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This year, let’s spice up the UTMSU elections
Since 2018,
uncontested elections have been a recurring theme for the UTMSU. In that year, the One UTM slate ran
unopposed, garnering a turnout rate of...
Re: Satire Section, January 27, 2020.
Dear Editor,
Upon my visit to campus this morning, I went through my daily routine of
getting the weekly issue of The Medium from the Instructional...
Editorial: The Uninviting Campus
Are you all ready for this year’s winter
carnival? It’s going to be a doozy. Here are some things that are included in
the $3.00 ticket:...
Editorial: Nepotism and the UTMSU
The UTMSU is
becoming a family-run business.
Let us explain.
The students’ union hasn’t released its
board meeting minutes since April 1, 2019. On the website, right above...
Editorial: UTM needs more empathy
Last week, we
broke a story on campus police handcuffing third-year UTM student Natalia
Espinosa at the Health and Counseling Centre (HCC) after she expressed suicidal
ideation....
Editorial: The Bland Duck Pub
What do you get
when you place a building with poor infrastructure, ugly interior design, and
concrete flooring in the middle of UTM?
You get the...
PWC without the P, W, or C
At The Medium, our largest cohort of
writers hail from the sciences, and only a fraction of our writers are in the
Professional Writing and Communication...
The Campus Neurosis
In our second issue, we published an opinion on “the case for personal responsibility,” an op-ed that argues the first steps of mental well-being...
Outrage and the climate crisis
Measured and
articulate speech—that is the benchmark of a reasoned and well-intentioned
speaker, or at least it should be. For some people, when it comes to...
Editorial: The young voter
Whenever political leaders or pundits talk about how low voter turnout among young people is, they usually criticize political parties for not being accessible...
Editorial: Student apathy saves student groups
On January 17, 2019, the Ontario
government introduced the Student Choice Initiative (SCI), a program that would
make some previously mandatory fees optional. Most of these...