Note from the Editor: in keeping with tradition, the issue closest to April 1 features at least one article meant as an April’s Fools joke. This was our article this year. Despite its jocular nature, large disclaimer on page 2, exaggerated facts, ironical references, and the fact that the author’s picture depicts the same man [...]
A sales pitch
Like many of you, I’m graduating in June. This is therefore the last editorial I’ll ever write for The Medium. Knowing this, I’m tempted to write with a vengeance and to touch on many topics. I’m tempted, for example, to introduce next year’s terrific team, to reminisce about my experience at our newspaper, to thank [...]
Emergencies on campus
Last Thursday, UTM students received an email with instructions on how to download a software program that will automatically send emergency alerts to their computers. The Campus Emergency Alert software forms part of the U of T Emergency Alerts system, which aims to alert students about campus-related emergencies. Unique to UTM, the software runs in [...]
More voices
The results are in: the Yellow team won the UTMSU election. In a meeting that took place Monday afternoon, Vickita Bhatt, presidential candidate for this team, went from having 67 demerit points to having 30 demerit points (normally, 35 are enough for a candidate to be disqualified). Henry Ssali, presidential candidate for the Blue team, [...]
Voting does make a difference
Voting will take place this week at UTM. Not many students tend to bother with elections—in a campus that counts around 11,000 students, only 600 voted last year, when one ticket ran, and around 2,500 the year before, when two tickets ran. This year we have, once again, two tickets, which may mean a larger [...]
Is food at UTM really that bad?
“How much did you say that was?” I ask the teller. He repeats the amount—ten dollars and change. I stare at my tray. It only contains a smallish plate of stewed pork, steamed vegetables and steamed rice. Oh, and a Coke. There’s a Coke too. I’m standing in the lineup at the Colman Commons Dining [...]
UTM student dominates Canadian finance
Matt Goulart is a UTM student. He has yet to graduate, but he has already become a successful entrepreneur and has been featured in The Globe and Mail, Google Finance, MSN Finance, TheScore.com. Under30 CEOs, The Boston Globe, AOL News and Mississauga Business Times. Moreover, Goulart owns BankNerd.ca, one of Canada’s largest financial website, savingforserenity.com, [...]
Turning a blind eye?
Reading the statements, if they can be so called, by Salman Hossain, the former UTM student and Islamic extremist who in 2008 called for the death of Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil, and who more recently (see article on page 3) called for the extermination of the entire Jewish race, I was tempted not write [...]
An unfashionable cause
The death last week of Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo saddened me for many reasons. First, it saddened me because a brave, honest man died—some say premeditatedly murdered. It saddened me, although it didn’t surprise me, because it showed the extremes to which the Cuban government is willing to go to hold on to [...]
Gazing out the window
Calle Colón was dark and dead under the moon, except for the trees alongside it that whispered to him, and the air that made him shiver a bit. It could’ve also been excitement that made him shiver, except this was not the first time he was visiting the girl with the uncommon name. He was [...]
