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 [...]
UTM will burn for nature
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 [...]
UTMAC elections: Blackout or Blueprint2?
The UTM Athletics Council campaign period began last Monday. This year, Blueprint2, Team Blackout and an independent VP Administration candidate are vying for positions.
Blueprint2 launched their campaign last Monday at 12:01 a.m. with a Facebook group and flooded the Meeting Place with blue and red balloons to attract the attention of voters. Reiterating the platform [...]
Deer slaughtered on Five Minute Walk
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 [...]
Sex pub
On Thursday night, the UTM Sexual Education Centre held its annual sex pub at the Blind Duck. This event, one of the largest of the year, attracted well over 450 students.
Some of the events of the night included jelly wrestling and a sex-doll competition. All had special
prizes for the participants, such
as SEC t-shirts and an [...]
Mississauga Transit introduces new route
This week, a new Mississauga Transit route will come into operation, cutting the travel time
from Square One Terminal to Westwood Mall roughly in half. Route 107 Malton express will work as an express route for those wishing to get from Square One to Westwood Mall faster and without changing buses.
Passengers of route 107 Malton Express [...]
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 the [...]
