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, [...]
Publishers beware—the medium is the message
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 tuition [...]
An obligation to demand the most of ourselves
Last week UTMSU representatives met with departing Vice-President Orchard to discuss what they wanted from the next president. (Predictably, the issue of tuition fees was chief on their list.) Vice-President Part-Time Affairs Ibrahim Hindy suggested a principal who will go out of their way to get to know students, meeting with them for two hours [...]
It’s our job
Coco Chanel once said, “Friends, there are no friends.” She was probably referring to the fashion world, or perhaps about life in general. But from what I’ve seen at The Medium in the last year and half, she might as well have been talking about journalism.
Journalists have no friends. Neither do newspapers. We make friends, [...]
A different kind of work ethic
It’s close to midnight as I type these lines. I should’ve finished my editorial a while ago, days ago actually. Tha’ts what happened the previous two issues. But for my third issue a realization dawned on me, one whose roots stretch all the way to back a military unit outside Havana twelve years ago.
I found [...]
Inexperience can be a good thing
When renowned graphic designer Paula Scher was asked to incorporate elements of graphic design into the architecture of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Ballet—a job that neither she nor anyone she knew had ever done before—she started by revisiting these locations. “Why can’t the signage be on [...]
Just look at your right hand
Its the joke issue. Chill the fuck out.
No, the Undergraduate Commerce Society hasnt been abandoned by the Department of Management. No, the Student Union isnt taking over them. No, all the quotes werent real. And no, a residence building did not burn down because of candles used during Earth Hour. But if you believed all [...]
Editorial response to letter
This past week, I was forced to think long and hard on whether I should respond to Gabriel Galangs Letter to the Editor. There were several reasons I felt I shouldnt. For one, I had already dedicated the last two editorials to the issue, and felt it was more appropriate to address another issue, [...]
Protest solidarity
Wherever you go there seems to always be a protest of some sort. Most of you are aware, Im sure, of the fierce protests conducted outside the Israeli consulate on Bloor and Avenue. Bearing the same purpose as the vigil for the Mumbai victims in the CCIT building last month, the student union, along with [...]
Election Woes
397 voters. 397 students. If a lecture hall worth of students had bothered to cast a ballot, perhaps popular Liberal MP Omar Alghabra would have won. Instead, we have now, for the first time since becoming an official district, a Conservative member of parliament in legislative power.
Does it matter that Mississauga-Erindale is now represented by [...]
