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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 them, [...]

By Alain Latour | 08 Feb 10 | Posted in Editorial | Comments (0)

The gaza debate wages on… Letter from Paul Franks-Professor of Philosophy (UTM)

Dear Editor:
It is easy to simplify a complex conflict: just ignore the interests of one conflicting party, or else ignore the reasons why that party feels threatened. Voila! No complexity remains. But in fact the conflict has been made even more intractable.
You concede too much to Gabriel Galang’s letter, which is full of factual errors [...]

By Paul Franks | 28 Jan 09 | Posted in Opinion | 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