The new Victoria College mascot, the product of a two-year creative process undertaken by VUSAC and Victoria University Historical Society (VUHS) is ready for unveiling. The project was started as the Society was putting together a history of the university-within-a-university.
Why you should support CUPE3902
On Monday, 29 Jan., CUPE3902, the union that represents TAs and sessional workers at UofT, set a 24 Feb. date for their potential strike. In the weeks leading up to this decision, nerves and discomfort on the part of undergraduate students wondering how a strike would affect the rest of their academic year gave rise to rhetoric which unnecessarily places undergraduates and their TAs at odds.
Last Wednesday evening, Bloor Collegiate Institute was packed to the gills for the Toronto Area Council NDP Federal Leadership debate. The crowd filled the 850 seat theater, leaving some with standing room only and over 150 people outside and unable to enter the venue; an excellent showing for an informal debate that was not even on original schedule of events.
In the wake of a year of "dramatic changes" throughout the globe, especially in the Middle East and North Africa, students organized a vibrant sixth annual Peace and Con flict Studies Conference addressing the legacy of colonialism in gover nance, economics, the state system, national identities, and the environ ment.
Angela Sun explores the newly renovated Toronto Reference Library
On Monday 9 Jan, our city's budget committee proposed to slash seven million dollars from the Toronto Public Library (TPL). This was one of the more controversial proposals reversed last Tuesday, preserving 3.9 million of the TPL's budget. From the very beginning of the discussions, the proposed cuts to the TPL attracted public attention and anger.
The Canadian University Press (CUP) national conference (affectionately dubbed "Nash") last weekend took a grim turn as a suspected norovirus outbreak suddenly left dozens of delegates violently ill. As a result, the Harbour Towers Hotel and Suites in Victoria BC where the conference was held was placed under a voluntary quarantine by Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA).
My personal brush with sexual harassment
This past Wednesday morning, still groggy from the forcible readjustment of my sleep schedule (alarm clocks are your friend), I was running to catch the 94 Wellesley bus when a complete stranger decided to humiliate me in public. Picture this, will you? This goon, sausage-like in build, had the leering, ruddy face of an alcoholic or a heavy drinker.
Brace yourselves, the indie purists are coming
If you frequent any entertainment sites/magazines (especially Rolling Stone in this case), you probably know where this is going. Even if you think you live under a rock, if you've been to any off-campus house parties in the last two years, you probably are at least vaguely familiar with The Black Keys.
It takes surprisingly little to convey the tragic story of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad. For those who are familiar with the novel, its transition to theatre may at first seem questionable, especially since much of the novel consists of Penelope's monologues about her life.
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