that approved a new policy dictating how U of T disposes of unethical stocks. Although the meeting was the third hearing of the hotly-debated policy, representatives of both students and staff on U of T’s highest governing body were misinformed about what the […]


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