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Street Beggars

Do you want to go anywhere? Kelvin asked me, holding open Monte Carlos glass doors. It was after dinner and Kelvin, a high school senior and my elder brother by five years, was responsible of taking me home.
Not really, I said. Mom will have a fit if you drag me around Guangzhou at [...]

By Su Lyn Liew | 18 Jan 10 | posted in Creative Corner | Comments (0)

Discovering UTM: The secret garden

Few students notice the glass-covered construction atop the South Buildings roof as they make their way to class. While wandering the maze-like corridors on the fifth floor, they may stare out the windows and glimpse leafy ferns and towering cacti behind the structures glass walls.
This is the Erindale greenhouse (room 5036), run by Marianne Kalich, [...]

By Su Lyn Liew | 23 Nov 09 | posted in Features | Comments (2)

Film review: New Moon

Forbidden love is in the air, and fans bitten by the vampire bug are back for more. New Moon, the second installment of Stephenie Meyers Twilight saga, continues the story of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and her ever-seventeen vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson).
Directed by Chris Weitz, New Moon explores some of the dangers vampires, [...]

By Su Lyn Liew | | posted in A&E | Comments (0)

In pursuit of bubble tea

My roommate Kimberly and I stand in front of the Bubble Tease shop at Eaton Center, Toronto. A sizable crowd clusters before the cash register, rattling off a list of ingredients. Behind the counter, waitresses glide around each other, filling plastic containers with varicolored liquids.
Okay, youve got to try Bubble Tease, Kim chimes. Its [...]

By Su Lyn Liew | 09 Nov 09 | posted in Creative Corner | Comments (0)

The UTM Anime Club: Banzai

Drop by the Student Centre presentation room on Friday evenings and you might find Sprited Away flashing on the wall or a crowd of students playing Name That Tune to Japanese pop music. They are members of the UTM Anime Club, which focuses on anime and manga and encourages a passion for any part of [...]

By Su Lyn Liew | 26 Oct 09 | posted in Features | Comments (0)

The highway out

Favorview Garden, a housing estate on the edge of Guangzhou, China, catered to expatriates and the rich. There was a guardhouse and a gate. Buses, private cars and taxis crossed to enter the estate grounds. The guard wore a stiff, crisp blue uniform. His polished black shoes clacked on the sidewalk as he left to [...]

By Su Lyn Liew | 19 Oct 09 | posted in Features | Comments (0)

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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