Last Thursday, OUT@UTM hosted its annual Buttons Day, an event that aims to take students’ minds off midterms and the many stresses that accompany school by getting them to make buttons. To take part, students had to pay $2. Members of OUT@UTM made and sold the buttons at a table set up outside the Student [...]
Is food at UTM really that bad?
“How much did you say that was?” I ask the teller. He repeats the amount—ten dollars and change. I stare at my tray. It only contains a smallish plate of stewed pork, steamed vegetables and steamed rice. Oh, and a Coke. There’s a Coke too. I’m standing in the lineup at the Colman Commons Dining [...]
Eagles lose heartbreaker
It was a disappointing loss for the UTM Eagles last Wednesday night as the men’s division 1 basketball team faced Woodsworth College for the championship title. Throughout the game, the score was always close, but the result left the Eagles and their fans with a great loss. Point guard Kent Bray gave the Eagles hope [...]
Celebrating women on campus
Last Monday, the Women and Gender Studies Action Group and the Interim Place held a Women’s Day celebration at UTM. The night began in the CCT atrium, where attendees joined in a draw to win prize packs including hair and body products. All proceeds from ticket sales, raffle sales and auction bids went to Interim [...]
Cross dress to impress
Last Thursday, OUT@UTM held its annual Drag Pub at the Blind Duck. The evening included provocative drag performances, gender-bending burlesque, choreographed dance sequences, live singers, a DJ, a “rip the runway” competition, a wall art installation piece by Breann Ritchie and voguing. After the performances, guests tore up the dance floor. A Miss Ricecake entertained [...]
Has campaigning begun before the elections?
For the last two months, the UTMSU has held caucus meetings during which select student club presidents and UTMSU executives discussed who should run for the UTMSU election that will take place two weeks from today. After the last meeting on February 9, VP Equity Vickita Bhatt was chosen as the unofficial candidate for the [...]
UTM professor ranks top ten in the country
On February 8, it was announced that UTM Biology Professor Monika Havelka became a finalist in TVO’s Best Lecturer Competition. Out of the initial 300 nominees from universities all over Canada, Havelka is one of ten university professors in the running to win the title of Best Lecturer. In five consecutive years of TVO’s Best [...]
Star sightings at UTM
While most students were relaxing during reading week, University of Toronto staff and students, along with members of the Mississauga community, gathered for the bi-monthly get-together of the Royal Canadian Astronomical Society. The event started inside the CCT Building, outside of which was a display of different telescopes that allowed the participants to observe the [...]
Rights group asks UTM professor to resign
UTM political science professor Aurel Braun was asked to resign from his position as chair of Rights and Democracy, a non-partisan organization based in Montreal that promotes human rights and democratic institutions abroad. The call for resignation, which was signed by 45 of the agencys 47 staffers, followed the death by heart attack of Rights [...]
Beauty in the breakdown
The construction of art is a multi-layered process. An initial stroke of inspiration, some preliminary drawings, an assemblage of materials and a whole lotta coffee come together as the key ingredients of many artistic endeavours, including the Blackwood Gallery’s latest exhibition, Location! Location! Location!, which opened last Wednesday. A project that required the construction of [...]
