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Supreme TRINITY STUDENTS TIE ONE ON Court Accepts Arguments ZYVATKAUSKASCAZ by Law Professors By Jane Kidner

OF T LAW PROFESSORS SUJIT UChoudhry and Michael Code and their students saw months of hard work pay off recently as the Supreme Court of accepted their legal arguments in its groundbreaking decision in Charkaoui v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration). U of T law students volunt- eering with the school’s International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) worked closely with Choudhry and his co- counsel, Robert Centa of Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP, a graduate of the U of T law school, and clinic director Noah Trinity students like Ken Mazurek (left) who commit a social faux pas in the dining hall — e.g., arriving without a gown — have ties Novogrodsky. The clinic made good-naturedly placed on them by their peers to publicize the infraction, according to dean of students Kelley Castle.Ties don't mean joint submissions with Human the student is ostracized, however, as Jonathan Holtby (right) demonstrates. For more on Trinity, see pages 10-11. Rights Watch as third party inter- veners in the case. A second U of T law professor, Michael Code, who was also assisted by several law First Nations House Celebrates Student Achievers students, presented argument in By Michah Rynor community. region of Moose Factory, Ont., undergraduate award. She is cur- the case on behalf of the Criminal Yvonne Morrison, this year’s and the Moosonee area, serving as rently pursuing a specialist in Lawyers’ Association. HE SMELL OF BURNING SWEET graduate recipient, successfully a consultant to nine different Cree aboriginal studies degree, hoping In a unanimous ruling, the Tgrass welcomed a packed completed an MEd degree from school boards as well as working eventually to enrol in a medical Supreme Court found that the house of faculty, students, staff the Ontario Institute for Studies as a university instructor for procedures laid out in the and friends to First Nations House in Education of U of T (OISE/UT) teacher training programs in -See FIRST Page 7- Immigration and Refugee recently for the annual President’s in the curriculum, teaching and Ontario and Quebec. Currently, Protection Act (IRPA) are uncon- Award for Outstanding Native learning department she works as a high stitutional because they unfairly Student of the Year ceremony. with a focus in the school vice-principal CALL FOR deny individuals who are suspected This award honours exemplary aboriginal and second- UNIVERSITY in Moose Factory. PARTICIPATION threats to national security under aboriginal students who have not language education MATTERS Candace Maracle, a the act the right to know the case only made their mark here at the program. fourth-year arts and against them. The appeal was but who are She has taught in sev- TRANSITION science student at heard by the Supreme Court in known and recognized for their eral First Nations com- TO UNIVERSITY Victoria College, was June 2006 and the decision was contributions to the native munities in her home more on pages 6-7 the recipient of the released on Feb. 23. The court has THE JONAS SALK AWARD given Parliament a year to come THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT up with new legislation. (research) encourages U of T Under IRPA, the minister of Five Appointed to employees to apply for the Ontario justice has the power to issue a March of Dimes Jonas Salk Award. security certificate against any By Ailsa Ferguson cine join the order as officers, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term The award honours Canadian permanent resident (landed second highest designation after Care, she is sought after through- researchers, scientists and doctors immigrant) or foreign national HE INSIGNIA IS A STYLIZED companion. Professor Emeritus out Canada and the United States who’ve made an outstanding con- who is suspected of being a threat snowflake of six points and Timothy Murray of medicine and for her expertise on aging. As a T tribution to the alleviation, cure or to national security. Since the leg- only those appointed to the Order David Young, an instructor in the teacher she has sensitized her stu- prevention of a physically disabling islation was enacted after 9/11, of Canada are entitled to wear it. Faculty of Music, were named dents to the importance of provid- condition. The Jonas Salk Award five people have been declared Now five of U of T’s prominent fac- members. In all, 87 appointments ing quality care, particularly to the includes a personal financial tribute possible threats to national security ulty members will join those who were announced by Governor- elderly, while validating nursing as of $10,000 in recognition of the under the act. All of them were have received Canada’s highest dis- General Michaëlle Jean Feb. 20. a rewarding and noble career recipient’s achievement. Visit detained. The federal court tinction for lifetime achievement Pringle is cited as a dynamic choice. www.marchofdimes.ca/dimes/ reviews the reasonableness of the and receive this symbol of honour. force who has been at the vanguard Recognized worldwide for con- people_with_disabilities_care- certificate but when issues of Professors Emeriti Dorothy of the introduction of nurse scien- tributions to biomaterials science givers/grants_and_awards/research national security arise the Pringle of nursing and Dennis tists into the healthcare sector. and education, Smith began his Smith of dentistry as well as Director of the nursing and health _and_education/jonas_salk_award. -See SUPREME Page 4- Professor Douglas Wigle of medi- outcomes project of the Ontario -See FIVE Page 4- htm for more information.

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IN BRIEF AWARDS & HONOURS

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE PROFESSORS JOHN KINGDOM OF OBSTETRICS AND & ENGINEERING gynecology and Ivy Oandasan of family and commu- nity medicine have each been selected to receive a PROFESSOR MASAHIRO KAWAJI OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 2007 Canadian Association for Medical Education and applied chemistry has been elected a fellow of Certificate of Merit Award. The aim of the awards is to the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, a promote, recognize and reward faculty committed to promotion within the organization recognizing sig- medical education in Canadian medical schools. The ENVIRONMENTAL SYMPOSIUM DRAWS CROWD nificant engineering achievements and contributions certificates will be presented during the association’s to the engineering profession. With more than annual meeting May 5 to 9 in Victoria, B.C. THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO’S FEB. 21 DAYLONG ENVIRONMENTAL 125,000 members, the association’s vision is to be symposium, Moving Canada Towards Sustainability, featured an impres- the premier organization for promoting the art, sive roster of U of T physicists, biologists, chemists, scientists, engineers PROFESSOR GEORGE STEINER OF MEDICINE HAS BEEN science and practice of mechanical engineering named a distinguished fellow of the International and scholars from other disciplines who presented the latest science, throughout the world. research and policy studies relating to global climate change, energy Atherosclerosis Society, a distinction given to those who are considered outstanding specialists within the challenges and the environment. Attended by approximately 500 FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCE people, the symposium served as a fitting advance event for an evening international cardiovascular community. Steiner was Convocation Hall lecture by former U.S. vice-president Al Gore, who PROFESSOR JENNIFER WHITING OF PHILOSOPHY IS THE honoured for his many years of exceptional contribu- addressed the threats climate change poses to the Earth and its inhabi- winner of a Humboldt Research Award. Granted by tions to the field of atherosclerosis and related diseases. tants. The symposium’s closing speaker Beth Savan, director of U of T’s Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, sustainability office, summed up the day’s presentations by noting that, the award recognizes lifetime achievements in JOHN TESHIMA, A LECTURER IN PSYCHIATRY, IS THE WINNER in addition to the numerous scientific and research contributions U of T research and encourages winners to conduct an orig- of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent has made to understanding global environmental issues, the university inal project of their own design in close collaboration Psychiatry 2006 Excellence in Education Award. has worked hard to create a culture of sustainability on its own cam- with a colleague in Germany over a period of six to Presented at the annual general meeting of the academy, puses and that those efforts continue. Visit www.utoronto.ca/environment 12 months. The foundation annually honours up to the award is given to a psychiatric educator who has for webcasts of the symposium presentations. 100 internationally renowned scientists and scholars made a significant contribution in undergraduate, from abroad; candidates must be nominated by postgraduate, continuing professional education or distinguished scientists or scholars employed by a public education in child and adolescent mental health. AGREEMENT WITH SESSIONAL university or research institution in Germany. LECTURERS RATIFIED U OF T AT MISSISSAUGA FACULTY OF MEDICINE SHERIL HOOK, CO-ORDINATOR OF INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES AT ON FEB. 28, CUPE 3902, UNIT 3, REPRESENTING SESSIONAL LECTURERS, writing instructors and sessional instructional assistants (non-students), PROFESSOR SUSAN ABBEY OF PSYCHIATRY IS THE 2006 the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre, is announced the ratification of the tentative agreement reached by the winner of the Canadian Psychiatric Association’s Paul co-winner of the Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the University of Toronto and the union. Highlights of the renewal agreement, Patterson Award. First awarded in 1998, the prize is Year Award, presented by the Association of College covering Sept.1, 2006 to Aug. 31, 2009, include increases to the mini- presented annually to a psychiatric educator who, and Research Libraries’ Instruction Section. Hook, mum wage rates, increases to the Health Care Spending Accounts (HCSAs) responding to change or leading in new directions, along with co-author James Elmborg of the for sessional lecturers and access to HCSAs for hourly paid employees makes a significant contribution to undergraduate, University of Iowa, won the prize for Centers of beginning September 2007. “We are pleased to have reached this agree- postgraduate or continuing professional education or Learning: Writing Centers and Libraries in ment with the union,” said Professor Angela Hildyard, vice-president to public education. Collaboration, Publications in Librarianship #58. The (human resources and equity). “Sessional lecturers are important contrib- award will be presented during the 2007 American utors to the university and have a strong and positive impact on students PROFESSOR LEWIS KAY OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MEDICAL Library Association annual conference in and undergraduate teaching.” Visit www.hrandequity.utoronto.ca for genetics and microbiology is the recipient of the Washington, D.C., June 24. more information. 2006 Dales Award. Established in 1991 by the U of T COMPLILED BY AILSA FERGUSON life sciences committee to acknowledge sustained excellence in medical research, the prize is given ‘SOUNDS OF CHANGE’ CUE FOR ELIMINATION annually to a senior U of T investigator of outstand- OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ing calibre whose research has had a substantive impact in the areas of clinical, community or basic ON MARCH 21, FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS ARE URGED TO COMBAT RACISM health research. Valued at $50,000, the award may and other inequities with the Sounds of Change. For the second be used towards the direct costs of research over a consecutive year, U of T’s celebration of music, spoken word, performance period of three years. and other creative sounds will mark the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Performances will be held on mini-stages across all three campuses every hour (on the hour, during change of classes) throughout the afternoon. Hungry? Stop by Hart House for a $5 lunch. Donations will be accepted at performances with the money being donated to the Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre. Two U of T Researchers Garner Sloans Related events taking place from March 19 to 22 include panels, conferences, public lectures and a community day of service that actively explores the By Ailsa Ferguson fundamental contributions to biological chemistry, Zamble’s field elimination of racial discrimination. Visit www.equity.utoronto.ca new knowledge. The two-year fel- of research is bioinorganic chem- for more information. WO OF U OF T’S TALENTED lowships come with a $45,000 US istry where the principles of inor- Tyoung researchers are among award that can be used for equip- ganic, organic and biological this year’s winners of prestigious ment, technical assistance, profes- chemistry are applied to study The Sloan Fellowships, announced Feb. sional travel, trainee support or metals in biological systems. This 20 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foun- any other research-related activity. is an area that is rapidly expanding Bulletin dation. Professors Ravin Balakrishnan Balakrishnan, a Canada Re- due to recent advances in inorganic of computer science and Deborah search Chair in human-centred spectroscopy, genetics, molecular UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Zamble of chemistry join an impres- interfaces, is exploring human- biology and structural biology. In PUBLISHER: Erin Lemon • [email protected] sive list of 116 rising stars, most of computer interaction and interac- her lab, she and her team are EDITOR: Elaine Smith • [email protected] whom are based at U.S. universities tive computer graphics. While he investigating several biological ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Ailsa Ferguson • [email protected] including Harvard University, the is interested in almost everything pathways containing metalloproteins DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: Caz Zyvatkauskas • Michael Andrechuk • Pascal Paquette Massachusetts Institute of Tech- concerning human interaction with a focus on metal sites. ADVERTISING/DISTRIBUTION: Mavic Palanca • [email protected] Illustrations: Mike Andrechuk, Caz Zyvatkauskas nology, the University of California with technology, his current focus The Sloan Research Fellow- WEBSITE:www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca/bulletin at Berkeley and Princeton University. is on innovative interaction ships, the foundation’s oldest pro- Each year the Alfred P. Sloan techniques, interfaces for next gram, were established in 1955 to The Bulletin is printed on partially recycled paper. Material may be reprinted in whole or in part with appropriate credit to The Bulletin. Foundation, based in New York, generation displays, information provide support and recognition Published twice a month, and once in July, August and December, by the Strategic awards 116 fellowships to the visualization, interfaces for anima- to early-career scientists and Communications Department, 21 King’s College Circle, University of Toronto, very best young faculty members tion and 3-D modelling, sketch- scholars, often in their first Toronto, M5S 3J3. in seven specified fields of sci- based interfaces, ambient and appointments to university EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: 416-978-6981 • DISTRIBUTION ENQUIRIES: 416-978-2106 ence. 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Student Rallies Others for Environmental Cause By Hayley Morrison mental groups in her Toronto

Danforth riding led Jusenlijska to ZYVATKAUSKASCAZ ORKING WITH AN INDEPEND- become involved with Canadians Went citizens’ group called for Kyoto. She enjoys working Canadians for Kyoto, third-year with the non-governmental U of T student Elena Jusenlijska is organization (NGO) because it’s helping to organize Rally for “very hands on, it’s very grass Kyoto on March 11 to urge the roots.” She noted that Canadians Canadian government to recom- for Kyoto, unlike other environ- mit itself to the Kyoto protocol. mental groups, “is tackling one “Nothing happens without the issue at a time.” environment,” said Jusenlijska, a The Kyoto cause has also political science and environmental brought her studies to life. In her Political science and environmental policy student Elena Jusenlijska is helping organize the policy student. ecological worldview class, she is Rally for Kyoto. Jusenlijska first became inter- using the topic for a final assign- ested in the environment in Grade ment. Since Canadians for Kyoto managing events at the U of T to environmental issues, what said. 12 while her class watched the is an NGO, it has also come in campus, and its media liaison, truly matters, according to The March 11 Rally for Kyoto television program The of handy in Professor David Powell’s helping the group connect with Jusenlijska, “is that it gets done, will take place at noon at Nathan Things with renowned environ- class, Informed Environmental, the media. not who gets it done.” Phillips Square. The rally will fea- mentalist David Suzuki. “We Practice, where the students are Her environmental beliefs also Calling the Rally for Kyoto ture speakers from the World talked about things I haven’t real- creating NGOs. “When we go inform her political activities. “one step of the fight,” she urges Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, the ly been exposed to before and it through problems, it’s the same Jusenlijska is working as the students to spread the word. Suzuki Foundation and “at least got me thinking,” Jusenlijska said. issues we deal with and I can administration chair for the Green She believes that “people are three of the four national political Once she arrived at U of T, she directly relate my experience Party in her riding and will serve not just thinking about it but parties.” There will also be per- opted to go into environmental [from Kyoto],” she said. as the office manager for its candi- ready to come out” and make a formances by Madagascar Slim studies and said that she “couldn’t In addition to organizing the date in the next federal election. real difference. Kyoto is impor- and Matthew Barber. have chosen anything better.” rally, Jusenlijska is also the Although she said all the national tant because it’s “is an issue that Hayley Morrison is a St. Michael’s Her connections with environ- group’s volunteers co-ordinator, parties are now paying attention concerns everyone,” Jusenlijska College student. Diaspora Centre Takes Tri-Campus Teaching Approach

By W.D. Lighthall is an apt time to create a centre ations has become one of the The centre’s degree programs humanities and social sciences to focused on diaspora and transna- most ethnically diverse and multi- now offer undergraduates approxi- examine and understand global HOUGH IT’S LESS THAN TWO tional studies, said Quayson, not- cultural cities in the world. That mately 125 listed courses from a street life. (Visit www.utoronto.ca/ Tyears old, the Centre for ing that the annual financial diversity is reflected by the stu- range of departments and Quayson cdts for more information about Diaspora and Transnational remittances sent by immigrants dent body at U of T, Quayson and his colleagues are working to the conference.) Studies has quickly made a and diaspora groups back to their observed. establish a master’s program for the “The conference is one of the unique contribution to academic homelands now outstrips the “We don’t need to go far. The 2008-09 academic year. first of its kind to focus on the programming at U of T. value of bilateral aid countries material to study diaspora and In the nearer term, the centre is street as a significant element for The centre’s core course, distribute worldwide each year. transnationalism is right here in working in conjunction with the understanding cities,” Quayson Introduction to Diaspora and “There’s recognition today that Toronto. The centre is a way of Department of Anthropology to said. “By organizing such a Transnational Studies, is taught diasporas are a massive economic providing proper institutional host a four-day conference, Street conference in Toronto, we are on all three campuses in the same conduit that’s not to be ignored,” support to talk about and study Life: A Conference, to be held acknowledging that the city’s semester, with the three profes- he said. something that is happening right April 18 to 22 in Toronto. The streets have become more multi- sors teaching the course rotating Then there’s Toronto itself, now and, in many cases, right in conference is intended to provide a cultural and transnational than among the different campuses. which in the span of a few gener- front of us.” venue for scholars from the they were 20 or so years ago.” “We’ve broken the course into three segments so that each pro- fessor teaches one segment at each of the three campuses,” said Tulving Named to Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Professor Ato Quayson, director of the centre. By Elizabeth Monier-Williams Psychology. He is internationally working on a farm close to the accomplishments of Canada’s Quayson said there’s an inter- recognized for his work in bringing London, Ont., and that the healthcare heroes. Its exhibits and disciplinary benefit to this tri- HE CANADIAN MEDICAL HALL OF the study of memory into promi- Canadian Medical Hall of Fame national educational program campus approach. Quayson is an TFame has elected University nence, particularly for his work on has its home in London renders encourage Canadians to consider English professor and teaching Professor Emeritus memory processes and systems. the whole experience especially careers in the health sciences the course with him this semester as one of five 2007 inductees. He Tulving retired in 1992 but wondrous. I seem to have come while gaining appreciation for are Ken MacDonald, a U of T joins other Canadian health pro- remains active in the field. He is full circle. I am deeply grateful to Canada’s contributions to global Scarborough geography professor, fessionals who have contributed currently the Anne and Max all my colleagues, known and health care. and Rima Berns-McGowan, a to the understanding of disease Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive unknown, who have made my professor of historical studies and the improved health and well- Neuroscience at the Baycrest work possible.” at U of T Mississauga. being of all people, among them Centre for Geriatric Care’s The 2007 Canadian Medical “Academically, the advantage is University Professors Emeriti Rotman Research Institute. He Hall of Fame inductees were the students get a perspective on Ernest McCulloch, , has won many national and inter- selected by an independent com- diaspora and transnational stud- and University national awards, including the mittee of prominent leaders from ies from different disciplinary per- Professor Anthony Pawson. Gairdner International Award in the medical sciences community. spectives,” Quayson said. There’s Born in Estonia, Tulving 2005. Last July, he was named an They will be formally inducted on also a practical benefit, as stu- received his doctorate at Harvard officer of the Order of Canada. Oct. 2 in London, Ont., at a cere- dents enrolled in the centre’s University and has been breaking “I feel greatly honoured to be mony attended by over 500 lead- major and minor degree programs ground in cognitive psychology elected to the Canadian Medical ers from Canada’s business and don’t have to leave their campus- research since the late 1960s. He Hall of Fame and am delighted healthcare industries, including es to take the core course. was appointed a University with this totally unexpected hap- Tony Clement, minister of health. International trends and Professor at the University of pening,” he said. “The fact that, as The Canadian Medical Hall of changes in the ethnic diversity of Toronto in 1985 and served as a freshly arrived immigrant in Fame is the only national organi- University Professor Emeritus Toronto over the years means this chair of the Department of 1949, I began my life in Canada zation dedicated to recognizing Endel Tulving 4 • NEWS• UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BULLETIN • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007

Supreme Court Accepts UofT Arguments

-Continued From Page 1- are available that interfere less and human rights organizations proceedings are conducted behind with a person’s fundamental right to advance important human closed doors without the individual to a fair hearing. But the fight is rights issues for our country,” said named in the certificate present. not over. We will stay closely Darryl Robinson, the clinic’s act- “The SCC has unanimously involved in the case over the next ing director. “We are proud of the confirmed the importance of 12 months to ensure that the student involvement in the case procedural fairness and individual government comes up with new and particularly grateful for the liberties even with respect to those legislation that does not offend the enormous contributions of Robert suspected of terrorism,” said Constitution.” Centa and law firm Paliare Roland Choudhry, who made oral “This case demonstrates how Rosenberg Rothstein LLP as well submissions before the court. the IHRC can draw on the special as Human Rights Watch. We look “Michael single-handedly persuaded expertise of law professors and forward to future collaborations the court that many other options form partnerships with law firms of this kind.” Five Appointed to Order of Canada

-Continued From Page 1- cardiomyopathy, the thickening of site for the Canadian multi-centre career in England where he devel- the heart’s muscle tissue, once osteoporosis study. A founding oped specialized cements used in thought to be a rarity, affects one in member of the Osteoporosis restorative dentistry and in the first 500 Canadians. Responsible for the Society of Canada, he has helped orthopedic hip replacements. At development of a major clinical raise public awareness of the risks U of T he was instrumental in cardiac centre in Toronto General and prevention of this condition. developing one of Canada’s truly Hospital, he has trained scores of Young’s versatility and unique international research programs in specialists in Canada. He has also style have made him one of our biomaterials. Founding director of toured China on a number of country’s premier bassists. Cited as the Centre of Biomaterials and occasions, influencing some of that tremendously gifted, he moves head of the Faculty of Dentistry’s country’s most promising medical seamlessly between the classical Department of Biomaterials, Smith students. and jazz genres and is known for remains actively engaged in research Cited for his significant contri- bringing the two together. The at U of T’s Institute of Biomaterials butions to osteoporosis research bassist of choice for many of the and Biomedical Engineering. and education in Canada, Murray’s biggest names in Canadian jazz, An internationally renowned clinical studies have enhanced Young also leads his own ensembles cardiologist, teacher and scientist, understanding, diagnosis and treat- to great acclaim. Also a composer Wigle has contributed greatly to ment of this disease. He is a former and award-winning teacher, he is the understanding of heart disease. director of the metabolic bone “a generous mentor to new genera- Thanks to his investigations we clinic at St. Michael’s Hospital and tions of musicians,” the citation now know that hypertrophic served as director of the Toronto states. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BULLETIN • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007 • RESEARCH NEWS • 5

Students Share Computer Innovations With Business Leaders

By W.D. Lighthall an undergraduate and graduate Troy Ronda, a graduate student Professor Craig Boutilier, chair it gives them the opportunity to student team, Glogger is a wireless in computer science, is part of the of computer science, said the pur- show off their ideas to companies. VERY ACTION IS SAID TO CAUSE A technology that allows photos team that’s developed the pose of Research in Action was to It helps the students network and Ereaction and a recent event taken on camera phones to be iTrustPage. The software helps showcase to the wider world the make connections.” showcasing research projects by posted immediately to the Glogger protect people from fake websites cutting-edge innovations being The first Research in Action fea- U of T computer science students website. that attempt to steal their developed by computer science tured 12 innovations and drew received a pretty fine reaction The brains behind Glogger are passwords or gain financial or students. about 75 people from Toronto from the magazine Canadian Raymond Lo, a fourth-year com- personal information. “From my perspective, it’s criti- area businesses. Boutilier said his Business. puter science student, and James “As soon as you start typing or cal that our research have an department plans to hold the In its Feb. 12 issue featuring Fung, a PhD candidate in computer giving your information, a prompt impact beyond academic journals event annually and hopes to noteworthy business innovations, and electrical engineering. Glogger comes up, asking you to help and conferences,” Boutilier said. expand it so more students can Canadian Business gave a nod of is a piece of software download- determine if the web page is legiti- “From our students’ perspective, participate. approval to three research projects able to a camera phone, allowing mate or not. As you proceed, the featured at Research in Action, a the user to post photos on the software then takes you away from half-day event held in early Glogger website in real time with that phony page and brings you to February on the St. George campus. one click of a button. the safe [correct] page,” explained Under the headline “Innovation: Fung said the technology can be Ronda, who specializes in Internet I Want One of Those”, Canadian used for such things as showing a systems. Business singled out for praise the friend the step-by-step process for The third innovation men- iTrustPage, a software program making a dinner recipe. “You just tioned by Canadian Business,

that prevents Internet users from snap pictures as you go and by the COACH (cognitive orthosis for PASCAL PAQUETTE filling out untrustworthy forms time you’re finished, all the assisting activities in the home), is online. The magazine also praised pictures are on the web,” he said. a prototype being developed to a device called COACH for its Because the Glogger technology help people with dementia humanitarian purposes. COACH works anywhere with cellphone complete daily activities with less uses a video camera, computer and reception it has many potential dependence on a caregiver. Using artificial intelligence software to commercial uses, said Lo. For a personal computer and video help people with dementia. example, a person working in a camera it tracks a user during a Canadian Business then crowned remote location could need help daily activity, such as washing an innovation called Glogger as fixing an electrical or computer hands, and provides pre-recorded having the “highest cool factor” of installation. “They can take a pic- visual or audio cues to help them all the innovations featured at ture and someone back at head remember how to accomplish Using Glogger technology, co-inventor Raymond Lo’s photo will Research in Action. Developed by office can guide them,” Lo said. the task. soon be posted online. White-Knuckle Atmospheric Science Takes Flight

By Nicolle Wahl influence climate. affects the whole Northern Making these observations researchers need to fly just 100 At the heart of GFDex are wind Hemisphere … our knowledge requires both advanced technology feet above the heaving seas in CIENCE DOESN’T ALWAYS HAPPEN patterns known as “tip jets.” will potentially help improve and a cast-iron stomach. Moore winds of more than 140 kilome- Sat a lab bench. For University Greenland, an icy obstacle more forecasts.” and his colleagues, along with tres per hour. “In these conditions of Toronto Mississauga physicist than three times the size of Texas, Moore is also hoping the find- graduate students and post- and at these levels, the turbulence Kent Moore, it happens while forces air to go around its bulk and ings will clarify the climate doctoral fellows, will be making will be quite severe,” Moore said. strapped into a four-point creates regions of high wind processes affecting Greenland’s 17 flights into the tip jets in a “Once, on a similar flight in the harness, flying head-on into speeds. Tip jets travel east from the glaciers, which have shrunk British research aircraft. Arctic, the lens of my glasses hurricane-force winds off the tip of Greenland towards Iceland significantly in the past few years. In order to get the best data, the popped out!” southern tip of Greenland. at speeds of 30 to 40 metres per Moore, chair of chemical and second. Just as wind blows heat physical sciences, headed to away from the body, making Second Languages Under Microscope Greenland Feb. 18 as part of the windy winter days feel even colder, Greenland Flow Distortion experi- tip jets blow heat away from the By Margarita Medynsky the research project is to prove that she saw no better way of doing that ment (GFDex), an International surface of the ocean. This cooler, a Romanian-speaking individual than bringing her research to her Polar Year research project involving denser water sinks, affecting N A MULTICULTURAL COUNTRY LIKE will experience less difficulty in teaching in order to involve stu- Canadian, British, Norwegian and currents of circulating warm and ICanada, it is no surprise that a learning English than a dents in real work in the field. Icelandic scientists. Moore, a cool water within the ocean. large portion of the population Vietnamese-speaking individual “This opportunity will allow them professor of atmospheric physics, is About two years ago Moore dis- speaks a language other than because the structure of the to realize that they don’t have to leading the Canadian contingent. covered a different kind of tip jet, English at home. After struggling English language is similar to that think and work within a box, they GFDex will provide the first evi- one that blows west towards to reach Canada, immigrants are of Romanian. The roots of many can go beyond what other people dence of the role that Greenland Labrador. Now known as reverse faced with additional challenges words from both English and are doing, they can excel,” she plays in distorting atmospheric tip jets, these also force circulation such as language barriers. How Romanian are Latin; therefore a said. flow around its massive land and of water over the Labrador Sea to difficult is it to learn a second portion of the vocabulary can be The graduate students are ice mass, affecting European and the west of Greenland. “We’ve seen language? Is it more challenging interpreted by either speaker, responsible for test creation Asian weather systems. Moreover, these things in satellite imagery for some than others? especially in academic discourse. for Romanian-speaking learners, the findings may reveal how sea but no one’s ever actually observed Rena Helms-Park, an applied Helms-Park drew inspiration for while D’Souza and Moore are in and atmospheric interactions in the them,” Moore said. “We’ll be mak- linguistics professor at the this project from her own roots. charge of data collection and Arctic and North Atlantic areas ing the first in situ observations of University of Toronto Scar- “In India, it was common to func- analysis. “My job is to get in touch these jets. It’s kind of exciting.” borough, and her team of student tion in different language environ- with Romanian and Vietnamese The data will help scientists researchers will supply the answers ments. I travelled a lot and had to people, meet with them to com- understand how the flow of air at the 2007 Canadian Association adjust to the surroundings,” she plete a multiple choice test and to around Greenland affects weather of Applied Linguistics conference said. input the data into spreadsheets, downwind. “If things are happen- this June, where they will present She selected four students to assigning numbers to everything ing near Greenland today, prob- their findings on the interaction assist her in the research: two for later analysis,” D’Souza said. ably two days from now that [air between first- and second- graduate students and a duo of D’Souza and Moore are both on mass] will move down over language vocabularies. motivated fourth-year students, their way to becoming speech Europe,” Moore said. “Two or three Their research compares two Claudette D’Souza and Ellen pathologists. “This is an amazing days after it’s affected Europe, it very different languages, Romanian Moore. opportunity that opens a lot of affects Asia and then ultimately and Vietnamese, to examine the “A sizable part of my mandate is doors,” D’Souza said. “We’ll comes around and affects North transfer process involved in learn- to provide suitable research oppor- definitely be more prepared for the UTM professor Kent Moore America. So Greenland ultimately ing a second language. The goal of tunities,” said Helms-Park, noting real world.” 6 • UNIVERSITY MATTERS • UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BULLETIN • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007

UOFT EASES TRANSITION TO UNIVERSITY LIFE

With Perseverance and U of T’s Help Student Overcomes Hurdles

T TOOK PERSEVERANCE AND seminar that accompanies and I fortitude, and some help from supports them in their degree the Transitional Year Program courses. (TYP), but Asiatou Barry succeeded TYP instructors leading these in knocking down the barriers seminars attend the same lectures blocking her path to a university as their students. Afterward, in education. the supporting seminars, the Before she had a chance to instructors help the students with complete high school in her the lecture material. They answer native Gambia, an arranged mar- questions, advise on how to riage took Barry from Gambia to improve note taking and general- New York in 1998. Barry was ly help TYP students acquire the eventually able to extricate herself specific academic skills required from the marriage and moved to to succeed at university. Toronto where she has a sister, a “How to study is very impor- U of T graduate who had been tant,” Barry said. “Time manage- ZYVATKAUSKASCAZ through TYP. ment skills, what are the main Barry completed TYP last year points in the book, how to listen and is now in her first year of in a lecture, how to take notes undergraduate studies on the St. and how to go back and rewrite George campus. “One reason why your notes. We learned all of TYP means so much to me is in these techniques from TYP.” the arranged marriage, I would The small group seminars are have never had the chance to key to the future academic suc- attend school again,” Barry said. cess of students in TYP, said Tom The Transitional Year Program Mathien, the program’s interim is an access program for adults director, noting that many of the without the educational back- students’ post-secondary educa- ground to qualify for university tion was either some time ago or admission. The program was cre- was interrupted in some fashion. ated to encourage applications “They have to learn how to from aboriginal communities, handle the information getting recent immigrants, sole support pitched their way,” Mathien said. parents and others who face sys- “They are sitting in large lecture temic barriers to accessing higher sessions with other undergrads so education. they need to learn how to assess, Transitional Year Program graduate Asiatou Barry is pursuing her degree at U of T. retain and work with the informa- tion. So we’re working on those skills with them in the seminars.” U of T, Province Join Forces EVERYBODY IS SO To be successful, academic sup- port programming requires more HELPFUL.YOU COULD than resources and a well- to Make University Accessible planned approach, it requires the HIS YEAR, WITH THE HELP OF government, we’ve been able to mature students who do not have WALK INTO THEIR right — and dedicated — people. Tfunding received through the strengthen the accessibility the educational requirements support we are providing our needed for university admission. OFFICES AND SHOW According to Barry, TYP has provincial government’s Reaching that need covered. She said the Higher plan, U of T has been able students,” said Professor David The one-year transition course of THEM ESSAYS,ANY- program’s staff and instructors are to improve the programming and Farrar, deputy provost and vice- full-time studies leads students to always around and approachable resources that support students provost (students). “We felt there acceptance in degree programs THING,AND THEY’LL and that individual academic who have traditionally faced was a good opportunity to meet and most TYP students go on to the academic and accessibility coursework in the social sciences WORK WITH YOU... counselling, tutoring and other barriers to succeeding at post- forms of help are readily secondary education. needs of some of our students in and humanities. available. Ontario’s Reaching Higher plan the Transitional Year Program.” This year, with the support of “Everybody is so helpful. You includes a focus on increasing Reaching Higher, additional could walk into their offices and enrolment in universities and col- resources are available to support The program offers an intensive show them essays, anything, and leges by groups that have below TYP students interested in study- year of full-time study that pre- they’ll work with you, so that part average participation rates in ing business or science. The uni- pares students for acceptance into was really great,” Barry said. post-secondary education. The versity’s efforts include creating a degree programs. Students in TYP She believes there are many plan provides funding for post- new course, entitled Reasoning have access to individual academic others like herself for whom TYP secondary programs addressing in the Sciences; purchasing counsellors and tutors and their provides the chance to attend uni- the impediments faced by stu- additional science equipment; course load is complemented by versity, an opportunity previously dents who come from groups increasing access to tutors; and regularly held small group semi- denied them through no fault of such as low-income households, enabling interested TYP graduates nars and discussion sessions. their own. “There are all these aboriginal communities and to take a non-credit course in The majority of TYP courses are barriers. Because if they’re going recent immigrants or students calculus offered by the specific to the program but by grades that you made in high with disabilities. Department of Mathematics dur- students do take several degree school, who knew what you were “The University of Toronto’s Deputy Provost David Farrar ing the summer before they enter courses with other under- going through at that time and academic plan commits us to their degree programs. graduates, with one important then you don’t get a chance equity, diversity and excellence The Transitional Year Program -Continued on Next Page- difference. TYP students have a because of that,” she said. and working with the provincial (TYP) is an access program for UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BULLETIN • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007 • UNIVERSITY MATTERS • 7

Aboriginal Studies Student Gets CAZ ZYVATKAUSKASCAZ ‘Write’ Stuff

ORGE VALLEJOS PICKED UP A With a desire to improve his J pamphlet in the Koffler essay writing and the ambition of Student Services Centre several becoming a writer or journalist, years ago and it changed his life. Vallejos met Daniel Heath Justice, Vallejos, then a first-year student a professor of aboriginal litera- struggling a bit with the challenges ture, at First Nations House. of university life, noticed a Justice helped him by editing and pamphlet about men’s healing critiquing his essays and directing circles at First Nations House and him to the works of other writers instinctively knew that it was from whom Vallejos could learn something for him. technique and style. Several months after Vallejos began working with Justice, he Aboriginal studies student Jorge Vallejos relies on First Nations House for a sense of belonging. IF FIRST NATIONS had enough confidence in his writing to approach the editor of HOUSE DID NOT EXIST, The Window, the New College stu- Skills Get Boost at First Nations House dent paper, who gave him his I WOULD NOT STILL implemented over the years to help aboriginal culture has a strong oral own column (The Condor’s HEY ARE CERTAINLY SPECIAL students with a range of learning, tradition and much knowledge is BE A STUDENT AT Voice). Vallejos also credits Lee Tmoments, the times a profes- studying and life skills. U of T rec- passed on through talk and story- Maracle, current writer-in- sor, instructor, tutor or counsellor U OF T. THIS IS LIKE A ognizes that, with the vast cultural, telling. Hamilton-Diabo said for residence at First Nations House, sees that their efforts have helped ethnic and other diversity now some students the prominent FAMILY TO ME. with helping him develop his a student improve their learning present on its three campuses, method of learning at U of T is voice as an aboriginal writer. skills or academic performance. there are many students who have quite different from what they may Today, Vallejos has a neatly laid Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo, director of First Nations House, overcome systemic barriers to be used to and First Nations House “I started coming to the healing out portfolio full of his articles knows that moment when he sees attend university and there’s a helps them make that academic circles, I connected with the staff published not only in The Window it in the faces, or the words, or the resulting need to help students and cultural adjustment. and I’ve been coming here regu- but in several off-campus aborigi- work of the students at his centre, with the academic challenges of a Recently, First Nations House larly for years, that’s how it started,” nal magazines, a boxing magazine which provides academic, cultural university education. has been partnering with other said Vallejos, whose mother has a (Vallejos is a fan) and in Eagle’s and personal support services to “For some students the ideas are campus student services providers South American indigenous back- Cry, the newsletter produced by the university’s aboriginal students. there but when they put their to present academic and study ground. First Nations House. Vallejos said “It’s the increase in confidence thoughts on paper, maybe it doesn’t skills workshops there. Hamilton- The mandate of First Nations he counts both Maracle and that you see the students acquire communicate as required or it Diabo said past experience has House is to provide academic, Justice as mentors. through the academic counselling takes a little longer. So here they shown that though students may cultural and personal support “They’ve helped me find my and tutoring services we provide can meet with a tutor who can be advised to go to their college services for aboriginal peoples at voice. They’ve helped me to claim here at First Nations House,” said teach them the right skills, help writing lab or some other source U of T (although everybody is myself as a writer and to start put- Hamilton-Diabo. “That’s the them restructure their approach for academic support, they are welcome). For Vallejos, First ting the pen to the pad,” he said. moment when you know you have and give them the focus they need sometimes reluctant to do so. Nations House has provided Vallejos also credits First made a difference.” to succeed,” Hamilton-Diabo said. The added benefit arising from those things, and much more. Nations House for his successes. First Nations House is but one Sometimes the matter is broader such events is that students make “Students need support and At First Nations House, “I’m example of an extensive network of than a need to upgrade specific personal contact with those deliv- that’s why I’m here, I get support involved in activities. I’ve grown academic resource centres and academic skills. One challenge ering the skill or service and may here,” said Vallejos, now in his as a person. I host a film night wider support services the commonly faced by First Nations be more willing to seek their third year of aboriginal studies. “If and [hosted] the book club. I University of Toronto has students has been that historically, assistance in the future. First Nations House did not exist, write a column with an indige- I would not still be a student at nous theme. I’ve chased my the U of T. This is like a family to dreams here,” Vallejos said. me. It’s a really good feeling and First Nations House Celebrates Achievers I’ve grown here as a person in Stories by W. D. Lighthall -Continued From Page 1- aboriginal studies program. I lost commitment not only to their many, many ways.” school and practice in her home my mom before coming to U of T studies but to the community community at the Mohawks of so now I work very hard to both on and off campus. As well, -Continued From Previous Page- “Making an on-campus the Bay of Quinte First Nation, honour her and to give back to it shows that there is a vibrant “The sciences require cumula- resource available to them, a per- Ontario. the aboriginal community.” aboriginal community here with tive knowledge in chemistry, son who is dedicated to and fully She has been part of the Native President lauded the university offering many physics and math and it takes understanding of their particular Students’ Association; assisted the both women for their contributions. opportunities that make U of T more time for students to acquire learning challenges, enables them recruitment officer at First “Throughout the years at the more welcoming and diverse.” that knowledge,” said Farrar, a to be successful in ways that they Nations House; participated in a University of Toronto, Candace former chair of chemistry. “We weren’t successful in high sociological research study for and Yvonne have both contributed believe it’s very important to school,” Addario said. Health Canada; contributed to a to our academic community and encourage and enable TYP stu- Achieving diversity, equity and reference manual compiled by to the overall quality of experience dents to qualify for university accessibility are well-established medical students for use by for their fellow students,” he said. programs that require a back- priorities for U of T, Farrar noted. physicians across Canada to “We are counting on them both to ground in math and science.” U of T’s policy guaranteeing provide culturally appropriate take the experience they have Many of the students in the eligible students access to finan- care; worked on a research gained at U of T, both inside and Transitional Year Program weren’t cial aid dates back to 1998. Based study for mental health nurse outside the classroom, to utilize successful in the public school on the university’s 2005 student practitioners; and has been volun- their gifts to reach their full system because of various barriers aid and accessibility survey, teering for Anishnawbe Health’s potential in life and to inspire and learning challenges, said almost 40 per cent of undergrad- Ashkibehwiiz program that others to emulate their involvement Susan Addario, director of uates came from households with provides traditional aboriginal and passion.” Student Affairs. A portion of the an annual income of less than medicine to First Nations people. These awards are a benefit not government funding has also $50,000 and 43 per cent were vis- “This is a real honour for me,” only to the winning students but been allocated to Accessibility ible minorities. Maracle said. “I worked really to the aboriginal community as a Services to allow a learning spe- Farrar said these statistics show hard through my university career whole, said Jonathan Hamilton- cialist from that department to the U of T’s commitment to and it was made possible through Diabo, director of First Nations devote half their working hours achieving and supporting a the support of the First Nations House. “These students are role to helping those TYP students. diverse student population. House and the faculty in the models and what it shows is a Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo 8 • UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BULLETIN • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007

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BY MICHAH RYNOR HIS SLICE OF 1950’S CAMPUS LIFE HASN’T BEEN SEEN SINCE 1982 WHEN THIS PAINTED MURAL GRACED THE WALLS OF THart House’s Arbour Room. Black and white caricatures of gangly professors, insolent students, football players, priests, a dental professor being bitten by an unwilling patient and other amusing characters make up this cartoon-like tour de force. In 1982 the surviving section of the mural was hidden by a bulletin board and then, for a brief moment in 2006, uncovered during renovations for Sammy’s Student Exchange eatery. Alas, these fun-loving varsity types didn’t quite fit with the new decor and have now been covered up by a mirror reflecting today’s campus characters. If there’s a campus curiosity you’d like explained, we can help unravel the mystery. Send your suggestions to Michah Rynor, [email protected].

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SPRING 2007-08 ELECTION by Don NOMINATIONS OPEN McKay The Graduate Education Council is Vacant Seats: Jack McClelland primarily responsible for establishing 2 Chairs of a graduate unit Writer-in-Residence policies and procedures concerning the 1 in Humanities 2007 administration and quality of graduate 1 in Social Sciences 3 Faculty Members of a graduate unit on Tuesday studies at the University of Toronto. 2 in Humanities 13 March 2007 1 in Physical Sciences The Graduate Education Council 4:15 pm 8 Graduate students considers: Massey College 3 in Humanities • Policies affecting graduate studies Upper Library 1 in Social Sciences • new degree program proposals 2 in Physical Sciences • changes in admission and major Build a legacy 2 in Life Sciences Reception hosted by program requirements 2 Administrative staff the Department of • other matters, as determined by the 1 from any graduate unit English to follow in SGS Constitution as appropriate of knowledge 1 from SGS Massey College Nomination forms are available from: Common Room Terms of office: SGS Website All Welcome. Terms begin July 1, 2007. The first tel: 416-978-3846 School of Graduate Studies meeting of the academic year is usually ask us how to make a Graduate departments e-mail: [email protected] held in October. planned gift to U of T Graduate centres/institutes A slide/lecture presentation Faculty members normally serve a www.giving.utoronto.ca/plangiving Graduate Students' Union three- year term of office. Student and administrative staff mem- Eligibility: Buddhist Art bers may opt for a one- or two-year Nominees must be full members (non- BIWEEKLY MEDITATION SESSIONS term of office, to a maximum of three Emeritus) of the graduate faculty or of China consecutive years. The University of Toronto Buddhist Community hosts registered graduate students in the Sunday, April 15, 2007, 2 p.m. biweekly Thursday night meditation sessions. ALL WELCOME. SGS division in which they have been For more information contact: nominated. Room 1160, Bahen Centre 416-946-3427 The Wolfond Centre 2nd fl., 36 Harbord Street Administrative nominees must be con- Governance Officer, School of tinuing or Staff-Appointed members 40 St. George Street 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Graduate Studies, 65 St. George Street of the University administrative staff, Nominations Close at 5:00 p.m. March Speaker: Rosalind Bradford

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PROPHECY AS SCIENCE ‘Climatheologists’ claim to know what will happen 50 years hence BY MICHAEL PIGGOTT

OU HAVE HEARD OF SCIENTOLOGY, A Next month? Next year? Our climatheologists religious system based on claim to know what will happen 50 years from the seeking of self-knowledge now. Would you bet your lifetime savings on and spiritual fulfilment. predictions for what the weather will be doing ClimatheologyY is an allied faith, a 10 years from now? Especially in view of that belief system based on the seeking happily erroneous prediction about more of climate prophecy fulfilment and more devastating hurricanes in 2006? through observing trends in the But the politicians would have us bet our world’s weather. Temperature economy on it. increases are especially rele- Fortunately it won’t come to that vant but hurricane frequency point. Some country will be caught and ozone-layer holes are cheating on the agreed policy (Kyoto, MIKE CONSTABLE also grist for the mill. for example), once it really hurts their It is pseudo-scientific, economy. Then the agreements will involving a vast major- fall apart and we can all make small ity of lay people with yearly adjustments to the way a sprinkling of people we do things, where we live, etc., to with a science back- make accommodation before ground who are firm the inevitable, as mankind has believers. Some sci- always done. entists are believers And it is inevitable. Does any- and others are not one think that, once the teeming and it’s a funny thing millions in China and India have about scientists — the ability to go everywhere in they can hold very cars like in the affluent West, they firm beliefs. No will deny themselves these pleas- evidence is enough to ures just because of the prognos- convince them that tications of a computer model they are wrong, if they once believe something. Take the chain folding is now an established fact. But people hatched in that affluent West? They see no sign — in that 18th-century phlogiston, for example. This was a belief that remain the same. Today’s youngsters are tomorrow’s conser- affluent West — of people curbing their car travel. Indeed a substance called phlogiston existed in all flammable mate- vative old fogies (or not to be sexist about it, tomorrow’s our roads get busier and busier every year. rials and was released on burning that material. Careful conservative old biddies). Fortunately, the end is in sight. Even The Economist, experiments revealed that burning many substances The wise man knows that making extrapolations is dan- that enthusiast of letting supply and demand rip (the increased the weight. That proved that phlogiston didn’t gerous. Many people have lost their shirts betting money on more the demand for resources, the cleverer we are in exist. Nevertheless, scientific advance was hampered until stock market trends. You would think scientific people finding new supplies), doubts whether there will be the believers in phlogiston had died out. would be more careful. But distinguished cosmologists enough to supply unlimited amounts of oil products to More recently an innocent scientist put what he deemed gaily make huge extrapolations back to the big bang. They Asia’s teeming billions. So the oil will run out in the to be a crystal of polythene into an electron microscope. He even think they know what happened in the first thou- foreseeable future and we will have to distil oil from did it differently from everybody else and discovered that it sandth of a second, billions of years ago. Since events so coal and/or build giant nuclear plants to synthesize was indeed a crystal and that the polyethylene chains long ago do not concern us in our daily rounds, they are it out of all the excess greenhouse gas that we keep packed themselves concertina-wise. When he announced welcome to theorize about it till kingdom come. But producing. this discovery, the experts laughed at him. You see, they had extrapolations into the future by our climatheologists But maybe, just maybe, that Russian scientist is right. It’s a fixed idea about how the chains packed themselves. matter very much. all the fault of the sun irradiating us more and 50 years So they thought that they knew better than what the That is because the politicians have got hold of them. hence that radiation will dwindle and we will enter yet experiments revealed. They or their electorates are dazzled by the computer models. another mini ice age. You want to bet on it? Fortunately experiment, not theory, is the basis of sci- They seem so modern. But we use computer models to ence. So some hardy youngsters repeated his experiments, forecast the weather. Where does that get us? Probably they Michael Piggott is an emeritus professor of chemical engineering proving the innocent right and the grey beards wrong. Such get tomorrow and the next day nearly right. But next week? and applied chemistry.

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been turning the residences co-ed tered environ- under the purview of a single ments with the Passing the Torch From One dean of students. “I just thought danger that we these changes needed to be made end up produc- British Provost to Another because I didn’t want students ing homogenized MIKE ANDRECHUK treated on the basis of gender,” students without she said. a real sense of NE THING CURRENT TRINITY 10-year-old daughter’s trumpet As the first-ever woman to hold diversity,” he OCollege provost Margaret will disturb the students more the position, she felt it was never noted. MacMillan says she will not miss than any cannon. an issue, “although when I found Another priority Flavour when she leaves is the annual The annual salute — courtesy out I’d be the 13th provost, I did will be to spend cannon blast under her bedroom of the engineering students — wonder if that was a bad omen.” as much time window every frosh week, still brings a smile to MacMillan’s Orchard, who came to the with students whereas incoming provost Andy face. As a world-renowned histo- Centre for Medieval Studies from as possible, Orchard of the Centre for rian, MacMillan is respectful of the in “because it’s Infuses Medieval Studies worries that his tradition but during her five-year 2000, marvels at the leadership important for the tenure at Trinity, she has also Andy Orchard role MacMillan has played and provost to get encouraged improvement. said he’ll continue with many of around and see “I wanted to leave Trinity But as she prepares for her new her initiatives. what’s going on.” College financially stronger and role as provost of St. Antony’s “The open-door policy definitely He also wants that’s always been a worry for me College, Oxford, she believes it’s Trinity stays,” he said. “And I’ll continue to further because everyone thinks this her relationships with students to work towards broadening the enhance relations college is rich and it isn’t,” she that will be her most lasting horizons of our students.” with alumni and said. “A third of our students legacy. That means finding the funds increase the already good need financial assistance.” MacMillan instituted an open- to bring in more international relationship Trinity enjoys with Left to right:Trinity dean of students Kelley Castle chats with And she will indeed leave the door policy where any member of guests while at the same time the U of T administration, “while student leaders David Leach, Colin Rose and Jenny Danahy. college fiscally healthier after a Thirty Clubs Offer Something for Everyone the Trinity community could walk sending Trinity students out to maintaining Trinity’s distinctive very successful campaign for the in at regular office hours without the four corners of the world. and separate identity,” he said. Faculty of Divinity and a current an appointment and simply “Colleges can become clois- “With education we’re in HOSE STUDENTS SEEN RUSHING debating society in North listed on the web and I realized sure these social traditions endowment campaign that’s spend time talking to her, the success business to some Tdown the hallway may be late America. Trinity isn’t the sterile living continue.” taking off. “My father’s a Trinity grad who’s experience you expect to find Extracurricular activities, which “and we worked quite hard extent but we’re also in the for class or they just might be rac- TRINITY ISN’T “I spent a lot of my first two on creating special student happiness, contentment and ing to get to the Bollywood Film been pushing me to come here at universities. There is such a include more than 30 clubs and years here worrying about deficits events such as pizza with the development business. We’re not Club or to a Tae Kwon Do prac- THE STERILE LIVING since I was four years old,” Rose developed social life around the organizations, are so important that and cutting and I think we’re said with a laugh. “But when I did campus and you have upper-year Danahy, Leach and Rose spend provost.” here just to rack up honours and tice, seeking to be the first to nib- EXPERIENCE YOU Margaret MacMillan beyond that now,” she said. Another major change has prizes.” ble at the Cheese Club, trying to get here I was really surprised students who stay in residence much of their free time on campus grab a table at the Gin and Bridge EXPECT TO FIND with all of the student clubs with the younger years making and that’s the way they like it. Society, heading to discuss gay AT UNIVERSITIES politics at Rainbow Trinity or get- professors at the university,” said ting ready to debate the latest Fritz Bartel, a first-year student OO7 film with members of the VARIEDACADEMICPROGRAMS APLUS from Wisconsin. James Bond Society. Trinity Traditions: The Bizarre and the British student and Trinity’s female head Toronto-born Zoe Leblanc, Life is full when you’re a Trinity NEVER WANT TRINITY COLLEGE Ethics, society and law as microbiology, biochem- of college. “A lot of students here another first-year Trinity One stu- to be just a dormitory where examines the increasingly difficult istry, molecular biology and student because extracurricular are very involved and highly T’S STILL CONSIDERED “A LITTLE BIT mount it on an old sundial. One gowns had to be worn off-campus “I dent, said, “It brought together all students come to eat and sleep ethical questions of our time pathology. When asked how activities are often taken just as motivated with the clubs, organi- of Britain” to some, and, for year, a team borrowed a live as well and that included going to of my interests. Before Trin One, I I while attending classes else- including assisted suicide, Trinity ended up with such a seriously as academics. zations and student government, those unfamiliar with Trinity bobcat to fend off their rivals. the neighbourhood pub. Today, wanted to be a lawyer but this where,” Provost Margaret abortion, reproductive rights and renowned immunology pro- “It’s the basis of what makes which creates a special community College, you could still mistake it Old habits die hard and, as students aren’t required to wear program has shown me there are MacMillan has said emphatically. gay politics. Drawing from disci- gram, MacMillan recalled that this place special,” said Jenny of people interested in either for a small slice of English academia. Bowden stated, it’s the students them to class and at dinner, so many other opportunities for And thanks to far-sighted plines such as philosophy, anthro- it was one of her predeces- Danahy, a third-year English the same things or looking for a Trinity’s history goes back to themselves who work hard to they’re only required for those me that I didn’t realize before.” administrators at Trinity, the col- pology, classics and economics, sors, Professor Robert Painter particular niche.” 1827 when John Strachan, first preserve the college’s traditions. sitting at high table. Ronan MacParland of St. John’s, lege becomes more and more rel- students and researchers gather to (provost from 1986 to 1996), As female head of college, Anglican Bishop of Toronto, “The most important is our One of the strangest traditions Nfld., finds that Trinity One “has evant as the years go by, due large- unravel these complex issues. “who had such an intense Danahy is in charge of Trinity’s obtained a royal charter for the really active student government,” occurs when students implore given me a jump start in high ly to its varied interdisciplinary The immunology program is interest in the subject he female students, “making sure University of King’s College. said Bowden, himself a 1968 others to shred their gowns after level critical analysis and it’s programs such as ethics, society jointly sponsored by Trinity and wanted it taught here as well.” everyone has someone to go to for Troubled and struggling, King’s Trinity graduate. “Elections last which the tattered gowns are made me more confident in my three weeks with nominations for worn gallantly off the shoulder and law; immunology; interna- the Department of Immunology The international relations of its kind in Canada. Lauded in a things such as personal and aca- College morphed into U of T and own abilities to speak with heads of college, arts, non- or draped toga-like as a symbol tional relations; and Trinity One. and draws upon such disciplines program is the largest and oldest 2005 external review for its demic counselling or just helping Strachan went to England to get academics on a one-to-one level.” residence students, speaker of the of belonging to the “college “strong traditions of scholarship people arrange an event or a club. funds for a new university — this literary institute — the list just goes club.” and teaching,” the program offers They know I’m a fellow student one with close ties to the Church on and on. It remains one of the Provost Margaret MacMillan, an interdisciplinary education in they can either go to for advice or of England. Thus, Trinity College I know someone who can help.” was born Jan. 15, 1852, with a oldest and most successful student then new to the office, recalls the historical, political and eco- I NEVER WANT TRINITY governments on the continent.” jumping up from her desk one nomic analysis of major global David Leach, a fourth-year curriculum of arts, divinity, law COLLEGE TO BE JUST A In addition, the debating team evening to seek the source of problems, with students allowed peace and conflict studies and medicine. is the longest running of its kind raucous shouting, outlandish to take either a major program or DORMITORY WHERE student who is also Trinity’s High table in the dining room in Canada. And the young man costumes and boisterous singing. a specialist program. Athletic Association president and is just one of many academic STUDENTS COME TO EAT wearing a white wig is, of course, She soon realized that she had Trinity One, which bills itself as Stories by Michah Rynor head of fourth-year students, transplants from British university the prime minister of the Trinity landed a job in the one place on BIG Ideas ... Small Classes, is AND SLEEP WHILE agrees that there’s a special breed life, said Bruce Bowden, Trinity’s College Literary Institute and it’s a campus that still celebrates Guy open to any first-year student of students at Trinity that keeps registrar. Invited students dine ATTENDING CLASSES British tradition to wear black Fawkes Day, commemorating enrolled in the Faculty of Arts and the place humming. with faculty, staff and guests of gowns. There was a time when Nov. 5, 1605, when a group of Science who wishes to explore ELSEWHERE “What gives us the ability honour around an elevated wooden rebels tried to blow up issues pertaining to human life to expend ourselves through table. While the Britain’s parliament. and world affairs. The program these channels of student involve- atmosphere may be -Continued From Previous Page- “History is roots, history has an international relations ment is the kind of individuals rarified, food fights Derek Allen, Trinity’s dean of is where we come from so if stream and an ethics stream, each Trinity wouldn’t be Trinity with- that come to this college, do occur on more arts, said interdisciplinary pro- you don’t have tradition consisting of two seminar courses out a strong theological offering the small communities that form than one occasion grams are a natural fit with the you have nothing to look and a co-requisite course. and students in the Faculty of as a result and the actual leeway along with sponta- CAZ ZYVATKAUSKAS college system. “It’s appropriate back on that says where you Limited to 25 students per Divinity get a comprehensive that the administration allows neous — and rude that the colleges — not just have been,” said third- stream, Trinity One combines education in the religious back- us,” he said. — skits. Trinity but also the other St. year Renaissance studies small-group discussions, critical ground of the Anglican Church. Colin Rose is not just a third- And there is noth- George colleges — offer interdisci- student Colin Rose. thinking, writing and research “Although many of our stu- year Renaissance studies student ing dignified about plinary programs because by their “Wearing gowns and taking skills and oral presentation tech- dents do not identify as Christian, but Trinity’s prime minister as the annual cake very nature the colleges are com- part in high table are niques with enrichment activities many still appreciate the Anglican well, following his inauguration fight in which stu- munities of scholars that bring the kinds of traditions that draw upon the resources of flavour regardless,” said as head of the Trinity College dents stuff a slice of together students and faculty from that keep people coming the Munk Centre for International MacMillan, noting that students Literary Institute. It’s the oldest cake into their pock- different disciplines,” he said. back to Trinity and they Studies and the Centre for Ethics. from various backgrounds enjoy student society in Canada and it ets and run a gaunt- But interdisciplinary programs have certainly kept me “It’s an intimate, seminar-style the music and devotional oversees the renowned debating let of obstructive In the main dining hall, the British coat of aren’t Trinity’s only hallmarks. here.” Left to right:Trinity One students Ronan MacParland, Fritz Bartel and Zoe LeBlanc say the first-year course that gives you up-close practices of the college chapel. club, which is in itself the oldest students in order to arms adorns the wall. program has opened their eyes to numerous career possibilities. access to some of the best -Continued on next page- 12 • NEWS • UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BULLETIN • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007

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This volume in the Osgoode Roman Empire through the Society for Canadian Legal Adages IV iii 1 to V ii 51: chivalric pursuits of the Middle History’s series on the history of Collected Works of Erasmus 36, Ages and the court games of the Canadian law is a collection of the edited by John N. Grant (U of T early modern period to the tri- principal essays of Professor Press; 677 pages; $150). This umph of personal decorum and Emeritus R.C.B. Risk, one of the sixth of seven volumes devoted to scientific rationalism of the 17th pioneers of Canadian legal the Adages completes the transla- century. Drawing on primary thought. Frank Scott, Bora tion and annotation of the more sources, the book examines the Laskin, W.P.M. Kennedy, John than 4,000 proverbs gathered and way in which political structures, Willis and Edward Blake are commented on by Erasmus in his educational systems, religious insti- among the better known figures Adagiorum Chiliades (Thousands of tutions, warfare, technology and whose thinking and writing about Adages). The volume’s aim, like medicine shaped sport over the law are featured in this collection. that of the others, is to provide a course of Europe’s history. In doing But this compilation brings to fully annotated, accurate and so, it considers key themes and light many lesser known figures readable English version of recurrent patterns in the develop- as well, whose writings covered a Erasmus’ commentaries on these ment of physical cultures as well as wide range of topics from Greek and Latin proverbs and to the wider significance of sport in estoppel to the British North show how Erasmus continued to the lives and societies of the time. American Act to the purpose of expand his work, originally pub- legal education. lished in 1508, until his death in Aboriginal Health in Canada: 1536. Historical, Cultural and Doing Medicine Together: Epidemiological Perspectives, by Germany and Russia Between the The Great Code: The Bible and James B. Waldram, D. Ann Wars, edited by Susan Gross Literature, by Northrop Frye; Herring and T. Kue Young* (U of T Soloman (U of T Press; 416 edited by Alvin A. Lee (U of T Press; 352 pages; $70 cloth, pages; $65). Of the many inter- Press, Collected Works of $29.95 paper). Numerous stud- war connections between Northrop Frye; 464 pages; $100). ies, inquiries and statistics accu- Germany and Russia, one of the Considered by many to be mulated over the years have most unusual — and least Northrop Frye’s magnum opus, demonstrated the poor health sta- explored — is medicine and pub- The Great Code (1982) reflects a tus of Aboriginal Peoples relative lic health. 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It explores the evidence previously inaccessible archival for changes in patterns of health materials, the articles move REED in Review: Essays in and disease prior to and since beyond politics to examine the Celebration of the First Twenty- European contact up to the present. impact of this collaboration on Five Years, edited by Audrey scientific activity. Douglas and Sally-Beth MacLean* To the Past: History Education, (U of T Press; 264 pages: $70). Public Memory and Citizenship COMPILED BY AILSA FERGUSON UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BULLETIN • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007 • AT ISSUE • 13

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Offering psychotherapy (416) 978-2106 or e-mail [email protected]. Puyloubier, 20 km from Aix. Available from (Bathurst/Bloor). and psychoanalysis. Anxiety, depression, COLONIZIN' IN REVERSE What a islan! 2007 ALEXANDER LECTURES What a people! Man an woman, ALEXANDER LEGGATT old an young Department of English,University College Jusa pack dem bag an baggage Theatrical Tragedy, 1580-1642: An tun history Acting, Staging upside dung! and LOUISE Storytelling in the Plays of SIMONE Shakespeare and his Contemporaries BENNETT: Monday, 26 March A COMMEMORATION ENTER AN ACTOR-ROOM 140 March 9th, 2007 Hosted by: Tuesday, 27 March Caribbean Studies and the Humanities Centre REBUILDING A CHARACTER-ROOM 140 William Doo Auditorium of the University of Toronto; Community Arts Program and the Wild Garden Media Centre, New College, 45 Willcocks Street, (corner of Spadina and Willcocks) Faculty of Environmental Studies, Centre for Wednesday, 28 March Doors open for multimedia installation at 7 p.m. the Study of Black Cultures in Canada, TAGE IME AND TAGE PACE OOM performance begins at 8 p.m. CALACS of York University Toronto; University S T S S -R 140 of the West Indies Alumni Association FEATURING: (Toronto Chapter) Thursday, 29 March Lillian Allen Quammie Williams Owen Blakka Ellis Mervyn Morris and the Jump With the support of: RETELLING THE STORY-WEST HALL Maud Fuller Djanet Sears Music Collective The Transitional Year Program, Principal's Denise Jones Ted Chamberlin and the Toronto Initiative Fund at New College, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies of the Mutabaruka Mass Choir 4:30 p.m., University College University of Toronto; Dean, Faculty of Arts, For more information and to rsvp Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Office 15 King's College Circle, University of Toronto contact: [email protected] or [email protected] of the Ombudsperson and Centre for Human Tel: 416-978-8286 Rights of York University, Air Jamaica Members of the faculty, staff, students and the public are cordially invited. 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Learning to See Like a 12:30 p.m. Chemical Engineering & International Studies. Noon to 2 p.m. Building. 3 p.m. Plant & Microbial Mathematician. Applied Chemistry Registration: webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca. Biology Program Joint Initiative in German & European Studies WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 Prof. Walter Whiteley, York University. Italian Canadian Voices: Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric: 432 Ramsay Wright Zoological Then and Now. The “Indian Question” and Propaganda and the Other in Laboratories. 4:30 p.m. Sigma Xi, U of T WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Working Class Nationalism the Recent Films of Henry V Chapter Caroline di Giovanni, author. Madden in Natal and Trinidad. and The Merchant of Venice. LECTURES Hall, St. Michael’s College, 100 St. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 FRIDAY, MARCH 9 Staying Alive: Joseph St. 7:30 p.m. Frank Iacobucci Jon Soske, PhD candidate, history; Philippa Sheppard, CRRS fellow. 205 Centre for Italian Canadian Studies Empowering Women history graduate-faculty series. 2098 Northrop Frye Hall, Victoria University. Sidney Smith Hall. Noon. History Soviet Samizdat: for a Sustainable Future. 3:30 to 5 p.m. Reformation & Tiglath-Pileser III and the A Catalogue of Periodicals. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 Renaissance Studies TUESDAY, MARCH 6 Vandana Shiva, environmental activist Nimrud Citadel Project: The Life, Death and Resurrection of the Utilitarian Prof. Ann Komaromi, Centre for and author; Watts lecture. 223 Problems and Solutions. Postmodern Ukrainian Prose: Compartive Literature. 108N Munk Academic Resource Centre, U of T WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Self: Sensory-Motor A Comparative Review. Centre for International Studies. Noon Scarborough. 7 p.m. U of T Scarborough Prof. S. Paley, State University of Psychology in Medicine’s to 1:30 p.m. Registration MONDAY, MARCH 12 New York at Buffalo; A.K. Grayson Moral Laboratory. webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca. European, Pulling Out All the Stops: lecture on Assyrian history and culture. Alexander Kratochvil, Jacyk visiting WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Russian & Eurasian Studies Auditorium, Koffler Institute for Pharmacy scholar. 108N Munk Centre for Three Riffs on the Prof. Cathy Gere, University of Chicago. Management. 8 p.m. Canadian Society International Studies. 2 to 4 p.m. Phoneme *g in East Slavic. 323 Old Victoria College Building. Canada in Poland. for Mesopotamian Studies Registration: webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca. THURSDAY, MARCH 15 4 p.m. History & Philosophy of Science UESDAY ARCH Petro Jacyk Program for Study of Ukraine T , M 6 Prof. Michael Flier, Harvard University; & Technology David Preston, Canadian ambassador One Nation Under Google: in conjunction with Year of Languages. to Poland. 108N Munk Centre for 108N Munk Centre for International Citizenship in the Die Mölche zerdrückt er, als Molecular Genetics of International Studies. 1:30 to 3 p.m. Studies. 2 to 4 p.m. Registration: Technological Republic. Pediatric Brain Tumours. European, Russian & Eurasian Studies wären sie Göttinger Würste”: webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca. Slavic Languages THURSDAY, MARCH 22 Ancient Skepticism and MONDAY, MARCH 12 & Literatures, Arts & Science and Prof. Darin Barney, McGill University; Prof. Michael Taylor, surgery. 2172 Afghanistan: European, Russian & Eurasian Studies Modern Nihilism in Hegel’s Hart House lecture. Great Hall, Hart Medical Sciences Building. 4 p.m. Canada’s Challenge. House. 7:30 p.m. Hart House Early Jena Writings. Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 A Material World: The Holy THURSDAY, MARCH 22 Prof. Janice Gross Stein, political sci- Land in Franciscan and Jesuit Youth Participation in Paul Franks, philosophy; European Conundrums of Complex, ence. 112 Arts & Administration Correspondence, 1600-1700. Municipal Decision-Making: studies faculty-graduate series. 208N Building, U of T Scarborough. 5 p.m. Munk Centre for International Chronic, Environment-Linked U of T Scarborough THURSDAY, MARCH 15 Lessons for the Toronto Studies. 4 to 6 p.m. Registration: Conditions: Sick Building Prof. Megan Armstrong, McMaster Youth Cabinet. webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca. Joint Initiative Syndrome, Environmental University. Senior Common Room, Fragmentation of FRIDAY, MARCH 23 in German & European Studies Burwash Hall, Victoria University, Sensitivity/Intolerance, Globalization. 89 Charles St. W. 4 p.m. Reformation Rachelle Ricotta, collaborative Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 & Renaissance Studies and Toronto program in community develop- Fibromyalgia. John Rolston Saul, author; Snider lec- Renaissance & Reformation Colloquium ment. 7-162 OISE/UT, 252 Bloor THURSDAY, MARCH 15 ture. Auditorium, 137 Kaneff Centre, St. W. 4 to 5:30 p.m. Collaborative Lynn Marshall, Women’s College U of T Mississauga. 5:15 p.m. U of T Medieval Spain in the 21st Program in Community Development Hospital. 106 Health Sciences Building. Mississauga Century: Why and What We and Transformative Learning Centre 4 p.m. Environment Should Remember. An Account of Conscious THURSDAY, MARCH 15 SEMINARS Democratic Breakthroughs Experience. Speculative Fiction and Prof. Mariá Rosa Menocal, Yale Human Contingency: Who We and Revolutions in Five THURSDAY, MARCH 8 University; in conjunction with A Were, Are and Will Be. Infection Control System. Post-Communist Countries: Prof. Anil Gupta, University of Forgotten Past: Muslims, Christians and EDNESDAY ARCH Comparative Perspectives Pittsburgh; final Jerome S. Simon Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean MONDAY, MARCH 26 W , M 6 Kaveh Momen, doctoral fellow, bio- memorial lecture. 1017 Wilson Hall, program of events. 140 University Robert Charles Wilson, science fiction on the Fourth Wave. materials and biomedical engineering. New College. 3:15 p.m. Philosophy College. 4:30 p.m. Chancellor Jackman writer. 1073 Sidney Smith Hall. THURSDAY, MARCH 15 618 Health Sciences Building. 3 to 5 Program for the Arts 11 a.m. English Prof. Taras Kuzio, George Washington p.m. Health Care, Technology & Place Variations on the Pictorial: University. 208N Munk Centre for The Cartographic Living in World Risk Society. Enter an Actor. International Studies. 4 to 6 p.m. Are Carbon Markets Achieving Eye of the Text. THURSDAY, MARCH 15 MONDAY, MARCH 26 Registration: webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca. Prof. Alexander Leggatt, English; first of Their Environmental THURSDAY, MARCH 8 Prof. Ulrich Beck, University of Munich. Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of four Alexander lectures on Theatrical Objectives? Prof. Liliane Louvel, Université de Vivian & David Campbell Conference Ukraine and European, Russian & Tragedy, 1580-1642: Acting, Staging Poitiers. 119 Old Victoria College Facility, Munk Centre for International WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 Eurasian Studies Building. 4:15 p.m. Toronto Centre for the Studies. 5 p.m. Joint Initiative in German and Storytelling in the Plays of Sonia Labatt, associate faculty, Centre for Book & European Studies, Sociology and Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Environment, and Professor Rodney Friedrich Ebert Stiftung 140 University College. 4:30 p.m. White, geography. 1200 Bahen Centre Sexual Politics in the Putin University College Era: The Case of Moscow’s European Citizenship? for Information Technology. 4 p.m. Environment Gay Pride “Debacle,” Vision or Reality? Domenikos Theotokopoulos Religion in the Public Sphere: May 2006. THURSDAY, MARCH 8 Becomes El Greco: Some Ethical Issues. Violence Against Women FRIDAY, MARCH 16 Prof. Jane Jenson, University of Problem or Solution? MONDAY, MARCH 26 Across the Lifespan. Prof. Dan Healy, Swansea University. Montreal; final F.E.L. Priestly memorial THURSDAY, MARCH 19 Prof. Simone Chambers, political science. THURSDAY, MARCH 8 lecture. 140 University College. Prof. Em. Robin Cormack, University of 023N Munk Centre for International George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Roundtable features current research 4:30 p.m. University College London; Interference series. William Studies. 2 to 4 p.m. Registration: Place. 7:30 p.m. Trinity College and programming by faculty, staff and Doo Auditorium, New College webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca. Sexual Diversity students. Council Chamber, Simcoe Maps in Films: Residence, 45 Willcocks St. 4:30 p.m. Studies and European, Russian & Eurasian Formula New Ljubljana. Hall. 2 to 5 p.m. Status of Women Office Cartographic Confusions. Fine Art Studies TUESDAY, MARCH 27 and Community Safety Office THURSDAY, MARCH 8 Shakespearean Jealousies: Bostjan Vuga, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Prof. Tom Conley, Harvard University; Ljubljana. Room 103, 230 College St. Indications of Congenital Ukrainain Modern Art: Interference series. William Doo T.S. Eliot and Othello. 6:30 p.m. Architecture, Landscape Minamata Disease in Modernity, Identity, Tradition. Auditorium, New College Residence, 45 TUESDAY, MARCH 20 & Design FRIDAY, MARCH 16 Willcocks St. 4:30 p.m. Fine Art Prof. Christopher Ricks, Boston Canadian Areas of Concern University; in honour of the 70th in the Great Lakes Basin. Workshop with Daria Darewych, York Death and Rebirth: Painting anniversary of the arrival of Francess Radiation Materials Science: THURSDAY, MARCH 8 University; Taras Koznarsky, U of T; in Europe and North Halpenny at University College. 140 Behaviour of Materials in Michael Gilbertson, PhD candidate, Irena Makaryk, University of Ottawa; From the 1960s to University College. 4 p.m. RSVP 416- Extreme Environments. University of Stirling, Scotland. 106 Myroslava Mudrak, Ohio State Health Sciences Building. 4 p.m. University; and Myroslav Shkandrij, Contemporary Practice. 978-2968; [email protected]. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 University College Prof. Gary Was, University of Michigan. Environment University of Manitoba. 208N Munk FRIDAY, MARCH 9 116 Wallberg Building. 12:30 p.m. Centre for International Studies. 3 to 7 p.m. Niamh O’Laoghaire, director, U of T Art About Paintings and Designs. Chemical Engineering & Applied The Great Divergence Centre; lunch and learn event. U of T Registration: webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca. Chemistry in Social Protection. Art Centre, Laidlaw Wing, University TUESDAY, MARCH 20 Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of College. Noon. Tickets $10, free to U of T Adriaan Geuze, Michael Hough-Ontario FRIDAY, MARCH 9 Ukraine, Slavic Languages & Literatures, Prof. Isabela Mares, Stanford University. Art Centre members. RSVP: 416-978- Association of Landscape Architects vis- Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies iting critic. Room 103, 230 College. St. COLLOQUIA 3130 Sidney Smith Hall. 2 to 4 p.m. 1838; [email protected]. and Shevchenko Scientific Society 6:30 p.m. Architecture, Landscape & Political Science, European Studies and Think Global, Speak Local: Design Meeting at the Market European, Russian & Eurasian Studies Assertion and Desertion in Language Perspectives of the Old and New: Measure for Measure for the New Century. Nanotechnology, Biomaterials Perspectives of Minorities at Topology of the Plant Defence and the Forest Products Signalling Network: A and the Court of Assize. TUESDAY, MARCH 13 the Italo-Slovene Borderland. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 Prof. Michael Cronin, Dublin City Industry. FRIDAY, MARCH 9 Functional Genomics Approach. Virginia Strain, CRRS. 205 Northrop University. Carr Hall, St. Michael’s WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Alessandra Miklavcic, anthropology; FRIDAY, MARCH 9 College, 100 St. Joseph St. Celtic Studies Tommy Iversen, STFI-Packforsk AB, European studies faculty-graduate stu- Prof. Jane Glazebrook, University of Frye Hall. 3:30 to 5 p.m. Reformation & and Arts & Science Sweden. 116 Wallberg Building. dent series. 208N Munk Centre for Minnesota. B142 Earth Sciences Renaissance Studies 18 • EVENTS • UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BULLETIN • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007

Modulation of Apoptosis and Ukraine’s Elite Piggy Bank: B142 Earth Sciences Building. 3 p.m. Committee on Academic participate in a musical tribute to the Inflammation by the Tumour The Case of Naftohaz Plant & Microbial Biology Program Policy & Programs. great Canadian composer, historian, educator and former dean of the faculty. Suppressor Protein, RASSF1A. Ukrainy. WEDNESDAYS MARCH 7 AND Gay and Lesbian Retirement. Walter Hall. 2:30 p.m. MONDAY, MARCH 19 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 MARCH 28 Prof. Shiraz Baksh, University of Jaroslav Koshiw, journalist, U.K. 108N WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 Council Chamber, Simcoe Hall. 4:10 p.m. World of Music. . 2172 Medical Sciences Munk Centre for International Prof. Peter Donahue, University of Building. 4 p.m. Laboratory Medicine Studies. 6 to 8 p.m. Registration: Calgary. Ste. 106, 222 College St. Noon University Affairs Board. TUESDAY, MARCH 13 & Pathobiology webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca. Petro Jacyk to 1:30 p.m. Life Course & Aging 7 O’Clock Swing Band; John Jasavala, TUESDAY, MARCH 13 director. Walter Hall. 7:30 p.m. Program for the Study of Ukraine Council Chamber, Simcoe Hall. 4:30 p.m. The Family Blood Pressure THURSDAY, MARCH 22 Program: Genetic Influence of Heat and The Persistence of Philology: Epidemiology of Air Pollution on Mortality Guitar ensemble; Robin Engelman, Rethinking Comparative director. Walter Hall. 7:30 p.m. Hypertension. in Toronto. Literary History. THURSDAY, MARCH 22 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 FRIDAY, MARCH 16 AND FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Prof. Alan Weder, University of Monica Campbell, Environmental Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Walter SATURDAY, MARCH 17 Michigan. 968 Mt. Sinai Hospital. Noon. Protection Office, Toronto Public Hall. Noon. MEETINGS & Conference marking the occasion of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Health. 106 Health Sciences Building. CONFERENCES 20th anniversary of the publication of 4 p.m. Environment TUESDAY, MARCH 27 María Rosa Menocal’s seminal book, The Women and the New Student composers concert. Walter Hall. Alexander the Great Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, Retirement. Remembering Yalta: 7:30 p.m. In Medieval and Early developing new strategies for the WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 The Politics of Modern Culture. study of the literature, language and cul- Opera. Prof. Mary Bell, medicine. Ste. 106, 222 International History. ture of the medieval Mediterranean; in THURSDAY, MARCH 8 TO THURSDAY, MARCH 15 TO College St. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Life FRIDAY, MARCH 23 conjunction with A Forgotten Past: SUNDAY, MARCH 18 Course & Aging Prof. Serhii Plokhii, University of SATURDAY, MARCH 10 Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Few historical figures had such an Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia; Alberta. 208N Munk Centre for Medieval Mediterranean program of impact on medieval and early modern Stephen Ralls, conductor, directed by The Living City: Toronto and International Studies. 6 to 8 p.m. events. Sessions in 179 University literature and art as Alexander the Great. Jennifer Tarver. MacMillan Theatre. Region Conservation Registration: webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca. College and Croft Chapter House. Condemned for his pride and admired Performances at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 2:30 Wolodymyr Dylynsky Memorial Fund, Information and program details: Authority’s Vision for the for his deeds, Alexander became the p.m. Tickets $26, students and seniors University of Alberta www.chass.utoronto.ca/medieval/ Future of the Toronto Region. protagonist of many texts in Latin and $16. ForgottenPast07/ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 other languages and was a popular sub- Brian Denney, Toronto and Region Hormonal Control ject of the visual arts. Keynote address- Faculty Artist Series. of Shoot Branching. Conservation Authority. 1200 Bahen es: Profs. Christopher Baswell, FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Centre for Information Technology. FRIDAY, MARCH 23 University of California at Los Angeles, Erika Raum, violin; Lydia Wong, piano. 4 p.m. Environment Prof. Ottoline Leyser, University of York. on Alexander’s Fathers, Alexander’s Walter Hall. 7:30 p.m. Tickets $22, Mothers; Christine Chism, Rutgers students and seniors $12. University, on Facing the Land of Darkness: Alexander, Islam and the Wind Ensemble. Quest for the Secrets of God; and Klaus SATURDAY, MARCH 24 General Dentistry Grubmüller, University of Göttingen, on MUSIC Curiositas and Superbia: The Uses of Gillian MacKay, conductor. MacMillan Dr. Anna Skalska Alexander in Late Medieval German Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Tickets $14, students Dr. Alison Strong Literature. Victoria College. Registration FACULTY OF MUSIC and seniors $8. Dr. Jacquie Xu fee: $40, seniors $25, students $10. EDWARD JOHNSON Registration and program details: BUILDING VICTORIA COLLEGE Periodontics www.chass.utoronto.ca/medieval. Thursdays at Noon. Choirs in Concert. Dr. Sharan Golini THURSDAY, MARCH 8 SATURDAY, MARCH 10 2007 Sino-Japanese Jurek Dybal, double bass; and Lydia MacMillan Singers; Agnes Grossmann, Cosmetic and Family Dentistry Conference. Wong, piano. Walter Hall. 12:10 p.m. conductor. Faculty of Music presenta- tion. Chapel. 7:30 p.m. Tickets $14, Zoom/Nite White FRIDAY, MARCH 9 The conference focuses on the examina- THURSDAY, MARCH 22 students and seniors $8. Viola Day: U of T viola ensemble with Evening and Saturday appointments available tion of historical conflicts and friendship building with a view to promotion of guest artists, led by Kathy Rapoport. L’ingrato e Crudo Amore. Polish and Mandarin speaking non-official intercourse between China Walter Hall. 12:10 p.m. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 and Japan; promotion of international Featuring the Musicians in Ordinary: Validated Parking @ Polo II co-operation; and promotion of world- Celebrations. Italian Songs of the 16th century; first wide peace. Northrope Frye Hall. SUNDAY, MARCH 11 annual William R. Bowen concert. 1033 Bay St. Suite 315 (at St. Joseph) 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Information and John Beckwith 80th birthday celebra- Chapel. 7 to 9 p.m. Reformation & Phone 416-960-2101 program details: www.cmut.org/sjc. tion: some of Canada’s finest musicians Renaissance Studies

2007 F.E.L. Priestley Memorial Lectures in the History of Ideas JANE JENSON Department of Political Science University of Montreal CITIZENSHIP: CHANGING VISIONS AND PRACTICES FROM ONE CENTURY TO ANOTHER

Tuesday, March 6 Citizenship in Canada: Achievement and Challenges Wednesday, March 7 Social Citizenship: A Particular History Thursday, March 8 European Citizenship? Vision or Reality? 4:30 p.m., Room 140, University College 15 King’s College Circle, University of Toronto Members of the faculty, staff, students and the public are cordially invited. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007 • UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BULLETIN • EVENTS • 19

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE TO MARCH 11 MISCELLANY Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building. work, performance and other creative Cross-Cultural Musical Combining performance, video, instal- 3 p.m. Royal Canadian Institute sounds challenging racism and other Currents. lation and sculpture, the exhibition inequities; performances mark the UN crosses geographic, cultural and esthetic Let’s Talk Science. Sounds of Change. International Day for the Elimination of FRIDAY, MARCH 16 boundaries. Gallery hours: Monday to UNDAY ARCH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Racial Discrimination and are held on Performances of medieval Arabic and S , M 11 Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, noon Exploring science through hands-on Second annual Sounds of Change — a mini-stages or impromptu sites across Romance music, led by George Sawa, to 5 p.m. activities for kids aged 6 to 12. campus celebration of music, spoken all three campuses every hour. and other selections. Introduction and commentary by Prof. Linda Hutcheon; in conjunction with A Forgotten Past: U OF T ART CENTRE Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Bright Particular Stars. Medieval Mediterranean program of TO MARCH 17 events. West Hall. 7:30 p.m. Theatre portraits of Grant Macdonald COMMITTEES (1909-1987); organized and circulated by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, with the financial SEARCH Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Members are: Professors David Farrar, assistance of the McLean Foundation. University of Minnesota; and Steven deputy provost and vice-provost (stu- Laidlaw Wing, University College. CHAIR, DEPARTMENT AND Weber, Director of the Institute of dents) (chair); Edith Hillan, vice- CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF International Studies, Department of provost (academic); Anne Lancashire, James Lahey: Index. RELIGION Political Science, University of vice-dean (academic), Faculty of Arts California at Berkeley. & Science; Ragnar Buchweitz, vice- TO MARCH 22 A search committee has been established principal (academic) and dean, UTSC; PLAYS & READINGS Nine large paintings by James Lahey. in the Faculty of Arts & Science to recom- Laidlaw Wing, University College. mend a chair of the Department and Department of Statistics Mark McGowan, principal, St. Thirteen Hands. Centre for the Study of Religion. Professors Charmaine Dean, Michael’s College; Mariel O’Neill- Department of Statistics & Actuarial Karch, principal, Woodsworth THURSDAY TO SATURDAY, Human Rights in Focus. Members are: Professors Pekka Sinervo, dean, Faculty of Arts & Science, Simon Fraser University; and College; Ivan Silver, vice-dean (con- MARCH 8 TO MARCH 10 TO MARCH 22 Science (chair); , vice- Deborah Nolan, Department of tinuing education and professional By Carol Shields; directed by Ron Photographs taken by law students in dean (graduate education and Statistics, University of California at development), Faculty of Medicine Cameron-Lewis; a Theatre Erindale the international human rights program. Berkeley. and director, Centre for Faculty production. Hart House Theatre. Laidlaw Wing, University College. research), Faculty of Arts & Science; The review committess would be Development; Susan McCahan, chair Performances at 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and Hours: Tuesday to Friday, noon to Elizabeth Cowper, vice-dean (pro- pleased to receive comments from (first year), Faculty of Applied Science 8 p.m. Tickets $20, students and seniors 5 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Tickets grams), School of Graduate Studies; interested persons. These should be & Engineering; Carol Rolheiser, asso- $12. $5, seniors $3; free to U of T faculty, Walid Saleh, Frances Garrett and staff and students. David Novak, study of religion; Ken submitted to Professor Pekka Sinervo, ciate dean (teacher education), Don McKay. Mills, history; and Christoph Room 2005, Sidney Smith Hall. OISE/UT; Tony Chambers, theory and policy studies in education, OISE/UT TUESDAY, MARCH 13 BLACKWOOD GALLERY Emmrich, historical studies, UTM; and and associate vice-provost; Berry Reading by Don McKay, Jack Danielle Lefebvre, graduate student, U OF T MISSISSAUGA Smith, vice-dean (students), School of McClelland Writer-in-Residence 2007. and Michelle Christian, undergraduate REVIEW 2007 Graduate Exhibitions. Graduate Studies; and Corey Upper Library, Massey College. 4:15 p.m. student, study of religion; Irene Kao, TO MARCH 25 administrative staff, study of religion; OFFICE OF TEACHING Goldman, senior lecturer, ecology and Works by graduating students in the art and Vera Melnyk, dean’s office, Faculty ADVANCEMENT evolutionary biology, Faculty of Arts EXHIBITIONS and art history program. Exhibition 1 to of Arts & Science (secretary). A review committee has been established & Science; Sarah King, lecturer, March 11; Exhibition 2, March 15 to The committee would appreciate to review the Office of Teaching Teaching & Learning Services, direc- ERIC ARTHUR GALLERY March 25. Gallery hours: Monday to receiving nominations and/or com- Advancement’s mandate and opera- tor, Writing Centre, UTSC; Lynn FACULTY OF ARCHITEC- Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to ments from interested members of the tions. The office was established five Snowden, assistant dean, UTM; Cleo 5 p.m. TURE, LANDSCAPE & university community. These should years ago to support and recognize Boyd, director, Academic Skills teaching in all its forms throughout Centre, UTM; Rae Johnson, co-ordina- DESIGN be submitted to Professor Pekka THOMAS FISHER RARE Sinervo, dean, Faculty of Arts & Science, the University of Toronto. 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Post Object. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Chair of International Affairs, Hubert 20 • FORUM • UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BULLETIN • TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007 LANGUAGES AND THE REAL WORLD OF DIPLOMACY As the Faculty of Arts & Science celebrates the Year of Languages, it’s worth remembering their practical applications BY DAVID S. WRIGHT

HE USE OF LANGUAGE IS CENTRAL Bilateral Diplomacy Tto diplomacy. The bulk of Only a part of world diplomacy our work is communicating. actually takes place in interna- Sending messages and passing tional forums. Countries engage signals, both privately and directly with one another in publicly. The words mean a lot bilateral relationships. In cen- and precision is important. turies past, parties may have Misunderstanding can have very used Latin or French, even if high costs. The idea of diplomatic neither used the language at language as vague and incom- home. Today, states make efforts prehensible has no place in the to speak the other’s language modern world. I have always directly. Sir Ernest Satow has believed that clarity is a good said that speaking another’s lan- thing. Obfuscation and ambiguity guage is “the surest way to gain may paper over cracks in the admission to the heart of a short term but they inevitably lead nation.” Language ability is seen MAREK CIEZKIEWICZ to problems in the future. One has as proof of a desire to under- only to listen to the debate on stand and connect to the other “nation” and “Quebecois” to party in a diplomatic relation- confirm this point. ship. Interpreters are still used I want to discuss not how in diplomatic missions but diplomatic professionals craft knowledge of local languages is phrases but the languages they becoming a must for diplomatic use in pursuing their work. I will appointments. The key for a draw on experiences during my diplomat is to understand the years in the Canadian foreign local culture, society and poli- service: my postings in Rome, tics. Only with the local lan- the UN in New York, Tokyo, guage can that be done well. Paris, my time as ambassador to Countries typically draft Spain and, most recently, as bilateral treaties in both lan- ambassador to NATO. guages as a gesture of equality. Most Canadian diplomats are fluent in English and French. Over my career I have Again, considerations of equality have sometimes led countries to prepare a text in a third learned Italian and Spanish and have picked up a little bit of Japanese. But I have no claim language, to be authoritative in case of a dispute. Not surprisingly, this third language is, to be a linguist and indeed my career has tended to focus on major capitals and multilateral more often than not, English. organizations where English and French dominate. In private conversations, politicians and diplomats will often use another language to make their counterpart as comfortable as possible and to facilitate communication. Private History conversations between German chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French president Valéry Since the beginnings of human civilization, different countries speaking different languages Giscard d’Estaing were in English, which both spoke as a second language. have found ways to communicate with each other in order to trade, exchange information In public, however, leaders generally use their own official language with interpreters and negotiate. For the larger part of history, we have seen the rise and fall of a few select available as required. languages widely used in official communication between countries — recognized Japan is worth special mention since it is an important world power whose language is not languages of diplomacy. spoken extensively outside Japan. Japanese diplomats tend to Under the Romans, for instance, Latin became the standard be streamed into “schools” as their careers progress: the English vehicle for diplomacy: the universal language in Europe dur- LANGUAGE ABILITY school, the French school, the Arabic school, and so on. Their ing the Roman Empire. Latin’s influence would not fall with postings reflect their language affiliation. They tend to be more the decline of the Roman Empire. Latin remained the disciplined in their career development planning than countries language of the educated. It was the official form of diplomatic IS SEEN AS PROOF OF A whose native languages are more widely known. communication through the Dark Ages. Latin would persist as the main language of diplomacy DESIRE TO UNDERSTAND Conclusion until, with the rise of the French Bourbons in the 17th cen- It is easy to be complacent, even arrogant, if one is a native tury, France became the strongest monarchy in Europe. And English speaker. The world of international conferences and Louis XIV’s armies brought to Europe both the French lan- AND CONNECT TO global dialogue is a welcoming place for foreign service pro- guage and French rule. French would remain the undisputed fessionals at home in English. language of diplomacy until early in the 20th century. THE OTHER PARTY However, there is no substitute for direct communication English, of course, now dominates the world of diplomacy across a whole culture and society to help with political and international affairs. The position of English as the lead understanding. Confining one’s conversations to the interna- language of diplomacy was consolidated after the Second World War. American power had tional English-speaking elite in a capital and depending on second-hand analysis through become a dominant reality and virtually all of the negotiations leading to the UN charter opinion formers or journalists can be a very limiting factor in understanding what motivates a and the establishment of international bodies such as the International Monetary Fund and country and its political leaders. It is too easy to become the captive of conventional wisdom. the World Bank were conducted in English. In the modern European Union, with 27 mem- Only by mastering the local language can a diplomat develop a real understanding of the cul- bers, many of whom use English as a second language, English is now replacing French for ture, society, (dare I say “nation”?) and ultimately the political entity to which he or she is all practical purposes as the lead working language. accredited. Perfection is not necessary, but a functional knowledge is essential in most places. The global world of business, finance, media and the Internet is of course English dom- inated. At some point in the last 20 years, the number of people in the world who spoke David S. Wright, the Kenneth and Patricia Taylor Distinguished Visiting Professor in Foreign English as a second language surpassed the number of people for whom English was the Affairs, served as the Canadian ambassador to NATO from 1997 to 2003, one stop in a long, dis- mother tongue. As this former number grows rapidly, the dominant position of English is tinguished diplomatic career. This article is drawn from a presentation made by Wright Nov. 30 as consolidated even more deeply. part of the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Year of Languages series of lectures.