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University of Toronto’s Independent Weekly
Vol. XXXII No. 1
September 3, 2009
CIUT moves to Hart House
The Shorts
Campus radio station makes way for Rotman’s expansion plans
Come this fall, the University of Toronto’s community radio station, CIUT FM, will no loner be in its familiar location across from Robarts Library. Neither will the narrow white Victorian it’s housed in. As part of the Rotman School of Management’s $91.8 million expansion plans, CIUT is required to vacate its space at 91 St. George St. The station, which has been at its current location since beginning as the closed-circuited University of Toronto Radio in 1966, will take up residence at Hart House in time for the start of the academic semester. “The move has been in the making for quite some time now,” says Ken Stowar, CIUT’s program director. In the building’s place, Rotman will erect an eleven-story research centre
that will house, among others, the Richard Florida-helmed Martin Prosperity Institute. The new structure will include an event hall, new classrooms and study spaces, and will be partially integrated with Rotman’s current building at 105 St. George. The expansion comes as part of dean Roger Martin’s $200 million fundraising campaign announced last October – the largest of its kind in Canadian history. The school’s initial proposal to the Governing Council saw $204,000 allotted to move CIUT to 256 McCaul St., a building currently occupied by U of T’s custodial services. The idea was met with immediate scrutiny as the proposed space was about a third smaller than the station’s current digs. Laurie Stephens, the director of media relations for the planning and budgeting committee, explains
the local The civic worker strike is over and residents are reminded that free collection of waste and recycling has ended and regular rules for garbage disposal are now in effect.
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91 St. George, former home to CIUT, awaits demolition later this week. that after considering “several possible locations for CIUT, Hart House seemed the best one as it will connect the station
Coach House press purchases namesake building CaILIN SmaRT After a 41-year tenancy, Coach House Press, Canada’s most venerable literary press, has finally purchased its namesake coach house building from neighbouring Campus Co-op Residence Inc. Tucked away in bpNichol lane, the ramshackle building hums with archaic printing machinery. The coach house has always been the heart of CHP, and consequently of independent, experimental Canadian literature. The acquisition of the coach house is of sym-
bolic importance to everyone at the publishing house, and especially to its founder, Stan Bevington. “This was a shell of a building when we moved here in spring 1968,” Bevington recalls. “They basically let us pay for it as though it were a parking spot. We poured the cement ourselves, and bought the cheapest available flooring,” he says, indicating the floorboards. Things weren’t always so peaceful. In 2004, CCRI talked about evicting CHP from their namesake building as part of the CCRI Rejuvation Plan, an
the campus U of T campus police have encountered success in catching bicycle thieves with their ‘Bike Bait’ program which involves placing GPS technology in bicycles on campus.
effort to improve CCRI’s financial position. There were plans to demolish the coach house and erect a new student residence. “It was kind of ironic, because I was always politically aligned with the CCRI,” laughs Bevington. When asked to comment on the CHP tenancy, CCRI President Emmett Ferguson says that there “were no major challenges; about six years back there were some issues that were severely over-blown by the press,” referring to the developContinued on Page 7
more closely with the student life on campus.” Continued on Page 3
the world 2, 000 soldiers have been served letters of dismissal from the South African military after they staged an illegal protest over wages and attempted to scale the walls of the President’s office. the weird Chinese table tennis officials have decided that national superstar Wang Hao is finally old enough to have a girlfriend at age 25. She is Peng Luyang, former national champ. “Wang is 26 and Lu is 23. It is normal to have a love affair at this age.”
apUS hosts pan am Games protest DaN CRaIG This past Monday APUS, the Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students, hosted a protest against Toronto’s bid for the 2015 Pan Am Games. Demonstrators gathered on the front lawn of the APUS programming office, across from Varsity Stadium - where the opening and closing ceremonies would be held if Toronto were to win the games. Among the crowd were members of the Graduate Students’ Union, CUPE Local 3902, and members of No Games Toronto, a
group opposed to the Toronto bid. Chief among the grievances voiced by speakers was the large price tag attached to hosting a large international sporting event such as the Pan American Games. The City of Toronto says that hosting such an event could cost up to $2.4 billion. The province of Ontario, under the leadership of Dalton McGuinty, has also stated that they will underwrite the cost of the games. After protesters swayed to the Continued on Page 6