Volume 39, Issue 4

Victory for the Maple Spring

Oct 2, 2012

The strife that had Québec students protesting on the streets for months, lately referred to as the “Maple Spring ”, has finally come to an end. With...

UTM participates in International Students Rights Week

Abhilasha Patel

Oct 2, 2012

Last week, UTMSU’s Ministry of International Students organized the International Human Students Week on campus....

Presidential search in the works

Larissa Ho

Sep 30, 2012

About 10 people attended the presidential search town hall last Monday, along with 10...

ECC election wraps up

Sarah Elborno

Sep 30, 2012

The unofficial results of the Erindale College Council election were posted online pending ratification. ECC...

The end of Q Orientation

Alexander Tkachuk

Sep 30, 2012

UTM’s Queer Orientation continued last week and ended on Wednesday night with the annual...

Low turnout at town hall

Bailey Green

Sep 30, 2012

Amy Mullin, UTM’s vice-principal, academic and dean, held a town hall last Friday in...

Learning outside lecture halls

Mudeeha Yousaf

Sep 30, 2012

Students packed the RAWC last Wednesday for the annual Get Experience Fair, an event...

Politicians don’t care about students

Stan Fedun

Sep 30, 2012

Dear Editor, Austerity, deficit reduction, reining in of spending, all echo through the media and political spheres. Hold on a second before you turn the page; this has to do with you. Want a more affordable education? That’s what I thought, so listen up. Students...

Stifling dialogue

Jonathan Michael Scott

Sep 30, 2012

Dear Editor, You’d think it would go without saying, but a discussion paper is necessarily...

Online courses: innovative or limiting?

Stefanie Marotta

Sep 30, 2012

Since last week’s round of emergency town halls at the St. George and Mississauga...

A&E

Live review: Ben Howard

Sonia Dhaliwal

Oct 1, 2012

On September 24, singer-songwriter Ben Howard thrilled a packed crowd at Toronto’s Sound Academy. Howard, who was raised in Totnes, a market town in...

Judge Dredd comes back for another round

Jaime Pokhoy

Oct 1, 2012

Based on the popular Judge Dredd comic book series, Dredd 3D successfully captures the...

Homegrown culture gets the spotlight

Sukhwant Gill

Oct 1, 2012

Mississauga Culture Days took place this past Friday with a plethora of activities for...

Is the banjo making a move to the mainstream?

Niveen Fulcher

Oct 1, 2012

Mumford & Sons were quietly introduced to the music industry in 2008, but they...

Night of art and discovery in downtown TO

Aristotle Eliopoulos

Sep 30, 2012

Art lovers and citizens of Toronto alike came out to enjoy the seventh annual...

Features

Luke’s Languages – Sound and Symbol

Luke Sawczak

Oct 1, 2012

helloeveryoneimgladtoseeyoubackagainforanothervolumeoflukeslanguages thisweekwellbetalkingaboutthedifferencesbetweenspokenandwrittenlanguage Huh, that’s funny. Why does my spell-check say that’s wrong? “Hello” is a word, “everyone” is a word… oh, wait. That’s right. Unlike when...