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  • UTMSU denies a student attendance at CFS meeting
  • Article by Saaliha Malik

  • Last Wednesday, the UTMSU executive committee overturned a decision made by VP external Henry Ssali to send UTM student Stefanie Marotta to the Canadian Federation of Students semi-Annual General Meeting that will be held this weekend.
    The reasons for rejecting Marotta as a UTM delegate were twofold. Firstly, the executive committee expressed a concern about Marottas [...]

  • Strike possible at Sheridan College
  • Article by Katherine Luczynski

  • This week, about 700 professors, instructors, counselors and librarians at Sheridan College could end up on the picket line if negotiations and a strike mandate are not approved by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU).
    A strike vote was set for January 6 but saw unsuccessful results. The OPSEU, which represents over 9,000 professors and [...]

  • DECA reaches out to campus
  • Article by PRIYA VERMA

  • On November 19, approximately 230 UTM students attended an event called How to Market Yourself. The event was held by DECA, an international association of high school and college students studying marketing and management.
    Guest speakers Vinny Verma and Rup Jolly, who work as business development managers for XCINO, an IT company catering to small [...]

  • AGM proxy forms mishandled at UTM
  • Article by Saaliha Malik

  • An investigation conducted by The Medium has exposed a mishandling of the collection and distribution of proxy forms at UTM for the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the University of Toronto Students Union, which took place last Thursday at the St. George campus.
    Proxy forms allow one student to hold up to as many as eleven [...]

  • Students apologize for blackface Halloween costume
  • Article by Katherine Luczynski

  • Last Tuesday night, the Black Students’ Association at the St. George campus organized a town hall that saw 250 students in attendance. The topic at hand was a costume donned by five U of T students at a Halloween party on October 29.

  • RIDICULOUS SYNERGY SEEKER
  • Article by Michael Di Leo

  • Ash Buchholz and Jason Parsons aren’t afraid to admit that they tend to be overly-energetic.

  • Its about us Muslim women. Again
  • Article by Ruqayyah Ahdab

  • Todays plunging necklines and stacked bangles are flashbacks to pre-Islamic Arabia where women walked around heavily ornamented and bare-breasted. Pre-marital sex, multiplicity of partners and a highly sexualized culture was the norm. The advent of Islam reintroduced a code of conduct that emphasized modesty, marriage, lineage, beautiful character and human rights. Each morning, women choose [...]