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Students, administration and parking: a three-way collision

Parking at UTM—the reason for many a students headache, the source of frequent complaints for the parking office and overall, one of the most hotly contested services offered on campus.
Limited parking space, an unforgiving ticketing process and high parking costs cause many students to grumble at UTMs Parking and Transportation Services for most of their [...]

CAN do attitude

On October 20, U of Ts Hart House received Bollywood star Rahul Bose and Solomon Island teenage activist Christina Ora to talk about current issues on climate change.
Voices for Climate Justice Tour sponsored the two-hour presentation, which focused both on the impact of climate change in South Asia and islands in the South Pacific and [...]

Das Kapital…ism

Most academic societies operate within a narrow sphere, mainly by reaching out to students in their program and trying to benefit them.
The Undergraduate Economics Council has a different plan: it wants to push economics further into the everyday culture of UTM.
Founded in 2006, the council did not so much emerge as re-emerge: although an academic [...]

Taking you inside the OUT

Ask UTM students if theres a gay club on campus and theyre likely to say no, but they would be wrong. Its called OUT@UTM and has roughly twenty-five active members who regularly attend meetings, events, and weekly pub lunches. The increase in membership and participation at OUT has shot up drastically in the last year [...]

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  • UTM will burn for nature


  • This spring, UTM will conduct a prescribed burn of a small parcel of land in its northeast section. The event, which will take a maximum of 50 minutes, will occur between March 20 and April 30, weather permitting.
    Shrubs and small trees currently invade the 1.3-hectare flat savannah habitat. According to Professor Nick Collins of the [...]

  • Management class donates to Heifer International


  • Last Tuesday, Professor Ann Armstrong asked her Organiza-tional Design (MGT363) students to bring $2. At the start of the lecture, Armstrong explained that she needed the $2 to run an exercise that would simulate the dynamics of power, politics and conflict within real organizations through a pretend organization formed by the students—the “Toonie Organization.”
    Armstrong gave [...]

  • UTSU picks Stronger Together


  • On March 16-18, students at both UTM and St. George voted to elect the student union that represents over 40,000 U o f T students. Although results were close, Stronger Together has won all five executive positions for UTSU, including Adam Awad as President,  Danielle Sandhu as VP Equity, Zexi Wang  as VP External, Rolli [...]

  • New credit option for UTSU


  • The U of T Scarborough campus recently passed the option of the credit/no credit application to courses. UTSC students at can now have the option of taking a course without it affecting their GPAs and without the added pressures of doing well in it.
    The UTSC administration believes that this option allows students to take more [...]

  • DY-ing for DY at UTM