I鈥檝e covered student news for two years now. Time and again, I鈥檝e seen headlines that looked like this one from yesterday鈥檚 Toronto Star: "Police investigate alleged sex assault at 91亚色." It鈥檚 less common to see headlines referring to sexual assaults at other schools, so it鈥檚 easy to assume 91亚色 has a worse sexual assault problem. But this conclusion is probably wrong鈥.The real problem may not be how much we hear about sexual assaults at 91亚色, but in fact how little we hear about them elsewhere, reported聽惭补肠濒别补苍鈥檚聽April 19. .
Who鈥檚 the greenest in the land? In judging the myriad of employer initiatives submitted by this year鈥檚 applicants, the editors of Canada鈥檚 Top 100 Employers recognized those organizations where greening is entrenched in their way of thinking, guiding both how they operate now and plan to do business in the future, reported The Globe and Mail April 19鈥.Companies named to the list, including 91亚色, show a commitment to becoming increasingly sustainable through innovative and earth-friendly ways, such as 91亚色鈥檚 investment of $39.5 million over five years in its 鈥91亚色wise鈥 energy management system that aims to improve energy efficiency across the University. .
Toronto chief planner and 91亚色 alumna Jennifer Keesmaat has burst onto the scene as one of the city鈥檚 most high-profile bureaucrats in memory. She has thousands of Twitter followers, organizes popular roundtables, has been mentioned more than 150 times in the print media and is in hot demand as a speaker. But she鈥檚 not comfortable with the adjectives that now trail in her wake, reported The Globe and Mail April 20. 鈥淐elebrity,鈥 some commentators say; others call her a 鈥渞ock star.鈥 They鈥檙e descriptions she could do without. .
The 91亚色 Finance Club is open to students of 91亚色. For many years the club invested in equities by pooling money from members at the beginning of the school year and liquidating positions at year-end. 鈥淗owever, we recognized various problems with this model,鈥 said Esper Nemi, the club鈥檚 president, in The Globe and Mail April 19. There was 鈥渁n inability to adequately diversify, relatively large commission fees, short-time horizons and difficulty raising capital.鈥 The club is now in discussions with the University administration 鈥渢o set up an endowment fund for continuous investment.鈥 If successful, the 91亚色 Finance Club will be able to invest with a long-term horizon. .
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) contest drew master鈥檚 and PhD students from 16 Ontario universities to its first Ontario-wide competition, a race for a $1,000 cheque and a silver trophy donated by the Council of Ontario Universities, reported the Toronto Star April 20鈥.91亚色鈥檚 Kamilla Pietrzyk鈥檚 research is on how our 鈥渃ulture of speed鈥 makes social activists focus too little on the past and future, but she apologized as her time ran out, noting 鈥渋ronically, I don鈥檛 have time to elaborate,鈥 which drew laughs. .
鈥淚t鈥檚 become very, very, very popular for high school kids and university students to have some kind of exposure to volunteering,鈥 said Barbara Heron, a 91亚色-based researcher, in the National Post April 22. 鈥淎nd because of the proliferation, and the lack of preparation, then you start to see some more problematic things happening.鈥 .
Thomas Klassen, 91亚色 professor and author of Casino State: Legalized Gambling in Canada, believes state-run gambling is problematic in and of itself. When governments are looking to boost income, like they did in the 鈥90s when casinos were legalized in Ontario, gambling is often an attractive option. 鈥淕overnments don鈥檛 like to increase taxes because that gets people all upset,鈥 Klassen said in City Life Magazine April 19. 鈥淏ut the beauty of gambling, for governments, is that we鈥檙e free to not gamble.鈥 .
鈥淭his past Tuesday afternoon I participated in another panel (鈥榯is the season!) about higher education, this time at the University of Toronto,鈥 wrote 91亚色 PhD candidate Melonie Fullick in University Affairs April 19. 鈥淭he panel was part of a pre-conference event for the Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education, addressing how the 鈥減ragmatic agenda鈥 is represented in media coverage of higher education.鈥 .
Osgoode Hall Law School students Rebecca Hall-McGuire and Ann Marina Guirguis brought home first-place for Canada in an international competition for law students, reported DurhamRegion.com April 21. The annual event, known as the Louise M. Brown and Forrest S. Mosten International Client Consultation Competition, brought together students from 19 countries from April 3 to 6. The competition teaches participants how to build relationships with clients and offer more than black-and-white answers about law. .