Le journal bilingue de Glendon | Glendon’s bilingual newspaper Vol. 59 Issue 1 : le 30 septembre 2020 In This Issue Meet the 2020-2021 team! ● Page 2 Vie étudiante Business As Usual: The educational cost of the pandemic is on our shoulders ● Page 1, 3 Homesick ● Page 3 Expressions Try Change ● Page 4 Arts & Entertainment Why Everyone Involved in the Making of “Among Us” is a Certified Genius ● Page 4, 5 Review: Season 1 of Canada’s Drag Race ● Page 5 Metropole The End of Conflict ● Page 6 Business as Usual: The City’s Underprivileged are Misrepresented, a Comment on the Toronto Community Housing The educational cost of the pandemic is on our shoulders Corporation ● Page 7 Kamilia Grove to rent out in the future. For two weeks, ily did not understand what I needed. Santé et bien être Contributor my only connection — besides phone Daily, my concentration was disrupted The Beautiful Game: Canada’s time to calls and the occasional family mem- by their constant knocking at my door shine ● Page 8 In a pandemic where nothing feels ber in the window — was the limited — some days it was difficult to study Conseils pour bien réussir en ligne ce certain, technology has guaranteed amount of data on my phone, because at all! The day before my paper worth semestre ● Page 9 students the ability to continue their the apartment did not have WiFi. I could 100% of my European master’s level education — but not without intensify- not work on my classes for two weeks, class was due, my mother wanted to Issues & Ideas ing pre-existing challenges and adding which I worried about, unaware that blast music in the attic (right above my Review & Opinion: Displacing Blackness studying from home would be a mas- bedroom) to draw out the squirrels who by Ted Rutland ● Page 10 new ones. At the beginning of February, I was an eager student abroad in Co- sive challenge for me. had made a home for themselves there. La Prochaine Date Limite : penhagen, Denmark. I joined my host As a university student who Luckily, I won that battle. le 2 octobre 2020 university’s symphony orchestra, trav- has hardly ever had to study from her Studying from home through elled in and outside of Denmark, and family home, and never while her fam- my semester ‘abroad’ and two sum- made friends from all over the world. By ily was home, for months on end I se- mer school semesters required me to mid-March, I found myself quarantined riously questioned whether I would be learn to negotiate, prioritize myself, in an apartment in the GTA where the able to complete my credits. I was so and change my study habits. Despite only piece of furniture was a stool. overwhelmed, all the time. To say the this and the emotional challenges of My family did not want me to pandemic affected my studies is an un- leaving my exchange, these semesters be isolated in the family home after I derstatement. I had to quickly adapt to somehow produced the best grades had travelled from Denmark to Canada working in an environment that was not of my university career. A huge part of through Germany, and so, I stayed at conducive to my success; the house my success can be attributed to how an empty townhouse they had planned was loud, I grew stir-crazy, and my fam- Continued on PAGE 3 Pro Tem Team Letter from the Editor Notre équipe Welcome back, Pro Tem readers! Editor in Chief | Rédactrice en chef Hello! My name is Eden, and I am hon- Eden Minichiello oured to introduce myself as Pro Tem’s [email protected] new Editor in Chief. I am overjoyed to write to all of you today to announce our first is- Chief of Operations | Chef des opérations Natalie El-Rifai sue of the 2020-2021 academic year. To be [email protected] completely candid with you, I was unsure of what Pro Tem would be able to accomplish English Editor | Rédacteur anglais adjoint this year amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam Kozak and my hopes for publishing a cohesive, [email protected] Eden Minichiello Editor in Chief bi-weekly paper were low. However, thanks French Editor | Rédactrice française adjointe to the hard work of the Pro Tem Executive Beatrice Bouaré team, a group of extremely bright and res- [email protected] olute individuals, and the unwavering sup- port of our contributors, here we are today, Photographer | Photographe Ruhama Varatharajan publishing our first issue. I am very excited [email protected] to be leading such a fantastic team in the operation of Glendon’s bilingual news- Layout Editor | Maquetteur paper for its 59th year. Elton Campbell Natalie El-Rifai Adam Kozak Beatrice Bouaré Vous remarquerez que nous [email protected] Chief of Operations Assistant English Editor Assistant French Editor avons apporté de nombreux changements Section Editors | Chroniqueurs aux opérations de Pro Tem en raison de la pandémie COVID-19. Pour ce semestre Campus Life | Vie étudiante (au moins), Pro Tem n’imprimera ni dis- Anna Noumtinis tribuera de copies physiques de nos pub- Issues & Ideas | Actualité et opinions lications bihebdomadaires. Au lieu de cela, Ariana Mah nous publierons un « e-paper », qui est di- sponible sous forme de PDF, et qui pourra Metropolis | Métropole être envoyé directement à votre boîte de Kitty Yin Elton Campbell Ruhama Varatharajan réception. Si vous voulez recevoir nos pub- Layout Designer Photographer Arts and Entertainment & Expressions | lications bihebdomadaires, veuillez vous Arts et divertissement & Expressions abonner à la liste de diffusion sur notre site Brianna Carrasco web. En raison de COVID-19, nous n’or- ganiserons pas notre fête de lancement en Health & Wellness | Santé et bien-être collaboration avec Lunik. Cependant, nous Josée Philips avons plusieurs projets pour faire participer notre communauté, alors restez à l’écoute. About Us Above all, our aim this semester is to continue Pro Tem’s tradition of providing Pro Tem est le journal étudiant du collège Anna Noumtinis Ariana Mah Kitty Yin Campus Life Issues and Ideas Metropolis a platform for students to raise their voices Glendon. Publié pour la première fois en and express their thoughts. I hope to take 1962, c’est la plus ancienne publication de the paper in a direction that highlights the l’Université York. warmth and intimacy of the Glendon com- munity this year. It is in times like these that Opinions published in Pro Tem are those I believe compassion and connection are of of the individual writers, and do not reflect the utmost meaning and importance. the views of the publication as a whole. We Je me réjouis de lire vos contribu- will not print copy deemed racist, sexist, tions ce semestre ! homophobic, or otherwise oppressive. Brianna Carrasco Josée Philips Les lettres adressées au journal peuvent Arts and Entertainment & Health and Wellness À bientôt, Expressions être éditées au niveau de la clarté ou de contenu. All copy appearing in Pro Tem is Eden Minichiello at the discretion of the editorial team. Editor in Chief Feel free to respond to what you read in the pages of Pro Tem! / N’hésitez pas à réagir à ce que vouz avez lu dans Pro Tem! To see past editions of Pro Tem, please visit our website: www.protemglendon.com. Be sure to follow us on Facebook for reminders about upcoming deadlines and events: @ProtemGL 2 Pro Tem • www.protemgl.com • September 30, 2020 Vie étudiante parts too. wishes I was. Homesick My mind’s eye is caught in a I’ve found my many safe spaces daydream of Frost library in the fall, sit- at Glendon, some of which I’ll keep hidden Eden Minichiello ting among the bookshelves, studying for in my heart forever with a jealous desire to Editor in Chief midterms while the leaves change. Then I make them only mine. I thought learning laugh at the thought of it in the wintertime from home would be a shy girl’s wet dream As a student entering my fourth, maybe-fi- - so serendipitously beautiful, watching the - no pressure to leave the comfortable con- nal-but-probably-not, year here at Glendon, snow fall outside the big windows, all while fines of my room, or to do any dreadful so- I’ve found myself struck with a very sudden groaning about how bloody hot it is and cializing - but it’s turning out to feel more sense of what can be described as nothing how hard it is to focus with a century-old like a white lie. As a sentimental introvert else but homesickness. I spent my summer HVAC system. I feel my spine thanking the who takes her time to settle into new envi- isolated and detached from the idea of re- good Lord above that I’ll be in the comfort ronments, I am mourning what would have turning to campus, professors, and friends, of my own chair instead of the tiny, grade been my first year fully out of my shell at knowing that it would be much safer to be school desk-chair hybrids, hopelessly an- my quaint little university campus. My hope learning from home, and being okay with gled to ensure every notebook and pen will for this semester, though physically dis- that. But now, as the weather begins to slide right off their surface. Yet, their charm- tant and remote, is that the warmth we’re cool and the days grow shorter, my logical ing awfulness pulls at a string in my soul. all missing from our favourite places and practicality is being pushed out of place by My heart wrenches just a little knowing I’ll beloved community would be replaced by a sense of nostalgia that springs from my be napping on my couch instead of Lunik’s.