THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW .
ULTRA VOLUME 9, ISSUE 4
VIRES
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JANUARY 15,2008
Asper raises the bar for generosity Unprecedented individual contribution lays the foundation for ne·w law school building BY RoBJ RT \\'-\1.:1 I.AT
By now most students, faculty and staff arc aware that D.l\'ld Asper, the cxecuti,·e \'lccprc~idcnt of Can\\'esr Global Communications Corp., provided the largest individual gtft en:r made to a Canadian law school on '\ovembcr 29,2007. His S7.5 million donanon will be split eyenly between funding for the proposed new law school building and the establishment of a constitutional centre bearmg his name - the Da,·id Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights. " It's fantastic that someone who is so pri' 1kged gh cs ~uch a massi,·e gift to enhance access to these fundamental rights for people who don't have assets," said Dean :\Ia) o ~loran. ''\\'e all recognize that access to cnforctng \our constitutional nghts is 'cry, 'cry challenging." The unprecedented donation attracted Interest from alumni around the world via a simultaneous '' ebcast of th announcement. \lumni in .Singapore, Vancouver and L.t\. confirmed they watched the broadcast from the Rowell Room. Constitutional L'lw Professor Lorraine \\'cinrib also experienced an immediate and posith·e impact from the wider legal community. "I han~ receiYed numerous emails from former srudents to see tf [pro bono CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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Dean Moran v.ras all smile!> at the donation announcement. See page lJ for Asper interview.
Law Games survivor tells all We're all back for a new term of law school. Some of us had quiet holidays, others went on warm vacations and others simply ... disappeared. And then there is a special brand of student: the srudent who knew that a regular holiday just wouldn't do for this year. They knew that the only proper way to ring in the new year was to hop on a bus bound for frigid Montreal and depnve themselves of both sleep and sobnety for as long as their body could take it. This particular brand of student is fairly easy to identify. They're recognizable for their hacking coughs, their raspy voices and their matching blue
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American Apparel hoodies. These symptoms arc particular to a peculiar disease known as the Law Games Plague; a curious, week long epidemic that strikes once a year. Disease or no, it's an affliction most of us bear with pride. It speaks of the good times, the good memories and the good friends we've made. In case you hadn't guessed it already, I am one of those students, and this is my story. \Y/e followed our fearless leaders into the fngid temperatures. It was a largely thankless task, leading a pack of hun-
gover, tired students into the freezing cold, but they led properly; they led by example. Look to the earliest bus lea\'· ing the hotel in the morning, or the room crammed with half our team partying away; our leadc.rs were always in the thick of things. '\c;ver was that more apparent than at the Sth·er Partyall you had to do was locate the sober, half- naked, sweat-soaked dance machine to know true Uofl' spirit. The I ,aw (7ames crew this year was fantastic. I could try to record all of their accolades for you, but even were I to know them all, It would takt. up far CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
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