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January 31 2008 Vol. XXX No. XVII
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November 22 2007 Vol. XXX No. XI
Going... Going... Soon this piece of UofT history will have gone to the highest bidder
By Jocelyne Kilpatrick
See Kay cont. pg. 2
Photo by Evan Jordan
Hart House Debates room was a buzz last Monday night when Jonathan Kay, Managing Editor of the National Post, came to speak for CAFEX, a University of Toronto club that’s been hosting a series of lectures on happiness. This month’s lecture was about finding happiness in a digital world. Kay touched on some big technological-social issues such as Facebook, TV addicts, pornography, and Internet cliques. “Humans are happiest when they find themselves at the centre of a web of human connections” was Kay’s main message. The university campus is a simulation of the ‘small village’ where every day there is a high probability that you will bump into someone you know. Something like driving to work every day alone for an hour is, according to Kay, dehumanizing.
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By Sean Liliani
In October of 2007 Governing Council made the news with its decision to sell UofT owned David Dunlap Observatory (DDO) in Richmond Hill.
Jonathan Kay Spoke at Hart House on Monday January 28th
The property, donated in 1932, had become mostly unknown to UofT students and had ceased to serve as the world class facility that it once was. In October of 2007 the GC alleged that the “highly urbanized area… had diminished the use as an observatory”. This past week residents of Richmond Hill have catapulted the issue back into the radar of St. George campus with an aggressive appeal for UofT to reconsider its abrupt selling of
the property. While urban encroachment may have rendered the facility outdated, the maintenance of the David Dunlap property has served the inadvertent purpose of safeguarding a greenspace for the community. Under the ownership of UofT, this wildlife refuge has come to support a locally admired deer population and residents are concerned that the highest bidder for this piece of real estate will care nothing for ecological
value. “We more or less look at this as our High Park,” Joe Agg told the newspaper. Mr. Agg is a member of the Richmond Hill Naturalists and was just one of many who attended the Town Hall on Monday night. There’s a reason why the property is worth an estimated hundred million dollars and local residents are worried that selling this scarce commodity See Dunlap cont. pg. 4