THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW
VOLUME 3 , ISSUE 4 •
JANUARY 22 , 2002
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Tuition to reach $22,000 in five years Report outlines funding initiatives that will lead to continued tuition hikes BY NOAH GITTERMAN Tuition \viii reach $22,000 within five years, according to documents released by the Faculty of I M'lw's Provosnal Committee. This amount is a necessary result of the committee\ draft proposal of the report to the provost, which outlines the law school's program and funding initiatives over the next five years. The figure essentially extends the current trend of raising twtion by $2,000 each year over the period covered by the report. Tuition for the entering class of 2001 ~.-as $12,000. The nl'\\. figure also confirms recent media reports that the school is planning significant tuition increases, dramatically widening the gap between the cost of attending the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and other ( .anad1an law schools. In early December, the !\aoonal Post quoted unnamed sources at the school as staong that tuition might go as high as $25,000 in the fore~ccablc future. Although the tuition hike has not been offietally endorsed by law school or univcr:.e-~~airy adrnJnl!ll:rJUr>rs, the figur-e of S22,000
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SPECIAL EXAM COVERAGE, p4-5 LUNCH WITH SAMER, p6 ALTERNATIVE CAREERS, p7 THE TUm ON DEBATE, p8-9 JANISCH ON SHANK CASE, p14 THE LAW SCHOOLJUNGLE, p19
follows from the increases in program spending outlined in the provostial committee's draft fivc·yl'llr plan. It is contingent on both the acceptance of the report by facul· ty council, and final approval by the provost. As weU, the suggested tuttion hike is dependent upon the provost's agreement to increase the percentage of tuition fees given to the law school and reduce the percentage retained by the univcrstty admin1straoon. Currently, 35 percent of law student rwoon goes to the university-wide adrnirusrracion. Dean Ronald Daniels stated that a tuition fee schedule will be put to faculty council in conJunction with the approval of the committee's five-year plan. "By the end of this academic }'l'llf, we will have developed a plan to secure the five-year plan," Damels explained. ·~\s part and parcel of this, I will want to have a figure for the nt•xt five }"l'llrs. This \\.ill be voted on by faculty council." By far the largest smg\c. pending incre2Se recommenJeJ in the draft five-year budget is to the faculty retention funJ. An extra l 'J million WJ.\\ -be ~tt:u to th\11 fund over the nt:x-t five H'jlf'S ro rnise profc.•.o;Qr salane~. ( )thcr ~pencling incrca~cs arc allocated co more secretarial and administrative staff, as well as technical support and student services. Downtown Legal Services, and a new public interest law intioaove, will also receive more funds. First-yt.'llr student Jennifer Stone, a member of the student-organized twnon working group, believes that regardless of the benefits that may flow from increased program spending, the high tuition levels will necessarily reduce accessibility and con-
PLEASE SE£ "DEBATE," P2
Matt Duffy licks Karen Park at Law Games 2002 in Montreal. For more coverage of the fifty-strong U ofT team, see page 17.
Dean.suspends more students .
No further action against Shank as ordeal brought to an end BY SIMREN DESAI & DAN MURDOCH
Who will be banished to Osgoode? Faculty Survivor at last weekend's Law Follies
,\ unanimous Ontario Supcnor Court has quashed Dean Ronald Daniel's decision to ~uspend Roxanne Shank for misrepresenting grades to law firms. The dean has since announced that the school will neither appeal the dectsion nor refer the matter to a university tribunal. Shank is free to continue her studies at the
law school without .Kademic sanction. Howl-ver, Ultra Vlrl'S has been told that the dt'lln issued one-yl'llr suspensions last \\.·cek to at k-asr two additional students implicated in the grades scandal. Whik· overruling the dean's deci.~ion in the instant case, the court affirmed the school's power to penalize students for mis-
PLEASE SEE "COURT FINDS," P 6
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