April 9th - 15th, 2009 Vol. XXXI, No: 26
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Women in Progress
Budding Warhols, Beuyes & Irwins
Jakub Jakal
Amy Stupavsky
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You don’t have to follow Rihanna’s case to understand that violence against women is still widespread in our society. The effects of domestic violence are physical damage, deep psychological scars, and broken families; the victims of such violence also often struggle with financial difficulties, especially with the issue of how to merge their new lives with effective money managing. Women In Progress, a University of Toronto based group created by Krystal Pereira, focuses precisely on this problem, providing abused women with basic money management skills, the means for improving their financial literacy and success skills through teaching them about the functioning of market economy. The project was established in November 2007 under the head of Rotman Commerce SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise), partnered with Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE), in order to help victims of domestic abuse in the Greater Toronto Area. Women in Progress is comprised of training sessions that teach these women the basics of budgeting, debt, saving, and investing. “We ensure that these training sessions include fun and interactive exercises and that they are highly tailored to the specific situations and needs of the women,” says Pereira, project manager. After the sessions are completed, the women join U of T’s Buddy Program, in which they are paired with a Commerce student who helps them apply to
If you’re feeling studyweary and beleaguered by assignments, the University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC) is currently showing the Master of Visual Art Graduating Exhibition, which is certain to be a welcome respite. Representing a culmination of two years of hard work, the exhibit features the thesis projects of the the university’s budding Andy Warhols, Joseph Beuyses, and Robert IrKaleidoscope (Desiring Dualisms), video still, 8 minutes, 2009. wins. The six artists, Lorna Bauer, Nicole Collins, through. “It really does represent which manifests itself thematicDavid Court, Mimi Gellman, Irene an interesting, thorough survey ally in the placement of waxy Loughlin and Josh Thorpe, are of contemporary art practice.” black scales next to bright shocks required to exhibit their works The exhibit spans the entirety of colour. in a professional manner and of the centre, filling the main She drew my attention to environment to graduate. rooms, lounge, and the obscure her pair creature, a nod to Mary And this is not your typical corners (I’m thinking of Thorpe’s Shelley’s Frankenstein, and site gallery fare. “One of the intercheeky audio installation by the (mutability), an evocation of the esting things about this show restrooms). Each artist’s work oc- Percy Shelley poem. They were is that it includes a variety of cupies its own area. The students created by scraping the paint media: painting, drawing, video, meticulously arranged their off of one and pasting it on the performance, and audio,” said pieces in ways to attract viewers other. graduate student Nicole Collins, and connect with their audience. “They represent Percy and who acted as docent on my walkThe art offers visual viewpoints Mary, although I didn’t immedion what we ately realize the connection. I deal with wanted to dismantle my work to in everyday understand it. It never goes back life, the core together the way it comes apart,” struggles of she explained. “I’m exploring existence. how paintings might speak to They are all mortality, mutability, and the extremely breaking down. I hope that detail-oriented they also show a hopefulness, and highly a regeneration. New things are referential being created from the destructo other tion.” disciplines. Thorpe’s ‘Stripes for Daylight’, Collins, who a glossy line along the walls, paints using an demands much of the viewer encaustic tech- because it is not readily apparent. nique (molten The piece wholly depends on the wax imbued natural light filtering through the with pigment), window and viewer’s movements was influenced around the room. “What you get by the interout of Josh’s work is based a lot play between upon your interest, perception, music compos‘Creature’ - courtesy of Nicole Collins “UTAC” - Continued on page 6... ition and art,
U of T-based group fights domestic violence Master of Visual Studies Grad Exhibit at UTAC
their daily lives what they have learned. According to Pereira, the program contributes to these women’s financial independence “by providing them with the information and knowledge that they need to make good financial decisions.” Women in Progress cooperates with women’s shelters across the GTA. Last year the program helped nine women from the YWCA shelter, and this year it is providing service to eight women from a shelter in Etobicoke. The length of the program depends on specific cooperation with each shelter, and whether the shelter decides to take part in the Buddy Program. For example, the YWCA last year decided to participate in the post-training Buddy Program, which took about five months to complete, while the Etobicoke shelter opted to try out the program workshops first, in which the women participated in four weekly sessions. Pereira believes that after “Stop” - Continued on page 4...
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April 9th – 15th, 2009
the newspaper looks back Matthew Pope Looking back is a practice that most newspapers have had little success in perfecting. For the majority of editors, yesterday’s paper holds little more than reminders of painful typos and awkward sentence structure. Besides, each new day brings with it the demands of a new edition, and little or no time for navel-gazing. Newspapers, the quintessence of planned obsolescence, measure the pulse of the now. They are vehicles built with five gears in forward, and none in reverse. Yet the cycle of the student calendar, with its periodic lulls, offers the obvious opportunity for reflection this time of year, while staff and outgoing editors often find themselves grasping for the opportunity to try to make some sense of a chaotic year. So indulge us a moment. Last August, we set out to chart a new course with
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an old idea: to dedicate ourselves as a community newspaper whose content would be dictated by you, the reader. We would craft a newspaper that would attempt to raise the bar, and step into a woefully under-served niche at U of T, while at the same time providing stimulation, edification and entertainment. From the feedback we have received over the past year from friends, faculty and students alike, we feel encouraged enough to say that ‘the newspaper’ is reflecting the community it set out to serve. We set out to inform and entertain, to be fair, to be non-ideological, to avoid writing that is patronizing or presumptive, to respond to our readers, to be independent. If we have failed on some of these counts, we have had our modest successes as well. Each set of heirs have much to improve
ERATA: In the February 5th issue of ‘the newspaper’, the photograph indicating Catherine Ng was, in fact, JOANNA SMEETON
on. But then again, that’s the task of newspapermaking. In order to preserve our place on campus and in the minds of students, so deep soul-searching and reinventing has been called for. The journey is long, but if it is two steps forward and one step back, let the record show that we ultimately gained ground and have only the people to thank. So, finally, we’d like to thank everyone who has been a part of the newspaper this year. To our regular contributors, photographers and illustrators, the our dedicated copy-editing team that hung around the office when they should have been somewhere else; to all of you: this is your paper. See you in September.
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Anyone who has had 3 or more articles published this year is eligible to run. Intentions must be made known no later than April 9th. ( email: thenewspaper@thenewspaper.ca) Anyone who has contributed three pieces this year has a vote and should be present on voting day to elect next year’s editors. We welcome all hopefuls and look forward to seeing you all on voting day.
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Another year has come and gone, and what have we to show for it? I ask myself this question not every year, but every single vitriolic day of my vexatious life. Every day I wake up and look around at all the irresponsible, self-centred, self-satisfied and narrow-minded People I pass on the streets all over campus. The people who hide ignorance behind polite Canadian smiles; the prom-queens in quarter-length jackets in -20 degree weather; the terrifying presence of intellectual luddites hiding in our midst; the bloody wars over sand-castles and stepping stones. I’ve freely admit in past issues that I don’t play well with others, in my indulgent moments I suspect that that’s because People just can’t stomach what it is I have to say. Like a sad group of narcissistic narcoleptics, People seem incapable of paying attention,
even when there are politicians arbitrarily taking liberties with our liberties. Let me clarify again, I do not hate people, I hate People. It is true that every individual is a concentration of contradictions; it is within these contradictions that we will rise and conquer or collapse in intellectual obscurity. That being said, if I really had no faith left, I would cease to write. But I believe in change. Anyone, everyone, including myself, is capable of change. But check your sources, and take a good look in the mirror every morning. As said by a man much wiser than I: “Be the change you wish to see in the world” and don’t come crawling for a shoulder to cry on if you don’t.
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Alerting the masses
When text messages save lives Jenny Duong U of T Bureau Prompted by the 2006 shooting at Virginia Tech that left 33 dead, the University of Toronto recently became the latest Canadian university to employ an emergency cell phone alert system. In case of emergencies, a warning can be sent directly to students’ cell phones and landlines via voice mail or text message. But with its implementation came questions surrounding privacy, necessity, and cost. Though not all students own a cell phone, the system is designed to get the message to a small portion of people who could then spread the message to everyone near them, and the chain would continue from there. The intent, of course, is to keep as many students as aware and secure as possible. A Crisis Management Team, headed by Angelia Hildyard, is in constant communication with emergency services including The next text message warning system may be confusing to some, but the on-campus security, police, Photo: Ashley Minuk administration is confident it will improve campus safety. and EMS, and it will be monitoring the web based service. Police would be the first the team holds drills regularly. the news, word of mouth… [but] to be notified in any emergency, In future, she hopes the entire charging them – it just doesn’t and a campus-wide alert would campus will run practice drills to seem practical. They might as only be sent out upon their get a sense of what real meswell install a PA system,” says first advice. sages would sound or look like. year commerce student, Jeff Wu. Erin Lemon, Director of Faculty However, not all are convinced To be fair, the cost to the and Staff Communication and the emergency alert system is University will be only eight cents trained member of the Crisis a viable plan: Students “could per message sent, and there will Management Team, says the learn [the information] through be little affect on tuition fees. The only direct cost for students has to do with their individual cell phone plans. Text messaging usually cost 10 to 15 cents per message, which seems a small price to pay for a greater sense of security. Sign up for the emergency ...an exciting new life in the world of law as a Legal Assistant. alert system online at https:// Post-secondary education or business experience is all you need to get alert.utoronto.ca/callme into Humber’s unique Law Firm Profile program. You’ll get classes filled with practical, hands-on applications, and we’ll place you into one of several of Canada’s most prominent law firms for 7 weeks of paid on-site training. All this is accomplished in only two semesters, so you don’t have to do any unnecessary time. Call 416.675.6622 ext. 4371 ... “Stop” - continued from page 4 and get a (new) life.
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completion of the program,“the women will walk away with a good understanding of how money works and with the confidence to make the right decisions.” But this is just the beginning: The group hopes to expand the program in 2009-2010 to three more shelters in the GTA.
Fees fall flat Miranda Begley
Community Concerns Bureau
Op-Ed
In a mass email sent on April 1st, Dean Meric Gertler wrote, “The introduction of the [flat] program fee will provide a stronger inducement for students to complete their studies within four years (or less). This has important benefits for students, who can begin earning an income sooner rather than later.” This quote rang in my brain as I walked through a hurricane of snow into Simcoe Hall for the Faculty of Arts and Science Council meeting on April 6th that would determine the fate of the proposal to implement flat fees at the University of Toronto in fall 2009. I was admittedly bothered by the notion that education is merely something to be rushed through on the fast track to money-making ventures. In reality, some students take a meandering educational path out of financial necessity, some simply out of love for the scholarly experience or for the priceless years of soaking up lessons behind ivy-covered walls. Many see value in education itself, even if it leads to no specific career. The proposal of program flat fees hampers the spirit of choice that lies at the core of education and democracy. My initial anger gave way to rage when the motion passed 28-15, at exactly 5:15 pm. In a proposal supposedly devoted to the quality of higher education, no concrete evidence was presented with respect to potential effects on GPAs or student experience, and other than a general reference to OSAP, no solutions were offered to those students who study part-time due to financial constraints. The end of the meeting presented the final blow to the concept of an ‘inclusive’ discussion in a series of undemocratic measures. A line of students waiting outside the meeting could not enter the room despite apparent standing room, no one who was not a member of the council was allowed to speak, and Dean Gertler even had the audacity to insert a last-minute
amendment proclaiming “compromise”. This compromise entailed a gradual adjustment system wherein the flat fee would apply to those taking four courses, but not to those taking three, for the first two years of implementation - essentially a slower road to the same end point. At one point, Dean Gertler felt the need to point out that the issue would not affect us directly but rather our siblings, friends and other future students. The fact that every student present clearly knew this already was the one thing about the meeting that served to restore my faith in U of T’s educational system. This system has proved itself capable of producing citizens who care passionately and benevolently about future generations. In times of financial crisis, a return to core values and creative solutions will help preserve U of T in all its diversity, while panic and rushed solutions will homogenize experience, limit potential and financially punish those who choose a part-time education to suit their lifestyle. The short discussion that took place between students outside the chambers, including members of the Arts and Science Students’ Union and the University of Toronto Students’ Union, presented me with a more balanced view of the issue and a more transparent summation of procedural details than the meeting itself did. Somehow, a group of students in their early 20s found a way to intelligently debate the issue without the need to vote on an amendment by allowing each other to speak, without Powerpoint rhetoric and without the repetition of vague terms like “expert,” “belief,” and “experiment” to describe an issue that demands hard data in order to be responsibly voted on. U of T has trained me well – I have things to say. So do my friends. It’s too bad there was no one to listen; soon enough, we’ll barely have time to think for ourselves anyway.
“Despite the difficulties that these women face, the women that have participated in our program are vibrant, engaging, and eager to learn… In future, we plan to improve our impact on these women,” says Pereira. In terms of women’s safety and domestic violence on campus, Pereira feels it is most important to “provide women with informa-
tion about the signs of abuse and support them in leaving abusive relationships safely.” Ultimately, education and support seem to be key to preventing violence and to freeing women from the various social, psychological, and economic traumas imposed by living with violence.
April 9th – 15th, 2009
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Simian happenings Jane Goodall comes to U of T Hannah Fleisher Community Bureau On April 17th, the U of T’s Centre for Environment and the Jane Goodall Institute will be organizing their First Annual ‘Environment and Development’ Seminar. The proceedings will open with presentations from two University of Toronto researchers, Dr. Ernest OpokuBoateng and PhD candidate Saul Cohen. Topics will include the initiatiation of “communitycentered conservation” and encouraging poorer nations to implement habitat protection policies. Champion of Primates, Dr. Jane Goodall will be one of three panelists speaking about how issues of the environment are inherently tied to human development in particular regions of Africa. Long retired from the field of chimpanzee research, Dr. Goodall has since become a touring proponent for wildlife and habitat conservation amongst other environmental rallying points. Her work in this regard has recently
gained her an honorary degree from the University of Toronto, which means she is no stranger to our campus. With the myriad of problems facing the humans who populate Africa, it can often be difficult to convince people, particularly those in power, that money and resources need to be directed towards protecting wildlife. Certainly this is true in communities like Zimbabwe, where people would most likely prefer to eat a chimpanzee than try to protect one. However, speakers at this event hope to convince attendees of the value, and perhaps necessity, of saving the diversity of the African ecosystem. The event will take place at Hart House at 2pm. Tickets are almost free (with a processing fee of $1), available through U of T Tix (www.uofttix.ca).
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‘Nappy Heads’
Hart House Film Board member shows her film at Sprockets Jakub Jakal Community Health Bureau Sabrina Moella, a Hart House Film Board member, originally shot ‘‘Nappy Heads’’ to pay tribute to Afro hair, but her enterprise took an unexpected turn when it got picked up for screening at the Sprocket Toronto International Festival for Children taking place from April 18th to the 24th. The festival aims to educate children through an exposure to different perspectives from around the world by screening a diversity of Canadian and foreign films. It is also an opportunity for children, students, and teachers alike to interact with filmmakers and writers. In documentary style, Moella’s short film was chosen because it speaks with aplomb and joy about the beauty found in diversity and cultural tolerance. Moella says, “I guess I wanted to make something beautiful about Afro hair, because most of the time kinky, afro hair don’t have good press.” So she decided to respond and pay homage to diverse hairstyles in ‘Nappy Heads’, a 3 minute, delightful and groovy black-and-white documentary. To those who don’t see what all the fuss is about, remember
Wavelength 456 Jake Steinmetz
Rich Girl meets Kid Street meets the Amethysts As the days draw closer to the end of another year at U of T, Sunday’s Wavelength at Sneaky Dee’s is proving itself the best spot to cast away the stress and treasure a piece of joy before those grueling final weeks. Although last week’s show proved to oscillate between brazen exuberance and somber refuge, the crowd’s sentiments were unmistakably upbeat throughout. Readying the crowd for
that this is Moella’s first year of endeavor into film-making, with ‘‘Nappy Heads’’ being only her second film. Her third film, ‘The Missing,’ is currently underway. Her participation at the festival, where the top Canadian and foreign postsecondary film schools send their flicks, can be considered a tremendous success. Moella confesses, “I’ve wanted to be a filmmaker since I was five, but I didn’t have any money and it’s only since I joined U of T and the Film Board that I was really able to make my first film.” Her first short film, named ‘The Cup,’ tells a story of a student fighting against a garbage can that refuses to accept and recycle his plastic cup. ‘The Missing,’ Sabrina’s third and longest film, is a 10-minute narrative story of a young woman waking up one morning to find that her boyfriend and everything in the house is missing. Sabrina usually shoots in black-and-white, with no audible dialogue, and uses only action connected with music to express the theme of each movie. In ‘Nappy Heads’, as in her other movies, she tries to create an
Kyra, in Sabrina Moella’s ‘Nappy Heads’
super-retro feel, an ode to her favorite artist - Charlie Chaplin. Moella’s main goal is to present people and their environment as they are in reality and to simply show natural beauty around us in our everyday lives. Even though the movie wasn’t specifically dedicated to kids, it got chosen because it has children in it and because it brings forth the issues of cultural diversity in a playful way. The festival changed her perception too: “Now, I am really looking forward to working with the
children, to talk and interact with them. It’s the opportunity to have a meaningful discussion, especially because Toronto is so multicultural.” For further information on attending the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children, check out www.tiffg.ca or www.sprockets.ca. Prices are student friendly, and are available at 416-968-FILM, or at the Sprockets Festival website.
Wavelength 456 was DJ Slippers, who controlled the show’s intermittent song playlist (rocking Queens of the Stone Age at one point… huge score!). The dissonant cacophony of Toronto’s own Rich Girl were the first to take the stage. Describing their music as “KISS on dope” these prog-rock punkers set the place ablaze with the violent shredding of guitarist John Wilson, reigned in by the punchy, fast-paced drums of Nick Kervin, and flanked by the raging Charlie Black on keys and Serge Slipachenko on bass. Highly entertaining, you can catch them April 30th, performing with In Support of Living, at a destination yet to be determined (check their myspace within the next
few weeks). From the near West, Waterloo’s sibling-based group, Kid Street, catapulted the growing crowd into a frenzy of ecstasy and excitement. The Snyder family trio (Karl, Edna and Cliff ) felt “gratified” to play for people in Toronto – people “who’s last name you don’t know.” Their musical project, the fruit of over a year’s work, came to full bloom this evening and showcased Edna’s hollow, hypnotic voice. Although the band has only incorporated vocals for a year, the benefit of the addition is clear: “It was like a light bulb,” exclaimed Kid Street co-pianist and whistle sounder Karl. Notes Edna, “All of a sudden…people started paying attention.”
By the end of Kid Street, there was not a dry forehead about the place. But the sweaty mob, giddy with rhythmic reverberations, cooled down to ponder the depth offered by Adam and the Amethysts. Adam Waito strode forward with a voice full of triumphant sorrow, quieting a now passive audience who erupted with applause after each Amethyst outpouring. Accompanied by the equally melancholic – yet uplifting – vocals of Katherine Peacock, and with Nathan Ward on drums, the Amethysts achieved the ‘organic’ sound Waito consistently aims for, “doing them in a way everyone feels [is] right.”
Hart House showcases the 87th Annual Photography Exhibition Hannah Fleisher
The Hart House Camera Club’s 87th Annual Photography Exhibition is now on display; all selected prints (winners, runnerup’s, and honorable mentions) can be viewed in the Map Room in Hart House from April 9th – 19th. The submissions this year were extremely diverse and in order to
select the winning photographs, judges looked for a distinct and unique style (like Alexandra Tkatcheva’s winner of the digital altered category - Ice Castle) or strong execution of the classical technique (like Ren Hui’s winning essay, A Cambodian Childhood). Approximately 40 photographers submitted their work in
7 divisions. The final selection of photos represent the wide range of stylistic possibilities offered through different mediums of photography. Take a well-deserved study break and immerse yourself in the photography of your fellow students.
Ren Hui’s ‘A Cambodian Childhood’ is on display in Hart House Map Room as part of the 87th Annual Photography Exhibition.
and patience,” said Collins. “It’s minimalism is very challenging for people. You have to walk slowly to see it.” This quiet infiltration of the space contrasts nicely with Loughlin’s striking performance pieces. “What I really appreciate about it is its relation to Irene’s work in the other room,” said Collins, “which is one of the most assertive, active pieces in the collection. It’s a really strong juxtaposition.” Bauer’s video installations focus on concepts of existence and being. It’s as if an invisible force is guiding the action in her films. “There’s a fair bit of humour in Lorna’s work,” said Collins. “She makes inanimate things animate.” Gellman’s images delve into personal mapping. “Mimi engages with the ideas of walking and wandering,” said Collins. Court’s art punctuates sections of the lounge, where it can arouse visitors or surreptitiously fade into the background. “He’s really interested in art that intercepts with daily life and how we engage with the world,” said Collins. The exhibition gives a glimpse into the minds of the soonto-be graduates, elucidating the themes that interest and confound them. Collins believes that this insertion of personal art into the university milieu will be of particular interest to her fellow students. “There are so many ways that human beings express themselves intellectually and emotionally,” she said, “and visuality is a part of that. Visual culture is massive for us right now. We’re inundated with visual material. I see a museum as an oasis for all of us because a different kind of thinking occurs when we’re still. It gives us a moment to stop and really look at something.” Until April 18 at U of T Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. (416) 978-1838, www.utac.utoronto.ca. UTAC is open Tuesday to Friday 12 to 5 p.m., Saturday 12 to 4 p.m. Admission is free. On April 15 at 5 p.m., UTAC curator Ian Carr-Harris will provide a guided tour and speak about each artist’s work. All of the artists will be present to field questions.
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1 Spadina Crescent Polina Teif presents a photo essay about the newspaper’s home 1 Spadina Crescent didn’t always look this way. The 1875 neo-gothic buiding was the home of Knox College before it moved to King’s College Circle. During the First World War, it was a hospital for convalescing soldiers and notably Amelia Earhart worked there as a nurse. Afterwards, it became a catch all building, eventually finding its purpose during the Second World War as home to the Connaught Laboratories, the makers of various lifesaving drugs such as vaccinations, artificial blood serum, and penicillin. The conversion of a religious seminary to a laboratory has left its mark on the building, which is full of freight elevators, huge walk-in refrigerators for growing penicillin, and decades worth of scientific detritus.
the newspaper’s office was once a laboratory, and the archive room that stores the office’s 30+ years of newspapers is actually a giant refrigerator. And the whole place has an aroma that is unlike any other building, on or off campus. There are lots of ghost stories about U of T buildings, but at 1 Spadina Crescent most of the ghosts are there for you to see because the left over bric-a-brac of the buildings various incarnations are scattered about. Now, it is home to the fine art department at U of T (plus such orphans as the Elevator Department and Parking Services). If there is one ghost in the building that refuses to talk, it is David Bueller, the art professor who was murdered in his office—the crime remains unsolved.
Clockwise: 1 Spadina Crescent from the outside; the west staircase leading from the second to third floor; a container for human eyes (the building was for many years the home of the eye bank, which organizes cornea transplants); a forgotten television in the old loading bay area of the building—this area at one time was a hub of activity processing thousands of pounds of cow lungs to make artificial blood; signs of asbestos; a disused laboratory refrigerator.
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