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U ofT law school takes top spot in Macleans Magazine Yet in-house survey suggests room for improvement lh Aru D \\ 1D Korol t l\'IL (2L) Long kno\\'n for its Canadian uni\ ersuy rankin1-,rs, ,\ laclcans ,\f:t!,razine released its ~irst- cver ranking of Canadian law schools last month and the l 'niverstty of Toronto's Faculty of Law claimed the number one position, heating ~lcGill and Osgoodc for the top spot. But on the beds of the Maclcans ranking, faculty Council released the results of the Law School St1n·cy of Student Engagement (l.....SSSh), indicatmg a more mixed but generally posiuve ~cntiment among L otT students about the Ia\\ school.

The magazine ranks the Facult) of Law first or second 1n terms of Faculty journal atations, elite firm hiring, national reach (a measure of how much mob1lit) the graduates enJO)), and Supreme Court clerksh1ps.

Despite 'CQ!T'~ tirst place overall ranking m the .\!~cleans article, however, students and fiKulty alike arc skeptical of the valtdit\' of the study's methods, instead placin~ far more weight on the Law School Survey of Student Engagement than the number one ranking in Macleans.

Grand Mooters pose a1ongs•·de Judge~> and Dean Moran. For more on this year's Grant Moot,

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The Career Development Office has issued its interim report card on the cla~s of 2008's articlmg achieYements and It shows a typically successful year. B.ut the class has nc,·erthcless stamped Its own character on these results.

The COO is still waiting to hear back from about 20 students, but was able to pamt a picture based on reports fr~m 90 per cent of this rear's graduaun.g class. ,\s of early October 2007' this

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class will send 161 of 190 students to an articling or first-year associate position. But Lianne Krakauer, Assistant Dean of Career Scr\'ices, bclie\·cs that number is will rise.

"Of the 10 per cent that remain unconfirmed or unknown, eight spent the summer at a 1'\ew York or Boston tirm and 1 expect that most of these studen~-; were gi\'en offers to return ~s associ ates," said Krakauer. "lncludmg those

students, it most likely means we ha\·e confirmed positions for a total of 169 [studentsj."

The number of students who have secured positions and the fact that most will be joining pri\·ate law firms is consistent w1th past classes. Howe\'er, Krakauer idcnti tied two new trends, \\'hlch caught her eye and marked this group as unique.

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A couple of weeks ago, the Ne\\. \ork most o f o ur law school experience an academic medal, but it is not going to Times repo rted o n a new trc.:nd amongst should not be just about studying hard help you very much ten years from now yo ung professionals at investment banks, o r the noble pursuit of social justice. It if, in doing so, It prevented your peers hedge funds, and pri\'ate equity firms. should be cgually about building close fro m getting to kno\\. you, or even Whereas, rradirionally, people in these fricncbhips and worse, brought out positions would Jca,·e their posts after a tics with the ~ the worst in you. couple of years and, with their employ- ,·cry people you ":\fAk.Il\G TH E ;\10SI OF O UR ·~ Recent events at ers' encouragement, return to school to arc likely to enL\\\ SCHOOL hXPf·.RWNCE the University o f do their MBAs, the Times noted that in counter Windsor Pacultr of time today's booming market, firms arc en- and again SHOL'LD 1\oOT Bb JL:ST \BOLT Law (repo~ted couraging their top performers to stay at throughout your STLDYI'\JG HARD OR 1 Hb OBLh herein) are a fresh their posts, and not go back to school. legal career, PURSLIT OJ· SO CIAL J l STICL. reminder of what \1any executi\'es quoted in the article re- wherever it ma)' I T SI IOULD Bh EQUALLY \ BOUT can happen in the marked that, from an academic stand- lead you. In this case of the latter. point, an MB1\ offers VIrtually nothing respect, law stuBUILDING CLOSE FRIENDSHIPS O ctober OCI in terms of extra skills that a star stock dents could A "\JD TIES WITH THE VERY season is currently or hedge fund analyst can apply on the probably learn up on us and is arPEOPLE YO U ARE LIKJ~ LY TO job that they do not already have. De- something b}: guably the craziest, L:;-...CQC'\;TJ-.R TL\fb A D AG \11:\o spite this view, many of the same exec paying mo re atmost stressful time uth'es were o f the view that an ~1BA tention to busi THROLGHOLT YOLR Lf<G \L m o ne's law school from a top school was still a worthv.·huc ness schools, C\REER, \X HLREVLR IT MAY career. And with pursuit for younger pro fessionals for and the cmpha • ~ good reason. Wh at LEAD YOL one reason, and one reason only: net- sis placed~ ~ happens over the working. therein on stucourse of less than lt &ccms unhkdy that many applicants dent networking. Although the study of a month determines where you are, or tl> out \aw l'>c.'hoo\ got aL\rnittct\ h y wtit- law will always be mote inte\\ectua\\y arc not, going to be working for the mg personal statements about how they challenging than an cxecutiv business foreseeable future. And for somcot;~e want to go to Uofr to make fncnds witll cJucarion Oust ask theJD/ MBAs), there who ~p ends upwards of $60,000 for a potcntra/ly important people. \\c arc is no reason why it cannot aho be more degree allowing them to enter the prosupposed to be idealists, focused on big- than that Jn that respect, some of us fession, it is a big deal to come out o f ger things like international human may be missing out the process with some for m of a paying rights internships (which look great on Fo r many o f us, these three short job, especially if that is what your goal a resume when applying fo r a job in years arc o ur first experience of being was before forking over the cash in the ~cw York) and pro\·iding legal services surrounded by such a large group of ex- first place. It is important- but it is not to those who cannot afford them . Going traordinarily bright and motivated peo- the most important thing to strive after to a school because you want to make ple on a regular basis. With that in your law school career. There is one conne c tions to help your career down privilege, however, come unique de- thing more important, from a personal the road? That sounds superficial, at mands and pressures, which sometimes - and yes, also financial - perspective, least in the context o f a law degree. drown out o ther opportunities. Finish- and it is this: building strong personal But maybe it sho uldn't be. Making the ing at the top o f the class may earn you relationships with your fellow students.

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The impressio ns you make at Uofr will play their role in determining if your collca!-.rucs trust you, if lawyers at other firms want to work with you and whether that former classmate who started up their own company brings you into the fold o f their billion-dollar enterpnse, or if, instead, you have to go to Ind1go to read their book about it.

So don't get too narrow-minded about why you arc here. Broaden your honzons, whether it's by spending a little more time around the school, joining a club (or, ahem, the school newspaper), o r simp ly making an effort to talk to people who aren't in your year the next time you find you rself bored at pub night. Who knows, it might end up doing more for your career than an anicling gig. If it doesn't, well, at least it'll let you add some friends to your Facebook profile.

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On September 24, 2007, the Faculty of La\\ welcomed another distin!-,ruishcd panel to preside over the annual G rand .Moot and to kick off the start of another mooting season. The Honourable Justice Louis LeBel of the Supreme Court of Canada joined Warrc.n \\ mkler, recently appointed Chilf Jusnce of Ontario, and Justice Gertrude Spcigcl of the Supcnor Court of Jusnce as the bench ti:>r the Supreme Court of Flavelle.

Unlike Grand ..\loots past where ttuestions from the bench tend to be light and easy, this \'tar's panel gave the four mootcrs, '\1cok l lenderson, Brian Duong, I rcdnck Schumann, and 1\ndrca Harrington, all that they could handle.

"They really knew their a11rumcnts and stood up well to some aggrcssh·e and intrush·e questioning," offered Professor Jim Phillips who had a hand in coaching the mooter:;. "It was a \'cry interventionist bench, the most I have seen in all my time hc.re. I actually thought it 'l.vas too much so at times. 1 ht mootcrs should have been given a btt more time to an-

at 1ssuc, J ustice Spe1gcl pushed Brian D uong about how he would characterize h1s own clothing that day, fancy or casual, to which he whimsically replied, " I'm dressed fancy today Justice." The audience loved it.

Later, when the bench pressed Duong about the moral fibre of his fictional clients, he conceded that his gun-toting, stripclub-frequenting cltents were not "model citizens" which prO\·cd another highlight for the audience.

The questions from the bench were not the only curveballs the mooters had to fac e. this year.

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dcciston '\vas reached to change the moot topic.

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weeks before the

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time than other students to complete the contents o f the correspondence and the Some people will go to great lengths as well as a law recruiter at a downtown exams. The writer suggested that Jaw unethical and cowardly behadour of the In order to secure the jobs the} want. Toronto law firm have informed Ultra firms should consider these circum- author(s)," srud Llman in a letter .to s~u­ Vires (all speaking on the condition of Baseball players have been known .to in stances when evaluating the apphcant's dents. "Our immediate concern IS with anonymity) that the stor} goes somethe upcoming summer recruitment and Elate their muscles by taki ng steroids to academic performance. help crack the major lcahrucs, and law thing like this: \ccording to an October 9 letter from the potential for this incident to c.1st a A current Windsor law student anony· dark cloud O\'er our students and the students have been known to inflate mously sent letters to the Toronto law \X'mdsor D ean Bruce Elman to students Facult\" of Law, more generally." their grades to help land a summer job ~t n.gardmg the incident, the school was The recruiter mena major law firm. For evidence of this, firms that \t,·erc conducting OCls at the tioned above, who consearch no further than the firmed receipt of the words "CofT grades scanJetter, remarkeJ that the dal," a phrase that remains entire episode was "disentrenched in the lexicon appointing" and the firm of today's law students was "sorrr to see it hapnearly a decade after the inpen." cident that gave rise to it.

I r i unclear what the 1\nd just as there arc lasting effect of the incithose who make great efd b Wind sor and they have nicer , for havin the m ost competitive cut-throat students h_as been usurpc y . ... dent will he, but irrc peeforts to get a leg up, there Alas, Uo ff s fep g (and more) library chatrs. rive of the final outcome, arc others willing to go to ..

I extremes to ensure that notificd b,· a number of Toronto firms it sccms likely that the "Windsor .cttcr faculty. The writer claimed that his or will join the pantheon of OCI-rclated their competition docs not get to keep her fc.llow student had taken a,kantage about th~ letter, following which the scandals that arc spoken of long after an edge. T his seems to be the case_at the school undertook an internal im·cstigao f an exemption that allow~ students Univcrsitv of \Xmdsor Faculty ot Law, tion and "referred the nutter to Campus the students who arc the subject of with certain medical conditions to type, them have graduated. where a~ 0(1 related scandal has rerather than handwrite exams (as is gen- Police." cently surfaced. "\\'c are shocked and appalled by the erally required), and to be allotted more 1\ number of Windsor law students,

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\\'hilc the law school's 1\dmission and Enrolmtnt Report won't be released • Majority of suspended students • un11l '\ovembcr, there has been a bun • return to faculty • amongst the student bod\ that this year's At least six of the students\\ ho reI Ls ha' e the highest I.S.-\1 average 10 • turned to the law school thts ) c.tr • the history of UofT Law. But this ru after being suspended for lying about : mour JUst isn't true, says Professor their grades rcceh·ed on-campus in ;\rnold \\unrib, Chair of the .Admis• tervk:ws t\\o \\ecks ago, one of those • sions Committee at the Faculty of La\\. studt•nts said m an,intcn·icw. The : \X'cinrib sa)S the ILs have LS,\T grade scandal first erupted in 200 I, : scores comparable to those of previous • when It come to light that sc\cral • classes. In addition, he contends, the first-year student'> had submitted f.1l amount of applications this past year did sificd grades to law firms and other not differ significantly from other years.

• potential employers when applying • The rumour's origin may trace back to for summer jobs. \ccording to Assis- : the powerful effect the "double cohort" • tant Dean Bonme Goldberg, "I think • year has had on the collective subcon• that these arc students who ha\·e • scious of students who etther survived it ! reintegrated into the taculty. They ! or narrow!} escaped it. Back in 2003, the • have concluded the penaltv assi~-.,med • province of Ontario witnessed the grad.

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sequcntly the largest number of highly competitive applications than ever before, UofJ' Law's standards for admissions rise signt ficantly.

In turn, September 2007 sees the commencement of a first-yc.:ar class with the highest average l~~AT score tn the history of the school. ( )r so the theory goes.

Rumours aside, Wcinrib did say that the median CGP,\ of the tirst-years may be a smidgc higher than it has been in recent history.

There arc other notable features of the first-year class. They include the followmg:

• a better representation of women relative to the number of female applicants than in previous years; • fewer mature students than in prevwus vcars; • fewer students holding graduate degrees compared to the previous t\vo years (although the number is comparable to other recent years1; and • fewer Canadian students holding degrees from universities abroad compared to the 2Ls (although this is a uruquc characteristic of the 2Ls more...

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addltwnal 30.1'1fc, rate thei r experience as "excellent".

95% of 1st year, 81% of 2ndyear, and 88°/o of 3rd-year students report having done pro bono, extracurricular, and/ or volunteer work.

This far outpaces the Canadian or "allschools" average.

88.4% of students arc satisfied or very satisfied with the help they receive from the library 84.5% of students have had a serious conversation wtth students of another race or ethnicity, and 72.3% have had a serious conversation with students who arc very dtfferent in terms of religious beliefs, political opinions, or personal values.

J lowcvcr, UoiT's students were also less likely than a\·cragc to discuss readings with Facultr outside of class, and \verc less likely to report feelings that the school emphasized good legal research skills. Students felt they were receiving less feedback than their peers at other schools, and felt that the school could do more to support them academically, and also to encourage the ethtcal practice of law.

Goldberg says the school has already taken "concrete steps to address this concern through the Pedagogy Working Group and the Curricult.m Committee."

Overall, howe,·er, the LSSSF and Maclcans findings arc encouragtng.

"Ultimately, this is a very posiciYe story for us," Goldberg says.

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Curriculum committee cites disappointments and successes • • In revamping legal research programs at school BY 0\Nli'Lll STO~l. (2L)

It was a promise that had facuJty and stu dents cheering: last year during a Paculty Council meeting the PacuJty promised to open howeYer many Advanced Legal Research and Writing (ALR\X) classes were necessary to satisf) demand. But \vhen the add/ drop course period expired last month, over 41 students were still waitlisted for the class.

"I tned to get in to Beatrice Tice's class, but I was 24th on the watt list," one second-year student told Utra Vires.

"So I was going to try and get in to the Bonnie Fish class, but there was a waitlist for that class as well. Eventually, I just gave up trying to get in."

The ALRW class is one of the most popular at the law school. At full capac ity, 202 students are taking the class this year.

"This course aims to cultivate analytical, research and writing skills through problem-based learning," the course descriptton reads. "The development of the skills in this course will assist students in their academic course work and prepare them for their professional careers."

A luncheon between research attorncp• ar pn,:uc firms, Dean J\f nvo .\foran, nnd last year's Curricul um Con1mrrt~·e confirmed that this was of key 1mpor

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classes. stay small and the administration "The administration said there would couldn't find the faculty to teach other be enough classes to accommodate the sections, says 1\ssociate Dean Bonnie demand in this area in the future," Cur· Goldberg. riculum Committee Member Professor In the end, Facult) was able to offer Deruse Reaume said. "We thought tt was one additional ALR\V class this year and a done deal so we didn't focus on it too plans on adding addittonal classes in fumuch. It turned out not to be." ture years. ''The [Curnculum Committee] report There rna}' still be waitlists for ALR\X' makes very clear that there shouldn't be classes, but the faculty insists the class 1s TruED TO GET lN TO-, a waitlist," another committee member, but one piece of the legal research puzAssociate Dean Catherine Valckc said. zle. Other pieces of the puzzle came toB EATRJCE T ICE'S CLASS, BUT Nonetheless, many students ended up gether when administrators 1 WAS 24TH ON THE WAITon waitlists. implemented recommendations from U ST, .. . So I WAS GOING TO ''As I understand it, the administration the Curriculum Committee's final report is committed to meeting the demand on legal research and writing at the law TRY AND GET INTO THE (for ALRW classes]," Ticc, who helped school. The Committee presented the BONNIE FISH CLASS, BUT implement legal research initiatives this report to faculty last l\1arch. lt acknowlTHERE WAS A WAIT-LIST FOR year, said. "But there were things beyond edges past flaws in the law school's proTHAT CLASS AS \'«ELL. EVENour ability to implement this in the gram and aims to improve the shortterm." instruction students receive this year.

TUALLY, I JUST GAV.b UP Those things turned out to be re"\Xe were all agreed on the fact that TRYING TO GLT IN." sources. Tice was originally scheduled to neither faculty nor students were happy teach three sections of the research class with \egal research at the nme;• Tice at a research problem, analyze it from an this year, but problems iugg\ing her re- said. "Lega\ research i~ a ski\\s-ba!'.cd enissue-approach, plan a research strategy sponsibilities in the library \n addition to dca"our, as opposed to an aca<.\cm\c. \,a~c.<.\ <>ne~· '!>he a<.\~\.,<.\, C."ll.'\)\a,n\n~ \\Yo\\. and follow through with it." tcadun\! meant !'.he v.:a~ una\~\c to fu\f\\\ "We asked them what the} liked in terms of research and analysts and what they would like to see in a perfect world from students," Chief Libranan Beatrice Ticc says of the meeting. "1 he} d1dn't focus on detruled skills, but big picture types of things -like being able to look

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"I think that's fantastic. I'm a student here anoJ ·,t's. nice to know that I'm at the bc::-t

school I could be in Canada."

" It's not clear how they do their rankin!,r:; and i'Jcw Brunswick rankc.:J number one: for big firm recruiting and that seems to me to be a little odd. So I don't know what they're bastng their statistics on and it's g reat that we're ranked number one, but I don't know what that means."

Julie Han - 2L Steve O akey - lL

"Since I'm here, I'm happy about it.

Despite the fact most people won't admit it, definitely a reason why I want.cd t~> come here was because this reputation IS 1 1 1 COinmonh· undcrstooo. ( on•t think the Maclean; ranking is a good thing in and of Itself because I know there have been problems with thc.:m. But gl\·cn they exist and they put my school at the top, l'~~ generally happy.

I know that rankings can be \cry ;ubitrarv and a lot of ttmcs there's not a science behind tt. J\s long as C ofT students don't usc it as an excuse to be arrogant and think we're better than other schools especiallv on l .awbuzz and things like that ...

As l~>ng as they don't usc maybe .arbitra?' ran kings in ccnatn ways then I thtn~ that s fantastic. It really reflects the cahbrc of students and the education at the school.''

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Class of 2010 - continued from page 4 ... than of the 1Ls). \'\'hen presented with these findings, many 1I. were quick to explain a\\·ay the rumour and find reasons why the double cohort eff~.:ct had been muted to the extent of being a \'irtual non-fact( 1r for 21)(17 admissions to Uofl' J..:m: First, the bcllcurn: employed by many universities in grading would have led to a much smaller Increase in the number of students with top-tlight marks compared to the overall incrt:a~e tn undergraduate enrolment due to the double cohort. Second. among the competitive applicants from the double cohort year, many may currently be in\'Oived in other post-graduate studies, working, traveling or completing an internship.

facts before us regarding Uoff Law\ first }ear class.

The e explanauons \\ill have to do until the 2007-2008 admbsions stat~ from all six Ontario law schools ha\'C been released and a more comprchcn· SI\'C analysts has been carried out, In tlw meantime, perhaps a new ru mour will start up in the hallways of Uofl' Law: that the "double cohort effect" is dead and that the first-years arc more similar than they arc different from their second- and third-year colleagues.

Both arc equally plausible explanations that help better understand the Curriculum - continued from page 3 ... at the cherry ... and a step-by-step guide to writing a research paper for upper-year students."

The result is additional legal research training and assignments for first-year students and a more structured upperyear research paper.

This year, the facu\t) has offtcially diminatcu the third Briu~c Week paper for first-year students in order to accommodate a third small group ass1gn ment with a deeper research component. Libra ry staff will attend small groups prior to each assignment to provide in-depth legal research train ing based on class assignments. The fac ult} has also introduced a series o f workshops, taught by librarians and Pacull); to provide first-year students with baste tools for legal research. Students have alreadv attended their first workshop on writing case briefs and case comments.

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Students arc required to seek approval from a professor for their project, hand in a research outline, draft, and bibliography before passing in the final paper. " In the past there was dissatisfaction b\' students and professors as to what the pap'-r was supposed to be," Ticc said. " '\ em it's clear there's a step-b)step gwdc to writing a research paper."

One recommendation from the Curriculum Committee which wasn't accomp!Jshed this year was the possibility of writing SL 'l:'RP in more d o ctrinal classes.

"There shouldn't be a stigma ... that legal wrttmg goes with academic-type classes on I)," \ alcke said. " Someone who wants to wnte a paper for their Family Law das~ should be able to write ':\ pap~.:r in that c\a~~."

Goldberg said the Administration dttl ask professors of doctrinal classes to consider overseeing research p apers, but there was little respo n se to the email sent out to professors over the summer.

D cspttc pe rsistent flaws, the administratio n says they are taking slow steps in improving the legal research and writing programs a t the law school. They may not have been able to implement all aspects of the Curriculum Committee's report, but the} 're gradual!} addressing the issues. " I think tt's terrific," AssoCiate Dean Valcke says. " We've tried so many dif ferent things in the past. My heart was with the students on this one. I really feel we've hit the right note no\\. This is the most promising avenue we could have taken."

Tice was equally optimistic. ''There are always admtnistrative issues . . . I was frankly surprised a t how much we were able to implement this year. The bulk of the recommendations are going in to place and It's gomg to be reviewed."

Whether students are happy with the changes is yet to be determined. But on.e thing is certatn: students who made Jt into the ALRW class are a step ahead of their classmates on waitlists.

"I'm so glad I'm taking this class," one upper year student said during class.

"I should have taken it last year. When I went to work fo r a firm this year I realilcd I know nothi ng about legal research."

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''Call the client and tell them what . told me. '' you JUSt t Hodgson Shields, we're client focused.

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firms now hire the majority if nut all of their students from their summer programs. Ho\\"(.'Yer, tht.• popularit) of plit summers may he gh·ing the e recruiters splitting headaches.

"\'lith tht. inert.. sed number of students going to '\.t.\\ York for a summer, J\l)()ut 10 per cent of the class took especially in terms of splitting, you abarticling positions with government or solutely ha,·e less certainty in terms of non-profit organizations. This includes what \( 1ur articling compkmcnt is g( 1ing four students with the City of Toronto, to be,' Stitt says. "You don't necessarily four at legal clintcs or ~GC )s and a knm, b) the time you have to decide smattering at offices of the Department and do the arncling recruiting whether of Jusnce and ~Iinistry of the Attorney your student~ who split tht.•ir ummers General. Fourteen students will also he clcrkmg at either the provinCial or federal level, in addition to one student who has obtained a clerkship at the "Ir I H,\VE TO PRt\CI'ICE South African Constitutional Court.

L \\\ FOR A C<>LlJ>I r OF Even Within the group headed to pri) I \RS TO P\l DO\\'\, Tl IE vate l:tw there is considerable breadth in ASTR0'\;0\IIC \L Dr J3T their tirm selection. 1\bout 25 per cent 1'\T 11\iCLRRI·D I H~RL, I of the firm-bound students arc headed \fiG fiT 1\S W'ELL II \VI. to specialty or boutitJUC environments tncludmg criminal defence, human ~o:,n; H:'< DOI'\G 11~ rights/ union-side labour. intellectual property, litigation and family Ia\\: TillS is in stark contrast to the other arc going to '\ew York or Toronto. The trend Krakauer identified. students '' ho spent their summer in "The second trend is that ... a larger '\lw York don't seem to make that denumber of students will be heading to ctsion with enough time ... for firms to the U.S. to start in associate positions know if they ha'-·e those positions availimmediately after graduation. The con- able. I t's a bit of a problem." firmed number going to tirms in NY and Boston is 21, but could hit 28 which highc:;~

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to ad nut handguns into e' idencc m the absence of cgrch>ious ( hartcr' wlauons ... basicallr would h.nc meant starung h} police officers. lt is an open t)UCS from scratch on c;ome tssucs or S\\ itch tion \\ hcther the jurisprudence \\til de mg the toptc,'' said 1Jarnn~.;ton. \clop Into a de facto handgun "We had talked about police powers excepuon to the Charter and one tssuc as a possible topic fwm the \'cry hegtnthat the problem was dcsrgned to test. ning, and 11 was obvicJusly timcl}, so we The ~uprcmc Court of Canada partial!} decidnl that changing topics was the weighed in on the matter thi past sum bec;r way to put on the most engagmg mer in R. ~~ Oayton. moot possible for both the audience 1bc shortened timdinc for this }Car's and the bench." i\foot meant that faculry support \\ ~s l JJtimatdy, the mooters in cooperacruoal. \!ways v.ilhng to help wtth the tion v.11h Chief Justices Emrys Da,·t (,rand Moot b) commenting on drafts and Jill Houlihan decided to dehe back of problems and f.'lcta and judgmg runin dme and revamp a comroversial through , many facultv members ga\ c Callaghan .Moot topic from two }Cars of therr time on short notice thic; }car ago. The new (old) problem questioned to make sure e\ cr) tlung v. cnt smoothly. the scope of pohcc roadblock powers ,\lichael Code was once again a mt..-ntor at common law and polkc powers to to the Grand Mootcrs but Roach, search inctdcnt to an im estigativc dePh rllips, Stewart, Shaffer, and Anand all tention. made time in their busy 'lchedulcs on The presence of handguns made the short n( •ttce to judge run-throughs \\;th problem particularly timely. Recent de- the mooters.

Cisions in the Court of Appeal incltcatc that Ontario's highest court is mcrcastngly aware of gun violence and wtlling so we weren't necessarily looking to atld to that articling complement. I know other firms will leave po~itions open specifically. {\X1c sa'-.v a handful of excellent applicatiOns that came m o;o we

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the Big Apple. . for. work and so we [re" 1f I have to pracuce ccntlyJ held a session for la\V for a couple of years dents articles to to pay down the them a chance to meet each nomical debt I\·c 10other and hear from a recent currcd here, I might as graduate who went well have some fun doing his own (successful) JOb · 1'0 . that's New 1 . d '' lt. me ' · ou have a bigger... sa ar}. search in thir year.

York City," explained Yes, working here does mean} ,\s one sage interviewer said during ( ;oldstcin who will be shar- . . r:cJr ·r·t,·•s· tlnccrtaint.\', coupled with an_ .in. . , .. "Leave room for . "tng h"•s· un,·arnishcd cnt h ustasm ,, t•··r···s·t ·,n rC\'.1'"\\'I·ng pcltenu'alh.· promtstn~ the aruchng process. k ,.• ""tlcrc .It wtll " -. . " . serendipity, you ne\·er ·nm:. wl practicing law with his colleagues >at candidates, means that large firms ~re take you."

Cadwalader, \Vickers ham & Taft. LLI. s~illlikclv to keep their door aja_r dunng 'I"hc interest in workmg statcstdc has . . . ,. recruitment pcnods. f 11 future artie mg . not gone unnoticed by the larger , ~ • "~lost of the major firms were ~~service firms in Toronto. Nancy Sutt, yoJ~·cd .in the L\UbYUSt recruitment," Sutt I) . have a large summer group trector <Jf Student Programs at< )sler, says. """'• \\C Hoskin & I larcourt LLP, Sa} s many

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Latest increase to $1450 by Cassels Brock might finally push articling salaries higher BY l V STAI+ Of the 48 Canadian law firms participating in the Toronto On Campus Interview Program this year, the majority pay a weeklr wage of Sl ,300 a week, or $67,600 per year. To many a poor law student, $1,300 a week is not an insi!-_,mificant amount of money. For many of us, It is more than we have ever made before, perhaps more than our parents ever earned. Many students are content with such salaries, while others happily accept articling offers in communtties outside Toronto or at smaller law firms which pay less.

That being said, there has not been a market-wide increase in articling student salaries since the year 2000. Back then, Jean Chretien had just been re-elected Prime Minister, and Bill Clinton was President of the United States. It was in the autumn of 2000 when Osler, lloskin & I Iarcourt LLP, one of the many Canadian law firms to have done exceedingly \veil during the stock market boom, responded to then recent increases in U.S. :;alarics by bumping articling salaries up from $62,000 to $67,600. Most large

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Toronto law firms soon matched.

1\rticling salaries have not Increased smce.

In an effort to shed as much light as possible on this subject, Ultra Vires has compiled historical information on student salaries, law school tuition, and market inflation as far back as possible. In short, the numbers arc striking. Smce 1999, whereas tuition at the Paculty of Law has increased a whopping 133% and first-year associate salaries in New York have increased by 66%, Toronto articling salaries have increased by a meagre 8.9%.

In fact, when you consider that OYer that same period, cumulative inflation (according to Bank of Canada CPI figures) has amounted to 19.7%, articling salaries in Toronto have actually decreased in real terms over the past nine years by a significant amount. It is hard to think of another profession, in any field, in which starting salaries have decreased in real terms over such a . long period of time.

Bennett Jones LLP and Davtes, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg LLP are two large Canadian law firms who lead the Toronto legal market in remuneration, paying

S1,700 and S1,600 per week, respectively.

Curiously, howe\·er, it is not large corporate-focused firms, but instead smaller, speciali%ed firms which arc also starting to push past the Sl ,300 barrier.

Thorstemssons LLP, for example, which has onl) 15 lawyers at ItS Toronto office, is paying its 2008 summer students

interested parties the opportuni t\ to comment on this subject, ltra \ 1rcs emailed the 48 Canadian law firms participating in OCis to ask "why, after nearly a decade of increasing tuition, hilling rates, intlation and law salaries in other jurisdictions, Toronto summer and articling student salaries have generally

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Sl,SOO. Pal1are, Roland, Rosenberg, Rothstein LLP, a small litigation firm of 24 lawyers, will pay S1 ,400. Ridout & ~lay­ bee LLP, which practices IP law, will pa) $1,325. It is somewhat puzzling that it is these firms, and not those more com monly associated with lucrative .M&A and corporate work, which are movin~· past the $1,300 figure which has so dom inatcd artiding rcmunerauon for the past

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remained unchanged O\ cr the same period." Only two firms rcphed. The first was from Khppensteins, which submitted a length) response citing the high costs of public mterest and social justice law (included below in its entlret)-). The second response was from Deborah G\attcr, Director of "Profc~\iiona\ Dc\:c\-

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from our summer students that they were an:-.ious about salaries, and that was really the first time in a long umc \\e had any sense they may nor have been entirely satisfied" said Glatter. "\X'c decided to addn.:ss it, as well as associate b<muscs at the same time, because we have had for the last few years very strong performance at the firm collectiwl)~ and last year we decided to reward our associates and we wanted to do the same this year.

So what we've done is give our associates a bonus and this week announced to our studems a salary increasc!to $1450 a week] effective to their next paycheque." \\'ill Cassels Brock's latest move act as a catalyst for a market-wide increase in articling salaries? Alas, there is good rcason for skepticism, as there many possible reasons why Toronto artie\in~ sa\anc~ have remained so rigid for the pa'iot seven \·cars. For nne, there arc certain\-,· no

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Thank you for voting: a chat ~vith (acclaimed) SLS President Khalid Janmohamed UV: What do you have to say to the first year who is wondering, "What do I need to do in the next two years to put me in a position to maybe become SLS Pres ident one day?"

KJ: \Xord on the street is that being hro\\ n i~ \~rear way ro get to the top of tht ')! ~ 1 5ince that's not for C\"cryone, n.y onl) other piece of advice is to get invoh ed with the SLS or other cxtra-curriculars early on.

'Sup, Vanill.t Face?

UV: ~'hat arc some initiatives the SLS has planned for the coming school year?

KJ: We'd like to continue with some of the initiati\'es that wue started up last year-- curriculum imprm·ements, particularly in first year, financial aid reform and rcvie\\~ and more attentton to em·ironmental issues. We'll also be ensuring that students get the opportunity to n>ice their concerns and give their input to tht: nt:w building initiati,·c.

first years on their first day about tht: • mlking to the Dean about getting the lower Fla\'elle bathrooms worked on, ~I.). \\e'll also be trying to increase trans· and we'll definitely be following up on pan.:nq and communication with the that. student bod) this \·car, through initia tivcs such as the n<..:\\o su; website (check it out: www:slstoronto.ca).

UV: We spoke to the Dean and she mentioned there has been a lot of talk in the past year about reforming and improving financial aid, particularly finding the right balance beUV: In the past couple of years, the tween front- and back-end debt number of students running for SLS relief? What changes would you like positions has not been as high as one to see in this area?

KJ: I think, :1t this pomt, it's hard to say might expect at a school with a student body that seems to be pretty \>o hat needs to be changed. \\1hat the ambhious, informed and opinion- SJ .S ts going to push for thts year is a full ated on the whole. Any thoughts on rc\le\\ of the front- and back-end systems simultaneously, so that we can dewhy this is?

KJ: I lmm, I'm not sure I can complain termine where the weaknesses lie in the current system. tbout acclamations...

Stnously though. this is a tough one. I .h1nk one reason might be a I ck of in- UV: Moving on to more important isformation about what the SUl IS and sues, what do the students need to do docs, particularly for first- _-e.,rs who to get the bathrooms fixed around ha\'e only been an >und for a week or two here? (Editor's note: the Falconer come election ume. To try and counter basement urinal was the latest casuthis, the SLS ho-;tcd a table at the Orien- alty.) tation Clubs Pair :mu 1 also spoke to the KJ: Gom\ l.\ucstion' \''c'vc already hccn

UV: How about the food situation?

The Grounds of Appeal, to usc a legal term, totally sucks, dude. Any easy way to make things better on this front?

KJ: "Easy way"' !\,ope. There will definitely be som<..:thmg better in the new building, but that's a few years down the road. In the meantime, we're likely stuck with the small space, but hopefully we can get it filled with better stuff (mmm, non-stale sandwiches). (I !ditor'.r not(". Rumour has it that Faculty Council meetin~>S have some good cars!)

UV: Finally, when the year comes to a close and your legacy is in the books, what do you hope people will think when they look back on the year of President KJ? Aside from, "That guy had some sick shoes."

KJ: I hope people wiU think to them selves, "\'\'ow, the SLS really made a differt:nce that year." Failing that, I'm cool with the whole shoes thing.

Peculiar proceedings: unusual legal cases in the news 8)

Forrn-orrl: This is i\OT ( T/tra .~\·ews. These nrr real r;a.re.r. Goo._~le them if )Oil do11~ btliel't me.

Ontario Judge Dismisses Charges in Masturbation Case Valen Ponoman..."\', manager of Studio 176 in the city of Vaughan, was recently tried f, ,r keeping a common bawd; house. Charges were laid ba:-cd on the reports of an undercover officer, and Sl.'V(:ml witnesses who received "rub and tugs" at her massage parlour. In her c:tse (R. t~ Ponomaret~,Justicc Chisvin, applied R. v. l..abayt and ruled that the Crown did not meet irs obh!,ration to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was "the practice of acts of mdeccncy." <)n the quesuon of whether mcluding

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the act of masturbation as part of the text required to prouuce compctime exfull bodr massage constituted prostitu- amination responses." tion, Chisvin said, •Vfhe payment of money as I have found 1t was for a fullbody massage. The act of masturbation v.as optional, at no additional fee ... One only needs to look to the conduct of a certain president of the Umted States and th<.: response to acm ity that he participated in to wonder whether or not the act of masturbation is indct:d in .Ill circum::.tances a sexual act. Gtven that The complaint reads: "Certrun exams the act was done in pri\ .. tc, as part of a massage, participated in voluntanly by taken b) jplainuffj that rCt)uircd students all indi,·iduals, and a fee was paid regard- to be skilled touch-typists in order to less of whether or not the act took produce a compctith·e response resulted place, I am not satisfied that the Crown in borderhne fa1hng gmdcs by vtrtue of has met its onus and that the conduct the low \olume of prose l\lr. Zack could constituted prostitution." t) pe m the time allotted as compared with other students." Zack argues that Law School Sued for Discrimina- the school did not gi\·e him notice at any tion against Unskilled Typists point that "a minimum typmg speed was In Znchariamryrz t! M(JTTiJ-, Ntchols, effectively a prerequisite to compete for ;\rsht & Tunnell, I.T.P., et al., a com- grades on certain exam~." Students at plaint filed in Delaware, Aurian the law ~chool do have the option to Zacharieascwycz (''Zack"), a graduate write exams b) hand, but in Zack's case, of Um\crsity of ~l1chigan Law School, because of a prior wrist injury, he ar~-,rucd sued the school, alleging that it imple- this\\ as not a viable alternati\C. mented "a system of course examinaZack is seeking an unspecified amount of monetary damages based on tion and grading [that! disadvantaged students that could not type at a suffi- his argument that the ''the resultant efcient speed to produce the volume of fect on [his] overall law school grade

pomt average [wao;j so si!,.rniticant, that such cumulau,·e d1sad\ anuge effccnvel) rna) have dcstro\ cd some, most or all of the economic \,tlue, as measured hy ex pectcd future earnings potential... of [hisjlaw degree ... " Nebraska Senator Sues God; Receives Response ~ebraska Senator Ernie Chambers re cently filed a lawsuit naming God as the dcfcnd,mt In his petttion for a permanent injunction, ~cnator Chambers asks the court to order the defendant to "cease certain harmful acuvtties and the maktng of terroristic threats."

Chambers claims that the District Court of Douglas Count), Nebraska, has jurbdictJOn to hear the case "b) virtue of the fact that the Defendant, being Omnipresent, IS personal!} present in Douglas County." The Senator also ret)Uests that the court waive per sonal servtrc or, in the alternative, "find that lawful personal/ construct1ve service ha!'. been effecn1ated bv virtue of the ' fact that Defendant, being Omniscient, shall be deemed to have actual knowledge of this action, sufficient to satisf) all requirements of law regarding notice."

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How can this be explained? Perhaps Ba) Street firms only say the; are trying to hire the best students (indeed, all law firms sav this) but in realit)· are content to select f;om the pool of students willing to pass up opportunities to wod south of the border. Alternauvel~, Ba\ ~trcct could simply be trymg to pn.swt a \\Jr for talent that will reduce profits per partncr, as what is happening nght now in

contribute to a law firm in their first vcar out of school and should be grateful for the learning opportunities they receive.

Although there may be some truth to this, such a position completely ignores the reahDcs of market dynamics and the alternative career routes many law students arc starting to seek out. lt also ignores the fact that the value of an articling student to the firm is greater than his or her contribution during the time of articles. \r ticling students over time turn into profit generating associates far in excess of their salaries, and their salaries should reflect that.

Finally, part of the problem for students might be that unlike in the United States, differences in remuneration, where the} exist, are not well communicated in the Canadian legal marketplace. Take for instance this past winter, when StJkeman Elliott LLP elected to pay its associates a mid-year 5% bonus in recognition of their contributions to recent firm success.

Despite what amounted to only a few thousand dollars per associate, most large corporate firms (including some common!) referred to as presngrous "sister" firms) declined to match. In !\.ew York, such news would have dominated the law blogs and other popular publicaoons. ln Toronto, however, this was not the case. '\n uninformed market simply plays to the advantage o f oligopic employers.

Recent salary mcreases m t-.c~ York, combmed with students ~·.rapp\inv w1th increased tuitio n and cost of living, have prornp1cd man} graduates to rcc<>n.,idcr rbetr views about practicmg in the Unitt:d

States. Although some might dismiss comparisons with New York salaries as unfair, nobody reasonably expects Canadian law firms to compete on that scale.

That being said, however, not onh IS the remuneration gap between first-year 1\,e\\ York salaries and Toronto arnchng salaries higher than ever before, the same gaps which used to exist between 'l (>re>nto articling salaries and other Canadian junsdtcuons, anu in particular, Cal1 e\\ York. gary, are smaller than ever. The evidence A second possible explanation for on all accounts suggests that the 'l(>r<>nto static articling salaries is that compensamarket Is lam,ring behind in terms of stution bands at law firms are fairly tight. It dent remuneration. is difficult for law firms to raise the In the meantime, a record 15% of this salaries of articling students, without also year's graduating class at the Facult): of increasing remuneration to all of their as· l ...aw will be starting work in the Umted sociates (of varying seniority) as well.

States where it is far easier to pay off stuI lowever whereas associate compensadent debt, in addition to being an exciting tion has ~ndemably increased over this place to live. A view held by many is that same period, articling salaries have. ~ot.

If one is going to work hard on Bay Last year in an in ten iew wtth Lltra VIres, Street, then why not work hard o n \~~all l.Janne Krakauer, Assistant Dean, Career Street with its significantly higher salanes.

Development Programs, remarked that Indeed, work opportunities m the U.S. are "all of the associate salaries have been not limited to academic medallists, but arc going up, while articling salaries have no t. now a realistic option for many Toronto [fhe firms] arc aware that they have not students. ~ot all of such students are pre gone up in some time. I wouldn't be sur- disposed to working in NY - i~'s just. the prised to see an increase next year."C asincreasingly distorted economiC .r~ahncs sels Brock is the first f~tm to make such of 2007 that are making the deciSIOn far an announcement this year. stmpler for some.

Third there will always be those within the legal community who believe ~~at aruchng students have limited abtbty to

Without Prejudice: Articling salaries in Toronto have been frozen at $1,300 a week for the last seven years. What do you think?

Julie Han - 2L

••J don't ugrcc with it, especially :;mcc we're in such a strong economy right now and it should be reflected in our articling o;alarics. 1\lso, se\en years is a long time. I'm not trying to tridali:.>:e how much articling students get paid because it is a large sum of money, but at the same time, because its been frozen for seven years, it's not really fair."

Joel Hechtcr- 2L

"Seeing that l won't be articling in any of the firms that pay $1300 a week, I think it's fine. But I'm interested in Criminal law ~o I'll be articling at S700 a week. I can sec that coming up, there is a lot of rcallr important work that doesn't get S1300 a week thrown at them."

Abigail Deshman- 3L "l thmk it gi\es a chance for everyone ehc to catch up to them and make other sabrics more compctiuve. l think firm'!> arc comp\e\C\)' out'!>\n-pp\n\!. pu\)\ic )u!!o\lce '.)a\ar\c~ and \!}vc.n out tu \\~on, there'~ an c:norTnou"' ~\raw \owat<.\-. \~"'"""" and Nl."W 'l'otK cspec,a\\'j -ana \ \n,n"K \he"""-\<>"

ity of my friends who are articling at fir_ms ~~e doing so hccause of rhc:Jr debt ;1nd I thmk ItS imcrti:ring w1ch p<•oplc :, tn1c interest:; in pursu ing /il\\:"

"That stinks. They should look at raisjng it because its been a whtle, and the economy is doing \\ ell."

Response from Klippcnstcins on articling salaries \Xe at I<Jippensteins arc pleased to support the 1dea of salary increases for articling positions in downtown Toronto, but only for articling students at other downtown law firms (and not for the reasons you might expect) At Khppensteins, we are passionate abo_ut pracncmg public interest and soc1al justice law, but we also know ou r math and economics.

U pping student salaries (or any other firm expenseincluding partners' pay!) necessanly 10 creases the difficulty of serving chcnts and interests who usually have little money to fund rights litigation. This is

made much worse '"·hen rights litigation procedures are usually extremely complex and expensi\'e; they go on for manr years; and one's opponents gov~r~ments, the rich and powerful, big corporations, their lawyers - ha,·e huge resources. \X'e usually manag_e prett\ well, but it would help make 1t more costly for our opponents to fight against soctal justice and the public interest if other downtown articling students gained sizable salary increases.

So we add our voice of support to your salary demands!

Comments? We would love to hearfrom JOU. Email us atultra.vires@utoronto.ca

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LAWS high school student provides perspective on career in law

Getting to know professor Jeffrey Macintosh: scholar, poet, windsurfer

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fl): ~HARO. S ILBER"J' (21.)

UV: You received your LLM from JM: 'J'he first person I'd invite is ShakeHarvard, and were a John M. Olin speare, because one of mr hobbies is Fellow in Law and Economics at Shakespeare, and when I'm not doing Yale. Which Ivy League school had other stuff you'll probably find me reading his plays. The second person l'd inthe nicest bathrooms? vite is Robbie Naish, who you may not JM.: This is an easy one: II arvard, hands have heard of, but is a legend of winddown. Just before I went to Yale, the president was BrL·wster Kingman, and he surfing, which is my o ther passion. Fidecided at some point that he '-\'as going nally, I would im·ite \\-'ilc E. Coyote, to take a lot of the building budget and because I've alwavs felt sorr\' for him put it toto academic program~, the result since he nc\·er gets a meal. I'd take him of which was like 20 years of bathroom someplace where he could have pheasneglect. There were doors faiJing off ant under gbss, if not real road runner. stalls, crumbling tiles, etc. Everyone r\t least some kind of bird ... complained about the bathrooms.

UV: What did you do this past summer that wouldn't be expected of a UV: ... Kind of like at U ofT? JM: They were way worse that the bath- tenured law professor? rooms here. Going into a Yale bathroom JM: Besides windsurfing, I actually did was kind of like a trip into an alternate some real legal work. 1\·e consulted for universe - you were never quite sure if many years, but for the first time in my life 1 actually did solicitor stuff you would make it out aliYe. •

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UV: If you became Dean and replaced "Mayo's Muffin Madness" with your own alliterative food-related event, what would it be?

JM~ Mother Mac's ?\.\ostly Magnificent \JV: U )IOU were to cast Star Wars Map;lc Mexican Macaroons. with U of T professors, who would VV: Which U of T law professor rebe ... cently published the following quote Luke Skywalker - Dav:id Duff in the Financial Post: "Chill out, Obi-Wan Kenobi - Ernie \X'cinrib dudes. Resistance is futile."

Princess Leia - Kerry Rittich JM: Ok, 1 own up to that.

Han Solo - Jim Phillips

UV: If you could choose your own pseudoname for a small group paper, what would it be?

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Chewbacca - Ben Alaric, after a fullbody application of Propecia Darth Vader - Darth Vader has already left lJ of 'J' Law; clearly it was Ron Daniels

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UV: There is a rumour circulating that you own a bus. Is this true? If so, why?

J:vf: It's transformed from a bus into a truck. \\'hen I got it, it was a bus with room for 9 passengers. Now it has room for 2 and lots of cargo. It's a dedicated windsurfing Yehicle. The licence plate 1s }..f,\G.\IYSTR ~Iagical Mystery Tour).

UV: If you could invite 3 people (dead or alive) to dine with you, who would they be and where would you want to eat?

So let'~ go put Clark-* in cement. * lie's one of those fuzzy intuitionists okay?

Gnash Equtltbrium 1\ game theorist's mental n:duction, Brought about his own morbtd destruction, For though young and quite spry, He thought "One day I'll die", 1\nd expired from backwards indue· tion.

LIGHTNING ROUND: DO YOU PREFER ...

Cats or dogs? Dogs Beadcs or Rolling Stones? Beatles John, George, Paul or Ringo?

John ~though I'd lose Yoko) Tea or Coffee? Coffee (although I don't really drink either) Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate Varadero, Cuba or Victoria, BC? Varadero

UV: If you had to create a soundtrack for your life, which songs would you pick for the most significant events?

JM.: Birth: Start i\le t:p -The Rolling Stones, or !leaven i\.1ust be .Missing an Angel - Tavares Law school: Purple !laze - Jimi I lcndnl(, or Don't Know l\1uch - Linda Rc>nstadt Teaching: Break on Through (ro the Other Side) - The Doors, or Back for Good - Take 11tat Death: Get Over It - The Eagles, or End of the Road - Boys II .\len

UV: Is there anything else you wish to disclose to the law school community at large?

JM: I write limericks in my spare time. \\1hile many are not repeatable in po lite company, here arc a couple that could be said to be law school (or game theory) related:

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I love October. I love it because it has so many different seasons compressed into 31 days of sheer awesomeness.

There is the obvious season: fall. For sports fans there is baseball's second season, hockey and football's regular ones, and basketball's exhibition. There is a nc\v season of television, the year's one and only "scar}" season and the seasoning that goes on Thanksgh·ing stuffing.

But being a second-year law student, I get an extra bonus season this year: ocr season.

This is of course, the greatest season of them all for 2Ls. \X'e arc all getting ready to outwork, out ·schmooze and outlast our peers to secure a coveted job on Ba\ Street. It can very quickly become an .JI-consuming process that may make us question why we arc even doing it. During my extensiYe training for this gruelling process over the summer, I discovered something interesting. It turns out that you do not need to go through the process to land such a job. ln fact you do not eYen need to be in Ia"\ school You do not even need to have an undergraduate degree and you could snll work at Blakes or Torys or a Crown\ Office. ,\11 you need to do is be one of the hard-working and enthusiastic high school students who are part of the l.aw in Action Within Schools (L1\\'fS) Pro· gram at C<.ntral Tech and Harbord C:I. I.,\\\ S ts a law-themed academic and extra curricular program aimed at students who face barriers to succeeding in

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school. For each of the past two summers, L.\WS has worked with local employers to secure summer jobs for participating grade 10 and 11 students.

Th1s year student placements ranged from McCarth) 's to the Office of the \ttorney General and students had the chance to watch legal proceedmgs in court and meet face-to-face with clients.

These jobs are an amazing first-work ex pericnce that offer young people the op portunity to learn more about the law, develop valuable office skills, and spend time in a highly professional workplace with positive role models.

As part of the program, Lt\\XiS re quires all participating students to wrtte an essay about their summer expcriwcc.

Below is an essay submitted b\ She'nikia Clarke, a C1rade 10 student at Cwtral Tech who spent her summer wtth the legal team at the. \fimstry of llealth and Long-Term Care. She'nikia's essay offer~ a unique take not only on work but on the nature of the legal profession itself. ~o before we become all·consumcd this season with acquiring a position for next summer, l thought it might be useful to get a fresh perspective on what it is we arc after. Enjoy. f·'or the past month r ·was wnn th<. opportunity of a lifetime, to be placed at the Ministry of Health where I \vould expcnencc the world of la\\. The thing I liked the most about the "SJP" [Summer Job Program] is the fact that It al-

them free will.

The other response read, "Defendant demes that thi~ or an} court has 1uns

lcl\\ s us to t.xplorc and be educated in the fields we hope to make as a future career. Man} ttmes students fed that they choose the career they lo\'c but the truth is what do the} really know? These students spend all this money going into college to later find out they've made the wrong choices and that the career they once dreamt about isn't really for them.

The SJP allows us to be sttuated in the exact emironmcnt we are interested in in order to avoid any mistakes or doubts that rna; come up later on.

Upon the first day of work I had man} people sa} that after this month the} doubt l would want to get into law-and four weeks later guess what? I still do and in fact m) urge to get into his field is much stronger. I like the fact that e\'ery day people at .\lOll walk into work with a ~mile on their faces even when the stress and lack of sleep could cat away at their souls. They made me feel at home, constantly kept me busy and updated on what was goin~ on in Ontario. They kept me postul on c\"cnts and never left me out of A~'nH \1'-:G~

\t \101 I they didn't ha,·e me doing just admm work but lots of legal work as well-like making stats out of Ontario Acts, Cr Scan documentations and meeting setups for the .\1idwifery ,\ct, which we will understand more about once the election comes up in October.

I can honestly say that I have learned so much that will take m(; through !,'f. ll, 12, Univc.rsit\, Lm School and the rest of my life. '-ot only dtd they school me on the "legal aspect" of thint-,rs but they taught me to always respect myself and never agree \Vhen you disawec under any circumstances. The gifts, the lunches, the beautiful office; none of that stuff can compare to the friendships, respect and intelligence I gained through this pro· gram and I truly thank ,\Jexis and the Faculty of l.:tw for giving student~ like mpclf the opportunity to really get a feel for the world of law. 1 was tn..ooated not like a summer 5tudcnt but as a rL>al employee of the firm, and if this sa)ing is true "There are no mistakes in \aw;· there truly is no mistake in me wanting to pursue this as a career.

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Senator Chalmers' alliteration-laden suit was filed to protest a suit agamst J.ancaster County Distnct Judge Jeffre ChcuHont whtch Chalmers bclte,es is fnvolous. \ccordtng to a clerk of the court "'here the suit was filed, two court filings from ''God" turned up in response. ( )ne of the tilings, whsch listed St. Michael the Archangel as a witne~s and appeared "mysteriously'', argued that God ic; immune from carthl) laws, and that humans shouldn't blame !lim for their suffering because God granted

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BY KATIE CI.E.\11 '\ TI 3L) FEATL Rll\J(, R \ '\D\l.L II \RRI~ (3L)

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wc.:·athcr sours the pitch It w11l favour our dermeulen (2L) secured law a fe\\ "borstyle of play. Thus, a repeat is practically rowed" players from the opposing team in order to Sta) in the league, 10 e-xchange 10 the cards.

Next Game: Saturday, Oct 20, 12:00 p.m. for givmg the opposing team a win.

A large conongent represented Law in UTM \. Law (Front Campus, north.) the second game of the season, ending in narrow defeat to St. Michael's College.

Women's Soccer (Div 2) \t the first game of the season, team The team was led b) star setter Kaley captam J<...aoc Clements (3L) was jump- Puifer (2L) and queen striker, Enn "\rm ing for JO} at the rare opportunity to of Steel" Chaiton Murray (3L). 1\.m\ field a full team. Veteran forward Maria that these ladies arc finished dusting off "M.Zee" Zeld1s (2L) led the offence their playing cobwebs, they are ready to With two goals, while Jen Murdoch (1L) secure victory in the next game of the season. scored one goal to firmly defeat 3-1.

Rookies Clea Amudsden (1L), l'.ext Game: Tues Oct 16, 2007, 9:05 Daniclle .Mercredi (1L) and Tobi Aribido p.m. I..aw v. UC B(Athleuc Centre) (lL) underpinned a solid defensive unit, while Emilie McLachlan (1L) and Sam Co-Ed Volleyball (Div 1) Wu (1L) played a strong game up front.

Co-ed suffered a narrow two-set deDue to course conflicts and a lack of feat to FPEH in tts first game of the seaplayers, the team defaulted both the sec- son, but has many games left to sho-w 1ts ond and third games of the seasons. The true strength. team looks forward to its fmal two Next Game: \fon Oct 22, 2007, 9:05 games of the season where it plans to p.m. Law \. SGS A qualify for the playoffs. Stay tuned for more excitement: when these ladies Softball Tournament show up, they do not disappoint. \X ithout a doubt, this year's softball t-<ext Game: Thurs Oct 18, 2007, 4:30 team was a "dream team." \X'e were unp.m. (Front Campus, south field). defeated in all our games but failed to advance because of a tiny technicality: we "defaulted" our first game. I usc quotation' because a

Co-Ed Basketball (Div 2) point seemed to comt toward the end of Led by Liam "The Friendh Gtant" rhe tir~t halt: \\'hen \\oodsworth had nvo chances from the IM1w one-prd line. ~lcllugh-Russcll (31.), the Co Ld basketball tc.lm dominated the competition, Law's vaunted defence was able to keep winning its fir..,t nvo games by more than \\'oodsworth out of the end-wne, and ten points. After fih>uring out how to play the team nc\ er looked back. Quarterwith no men in the key, the team back Richard Luft Manning (3L) threw emerged victorious over both .\tedicine touchdown passes to Khahd "What Can and Pharmacy, \\'ho despite their huge Brown Do for You?" Janmohamed (3L) teams could not m·ercome a strong per- and to Damcl "Dan" Holden (2L), and formance by the smaller Law contingent. returned an interception for a touch!\cs.t Game:Tues Oct 16,9:05 p.m. I..a'"· down on the last play of the game. \ . Innis/UC (Athletic Centre) 1n Game 2, Law torched Phys Ed 276. QB Richard Luft Mannmg spread the baH .1round nicel}, connecting with M en's Basketball (Div 1) The .\len's DJ\JSJOn 1 Basketball team Plaxico David Maldoff (fD, 2pt conis embarking on yet another title run. vert)), Jacob Sone (fD, 1pt convert), Many players ha\·e been lost to the Josh "I am tall and handsome" Lavine depths of the working world, but this (fD), and Kiran Patel (TD). The deyear's squad presents a remarkable aver- fence was stellar, allowing PhysEd's only age height, and an e\·en more remarkable TD to come on the last play of the sense of urgency Once again, Coach game. Shawn "The Other Lights Out" Weinrib has assembled a team that is Richard had t\vo sacks and provided the dedJcated to win and will follow him, pressure that resulted in several Law dewith heads held high, onto the field of fensive interceptions. Cp next for Law is battle. Coach Wemrib has been de- the winless ~feds team. scribed as ha\tng "ninja-like" skills on i'!ext Game: Sat Oct 20,2007, 10:30 a.m. the court, and it is hoped that his fierce Law v. Meds (Back Campus, east or west dedication to the team will translate into field). a \cgiumate title shot for the boys in blue (R()dnc1 Gi\\, 'Todd Orvitz, )acob Sone, \iockey hKn \ ,a, jesse Dallal, Eric Wagner, I Iockey season IS JUSt startRohan Brown, Stephen Oakley, and Ben ing up, and three law teams arc 1--.ates). looking fonntrd to great seaC.o·captains Rod Gill (3L) & Todd sons: Dn 1 Men's Hocke} Jed Orvitz (3L) led the I..aw A men's basket- by Jason Penn (3L), D1\ 4 ball team in a solid team performance in Men's Boeke) led b\ Paul Horcrushing University College 58-56 tn the bal (3 L , and a JOint \Xomen's first game of the season! team \\lth V1ctona College. ,:>.c;;xt Game \\'ed Oct 17, 7:30 p.m. l..aw *len's Djy 1 hrst Game: Thurs \ \. L T~( \laroons (Athletic Centre) Oct 18,2007,10:30 p.m. Trinity \. l..:t\\ \ Women's Basketball (D iv 2) Men's D1\ 4 l'pcomiog 1\fter the schedule was changed at the Games: last minute, the team was dangerously \'\'cd Oct 24, 2007, 10:00 p.m.

Wanted: Law firm to sponsor stylish jerseys close to defaulting, but managed to field SGS \. L'lw B enough players to keep the team in the \'{omen's Piv 1 Upcoming league. ln the end, Law prevailed by Games: soundly beating l mversit:y College 34 Sun Oct 21,2007,8:00 p.m. RiffRaff v. Co-Ed Ultimate Frisbee (Div 1) 21. Led by Captatn Susan ~ewell (2L), Pharm/ \leds (Varsit) \rena.)

Co-ed Ultimate Div 1 has met a rough rookies Sam Wu (1L) and Shannon Bedpatch this year in terms of enough play· doc (1L) proved the! \\ 1ll be \·aluablc Men's Soccer (Div 1) ers showing up. In the first game of the members of the team for the upcoming Th1s year the J.aw team set out to de- sc.:ason, the team narrowly avoided a de~cason. .\1abcl Lai (2) maintained her fend its Championship title. \'\c have fault against Phys Ed, which resulted m tenacious defence from \ast year with unfortunatcl~ lost many players from last a loss. The team rebounded in game #2, countless steal~ and Sarah Young (2L) year's te:lm to graduation and to scouting fielding enough players so that default dominated the boards \Vith some out- efforts by the L. \. Galaxy. Thankfully, was not a concern. Led by Jacob Sone standing rebounding. These ladies arc however, we ha\c a ruce batch of first· (3L), the law squad realized its full polooking forward to the next gamd year prospects to soften the blow as well tcnoal and heat U.C. 15-U. :\.qt Game: ;\lon Oct 22, 7:05 p.m. as an LLJ\t student who chose UofT l:'<ext Game:Mon Oct 22, 2007, 7:00 lM'lW \. s~ ule J\ (Athletic Centre) only after hearing about the Law team's p.m., l..:t\\. A\'. Tufted Coquettes high calibre. Though we have lost our (Back Campus, cast or west field). first t\\.'0 games (not without contro· Men's Football (Div 1) D espite four would ·bc touchdowns versy, especially the first one in which a Women's Volleyball (Div 2) that were dropped in the first half, I..aw penal£)' was awarded against us after an rhc women's volleyball team nearly cruised to a 20-0 victory over opposing player made a dive that would defaulted out of the leah>ue with a lack Woodsworth College in their first game have gotten him a tryout with the Italian of players at its first game, but smooth of the season. According tO team cap- national team), we are building both sweet talking by Catherine DeGiustt tain, David ,\faldoff (3L), the turning confidence and momentum. Also, as the (3L), C.ara Davies (2L) and Jackie Van-

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rulc.:s rc.:vcalc.:<.l that ·we did not JO fact default. A challenge was mounted to the Intramural Ofticial by team coumcl 1\ndrew .\Ioeser, and her decision is nO\\ under Judicial Rc.;\ tcw at the Superior Court. B Jt enough w.th our bitterness. \'\'e had a powerful line-up, including sluggers Peter Dueck and Enc ''The Big I lurt'' Lavers who each hit a home-run on every atbat. Both claim to have only applied "arthritiS cream" and/ or "flaxseed oil" to thc1r bodies in-between innings. Stellar defence was provided by Julie Breau at second and KhalidJanmohamed who anchored the outfield. Our recruitment efforts brought Kendall l\1cL1 ughlin all the way from our Triple 1\ team in Dcm·cr, and rookie Tina Jluizhong Li did not disappoint as our solid catcher (despite trying to sell us the lie that she had nc.:ver before swung a bat - so obviously untrue, given her .410 batting average). A httung clinic was put on b) Tro) "Glaus" Dore, Andrew "EI Big Papi" Stamer, Sam "The Babe" Ault, and Steven "Mr. October" \'{'crier. In all, it's probabl} the best team ever to hav~ worn the proud colours and stripes ot the Law Softball Team. The team gi\·cs a shout out to our patron saint George Stetnbrenner for allowing us to have the h1ghest paid inticld at the Tournament.

Celebrity gossip is not something )OU can just dabble in, tt re<tuires a senous commitment. It is a complicated \\orld of publicity stunts, fake relationships, drugs and ;lfcohol. Celebrities ha\e it pretty bad too. Luck1ly, the Faculty of Law's wireless internet has allowed me to pursue.: my joint Ph.D. in (;os~ip along \\ ith my J.D. so 1 am partl) (JUaliticd to be your helpful guide through the online gossip world. Below is a summary of some of my fanmrite goss1p sites. If you want to keep up-to-date on which celebrity has most recently declared her pregnancy (llallc Berry, J -Lo), wh1ch celebrity has not declared hl·r pregnancy but is prei-,'Tlant (Christina Aguilera), who is gmnv to jatl (\11chdlc Rodriguez), thl· latest DUJ (Kc.:iftr Suthcrland) or the.: latest 10 the Bntne\ ')pears/ Lin<bay Lohan/Paris f Iifton saga, these \vcbsites arc exactly what you ncc.:d.

Lainey Gossip www.laineygossip.com In my opinion thiS is the creme-de-facreme of the online gossip world. l..ainey (Elaine Lui), a Vancouver based, self proclaimed "smuthound" is the brains behind this Site. She also appears ns a correspondent on eTalk Daily, which is hosted by the much more.: annoyin~ 13cn Mulroney. Lainey is a witty and cymcal writc.:r, wh1ch makes for some hilarious rc.:ading. She.; has dc.:vdopcd her own gos sip lingo, spnnkling her aniclc.:s with terms such as "lo~ classy" for the.: state of bemg trashy, or "ghetto tits" for a bad boob job (sec Tara Reid for examples of

hot h). l..ainC}' is rclath cl} untque 111 the online gos ip \\orkl m that she actual!} writes. \!any gossip wehsites arc a compilation of paparazzi photos ~prinklcd with ~hort captions, but Lainey nmsis tcntly \\rites between 2,000 and 4,000 words a clay, prodding actual anal) :;is of the latest goings on in the celebrity world. She also has intl·grity (I know many of }OU arc rolhng your eyes at the thought of a gossip\\ riter with integrity, hut keep reading). She refuse:; to report on "sad timut", which is gossip that dc:tls with serious life and death issues. Therefort:, she did not report at all on Anna "\1cole Smith's death this summer or Oww \\'ilson's recent suiCide attempt.

Lainey re:1lizcs that gossip is ~uperlicial, an innocent di\·ersion from e\·cryday life, and seeks to kcc.:p the content of her website light and fun. J\ddirionally, she has some very good sources. She routinely gets tips hours or even days before other gossip sites, and in the gossip world a scoop that lasts a couple of hours is c.:verything.

Go Fug Yourself http:// gofugyourself.typepad.com This is not so much a ~ossip websiu: as a commentary on celebrities' fashion disasters. This site is written by the "Fuv, Girls" Qessica Morgan and l tcather Cocks) who mock rhc "fugly" outfits that cdc.:bricies seem to ddight in wc.::Jr· ing (some.: celebrities more than others; see nvins, Olsen). The term "fugly" is a contraction for "fantastically ugly" and "fug" is a further contraction of "fugly".

Again, tlus \\eb ite 1s a f.'l\ounte of nunc JIO\\ scr, M.D.) to announce he Js ga). because of the Fug (~Jrls' droll \\ riting. flo\\ e\ er, de plte these dra\\ back , the l·or l'Xamplc, they recent!}' compared a Jtc Js updated almost as soon as the acdrl·ss \\orn bra celebril)' to a dress \\Ortl tual C\ ems happen, o it can be a great by "a creepy doll who's conw to lifl· place to look for up-to-the minute gosthanks to thl• recent iruu~ptc tous com- sip. '!'here is al o no den}'Jng that his bination of the full moon, .\lcrcury in website is influential. Fergie (of the retrograde, the inexplicahlc existence of Black E}cd Peas) has admmed that she is Cavemen, certain de\ ilish machinations referring to Perez in her song "Pede tal." of Spencn Pratt, and global warming."

'J'hc c three websites wdl get )OU off This \\.ebsite can be a gr(':at distracuon to a good start in )Our introduction to from a boring clas..,, just don't let the the online cclebnty gossip world. 'I11erc prof sec you cracking smiles. arc hterall} dozens of others, hut I don't Perez Hilton www.perezhilton.com have ume to re\ iew them all here. AI '!'his website is written by the sdf-pro- though if I had to make recommendaclaimed "Queen of all ~letlia," Perez tions, I also enjoy tmz (tmz.com), dlistcd I Iifton (the alter-ego of ,\lario J\rmando (www.dlisted.com), I don't like you in Lavandcira Jr.). !lis website.: consbt~ that way (ww\\:idonthkcyouin mainly of paparazzi photos \\'llh his own that\\ay.com), 1\ Socialite's Life (www.sodraw ings or comments written over cialitdifc.com), and the Superficial them, which appear to be inserted w.ing (w\\'\\:thcsupcrficial.com). I'm not as big the futuristic technology of ~IS Paint. of fan of most of thc.:sc sites because, These drawings can be a bit ju\cnile- except for A Socialite's Life, the sites often consisting of cocaine dust coming mainly consist of photos of \'llrious acfrom a celebrity's nose, drool coming out tresses in revL-aling outfits while the au· of their mouth, or other body fluids thor comments on how hot (or not) she coming out of, uh, other places. Perez is. llowevcr, if you arc just \ooking for a\<.o delights in being invited to celebrity lots of paparazzi photos of ~ario us parties and getting to hang out ....vith the celebs, these arc good p\accl'. to start. ,\.\\ celebrities he reports on, which to ffi)' of the cc\ebri.ty s\tcs \i.nk hack to c~\<:.h mind calls into question hi.s i.mparti·.\\it')'. otncT \n a tang\cd we\"> ol' on\inc \!,<>1>'to;i~.

1\.nd of course i.t is essential that gossip o;,o once )'<>U \!,O do"'n the Ta\">\">\t ho\c \ be provided by an impartial source. He can't guarantee you are ever comin~ back a!~o c.:njoys "ourin!{" cc/c.:brities u lw h;ln.' out. Before too long you '11 find your own not publicly declared their scxualit.l; t'awlUritcs. But if you end up likin~ one which 1 personally don't think is a fair of the four Sites profiled abon:, don't thing to do. Comments on Perez\ web- forget the first rule of gossip- you read site led Nell Patrick l Iarris (a.k.a. Doo~-,tie it here first!

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Kuwahara P.1yne ~IcKcnna Blumberg of Toronto (KP~\IB) presented a ,·ision that is chssy and utilitarian, which seeks to resolve R0~1 access ramp issues and revitalize the building interiors. KP~fB's completed projects include Canada's '\J1t10nal B:ulct School and The Young Centre for the Performmg Arts while the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning for the Royal Conservator) of .\1usic is currencly underwa\. Saucier+ Perrott<.: , >f ~1ontreal offered a concept that is edg}'. modern and almost futuristic highlighted by its black glass construction. Their projects mclude the McGill ~chool of ~1usic and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Finally, Hariri Pontar:ini Architects of Toronto created a design that is modern and refreshing by taking ackantage of the building's frontage along Queen's Park Crescent, and features a unigue common space for a law student forum ~tmilar to KP~ffi, they ha\·e done some previous work in the neighbourhood, including the Charles Street offices of McKinsey & Companr

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Jhe Rundown: Presents a striking black glass construe tion that loops back on itself over the present Bora Laskin IJbrar) site. The highlight is a triangular "winter garden" in the centre of Bora stretching from the basement to the roof. The threL stage proposal, howe\·er, depends on intensive transformations to each of the Facult) of Law, Facult)· of Muste and the R0\1, each of whom '..vould likely need to endorse the .,._ _ _...1111111.__ _ _ _.._. . ._ ..

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With the preliminary drawings complete, a conversation among all of the Facultv's stakeholders can now begin. Before Citra Vtres declares our favourite . . we hope to hear from you, the future alumni who will be asked to support and endorse the changes. We look forward to your thoughts.

Option One: Kuwahara Payne McKenna Blumberg offoronto

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LV's Verdict: This design seems like architecture for architecture's sake and docs not appear to reflect the idea of a law school. The water fountain and man -made pool seem out of place on a universit}· campus.

The Specs: - 3x25 seat seminar/ classrooms - (Jx 110 scat lecture rooms - 1x75 scat lecture room 300 scat, 2 STORY '\fCR 1ounmto and manmade pool along edge of Philo.

The Rundown: Creates a design that builds up the west end of the Bora Laskin Library nvcr\ookinv:, "Philosopher's \X'a\k. Full of multi-story atrium-::. ~\no v;\a-::.s facinv; west. Two noteworthy features include an open-air rooftop terrace and landscaping that would integrate Philosopher's W~'llk with "Flavellc Court" (the green space behind the Jaw school). Removes Bora's Head atrium in order to bring light into Flavelle House.

\'X'alk llighlight: Triangular \X'mtcr Garden (ic courtyard created by the 3 wings of the bwldtng)

Option Three: Hariri Pontarini Architects ofToronto The Rundown: Takes advantage of the Faculty's frontage on Queen's Park while remaining sensitive to Philosopher's Walk by en:;uring sight lines :;urd\·e through low construction on the west end of the building. Uses a liberal combination of stone, glass and wood materials in the building constructed along Queen's Park.

Considerable attention to detail evidenced by the "textured" glass windows that arc not just flat but slightlr angled.

CV's Verdict: An understated, distinguished design that is utilitarian in nature. It solves ROM access issues by burying the access ramp north of Falconer and allows for the Facult)· of Music to expand into Falconer. Nothing flashy or necessarily inspiration but it gets the job done.

UV's Verdict: The only design to take real advantage of the law school's frontage on Queen's Park. It also attempts to capture the spirit of the school by harkening back to ancient scholastic traditions.

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4x25 scat seminar/classrooms 4x 110 scat lecture rooms 2x75 seat lecture room 300 scat viCR l Iighlight: Open-air, rooftop terrace Double story rooms \mval court)·ard - Underground entrance for RO\f trucks

The Specs: 5x25 seat seminar/ classrooms - 4x110 seat lecture rooms - 2x75 scat lecture room - .300 scat ~1CR - Highlight Large forum that all entrances to the school converges on

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Annual UV first-year survey results are in BY: KhVI:-: DOR(, \.'. lL)

\\hen the :mnual 1\dmission :tnd whole, while only 1.9%. disagreed with this statement (7.5% opted not to reEnrolment Report comes out 1n '\;o \Cmbcr, the world will get to know a spond to this question... perhaps little bit more about us first-years as a they're still making up their minds corporate body: our class size, our median I .S \ f, our median CGPJ\, the numiKr of undergraduate institutions we represent. A few years back, someone writing for Ultra Vires decided that these official stats from the administration just weren't enough, and so a first-year survey was devised to pick the brains of the new kids on the block. The rationale was that the world should know more about what 27.7°/o of fust year students (including Uon· Law's first-year class, the future Stuart) profess to be looking for that leaders of sodet}; are rcall) thinking special someone at bw school. and d01ng. Besides, what's there to about this one). hide?

One thing that students have made up their minds about 1s getting inDi'sdaitllrr: 'J'bi's Jltn'ry JJ!aJ not rond11ctrd in a sdrni(Jicfo.rbion. It is mere!J• a rol/edion volved in cxtra-curriculars at the law of tbe opimofiJ r.'fJremd o/ those jirst:.Jear school. In ncar-unanimous fashion, 98.1% of first-years said they were inst11dmls u-bo opted to participate. volved in at least one club, clinic, jourThe survey results show that the a\·- nal or team at the law school, \Yith the erage first-year student is a content, in- average rate of involvement being 3.06 extra-curriculars per student. Beyond volved and balanced creature.

Firstly, the survey results show that extracurricular involvement, an addithe f\fSt-~<..-at:s ate content wi.th the hw ti.ona\ 22.6°1,, of students said they school they\·e chosen to attend, \\;th were holdmg down a part-time jol) 94.3% of respondents agreeing that it during school. -\mbnious? Perhaps. is the hcst law school 1n Canada. But we dido 't get Jnto this school by Moreover, when asked which :--..orth sitting on our hands ...

While our grades cert:Unly helped us J\mcrican law school they would attend if they had the choice, 36.3% re- get into Coff La\\; a majority of firstsponded that they would choose CotT years seem to haYC bumped their exLaw, with Harvard coming in second pectations down a notch when it at 27.3% and our American counter- comes to grades in law school: 52%, of part Yale rounding up third place at the first-years said they expect to be in the middle third of the class in terms 20.5%. of grades at the end of the year and On another positi\'e note, 90.6% of first-years said they found their class- 4% expect to be in the bottom third. mates to be likeable people on the There's still a strong contingent of

First Year Survey R.c sults Arc you of the opinion that Coff Law is the best law school tn Canada? ...

If you could go to any '-.. orth 1\ merican law school, wh1ch would it be?

On the whole, do you find your classmates to be likeable people?

Yes 94.3% '\.o · 5.7'Yo 1st Place: uot1'- 36.3'Yn 2nd Place: llarvard- 27.3% 3rd Place: Yale- 20.5% Y<.:s 90.6% o- 1.9'Yo Did not res ond: 7.5%

1\\'e~a.ge rate of extra-curricular involvement

3JJ6 extra-curriculars/ student

ln terms of grades, where do you expect to be at the end of the year?

'lop third of the class: 44% Middle third of the class: 52°;(, Bottom third of the class: 4%

Average expected salary after first yt-ar out of law school

571,068.18

Arc you single?

Yes -65.4% '-..o- 34.6%

Arc you looking for a "special someone" at law school?

Y<.:s- 27.7% 1\,o- 72.3%

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The most telling results

kceners, howe\'er, as 44'Yo of the class said they expect to be in the top third.

People's anitudes towards grades reBY: KIWI~ DORG1\~ (IL) flect their expectations about grades almost to a T, with 56.6% of students As part of UV's survey of 1Ls, students stating they "sort of care" about getwere asked to name which superhero they ting top-notch grades and 43.4% of would want to be and to provide a brief exstudents stating they "care a lot." planation for their selection. lt may be sugThose who "care a lot" don't seem gested that the following results are the most to be oYerdoing it on the studying, telling about the personality of the fir:;t-year howeYer. Only 5. 7% of all responclass due to the open-ended nature of the dents stated that ''studying has conquestion. sumed e\·ery waking hour" of their Most Popular Superh eroes lh·cs (then again, this is only October).

For the second year in a row, Batman came A large majority of students, 87.8%, out on top as the winner in this category, with stated that they were "work.tng hard 22.5% of the \'ote. Reasons pro\'ided inbut making time for non-law stuff." cluded: "No superpowers except sheer deterOnly 7.5% of first-years said that mination," "Really cool car, personal butler," studying was something they did "on and "Because he 1s human.'' Ladies, the rethe side." Over studying may not have spondent who wrote the latter explanation bc<.:n something the first-years took to docs have the classic male chicken-scratch in the past, either. The a,·crage numwriting, and he is single. Keep on the lookber of weeks spent studying for the out.

LS \Twas 5.5 weeks, which seems like Following Batman this year was Superman, a reasonable amount.

The next st~ts are ones that might beating out Lord Denning for the secondplace title u;th a 12.5% apprm-al rating [in make Ba\ ~trcct recruiters happy. A fact, Lord Denning wasn't even selected once large ma)Ont) of all first-years (79.6%) this year.. . what's wrong with you people?j. plan on working at a "big firm" for at least a few years, reinforcing t:ofT ~otable reasons for choosing Superman include<..l, "Unwavering sense of justice (formalL'lw's reputation as Bay Street's feeding ist, deontological) ... not utilitarian !Jkc ground for young associates. Exactly Batman." I would love to ha,·e seen thJs ~tu~ half of those students (39.8%), howdent as a kid in a sandbox tigh t. evc..r, don't want a career at such a firm The genius and altruism of the class was while the.. other half (39.8%) does. The also reflected in some of the lesser-chosen seaverage expected salary for each of lections: Cher, "Not affected by orne like regthese hah-es is ,·ery similar, with those ular heroes", and The Human 'lorch, "So I wanting a career at a big firm expecting could melt snow and 1mprO\ c traffic tlo\\:'' $73,700 as a first-year associate while The adventunsm of the class was also reprethose planning on jumping ship after a sented by the student who chose Spidcrman, few years arc expecting S72,900. The saying "I think lt would be cool to swing 20.4% of all first-years who never an ll!nd." On the other hand, some selections want to work a day at a big firm expect revealed the darker, narcissistic clements of to make $53,600 during their tirst year the class, such as Darth Vader: "Pure power out of la\v school. While these figures and no ethical rescn-ations", and 'Myself:' "I on\~ reflect expectations of firsq·ear am a superhero in a way." Something tells me associate salaries and not real life facts, that these last two students weren't as candid it may or may not bl tempting for first· in their personal statements when applying to years to ask, Is ffi) soul worth the Uofl' Law. $19,300 a year?

Most Given Reasons While a large majority of first-years Be)<llld the aforementioned winners in the arc.. planning on 'selling the1r souls', an almost equal number arc without a most popular superhero category, there were soulmate. \\' hen asked if they were also winners for the reasons-most-giYcn-forsingle, 65.4% said yes while the other sclccting-anr·gl\'cn-supcrhcro category. A sizcal,Jc 15% of the first-year class explained 34.6% said they were in a relationship. 'ot so fast, though, single people: only their selection by pointing to thdr superhero's 2?.7'Yo of first-years, less than half of obvious in\'inability and ultimate power (e.g., the sinv,le population, arc looking for a "f le can do anything!", "Because he can kick "spcc1al someone" at law school. But anyone's a**!", "lie can take other superheroes' powers."). Another 12.5% of firstwhen you do end up taking that potenyear students explained their selection by tial "special someone" out on a first date, don't be shy to ask them what stating some \'ariation of, "Cuz he/she is food they like, first. Food preferences cool/awe~omc!'' 1\nd finally, costume-related were all across the map, with 13.7°'o of admiration was the rationale for 10% of the all first-years preferring sushi the most, class' selections (e.g., "Killer costumes", 9.9% preferring Indian, and 9.8% tak- "Sexy rub her abs"), with another I 0% of the class giving the reason, "Because he/she can ing kindly to steak. fly." Needless to say, the profundity of these responses was quite moving.

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Korea/Japan - continued from page 20

Record companies: 1, Music sharers: 0. For now...

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The decision of Capitol t: Tho11Jas in that has caused quite the stlr both online load music as opposed to purchasing It the U.S. District Court of Duluth on and m real life. The record companies from ~tore shelves. Ir has arguablr beOctober 4th seemed to mark an epic win did emerge \'ictorious here, stating loud come a defining aspect of our digit.1l culfor the recording industr) in its struggle and clear that they will not let this type ture. W'hy buy music when you can against illegal music sharer~ and down of infringement go unchallenged. It download It? It is so readily available loaders. Jammie Thomas ha~ now been poses many quesand convenient (not to made farnou~ as she was found to h:l\'e tion:; re\'olvmg mention that it costs infringed copynghted song recordings around the future nothing more than an Inof SIX record companies including Son) of downloading ternet connection) that it B.\fG and Intcrscope Reco rds. 1\s a re- and the enforceis hard not to do it. t\nd sult, she was ordered to pay $222,000 10 ment of restrictive this is what record compadamages for the 24 son.~:,>s that she had rl'.gulations regardnies fear the most, hence illegally acquired and shared. llowt' \'t·r, ing such acts. It their attempt at discouragthi~ is not cxacrly the type of fame a ~in­ also demonstrates mg people from doing so glc mother goco; looking for. This case the diligence of na big lawsuits. Thomas undeniably puts the e,·cryday indl\ 1dual these large record can be seen as the unforin a positiory of asking him/herseJf companies in seeking out these individ- tunat<.' scapegoat here m a corporate at'i\m I going to be the next Jammie uals that have fancied thcmsekes with a tempt at establishing some deterrent TI10mas?' walk on the dark stde, i.e. participating factor for this generation of "e\·erydar Cop} right Jaw and intellectual prop- in the infringement of coprrighted pirates" - getting them to thmk twice erty issues obviously go to the heart of works b) uownloadmg music (among about what they put onto their computthe legal discus ·ion here. For the first other things). ers. umc, a civil case of this kind made its This turns out to he the precise probYet ironically enough, it still seems way to tna\ and a verdict was reached \cm here, that most of the people down that in our modern age, what limits the

downloading/ sharing of songs on the net is more dependent upon the speed of our Internet connection and how much disc space we have rather than the copyright laws that govern thoc;c works.

And thus we should ask oursel\'cs, are harsher fines and damages the correct method of enforcing these laws?

Should this area be policed and litigated more or should the record compantes look to alternate solutions? Perhaps the continuous practice of sharing music stems from the fact that it is verr rare that someone will get caught. llowever, there ha\'C been 50,000 cases in 18 separate countries that have sprung up in the last five years targeting indi,·iduals who ha\e allegedly been sharing music illegally. File sharing on the other hand has increased dramatically as well.

The result of this case docs seem like a courtroom 'ictory but pracncally, \nil it make a difference?

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Koreans, Japanese explore new options for legal system

BY Rom-.RT W.u:.L•t.\T (3L) .\:-;D Soom1..." '\, \:\t (1 L)

"Engineers make the pie grow larger, lawyers only decide how to carve it up."

-Japanese adage

the Japanese system," said K.on.:an Jus- curtain-raiser for the aforementioned is- of Law. "However, one disadvantage I tice Jeong \'\ion who is spending six sues that continue to trouble bilateral re- worry about is the tendency for people months m Toronto stud)ing the Cana- lations, it also accelerated Korea's to be emotional. I'd like to see them dian legal system. "\Y./e take notice of the adoption of European ci\ illaw concepts focus on the facts." trial-and ·error occurnng in Japan. \\'e via the forced adoption of its colonial "I am also worried that people will want to take the ad\·antages of the master's legal system. base their judgments on their emotions Despite their tortured past and ongoSince South Korea's return to democ- and comL to the wrong decisions," afing disagreements O\·er honouring Class Japanese system and use them in Korea."

The intertwined history of the two rac} tn 1987 \\ith a rewritten Constitu;\ war criminals, compensating wartime firmed \\'on. "We are planning a trial pecountries' legal systems originated with tion, It has been playing judicial catch-up riod where we will try it out bur it's going "comfort" womeQ and accurately teach ing history, parts of ~outh Korean and the adoption of European civil codes in with its eastern neighbour. Each country to be a little different. The jury's opinion Japanese society have somehow man- the late 19th century. Japan was the first is in the midst of instituting or consider- will not be the decision itself. It will just aged to discover the benefit of engaging be ad'v1ce that the judges have to take each other. The most obvious example into consideration." of these exchanges arc K-Pop and J-Pop "In this trial period we will sec how acts, such as Rain, BoA and Utada the juries work. lf we can sec that peoJ likaru who have embarked on successple can actually make sound judgments, ful cross-o\'er careers with their catchy, then it will be instituted in the same way chart-topping singles. as in Canada."

1\ more mundane, but perhaps slightly l.cgal training is also chan!,ring dramatmore important example derives from ically. The idea is to put less emphasis the fact that these two countries are the on examinations and more on m-class East Asian Law Students Association members and Judges Won and Yazawa only countries m 1\orthcast \s1a with reeducation. give their verdict on Toronto's sushi scene. motely funct10nal democratic institu"The old Qapanesc] system still exists, tions. Since tt ts unlikely many Koreans I~ast Asian country to incorporate West- ing wide-ranging reforms to their respec· but there are now two different systems or Japanese are humming the tunc to ern (primaril-~ German) legal concepts tive legal cultures. One fundamental opcrattng until it is phased out," ex "\'\'on't You Be ~Iy Neighbour?" when as part of the :\1eiji Restoration. Radical shift that Japan has committed to, but is plaincd Yazawa. "Then we will have to they reflect on the other residents in reformers in Korea followed suit Juring still being debated in the Land of the attend law school in order to become a their neighbourhood, they arc by far the Kap·O Reformauon by opening Morning Calm, is the imminent imple- lawyer, judge or public prosecutor." each other's most accessible models for their doors to the Great Powers, culmi- mentation of a jury system. "[In th<. past,] after graduating we had "One advantage of this change will be to pass the '\,auonal Bar Kxamination ...... what it takes to create fair and effective n;tting in a modc.rn independent judicial system in 1895. to reflect the people's views directly, said legal systems.

While Japan's invasion of Korea halted Japanese Judge .Masanori Yazawa who is "\\'e Koreans have learned a lot from the latter's modernization and was the attending classes this vear at the Facultv CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 . .

LI GAL ISSl I-S "Another concern we \Vorry about is tuition," interjected Yazawa. "Law school tuition is higher than typic;tl uni\'ersity degrees so only rich people can only become lawyers. Tuition is approx imately 2,000,000 yen (S 16,800 C \D) per year."

To that end, the Supreme Courts of both countries ha\'e Implemented o\'crseas training programs for judges at \"arious b ·els of the judicial hierarchy in order to broaden their understanding of fore1gn legal cultures.

"Such programs are intended to intro ·

... in order to be accepted into an18month program at the Legal Training and Research Institute, which is administered by the Supreme Court of Japan.

Until a couple of years ago we did not have law schools and onJ) about 3% of all people taking the exam passed.

Today, the percentage of people who CltlzeM Per Lawyer pass will be between 30 60%."

The Japanese government hopes this initiaci\·e will double the number of lawyers b} 2015. South Korea follows a system similar to the old Japanese model but is considenng changes with perhaps the same objeco\·e m mind. \lost legal professionals first have to pass the Korean Bar Examination followed by two years at the Judicial Research and Training Institute. Judge Won articulated some of the concerns his legal brethren regarding South Korea's move to a law 4000 6000 emo 1 oooo 12000 14ooo 16000 1eooo 0 2000 school model.

"Maybe in two or three years we will haYe some law schools similar to the Given ongoing tuition concerns tn duce advanced judicial systems and opJapanese system," said Won. "Perhaps people in Korea would like the new sys Canada (516,800 is starting to look like a eration methodology of other nations as tern, but la\\1'ers don't like the idea be- bargain around here!) and legal quality well as to estabhsh a more efficient and cause that mL":lns there will be more concerns in the United States, It is clear optimal legal system in line w1th rapid lawyers. They are very worried about that Japan and Korea not only share changes and the trend of internationalcompetition and the quality of work that legal concerns w1th each other, but also ization," explains the SCK's hom<;page. will be done."

While Judge Won 1s only the second with the rest of the world.

23 justice to arrh·c in eastern Canada under this program, the Japanec;c program has been running in Canada since 1990 (worldwide since 1966) and Judge Yazawa is thc. fifth Japanese judge to attend UoiT i'\e1thcr judge had much S\vay in determtrung his final destination.

"I wanted to go to Canada or Eng· land," srud Yazawa. " I applied to these countries because 1 think Canada and England are safer than Amenca."

Judge Won confirmed that the Cann· d1an legal system remains a mystery to outh Koreans despite ha\·ing sent some 1udgc.s to British Columbia. Apparently the preference \\as to study in the United States, the 1'\c.therlands or England.

"There was one Judge who went to McGill," offered Won. "But he got s1ck because 1t was roo cold. It is much colder than Korea. lie eventually had to guite his job because he was so ill from being in Montreal. So the Supreme Court wouldn't send judges to eastern Canada."

Assuming both judges find the local parka store, they should be able to stick around to learn more about how Canadians run a jury system, the common law and why the subway only starts at 9 a.m. on Sundays.

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There ought to be a law B Y Ll \ \ 1 \1< HL GH-Rt:-SH .t. (31.)

This August, anti·pO\-erty activists prope r; washing \\indshields is prohib- arrested and their equality of worth, were disheartened to learn that the ited. Sohciting for Greenpeace's food sannzed \nd what ageless satire. In 1894, Supreme Court had refused to rehear plan IS frur game while beggtng for food l rench writer Anato le france wrote in the.: Ranks decision. The case concerned money ts placed out of bo unds.

Thts ts not about fiscal conserva tism. T..e I -lS Ro1~e that "[t]he law, in its majcs the constitutionality of the ~aft .Stmls Yes, the Supreme Court, relying on co n- tic equalJty, fo rbid s the rich as well as ..- let, brought in under the Harris government's campaign to make life harder cerns about interfering with g o\·ern- the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg for Ontario's poorest in the name of ment's allocauon of scarce resources, in the streets, and to steal bread." De· tiscal conscn·atism. After welfare rates has stubbo rnly refused to recognize a ny spite repeated failure to give meaningful were slashed, child bonuses clawed positive right to welfare, even where hearing to the petition expressed by this back, and disability benefits put out of that denial threatens a claimant's life. aphorism, o ur courts, with the Supreme reach for man); the Act further crimi- But the logic of that exclusion has been Co urt leading the charge, have sancnalized p<>verty by making many forms so dt stcnded that class and economic tioned a pnnctple which would not only of makmg money without a job - in- situation have been rejected completely prevent the p oor from sleeping under bridges, but wo uld allow the rich to do cluding some forms of panhandling - as analogous grounds for e uality tllcgal. It has remained in force under Dalton \JcGuinty's Liberals.

The claimants in Ba11ks argued that the \ct overreached prO\·incial powers and trampled on both free speech and basic Iibert}' rights under the Charter o f Rights and Freed oms. But their mos t controversial claim p o inted to the 1\ ct's denial of equality rig h ts under section 15 of the Charter. The Co urt o f 1\ppeal unanimo usly refused to h ear con sti tu tional c hallenges to those sections of the A ct not co ntravened by the eleven defendants; they limited their con siderShould there be a law against panhandlers and "squeeg ee kids"? ation to those sections regarding solicitation on toadwa")·s. Yet after these tcction. The Banks decision shows that so, the reby pilin~ satire upo n saure and c\ain,., \a\k~\ at the Ontario Court of such an exemption extends the disen- shap1np; a rough farce out o f the la\.v's J\ppeal, the Supreme Court still rcfu~ed franchisement of the poor beyo nd the " majestiC equali ty." to hear anr of these issues, despite the denial of a positive right: it sanctions There oug ht to b e a law ag ainst such impact such a decision would hm·e on the explicit targ etJOg o f th e p oor for nc.:g/c:c t of justice. Yet there IS suppo sed similar lct,tislation in other pro..inccs depri,·ations of liberty no t piled upo n to be - and n o t o nl) a law, b ut the fun and on equality rights across the co un- the rest o f us. With the inspiring exce p - d am ental law o f our country. \Vc can try. tion of Justtce Arbo ur's dissent in G os- no t, it seems, rely o n the b ravery of a The most grieYous limitations in the selin, the p oo r ha\·c essc.n uall) been gO\·crnmcnt unde r th e Liberals to beat a dignified r(;treat in the war against the Act, concerning panhandling proper, abando n ed b) the Court. went unreviewcd. The prohibition \Vhat d ocs this mean? L m z. Canada p o or. Instead , we must ho p e that ana~ainst ~oliciting a capti\'e audience was established that refusing to accord cgual o ther young person will ha\·e the nC'>Cr compared to charitable street-sell - treatment dentes an indiYid ual's dihmity. courage to breach the "rclc\·ant" secing, which 1s explicitly exempted from The majority in Gosseli11 based equality tio n of the 1\ct, and that the Courts, in prosecution. '\.or was there a review of on the idea that cYcry person is "'equally all their majesty, w ill h ave the courage the fullliccn~L gt' en to advertisers, who worthy of full partictpation in Canadian to give some meaning to our constiturefer to pedestrians with impunity as a society, rq..,rardlcss o f irrelevant pe rsonal tio n's guarantee s. captive audience, to usc sky-scraping characteristics." Thus, with the Rtmks bl!lho:mls to abscond with our atte n - deci~ion, h arm to the dig nity o f the For sources a nd fur ther d iscussion, tion. ~dhng vanity b y videoscrecn ts poor is nullified, their full particip ation, v isit mchughrussell.word p ress.co m

Sharing- continued from page 20 Thomas does not ha\'e the ability to pay the damages and such defendants would remain 'judgment proof' Such an action against her also docs seem disproportionate to the actual worth of the songs (approximating $0.35 per song).

Thomas is looking at paying a little more than $9,000 per song. There is the obvious counterargument that the record industry loses billions of dollars to the illcgai sharing of songs; however, is such an extravagant amount of damag es on an ordinary person justitiable? The intellec tual property of others needs to be protected but at what equitable cost?

This begs the quesdon o f where the music industry 1s headed with respect to record companies and their place in the mtdst of increasing technological advancements. As it looks right now, record comp;tnies m ay be like the records themselves, soon to be obsolete. Perhaps they arc ustng whatever means to stay afloat an d remain alive in a time when they are losing their economic power in the muste ind ustrv. Radiohcad's new album " In Rainbows" is wtthout an official record label and rna) be this is a step 111 the right direction. T here is word of Thomas' app eal in this matter but sh e \\ill remain " H igh and D ry" for the time being.

As it stands right no\\; thts case docs say in big hold letters: if you share mu:-.ic illegally, you can b e fo und liable as an ind!\ idual and }Oll will face the const'quencc.:s because the record companks will go after you. NcYcrthcless, the lJUestio n rem ains: will it stop the common place h ap py-go-lucky p irates among us from acquiring free m usic? Probably not. \ \1ill they still take the ch an ce an d continue d ownlo ading fo r free? ~fost likclr. \\'ill the reco rd com pantes sttll end up losing m on ey? You b et. So maybe they aren't th e real w1nners here after all.

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Highs and lows in SLS Funding

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Some of the smartest people in this country spend their days wtthin the walls of this Faculty. T his is why I have often wondered how can it be that thesL smart people can be so wrong when It comes to knowing the average Canadian.

The standard explanation for any policy disliked is either , .. ickedncss o r in competence b) the polic} maker or malice or foolhardiness of the electorate.

Take the much maligned GST cut or the mandator) minimum sentences fo r \'tO lent cnminals. (Pull dtsclosurc: I am personally not a big fan of the latter.)

When poll after poll shows that these ideas are popula r, legal academics and students alike assume that a) the voters are just too dumb to know what is good fo r them, b) that they arc bad people ,vho wish ill upon the less fortunate, and c) that politictans, usually conservative, knowing th ese two characteristics set out to exp loit tht·m. After all, why would a nyone want to c ut an " efficient" tax?

(As though such a thing exists.)

T he overwhelming defeat of the recent proposal to reform Ontarto's electoral system in to an oddh German hybrid known as .:\11\IP, or :\hxed \ !ember Proportional, is simply the latest eYidcnce of how out of touch those occupying the four walls of Flavcllc arc with the rest of the citizenry.

The two most common reasons to vote for MMP heard tn Flavdle were these: 1. The current system is unfair because the number of scats in the lcgi~la­ turc docs not correspond with the percentage of vote garnered in an election . .:\lost obviously, the Green Party gets screwed. 2. Voter turnout is low in a system where voters know their vote may not matter.

It is obYious to see why an average person, hearing these complaints would have said "so what?"

It is, of course, not a flaw that the percentage of votes garne red docs not correspond with the number of scats won.

T rus is a featu re of th e system des1gncd to keep out fringe parties li ke the Gree n Party. The average p erson docs not want the legislature held ho stage by a fringe party making de mand s on the rn·o mod crate parties. Ima!,rinc a Liberal min ority goYcrnment held up by the Green Pa rty,

let's say with two seats, where the Green Party demanded tmplcmcntation of the 1-..yoto Protocol wtthtn the prO\ incc.

D oes that sound good? t\ ow tmaginc a Conservative mmority gm·crnmcnt held up by the family Coalition Part), let's say with two votes, where the famil) Coalition Party is demanding a total de· funding of abortion within public healthcare.

H ow does that sound ? Is it really that hard to imagine the famd} Coalition Pa rty garnering two seats? In 1990, the party had 3% of the total vote- a number that would surely increase under

1\IME The system is designed to keep out parties that arc not tn the mainstream and just because it ts the Green Party and to a lesser extent the NDP, whose causes seem to be popular at the Faculty, that are getting hurt thts time, it docs not mean we should get rid of the system.

The other argument agamst the current system Js that it lowers voter turnout.

Let us ignore all evidence and assume that this is true. Let us do so despite the fac t that voter turnout in the Uruted Kingdom, whose system is identical to ours, is nearly 76% . I f the only goal is to increase voter turnout, wh\ not just increase the voting age? The goal of ensunng a higher percentage of peop le vote Js tmmcdiatcly achievable by raising the \'Oting age to 30. It is even more easily achieved if the voting age is increased to 50. It seems rather too silly to seck an increase in the turnout as an end to itself. It seems especially silly when the solution proposed is one that will risk the political stabilit} of the p ro\ince.

O n tarians o\·erw hclmingly rejected those reformers seeking to throw out the o ld system. They did so not because they a rc unin formed or misinformed. J\ ftcr all, \IMP was acttvcly supported by near!} every special interest in the province. It was also the only system that had political par ties, n amely the NDP and the Green Party, campaigning on tts b ehalf.

The only explanation is that they knew w hat they were doing and they made a choice that any responsible adult would have made. They chose stability and certain ()' when it came to an issue of extre me importance.

After historically swimmtng tn the.: money thrown at them by the Stu dents' L'lw Soctety, student clubs arc facing striking funding cuts this year. \ fu nding dectston email sent to all clubs stated, "Lnfortunatcly, the SI..S is under severe financial pressure thts year. We rccctved funding requests for over $18,000 when we had on!) budgeted to approve $7,000 for fall clubs. T his means that no club got everything the} asked for."

In order to meet the funding re quest shortage, the SI..S reduced their cap on food funding from SS a head to $4 a head for all club e\'cnts, refused to fund certain events such as a socials or roundtables, and imposed a cap on each club based on rhe total funds req ue sted by each club.

Intramural athletics was funded for performance bond fees. These arc fees rcqUJ red fo r men's, \\!Omen's, and co-ed teams for each facult)' at the beginning of each term.

If teams default games, resulting tn a monetary penalty, the penalty ts de duccd from the performance bond.

At the end of the year, any remaining portions of performance bonds arL refunded to the faculty. Intramural athletics was denied funding for teams with cost recovery fees, which are non-recoverable. Cost recovery fees arc required in sports which emplo) provincially registered rather than student referees. Teams rcqUJrcd to pay these fees include \ fen's Dtvt sion 1 Basketball and all d1\ tstons of Men's Hockey.

Captains of the men's hockey teams and men's Div 1 basketball g r umbled about the fundi ng cut.

Todd O rvitz (3L), co-captain of the basketball team, stated, "after four years of having a basketball team, 1 think there is a bit of a reliance interest [on fund ing] here." Orvitz's reliance comment is not that far-fetched. As a faculty intramural

athletics reprcscntatkc, I ha\'e been accosted more than once br an individual inmh·ed tn ~I ':> funding stating to me that athlc.:ucs would be sure to get anything we need. Legal jargon aside - we a rc not gomg to litigate here - why arc there such drastic funding cuts?

According to Sl.S members, in the past SLS members have used a financtng surplus to fund events galore. After spending hkc a drunken sailor for the past couple of year, the SLS no longer has a financial surplus.

Therefore, there tS now a lack of funds aYailablc to clubs. If this is not an example of fiscal irresponsibility, I don't know what is.

This b rings us to th e q uestion of where does SJ.S clubs fundmg conH: from?

Sl.S membns Sa) they arc not exactly sure.

Perhaps it would he better in the future to know how much monC) is coming in each year, to set a budget accordingly, and to create a mandate for the purpo c of SL.."i funds. If there docs happen to be a surplus, perhaps we should not be blo\'\.·ing it all year. My requests to the \ ICC.: President of sr..s Affairs for such a fundmg policy went unanswered. If fu nding is constrained, perhaps the SLS should seriously retlcct on the. nature of the projects they fund. \X'c all love the free food that comes with UofT Law, but if people arc only going to club events because they get free food, a reconsideration of that funding should be considered .

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It 's in t h e cards 13' n :VI \'\I Rll R {31.)

What the Leafs really need: Lion-0 , leader of the Thundercats A stick made out of the Sword of Omens would probably help, and also be pretty cool.

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I ha\e taken to watching 0\ Ds of first, there would not seem to be a lot of "Thundcrcats" while I study this hw parallels between a group of talking alien thing. For those of you who aren't fa - cats who haYe mad kung-fu skills, and an miliar with "The Thundcrcats," it was a icc hocke\ team owned by a pension 1980s cartoon show about bipedal-feline fund. So let's just say 1 ha\·e earned my monarchical aliens on a guest (a guest of Meow \l1x on this one.

Tygra, The Thundercats' second-in mvthic proportions) to find a nC\\ home world and battle evil. E\ il usualh took command, is much like Tomas Kaberle. the form of .i\Iumm-Ra, a weird-ass mummy who wanted the Thundercats' "Sword of Omens," a magical sword with the Eye o f Thundera built into its hilt. 1 think he wanted to do evil things with the magical sword; at least that was the impl1cation. \'\ihJ!e I was watching The Thundercats battle evil and fight for good, I was Both are intelligent, steady, and unflapremmded of another quest of mythic pable. Tygra has a talent for the design proportions - the "mighty" Maple Leafs' and construction of buildings; Kaberle battle to bring the Stanley Cup back has a talent for the design and construe home to 'Toronto, where it belongs. t\t tion of successful up-ice rushes. Pan

Body Break with Rob Wakulat

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Telling you about some of the hardcore fitness options available in Toronto last month was simply a way to set up a contrast for other, more esoteric exerctse acuvities that are quite accessible to the part-time sports enthusiast. If plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendonitis somehow seem undesirable, you might want to consider redirecting your energies to an activity a little more in tunc with the recreational runner. The Hogtown Hash House Harriers (Hogtown H3) is a local chapter of an international phenomenon that likes to describe Itself as a "drinking club with a running problem."

For 70 years, (ig)noble Harriers and Harnettes have made it their hobby to try and Om)perfect the wacky tnathlon of running, off-the-wall orienteering and alcoholic consumption m a weekly pursuit of fun and conviviality.

Imagine racing with a dozen or fifty

of your closest friends through the urban labyrinth of Toronto and none of you have any idea where you arc sup posed to be going. Throw in some chalk-mark or flour trail signs left by the meet's hosts, false trails, and shouts of "on on" upon discovering the true path and beer. Those arc the basics of a hash run anpvherc in the world.

The idea of hashing is gcnerall} believed to have originated from houndsa nd-hares, a game begun at Rugby School in England in 1837, in which flccmg " hares" leave a trail of paper and the enswng "hounds" must ftnd and follow the trrul to snare the hares.

The modern-day adult version was founded by Bntish ex-pats in Malaysia in 1938. A casual group of colonial officials and busmessmen assembled after work each Monday to run, follow a trail through the urban landscape of Kuala Lumpur and work off the excesses of the previous weekend. Despite modern connotations, the name " Hash House I larricrs" was adopted because the founding members were billeted in a club dubbed the Hash House as a knock against its monotonous food.

Hashing took a brief hiatus during World War II with the arrival of the Japanese in Malaysia, but resumed shortly after the war and has grown into a modern hobby for about 1,700 kennels worldwide, including two...

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thro, whi le jovial, has a fierce temper, making him a funous and tenacious fighter, much !Jke D arcy Tucker. The Thundercats' main antagonist, 1Iumm· Ra, also has a read\ parallel in the form of Dame! Alfredsson. They both have uncontrollable hair and are the personification of pure evil.

At first blush, it is easy to say that Mats Sundin is Lion-0 - a brave, strong, noble leader, always willing to rush into battle for the cause of good and those he leads. But let's be honest, Mats is sim-

ply too old to be Uon-0. I mean, Lion() has a flowing red mane; the reflection off Sundin's melon can probably be seen from the space station on a clear dar Sundin is a wise, reasoned, older leader .\1ats is Jaga, Iion-O's adv1ser and teacher. \Xiithin the series, it was Jaga's role to teach and guide L1on-O, to make Lion-0 a great warrior-leader. The Leafs arc missing a Lion-0 - there is no heir apparent to Sundin, no young, studly, }Ct strange!) feminine, player who is obviously meant to assume the mantle of braYe and fearless leader.

One might suggest Kyle \'{'ellwood, or maybe Alex Steen, but those two arc more like \X 1lyJ<Jt and \X'ilyKat, the small and lithe Thunderkiddics.

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I or tho e of you who live away from home, there are ccrtrun things }OU like to doC\ Cr} time you return. ~fa) be it':; getting the bo;s together for a game of sandlot baseball, going for breakfast at )OUr fa\Clurite spot, or Simply catching up wtth old friends. I like all of these things, but 10 this list I add another pasumc that's the subject of this article: looking through boxes of old hockey cards.

The first couple of years after I moved away from home, there was a somewhat reasonable rationale for this habtt. I thought that maybe some of the plavers who were not stars :lt the time I relegated them to the cardboard boxes had since broken out and were no\\" dcservmg of a spot on a page in a binder or, .. . if the card was RE,\U.Y ntlu able, ... an ind1v idual plastic slce\ e. jlt works the other way too, as I recall a point in the early 90s where I had tcJ reSlgtl myself to remo\~ng my Upper Deck Pat Palloon rooktc cards from thc1r own sleeves and move them into the boxes. i\1} dad had previously re-purchased a Falloon rookie at a card show after I had (l thought) made an ill ad,·ic;ed decision tO trade it away. ,\Jas, some trades 111 hindstght arc wise, though this still docs

not apply to danne for Tn:nlm k) and of fahnc (err ... "JersL;s·) tartcd gctung Kllger ... the fi\e scariest \\ords 10 the :attached to card , before one cason's uorld.j nd while, in cases like hlloon', worth of ets took up t\\ cnt} fi, e page }OU can be pretty sure the b'll}' \lion't be 10 Beckctt ... to a nmc \\hen the hocke} makmg the lt.:ap back to the ~111. from \\orld cemed perfect. \nd b} perfect. as the Rurul \bnitoba Hcer LcaJ_,ruc anytime l do not need to ~ay, but I will anywa} s, soon, there's al\\'a) s that surprise break- I mean thi : when we had the Jets. out no one saw coming for years. \X Jth that 10 nund, here's what I And wht'n Jt happens, those buncd learned from sifting through thousands rookie cards all of a sudden become of old cards, mostl; from the late 80s to worth something. mid 90s.

So that is where it started, but as the }t>ars \\Cot by, the rationale faded. I 1. llarold Sncpsts' moustache rcrruuns stopped collecting cards in the mid-90s, a classtc after all these years. and an} one whose career had not startL-d \X'e nil made fun of Sncpst ' mou to take off shortly thereafter likcl} wasn't tache back 10 the da}s of the lets cxpencncing a lOth )Car-in-the league Canucks Sm} the dl\·is1on m-alry. PL'Oplc Fcrrarro-IJkc rcnatssnncc. I \\on't lie - I talk about Lanny McDonald's mous was still hoping to tind a diamond 111 tht· tache, but I.:tnnr ain't got nothing on rough, maybe a treasure like a Sclanne l larold Snepsts. Don't hdievc me? rookie stuck to the bottom of a hox by CtH·ck out his 1989 O'Pce Chec card a piece of 'lilpps chcwmg gum, but the (# 186), \\ hich is an abs< 1lute classic from real reason I cracked the boxes open the no helmet era and a\ ail able (autowhen I u-as home last month was for the graphed!) for Sl on eha). memories, to go hack in time to u hen hockey cards were C\ erythmg, whl·n a 2. Ton} f-lrkac and Brett Hull \\ere trip to the comenience store, or for the separated at birth. lucky ones, the neighborhood hockey I remember opening packs of 19RIJcard stores like ex-Jets goalie Poke) 90 () Pce-Chec cards, certain I hac\ come Redick's In 'fhe Crease was the highlight across a valuable Brett I lull secontl )Car of the day... to a time before little pieces card, c•nl) to e\'t:ntunlly rcali7.e the ~uy

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the Blue jerscv wa not the Golden Brett hut "Ibn} "Can I Bu} n Vo\\ el" llrkac.

You thmk I'd ha\ c ftgUrcd It out, hut tt \\as dCJll \'U all 0\ er agam \\hen I u em back into tlte boxes. I must have found 10 Jlrkac cards from th1s set, and C\CI) umc, I thought I had m}sclf a Hull). Sec for }Ourself. (1989 O'Pec Chec, card #64,.\\orth 20 cents.) \\lth

3. Dave Ellett :and Freel Olau on put up ohd offensh c numbers.

Jets fans love remimsang about hou had our defcncemcn were. And tt' true.

The names erge.t lhutin, Igor UlanO\ nod Dean Kennedy, will not find thctr uay into the J Iockey llall of Fame nn} urnc soon. 'J11.1t said, Ellett and Olau son were solid. Everyone remembers how stead} Tcppo ~ununen was and how electrifying Phil I Iousle} was feed ing "Jccmu from the point, but F.llet and <>lausson perhaps tly under the radar.

Yet Filet had over 45 points for 5 straight seasons with the jets, and Olau son topped the 60 point mark Nncc (1992 Fleer# 18): solid numbers forD men regardless of the era.

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The saddest story ever.

Like, seriously y 'all.

B\ BRIT~I \ SPI \RS \'li\ J. \:>;CJ . PATO:>;

D ecember 2, 2021. It is Britne) Spears' 40th birthday. Britney walks along a super deserted bridge - it's, like, the loneliest place on the entire Earth. A little girl, maybe about 12 years old, walking with her mother, passes her and totally doesn't notice Britney- which is like, completely heartbreaking, y'all.

And as she stands now completely alone, on the bridge, which is super high and above some fast-moving water, Britney gets super reflective about the months that led to her life becoming a totally miserable failure.

She should be celebrating with her two boys. But she hasn't really spoken to Scan Preston or Jayden James since thetr father's funeral. They've only

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called her rn·icc, both times asking for money. Because that's all they care about - her money. They're way more like their father than Britney e\·er would have let them become if the judge hadn't been so mean. That judge had it in for Brttncy, y'all. Britney was totall} a better parent than Ke,·in. \X hat did she do to deserve this? 1\ few dnnks in front of the kids, a few drugs in front of the k1ds, a few episodes of spontaneous nudity m front of the kids- that's how they do m the South, y'all. In Britney's words, "\X'e'rc country." For serious, that shtt's as normal as chewing gum during an interview.

The court's tragic decision to place custody in the hands of that Fcderlinc seemed like a small bump on the road.

At first, Bntney tried to pretend she could party through it. She was still young - in the prime of her life; and after all, a little party never hurt nobody.

But she couldn't do it- because Britney cares, y'all. And y'all who've seen Cross. roads know Britney doesn't act - she's real. She's human. She's always had such a big heart and she knew her boysdeserved a right proper upbringing with their mama.

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My preferred drink at Grounds of Appeal: Lattc: it remmds me of the wonderful bowls of cafe au lait I would order from my favorites cafe in the 4th Arrondiscment. There., I would sit with my Baudelaire and ap. o f I>ans . as compredate the magic pared to my own fast-paced, o\'er-accomphshcd, globc-trotttng lifcsnk The course in law school I find the most sexy: Intellectual property: c\'Cryonc knows the intellect is the body's largest erogenous zone ...

My idea of a good time: Getting together with friends at a daring, forward thinking sushi/tapas bar, where I would treat everyone to sake and lychce martints. \\e would then go out w a charity salsa dancing cYent (all montes gomg to local youth at risk and \IDS research) and keep dancing until eYeryonc had passed out. Finally, mv date and I would return to my apartment, which would be lit with soft candlelight. I would sen·e her endless glasses of champagne while l massaged the aches and weariness of her week out of her beautiful feet.

comer to the exciting Anglophone metropolis of Toronto. In fact, his first d:ty of law school In ~Lptcmber 2005 was the first full da) he e\ er spent in the city. Aiatthcw \V::tS born lfl rabed in Vancouver, British Columbia, spent his childhood summers on Gahriola Island at Zionist summer camp. Following graduation, he mcm.:d to ',\Iontreal to attend Concordia Univcrsit)~ where he completed a double major in Communications Studies and Western Civilization Stud Matthew Glick likes Pina Coladas and ies with distinction. getting caught in the rain ...

After graduation, Glick engaged in After two years linng in Toronto, an eclectic range of occupations, including video editor, graphic design Glick describes himself as "somewhat :tssistant, short-film maker, English Jess disappointed in the city than I tt.--acher, and freelance coppvritcr for thought I would be." "There arc many internet matchmaking services. His nice neighborhoods here, and tasty four y<.-ar hiatus from school took him dim sum, too." 1\,onetheless, Ghck re· from ~1ontrL-ai to Japan and then back mains bewildered by the masochtstJc to Vancouver, where he rose to cu\- tendency of Torontonians to root for tura\ ~rominence as a performance the }...1ap\e Leafs despite forty years of inept performance.

'I;'O<.:t 'W\t'n "'uc.'n crov.d favori.tc!'. :\"' If I were not studying \aw, I "'t-\oo One Understands That \ Have would be: Mediating peace treaties to be: a Vampire Person." Pea ring a Af1111bm• call be co!llocted a/ life of soul-numbing rock ·Star fame baween warnng \fgharu tribes. /( llltlllbell;t:lick@:ll/or(JII/O.Cll. Tbr jir.rllbrce and excess, and mobbed dai/.,- on the not that, then working with impover- ladies to do so u'lil rmir•e lift certificalt's to street by adoring fans, Matthew de- ished youth in the slums of Buenos Starlmcks ll'ilh which to -~o for a /aile llith cided he had to lca"·e Vancouver and Arcs. In my spare time, donattng .\Iallhm:

Leafs - continued from page 25 ... Leafs mtght have seemed a likely successor to Sundin. \\ hde he has started to actu:tlly show his potential over the last few ) car~. he will ne\'er he a Sundin-calibrc player. The exact ~arne sentiment works for Ponikarovsky. They're good, and might he Leaf stalwarts in the year.,; to come, but neither of them will C\'er be the go-to leader of the team.

The Leafs' latest, off <>eac;on, mcdtocrc-profile free-agent sigmng, Jason Blake, is an unlikely successor for Sundtn as well. He's a btt like Chcetara, the female Thundcrcat ca pable of running extremely iast speeds, but he's more likely to tum out as a mix of Cory Cross (really odd lookmg and considerably unattractive) and Dmitri Khnstich (a free agent coming off a hot season, who is likely to get all of 12 goals this season and would be booed hy Leaf.-; fans as early as December if he had been diagnosed with cancer).

Bryan McCabe (who continues to he the most overpaid player in the history of professional sports) is SnarfLion-O's unintelligent and annoying

personal servant. Much like McCabe, Snarf has a tendency to fall tlat on his face or his ass at the worst possible ttmcs. J\nd then there's Raycroft, who is tcrnblc. Yup. He's really bad.

Snarf docs a bang-on imitation of .\kCahe, on his ass, shrugging and looking helpless ...

the rest of the team seems to have gi\ en up, and showing class and decency in the face of an unbearable Toronto ports mc:dia. In all this tlme, he has had maybe two decent linemates with which to share this burden (Stt'\'C Thomas and Gary Roberts), but ne\'cr a )Dung wingman to teach and

Mats just doesn't have the mane to he l.ion-0 anymore ...

The main point is that fans and management alike have taken Sundin for granted. It IS as though we haw all thought that he would just always be there for us, getting that goal late in the game, making the good play when

mould into the new leader. The Leafs have taken Sundin for granted, and 1n the process ha-.e failed to plan or invest in the team's future.

. I Th ... orgamlcd H3 groups in Antarctica. c lntcrhash, a biennial international race, has at tracted up to 5,900 hashers to such exotic locales as Tasmania, Goa and Cyprus.

Despite its focus on fun and spirit, hashing has not taken place without controversy. On August 25, 2007 the Associated Press reported that a pair of hashers were arrested and ch,1rged with felonies for sprinklinv part of their flour trail through an 11-...E.\ parking lot in Connecticut. Apparent!) someone thought the harmless scattering of flour was just the first step in a serious terrorist plot. The city plans to seck restitution from the hashers for the ''masSI\·e" resources that went into respondmg to their dastardly deed. A future Grand ;\foot problem in the works no doubt.

1 joined my tirst, and only, felony-free I fogtown 113 race oYer a year ago, which started with a fe\\ pints at a local watering hole on Bloor St. cast of Yonge St. The pack gave a designated "hare" a ten-minute head start to Ia\· down a 5 km chalk trail down to Bay" iew a~d back up to Church while the rest of us had a brief "chalk talk" on the interpretation of the hare's markings. \\'e were supposed to follow the hare's duplicitous trail of false leads and dead ends to the ''beer check," where the kennel engaged in more mirth and merriment.

Pack members carried whistles and trumpets to let everyone know whenever the true trail had been discm·ercd.

Assigned a "·eteran hasher as a chaperone, I fi~urcd this would be easier than getting u B. Little did I kno\\ that my "'ir!-,rin hash would degenerate into bnef despondency as my chaper one and 1 went off trail and ended up back at the pack's starting/ ending location without partaking in mid-run tippling. ('\.otc to self: veteran hashcrs from '\.ew Zealand may not actually be experts on Torontonian topography.) This was particularly unfortunate as a hasher's \'ir!,rin run is a freebie, "vhile returning hashers have to pay a nominal fcc for the ubiqUitous hqtud refreshments.

Happily, the end of a Hash is still a party where the pack gets together to imbibe more beer, sing pub songs and award "DownsDowns," which IS restitution for real or imagmcd indiscretions on trail. Both my drgin I lash and inab1lin to locate the beer check resulted in "Down Downs" being awarded to me, i.e. chugging beer from a stainless steel toilet seat. J\s it was my first Hash, I was not given a nickname and was referred to at all times as \ 1rgin Rob, but ~ three ·time hasher can look forward to being !-,riYen such gems as Johnny Cockring or 112 I Jo. If you arc also looking for a way to jusufy the need to wash down your P11shpanathan woes, instead of grabbing a suspect ginger beer, put on your runners and go join the most fun group of runners you will ever meet. You can c heck out llo!,>town I !3's receding harclinc (i.e. upcoming hashes) at http:/ /hogtownh3.com. On on!

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\\1\en l fir t \ o lumeered for U ltrn on th t de l>ee.1use u would fall np!lrt. It \ ar J told m) eduor that J would he uu n'r m) burnro (tr uu a fnend's), bur "''rtUn aho ut adm1mstrnme f:ulurc:s t U 1f n were, thar uould ha\c been comple td) unacceptable. La tly, IWB ha ofT l.au. l nfortun:llel}, the arude wa upposed to be light hearted nd 1 could failed to cxp:~nd capaCJt} <I pite g rcmmg not u nte anythin • wuhout sounding hke demand nd according!), wait time can n a hole. o, I u11J Jn te d criuque be e trcmel) Jo ng.

0\ erall, B1g ht Burrito is a olid place three Burnto e tabhshment located tn to eat and C\ en u hen the burritos fall the downtown core. For this p1ece, I u11l re\1C\\ Bag I at Burrito, Burrito Fre h, np:m, the) ta te great. and Burrito Bc>)z.

Burrito Fre h Burrito Fresh doesn't necessarily make Hig Fa t Burrito Fir t on the docket is Big F·..u Burrito, the bcsr-qualiry hurrito~. hut irs location located in Kensington Market. Without a can't he heat (only a fc:\\' blocks away doubt, the burritos arc fantastic. BFB's from school and not in Ken~inb>ton ~tar­ first step is ro marinate your chicken or kct). ,\ few things do not make sense at hct.:f (H.'gt:l.1hle is available, if that is your thmg) and cook it in a mysttr} sauce. In Burrito Fresh. First, their burrito making my opinion, this step elevates BI ·B from process lends itself to fusing ptcccs of p laces that don't understand the Impor- aluminum to your meal. \'\'hen the} tance of sp1ce and seasoning. Bl B also \\·arm up vour freshly made burnto, they proddes gnat burrito fillings at no extra wrap it up m aluminum llncd paper and charge, in particular guacamole. place it in some sort of George f'orcman For all the praise, BFB does have device. Thts process makes the alu drawbacks. I trst of all, it is in Kensing- minum foil stick to the burrito and you ton \1arket. A lot of people like the ha\e to pick off the aluminum piece by area ... I personally thmk it is gross and p1ecc. l have tried to explrun this to the way too left-wing. Second, the burmos manager, but he refuses to believe his arc often incomtstently made. \X hen l outlandish \)roccss has anything to do ftt st s\anc:t\ fn:qucnting the \)\ace. )'OUt ~ ith it. Hutrito Frc~h a\-;o charges you \,unit<> wouk\ \\t"Va fa\\ a-pan. ~owa­ for hurnto esscn11als like, say, !;?'J<'Camolc. day:., experiencing a cltasrrophic f:tll .t\nd unlike: Big Fat Burrito, the ch1ck<.'n apa rt is parr of cl1e "experience." ( Jn one is not nurinat<.'d.

Burnto Fresh dC>es have its advan occasion, the burrito btU}' drew an arrow on the wrappmg. \X hen I asked for dar- tages. J\ s I already mentioned, It JS close itication, he told me: I should not open it to school Wtth the dec1mauon to our

eating out options thanks to < ne Bed ford, \\e do no t have many o ption d o e to dtool, and a burriw fit. grcar in )OUr lunch rotation of Pho, Pho, Burrito, Pho. \\ hilc their manager is unrc5ponsi\C to customer feedh:tck, his 1931b management style can .tlso be educational. Let me clanfr. The guy treats his employee~ ternhly and warch111g him in action IS a real -life example of how not to act in a man:tgemcnt po ition. Tip: \\'hen he's not around, rema rk to the employees rhar you tlunk he is a jerk and this usually g ets you J,rtJ:tcamole for free!

At the end of the day, quality-wise I prefer Big Fat Burrito, but I'd cat an alu minum-co\'cred burrito over a bowl of pho any day.

B urrito B oyz Burnt<> 13oyz is a famous burrito eatery in Toronto. They really know their stuff and their burritos are fantastic. l have no idea how the} make them, but they taste great Unlike Btg Fat Burrito, thq have a lo t o f capactt) and most of the ttmc you will g et your food rathe r qu1ckly. But if you arc g oing fo r lunch on a weekday, get ready for a line-up that snakes onto the street.

I used to fault Burrito Borz for failing to ~cn>llll11<1\hltc the weekend traftie.

But Burrito Bo)~/. is now op<.'rt on Sund;tJS :tnd rhar ha s just givc:n me ;mother day to find things that bug me.

First, your burrito is usually way too h o t and you have to wait a good tivc

m inutes fo r it to cool down. ( !bo ugh this d ocs open up rhc option o f a Kram<.'r-likc laws uit.) The burrito also seems to have an excess o f sauce in it.

1\nd while I'm not usually doing anything ilkt;al, it wdrds m<.' o ut that I S<.' c cop e;tting there all the time (wh) aren't they " cleaning up" Kensington ,\ Lu ker?).

Despite thc:sc drawbacks, Burrito Boyz is located close to rhe corporate law :;ccne and offers a g reat resp ite to the food court options in the financial district.

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So what is your best burrito bet? D espttt..Jts mconsi5tency am! lack of capacity, Big Fat Burrito is my tirst choice. ( )ne evening last year, in an a ttempt to make it there before dosutg, I crashed Ill) Vesp.t :1 few blocks away. Instead of \\ ,titing ti1r tht' ltlllhulancc onlookers had cnlkd ( 1 was .urlwnw fut u good I0 IS fc:et), l rushed to Big Fat Burrito. It's that good.

From Batman to the Big Bad Wolf BY: RI\NO D~om

o I am sitting here reading Frank M iller's Thr Dark K.ni~bl Ivtsmu for the first time (}es, I kno\\ l am 21 }ears late, but l was tuo at the umc) trying to tigurc out tf this ts a good introductory cotmc. And while thts is one of the best

thmgs] ha\e C\er read, l uould not nee essanl) put 111 the mtroductol'} categof}.

It 1s \en dark, wluch I pcrsonaU} enJO), but n IS clefinnel) not for C\cryone. I al o lme the art st\le., but agam, chacun

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after a partlcularl) disastrous fight that de trO)S Kansas. J\ group of the old su pcrheroc<> gather, and set rules for all superheroes to follow. \nyonc who docs not fl ·llow the C()de gets jailed. What ensues is a conflict between the old heroes, the new heroes, and regular humans lead by none other than Batman.

'I11c story explores the nouons of jus tice and rcdempuon this is not a book that rs just about superheroes hitting each other. While someone mtght bettt.."t' understand e\ erything u ith a little of knowledge of characters such as For rhc Supe rhe ro 1:~m : Kingdom , hazam, and 1bc Spectre, an}one \>1th Com e C\ en the basics of Batman and Super 'J1u 1 a hard categor} from man can rcall) enJ<>) this book. wluch to pick JU tone, but Kmg,dom Comr If nnthmg else, the art alone makes 1 definucl} one of the best storic out thl<> hook worth the price. Alex Ross 15 there. 'I he story 1s set ten \cars after Su one of the best corruc book artists out perm an reures. 1be world has become a rhcrc. I le uses a pauuing srylc instead of dark place because the pubhc accepted tradtucmal drawmg that is hyper-realistic thctr uperhcrocs killing 'wtllains. ' 11terc and breathes life into the pages. Each IS nou con~tilnt tighung m the street character 1 nchl) dctatlcd, from the coslx:t\\ cen super IX''\ crcd bcmgs wHh no tume to the facial expressions. (hcrall, regard to human casualucs. \'\under I'd recommend Kingdo1n C.omr to anyone \'\ oman com tnccs Superman to return uho 1 l.'\en rcmotcl) Interested rcadmg

arc some great graphic nO\cls that arc also great starters for those who ha\c m..'\ cr read a graphtc novel before.

I only started reading graphic nmcls last year, su I am not exactly an expert.

But at least I can ).,'1\e )OU the perspective of a neophyte. To make things l'aSIcr for someone who wants to read something I ha\ c recommended, I wtll tf} tn keep tt limned to a sencs that Ius been consolidated mto a trade paperback, which u t\1 make It easier to find.

a comtc book, e peciall) one about su· pcrhcrocs.

For so mething a liulc d iffercnr:

F:•blcs 'l'hts one is pretty hard to sell because as soon as m<' t people hear the premise, they tune out. But 1f you are interested in rcachng comic books }Oil have to keep an open mind or )OU wtlll m1ss some great stuff. l ' nhke K.i11gdo111 Come, this is not a mini-series; 1t IS a continUing comJc book series. llo\v ever, each fh c-issue arc Js consolidated into a trade paperback. So )Ou can suJJ start from the bcginrung by getting the first volume.

1bc baste concept of 1-nblu is stmplc: all the fairy tales you lm;c read or heard about are true. If multiple stories have a character u-ith the same name, then it is actually the same person. Yc.._, that docs mean that every Pnnce Charming as the same one. 'Jbcy usc to hvc in the Land of h1ry· Talc and Folklore (probably ncar Ottawa), but someone known as 1bc \dversar') imaded their realm.

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II cr famtl) htd the u'Orld from her .tnd h1d her from the \\Orld. ben tho e snark) bloggers e\cntuall) real 1zed that Umne} u'll n't conung back and mO\ed on to rum a new poor gtrl's hfc. Ma)hc the} e'<cn regretted the1r part an her downfall, hut probabl) not because hlo~ers are parasites y'al\.

But o n h er 40 th h~r~hday, Bru ney cnn't keep herself locked ;1\\.1) from the \\ o dd - slw \\,tllt(d to let y'ulllo\ < he r .tg.un. I n/ o rrun atcl)', t he world has forgotten Bntney Spears. J\nd now she know this. So she's like com pletcly alone and friendless and drunk - and she's 40, which is like as old :ts :tn)onc h as C\er gotten. 'lbcrc's real ~ nothing left for her 1n this world. o he jump off the bndge and totall) dtc . It's uper sad. Like the saddest thtng C\ Cr. Before the funeral, th e Pre Jdcn t de clare a national d n} o f mourmng c\ er}one gets the day off \Vork I) they can <ry. '11tcrc \ \.1 a \\ orldw1de mo menr o f lienee, and Bnwey's l.tst song \\ a broadcast e\ Ct}'\\ here. Thi \\aS the choru :

She thoug ht It \\ould all \\Ork out 1n the end, hccau e, hke, he's Brn ne) ) 'all. o misunderstood.

But her far1111) life \\ asn't the on I) problem nrca. Bntne}' custod) battle came Jll t nfter her performance at the Vl\ lAs, \\ luch people tot.tlly un fmrly referred to n "horrific, sloth !Ike and tHUnsplred." Bntnc lnu •hed o ff the crtucr m ,;he'd heard it all hefore and he had gtv n e\ cr) one more wtth .1 ncu hu stngle!. Britncy wa a tratlher snake strip tease, her hlazer m.tke out session wuh :M adonna people alwa} s tncd to tear Bmne) doun for her art bccau c thC) were Jealous or whate\ er.

But that wa usually JUSt the cnttcs.

'Iben tn an unexpected and UO\\ .trrantcd turn, Bntney's fans abandoned her 111 her wne of need. ll er album flopped, she spiraled in to a n extended period of self destructi\ e hcha,•iour. fo ne) trouble. n rugs. Alcohol. ~l orbtd obesity. Bntncy's life was a complete mess. And KL"\'in u'lls totall} ncung hkc his shit d1dn'r stink. She Baf?y, I lot•e)'Oil couldn't bear u an} longer. The p re B11tthe U'orld 11eeds 111c urcs of cclebrit) broke BntnC) pears. ·1'here'J) liSt so IIIIlCh presmre l fer fam1ly tried to reason u1th her }noll don~ k ti01J' vvat it'J like to and tage an mtervention. But BritnC) had pa ed the poin t of no return. be 111e There was no comeback. 1be world W'or/d,)'Oil 're 111y O>.J 'gCII was too cruel fo r Britncy. As she said /3/lt)' 'a/1 ((11/ l sta11d SOfiJCOIIC SO to her SISter, "Forget it Jamie- L} nn, it' Cheeto-town." She b ecame a to tal rc- real duse, and her famtly had to take care I tried so hard togit'C II!J1e!fto of her. 1-kr family t loctor helped them )'0/1, ll'Orfd keep Brune} sem i-sedated to prc\ cOC her from singing o r shaving her head, HtttJ 'allj 11st do11 ~ k11o11' all the bccau e Jarnie-L} nn was ahV'll)'S jcalCJu paitJ I feel of the attention BritnC) got. Plu , Bnt Y'all can~ k.noJJ' JJ IJat it's like to ne}' mom u-:ts a tcrnb le person \\ ho be IJJe alwa)s 1dcd u ith Kc,·in.

con ohdated, nu \\I ll dcfinuch hC'3r lxnu 11 from mc

THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN Rl.GH"TS PROGRAM AND ULTRA VIRES p resent

Mark Leger Reporting on Human Rights Workshop: A West African Case Study Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:30- 2:00 pm Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Lunch provided You are invited to a workshop that will explore the human rights and media landscape in Ghana and West Africa, and address the challenges that local journalists confront when reporting on issues like gay rights, child labour, marita l rape and instant justice. The session will also address the challenges of reporting on international human rights issues from Toronto. Mark Leger, a producer and reporter with CBC Radio and former expert trainer with Journalists for Human Rights, will lead the workshop. He recently returned from Ghana, where he conducted workshops with journalists and journalism students. He also teaches journalism at St. Thomas University in Fredericton . He is the former owner and editor of here, a weekly news and entertainment newspaper for New Brunswick. He graduated from the journalism program at Ryerson University in 1995 and worked as an editor and writer with the Telegraph-Journal before he founded here in April 2000. Mark has worked in India with Canadian Crossroads International and served on CCI's board of directors.

Contact Sarah Perkins (s.perkins@utoronto.ca) or Robert Wakulat (rob.wakulat@utoronto.ca) for more Information.

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She began working on my hands, asktog m e orne t} pkal yuestions. I responded ple:t anti). Yes, thl~ is my first timt• hen·. ~o. I'm nor going to a wedding or pecial occt ion. Thanks, I do try to take good care of my hand~. \'\ here Jo I work? Oh, at a law firm downto\\'11.

The Girl paused mid-filing my right hand to ask me a question. "So, like, where do you guys hang out?"

I must have had a puzzled look on my f.'lt·c, bt'Causc she put down the file to gesticulate. " Oh, I don't mean like you, I mean like the guys, the lawyer-men, or even the banking-guys. D o you know where they go to hang out?"

Speaking as a heterosexual female with numerous friends who arc "lav.:yer-men" and "banking-guys," s1rens and warnings bells starred ringing in my head. ~\nd ~peaking as a heterosexual female attracted to sc\·eral of these "lawyer-men" and "bankers," I resisted the urge to claw out her eyes with my newh filed left hand. I knew her type. She was the Gold-Digging type. one\ imagination. l should know. 1\·e l'vc seen them at Ki on a Thursday night, dressed up to the nines, clearly not met her tyi'c. .\ftcr a \)<'rticu\ar\y ~ruc\\inp; week of part of the aftcr-\.vork crowd. Two fe A recent hoax on Crru!,rslt t featured a 25-)ear-old female po ter ccktng ad\ tee on ho\\ to find and marr} a gu} who made at least 500,000 a ye2r. \X hc.>rt' did the c law}ers, im cstmcnt bankers and hedge fund guys hang out, what age range should she be targeting, what do the} look for in a partner, and so on. J\s fictitiou as the female postt•r may have been, she wasn't a far stretch from any-

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code and her potential competition. I assurt•d her that if she adhered to a "strict drt'S!i code," she would find wh:u she was looking for, and to not worry about

other women. llaving apphed my basecoat, the Girl / Gold D1gJ!cr launched into her theon on rdatlonships. This g~rl was scriouo;. ~ht. wasn't hunting for JUSt any ''Lm')1..r-man" or "b:mking·!-,1'\J~ "!:>ht was in the market for a llusband .•\nd It wasn't just her: she assured me that she had plenty of girlfriends wanting the sa me thing.

"You know, after a long, hard day at work, most g uys just \\'ant to come home to a hot wife that will take care of them and not gi,·c them any trouble.

They don't wanr to come home to the intcllccttJal type that will gi,·e them a hard time. You're the intellectual type.

Don't get me wrong, you're a really attracti\·e girl and you'll find a guy, no problem - but you're going to he stressed out, too, after a long day at work, and most guys just don't want to deal with that." \Yhoa, whoa, whoa. \\'as she serious? \\ as l hearing her correctly? I strong!)' r1.. •Lntcd being called the stressed-out inv.~or\1. ·o~.t n\y summer \aw f\rm, \ nccl\cd a male summer Ia\\ stuucnts and I ven- tellectual t ~ pc (okay, line, maybe I am) 4uick pick-me-up- so 1 chel"kl·d o ut of tured to Ki nnrt• during the summt•r, kt's who was going to give a guy a hard time the ofticc ;~ncl inco the spa len :1 ltttk jusr sa1 th•lt onre was more than enough. after a long d.1y :II work. J\nd I strongly manicure treat. (Please, stop rolling your I g ave up the name of this 'mc.:c.:t' m.lr- resented her generalization that mr eyes at me.) k<.t hotspot to the Girl/Gold D1gger. lawyer- men and banking-!,ruy friends And what a treat it was. 1 grudgingly " \X ell, I know that a lot of !:,I'U}'S go to l-....1 were so shallow. On top of that, her thewalked into a spa that I had never been on Thursdays, and I've seen a lot of ory was already debunked by the many to before, since my favourite Yorkville pretty girls there, too." I Ier eyes ht up, lawyer- lawyer or lawyer-investment spa was fully booked. I met the young, but d a rkened at the mention of other banker relationships that I've seen. blonde, heavily- made-up-but-sttll - pretty girls. She pressed me (almost quite I laug hed politely, if onlr to stop mybombshcll-of-an-esthetician (the "Girl") literall}; smce at this point she was giving self from fuming. This manicure was not with whom I was entrusting m} hands. me a hand massage) for details on dress turning out to be such a little treat. I f

this gi rl thought she was going to get her hands on an) of my guy friend:;, she could keep dreaming.

But she continued. "The way I sec it, it's okay for my husband to make a lot of money and for me to spend it on keeping myself looking good."

J\t this point, I paused to consider her theon. \laybe there were some guys who \\anted to be sugar daddies. And

why not? People look for <!afferent things in relationships, and there were hound to he guys like that out there. If the lawyer-men and hanking-gu)s \\anted to be with someone like the Ciri/Co!d-Diggc.:r, rlll'n that '' .ts .u:tuall) tine by me- that wasn't the type that I was looking for, anrv.:ay.

I looked at my newly manicured hands, and was fairly satisfied. I left her a generous tip, albeit for her husband investment fund.

Anonymous Rant: Macleans has its Head up its Ass So, hello from afar agai n , my fellow sure th ere arc the rottjng corpses of stul o ffers. Actuall), th at is a terrible name d cntc; that d1c administrauon didn't get fur us. l·orgct l e"en wrote th.lt e ntire alo ng '' ith somewhere do\\ n there. !;cntence. Forget 1 even smd h t ) Maybe Ron Darucls e\ en tortured some \\Ould n't do tt m real hfe, so\\ h\ pretend puhhc Interest smdents for not going here. Let's start agrun. corporate ...

1 :tt }OU • Our school breeds msamt\. People So, on to the tssues. I was told that our come out of there feeling complctclv m pre u~ou tnstttute of legal cducauon adequate, stup1d, and bac;icallv Jaded. \Vas ranked number 1 an a 1\L,dcans Students often don't C\ .mt to pmc. r.1nkmg of UOJ\ cr"ttlcs/b\\ schools. ) ucc Ia\\, and 1f the\ do, the} probabl} do .tm not gotng to he I drdn't read tha It for the \\-rong rcac;om. 1\lso, can \\C nrude. \nd I don't plan on it. 1 h \e far not hJ\ e a smokmg hot lhchclon:tt<: of better thln!,TS to do, like skip a \l-eek of the Month for once? Not that \I.e .til school to go dnnkmg on ,, smalla!;)and don't IO\e Matthew Glick ... somewhere. But," hen I was informed • Our school is a np--off. All of th:u of tlus, I was appalled. mone} and l\1a}O getS to go on vacation llere as \\ hy: Dtd )OU enJO} the Japanese "onsen" • Our sehoul IS a shathole I'll bet i\la}o? llo'W about the Great Wall htkec;?

Maclcans ha never e\cn been in our llowwcre tl1e beaches m Thatland? Bet bathrooms, or m the basement ot Fal ter than I am sure.. coner II .til. It's a f"' •mg dungeon I ttm T.d1tors niJ/~:the \nonymous Ranter has

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h it a nc w low: having to be censored hy an extremely ltberal l 'V editorial staffl • Our sehoul is the JOke of a legal stu dent communal)•. Let's face it- no other schools reall} like us. I am not saymg th.u ':ihould matter really, but at the arne ume, wouldn't It be nice to be respected? \nd no people \\ c arc not made fun of at l.a'W GJmes because the other s<.hools arc realous. That is ju t) our ego talktng. 'J he) think \\e arc allassholes, a ~ood poruon l>f 'Whom we arc.

• Our school as O\ erl) compcttth c, un fnendf), un\\clcommg, clique}, and mer hyped. I think that is <;cJf-expL'ln,ltOr}.

• Our "Choolas anu Semuic ... just Jokang. But m.m, that would rcaUv make this li'>t so much better.

So, m a nutShell, that is wh\ \Jacleans 1s wrong. Let's face it - \\e reallv don't go to the best school. Eo,et) other school gets Jobs and docs ahout as uell

(well, except for W'ind sor. Something IS really wrong there. I will admtt, we arc better than them) as we do. So, don't let Macleans fuel what arc )OUr othcrt\'ISe massi' e egos.

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( >ctober mel'ttng of htcult, ouncd. A Muxim d1 tmught th1rd )cat tudent ha filed a tudcnts at tl1e Faculty of L'l\\ re petJUnn \\ 1th the choc I allegtng "gro JOteed earlier th1 month when the Ia\\ lnCCJUittc 111 the drstribuuon of muflin school placed first overall in Maclean • aero the student pupulauon." \X h~n inaubrural mnkings of "< .anada's Be t asked to comment on her pctltton, Jultc I.\\ chools.'' 111e euphona, ho\\C\ er, (31.) procl:umcd "1t' not tn) fault I nC\er was hort lt\ed, as only days later Maxtm actuall} attend cia s. I thmk at's unfa1r for Magazane um·ciled its li ung of "The the chool to actually expect u to he Honest Lo1w chools in North Amenca," her tn order to get a damn muffin." hxn polls conducted hy Citra I 'msnt and Uofl' found itself ranked #495 out of 500 schools. The magazine ranks the mo t recent Muffin Madne appear to confirm the factual basa of the pctt school on the basi of the ph) ical at tractheness of the student body and the tion. Not onl) arc O\er 90% of all Mad school's social scene. "I don't belle\ e ness-gocrs either in first or set·ond )Car, this," exclaimed a clearly distraught hut the O\ernhclmmg majority of hmn muffins arc bemg consumed by first) car \l artha (I 1.), adding that " l t' I kn~ he students. "hrst year is trc sful,'' re forehand, I \\ould'vc gone to J\lbe markt!d Ben (I L), "and I don't hl.une Ill)' ~rucnruc (#324, citl'd for its< >rientatlon colleagues for wanting to sta) regular. bash, the Jobidan Jubilee) nr Sa katchcwan (#4, largely on the basis Speaking of \\ hich, ha\ c) ou een the faof the annual Dudley & Stephens J\Jl. t'lhues a round here?" 'I he uuervtC\\ wtth Ben ended ahruptJy as a student nearby You·Can-hat Buffet held in Regina). nouced a dead horse being he:uen mer· A high ranking administration official cilcs I} out ide. \\ ho poke to Ultra I 'iru was able to put a posinvc span on the repugnant rankmg, ruefull} remarking: "Listen. I\ e said tt F~tculty unveils new courses once and I've satd it agaan: competing deali n g with ncw ..... sh apc::. .... with all the e otht.-r schools mnked alx•ve I ·ollowing the stupendous "Ucccss of u11 should not be our focus! \X'c nn·d to this }ear's Cecil B. \Vnght l..ectttrl\ wh1ch focus on more important things, hkl· was on tht• presently poi~nant topiC of what matters to us! 1\nd that, of cour~e. "Dignrt) - L1herty- FqualJty: Aspl'Cts is compcttng with ( )sgoode! And we of a Europcllll ( 'omaiJution,ll Tn.lllgle", the I•.teulty has annouJKt:d plans ti>r :1 bc;lt ( )sgoodel" (mnkcd #4 1>'), J, rgcl) due to ll~ da!.appolntrng Vaillancourt numhcr of last-~ccond additions to r he 2007 Academic Calendar as JMrl of the Valenune's Da} Dance) "Places< >ur Cradu.ttcs \X'on't \Xork, and hapcs Kids I..1ke" lntcn~iH~ C.ourse ofAfter 48th consccuti\'c loss, Varferings. The additions andudc the fol ~;ity Blue turn to law school for lowing: help "Pcne:z and Persecutions: Pak1stant After thetr must recent 44-1 shellacking at the hands of the \'\'estern 1\lus- Proper(}' Parallelograms" "Condescension - C'onfusion tan!:,>S, head coach Ste\C llowlett of the Candy: Cogolesc Contractual C irclcs niH·rsit) of Toronto l·oothall Blues "Stuff -'!'hangs - J\nd ~lore Stuff~ hao:; apparently t:tkcn to looking for fresh Remedies and Rhodesian Rhombuses" talent. llowlctt was spotted this past 1\nd the sure to be popul:tr: Sunday swutmg the Faculty's D1v I t1ag "No <lnc Cares- About This Coun· ioothall team, 'Which won in cor1v1ndng tt)'- <)r Th1s Shape: 'l'ransylvanian 'll>rt fashion over Phys hd. Speaking of fashion, it is bchcved that llowlctt is most 'lctrahedrons" In unrelated nC\VS, the syllabus soli ofinterested in David ~laldoff (31.), the fers no courses on J\merican Ia\\, and team's star wide receiver whose collecResearch and \X'riting rcmaan ovcrsub tion of athletic spandex has been kno\\'11 senbed. to keep the opposiuon on edge. Maldoff, or "Ocho Cinco" as he prefers to be Ad ministration touts new source called, \\ould certainly bring some much needed swagger to the 0-48 \'llrslt}' team. of financial aid to di appointed llowc\cr, when notified of the Blues' tn· first-years In an effort to console hoards of firsttcrcst, ~laldoff was non-committal, year students upset with their finanoal cryptically stating "I have to return some this fall, the Admission aid packages videotapes and make a reservation at < >fficc is distributing pamphlets touting Dorsi a." a new source of financial aid: underneath the cushions of the plush Ro\\cll T hird-year student files petition Roorn sofas. over alleged m u ffin inequity According to Effie, "with a little efUltra Vim has learned that a highly fort, you'd be surprised how much you contentious item has been recently can find in there." Indeed, a random in· added to the agenda for the upcoming

ai11t 011e pccuon h\ t: Itnt Vtre pcldcd 3.42 rn loo c change, a coupon book for man} of the rc rnurant u hach no longer c t t on Bloor (rhnnks a lot, One Be<lford), nd an unopened course package from 1969 to J\rmc \'\e1nnb's fir t )Car prop crt\ cl;ass (no\\ n collectors uem).

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Uun· J..aw I niiO\\InJ; on the heel of lraman Pre 1dent l\lahmoud Ahmadmer:l()' haghl) pubhct ed \I u to Columlua, Uoil' law chool has deetded to tn\ ate penccr Pratt and lletda Montag of lTV' l'ht I 11/lr to peak to students and litculty later thas mnnth. As Assistant I >can Bunnie Colclbl•rg explained, "'11te conn!~ I between Spcncer/IICJdi and Lauren < onmtl is as, af not more unpor tant, than the potential confhct between Iran and the \Xest. J\s )OU know, l ofJ' alwa>s tries to keep pace with its lv) competitors hkc C olurnbia, and \\hat better way to do that than to one-up them on the speaker front? And let's he honest, :Spencer is way crazier than Ahmadrncj.td- I mean, did }I >u sec he 1w he tried to redecorate that apartment?"

When :1skctl what The lltl/s has to do with the study of law, Goldberg replied: "Since.: when is th:tt the litmus Jest? Our school :illn\\'s stuclellls to fultil tile l :oi • tl'lltk•d paper rC(JUircmcnt hr writing about their f:1vmrritl' hooks nnd movies, remember?" ~he then hurried oft', say mg, " orry! I forgot to '1'1 Vo Tcwport l l.1rbor.''

Do"- n Under, .reen poon get ung Z' 10 C\Cr} course Moran C.onfessc : I on!} uent to A 1a becau e I mt Jordan 'ah maas \X omen and tl1e Law use Bake .1lc to fight stcrcot}pc \X mel or tudent OU !tucker: \X md or student get OCI' ??

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