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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Politics is always the same
I always thought university campuses are a reflection of the country they are in. Take UTM. Like Canada, it has a small, yet diverse population. Its members like to grumble about things, yet are proud that they come here—how else can you explain their defensive reaction when others look down on UTM? Moreover, UTM and [...]
Publishers beware—the medium is the message
Growing up in a poor country was not a cool experience for me. Now that I live in a rich country, I am often intrigued by the perspective that my childhood gave me. Take textbooks, which are pretty rare in many Cuban schools. Students often share them, passing them along as relics. (They cant photocopy [...]
Think before you speak
It’s official. Far from being being reduced to zero, the cost of attending UTM is actually going up. Students (see article on the cover page) will now have to pay 5.2% more for residence, 4.1% more for food and 3 % more for parking. UTM is not alone in rising costs. Calgary officials recently proposed [...]
You can’t handle the truth
Last week’s editorial, as well as the news article “UTMSU denies a student attendance at CFS meeting,” caused quite a stir: we received over 1,000 hits on our website on Monday alone, had a few students comment on our blog, and were even quoted on the Macleans oncampus site. We also received a letter from [...]
Here we go again
This week, I had to make a decision that may on the surface seem unethical. It concerns The Medium and the UTMSU. It also concerns journalism ethics and affirmative action, although the people involved would probably hesitate it to call it that. For those who haven’t read the article on page 2, here’s a rundown: [...]
Much ado about harper
I’ve long argued, much to the dismay of some of my North American friends, that the leaders of democracies are not necessarily better human beings than dictators. Democratic leaders do, however, face a powerful, time-honoured system of checks and balances, a generally short stint at the helm of their countries, and an electorate thats free to [...]
