The Erindale College Council is considering a motion to extend the upper parking deck in lot 8 by 300 spaces at a cost of around $6.5 million. The project, to be completed by fall 2015…
SEC hosts pub night for AIDS awareness
The UTM Sexual Education and Peer Counselling Centre, the UTM Students’ Union, and the UTM English and Drama Students Society jointly hosted the World Tour Pub on Thursday night to raise funds for AIDS charities. UTM SEC is a student-run organization that provides students with information on healthy sexuality. Every year they hold a fundraising [...]
UTMSU’s silent AGM
Numerous amendments were made to UTMSU’s constitution and bylaws with little discussion or explanation at the Annual General Meeting last Monday. Out of 90 attendees, most of whom were union volunteers, 700 proxy votes were counted; 88% of votes cast represented students who were not in attendance, and who may not have been aware of [...]
U of T seeks $2 billion
The University of Toronto recently made history by launching the largest Canadian university fundraising initiative, BOUNDLESS, a $2-billion campaign. U of T president David Naylor announced the endeavour at Convocation Hall on Sunday evening. The campaign has already secured nearly half of its goal at $966 million, with large sums coming from philanthropists. The funds [...]
Women’s Centre remembers the Montréal Massacre
The UTM Women’s Centre, in cooperation with UTM Campus Police, Green Dot, UTMSU and ULife, held a memorial on Friday in the Student Centre in honour of the 14 women who lost their lives in the 1989 shooting at l’École Polytechnique in Montreal. November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against [...]
Samsung launches projects with UTM
UTM and Samsung will partner on upcoming media projects that bring something new and exciting in social media. UTM and Samsung embarked on two different projects: “Design Jam” and “Sharing Possibilities for Apps in Research and Knowledge” (SPARK). The aim of these projects is to give students the opportunity to be part of shaping the [...]
Residence “lights the night”
Students and staff braved the freezing cold and attended UTM’s “Light the Night” event last Thursday. The event was organized by Student Housing and Residence Life to raise awareness about the many different types of violence and suffering that go unchecked in our society. The event started at 9 p.m. outside Oscar Peterson Hall, where [...]
Arguing over the Arctic
The UTM Debating Club hosted the Great Professors’ Debate on Tuesday evening to discuss the role of Canada in the dispute over Canada’s Arctic sovereignty. Four professors were invited. VP Internal Robert Zeredynski, who did the most of the organizing of the event, introduced the topic and the debaters. In favour of an increased military [...]
STIs on the rise in universities
According to a study published in October by the Public Health Agency of Canada, young Canadians under the age of 30 are reporting the highest rates of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and infectious syphilis. Almost half of all Canadians aged 15 to 19 report having engaged in sexual intercourse at least once in their lives. Out of [...]
ROP group reports on crime
Geography professor Dana Wilson released the preliminary findings of her study on the causes of violent crime at the Crime Prevention Conference on November 4. Wilson and her team of UTM students found a correlation between the physical and social characteristics of a neighbourhood and the occurrence of crime. Last summer, Wilson led a group [...]
