See Lords See Lighthouse on page 43 on page 38 VOLUME XL, ISSUE 16 MARCH 26, 2013 DC brings pub night downtown Josh Santos A NIGHT OUT: Cody Lamb, the director of Development and Innovation for DC, and the president of the Social Science and Humani- ties Student Society, Vinayak Ethiraju get competitive over a game of pool at the off-campus pub night. Story on page 16. Former GM calls for change Manjula Selvarajah Rachel Calvelli and the SA board chair impeach the president. Cook felt that it Calvelli, meanwhile, defended the The Chronicle Jeff Everingham the opportunity to sit was the role of the president to try to re- need for stringent processes to ensure down and share his thoughts. solve such conÀicts at the earlier stages. student money is well spent, while rec- In a move that surprised staff and ob- He said neither responded to his of- Calvelli acknowledged in an email ognizing that these may need work as servers, David Cook, the general man- fer. to The Chronicle that the turnover was they may be negatively affecting the stu- ager of the DC and UOIT Student As- Board chair Everingham did not re- higher than partner organizations, but dent experience. sociation, resigned a mere three months spond to The Chronicle’s request for said it is being worked on. Sitting tie-less at a neighbourhood into his tenure. an interview. President She pointed to efforts Tim Hortons, the former GM is con- A former VP of Information Technol- Calvelli replied, declining to hire good replacements, structive in his feedback. ogy at the YMCA of Greater Toronto, he to comment on the details It was really a bro- create additional roles and He sees an opportunity to restruc- has over 30 years of management expe- around Cook’s departure, ‘ken organization from the recent hiring of an HR ture the SA so that the executive team is citing con¿dentiality specialist as ways to pro- working on more advocacy and student rience at a diverse set of companies and so many different per- charities. around human resources vide some relief. engagement as opposed to administra- In a sense, the surprise may be ex- matters. Cook pointed to spectives. As per the former GM tion. tended to Cook himself, who until that unresolved conÀicts, high and validated by students The recent handling of the U-Pass in- morning had been going full-steam at staff turnover and low ’ grumbling on social media, crease validates this idea. the job, despite having concerns about staff morale as signs of an David Cook certain processes at the SA The U-Pass fee was increased by the work environment. organization that needs seem mired in bureau- 16 per cent over three years with what “It was really a broken organization to change. cracy. As an example, an some considered as little ¿ght from the from so many different perspectives. “Literally, in the time I was there, I SA risk management committee needs SA. There was so much that needed to be had 17 or 18 people come into my of- to approve funds for special events stu- The UOIT undergraduate student done,” he said. “I was there 16 hours a ¿ce, close the door and break down into dents run. governor Zaid Keldani contacted The day, which is OK if the staff is on your tears,” he said. “They were frustrated The process is considered lengthy, Chronicle after a reading an article on side, but then it started to get personal..” with the organization and each other.” with a lot of unnecessary back and forth, the U-Pass to say the SA team had not “I have spent 35 years as a senior ex- The SA has been plagued by staff de- which in some cases causes the event to made any effort to get a united voice to- ecutive, doing a lot of good things, and partures, HR complaints and conÀicts be cancelled. gether before going into key meetings I was really concerned about my own that seem to play out in the public realm “It is also a very wasteful process, on the fee increase. reputation,” Cook added. – as experienced by attendees at a tense when you consider that there are four The former GM mentioned that after SA annual general meeting in the fall people who meet every day to deal with See SA on page 3 he resigned, he had offered SA president of 2012 that discussed a resolution to these issues,” Cook said. 2 The Chronicle March 26, 2013 Campus Students await upcoming trial date Thousands of dollars worth of laptops were stolen Courtney Morin Thomas Lynch tried urging stu- The Chronicle dents to keep their belongings safe at all times, but important Two students have been ar- recommendations don’t always rested, charged with theft and stick. released on bail after a stream “We were doing everything of thefts that left many UOIT that we could to stop [the cul- and Durham College students prits],” said Lynch. without a laptop to call their “I know the university and own. The case will go to trial the college were doing blitz the ¿rst week of April. memos to warn students not to Between November 2012 leave their laptops unattended and January 2013 thieves stole - but despite that, people are thousands of dollars worth of creatures of habit.” laptops and backpacks from Campus Safety called in the various locations around cam- Durham Regional Police to pus. Campus Security and Dur- help, but campus security su- Courtney Morin ham Regional Police worked pervisor Bram Samaroo carried diligently to stop the thefts out much of the work out. Sa- STUBBORN STUDENTS: “Recently, there have been thefts in this area. The from continuing. maroo watched countless hours On Jan. 30, 2013 at about of campus video footage to nar- CRWC strongly recommends you lock up your possessions in one of the day lock- 6 p.m., a male matching the row down a list of suspects. ers”, reads the sign that hangs over the unattended bags outside the Flex centre. main suspect’s description en- “When he had a few min- tered the north campus Flex utes, he was going that extra of arrest were limited.” er, and arrest them. They would the key campus security needed Centre and was followed by a distance, trying to follow the Campus security can only need to take action at the same to have Durham Regional Po- male matching the secondary path of the videos,” explained apprehend a suspect using a time and in the same location lice join the investigation. suspect’s description shortly Lynch. citizen’s arrest. at the crime committed. Durham police teamed up after. Durham Regional Police “It was a priority to identify “For us to approach them Shortly after the investiga- with campus security in late arrested both suspects at the who was taking the laptops,” and say ‘wait for the police,’ tion ended the restrictions on a 2012 and put together a team of scene. said Samaroo. it can get a little tricky,” said citizens’ arrest were altered. As plain-clothed of¿cers to further The Of¿ce of Campus Safety Being a campus security Lynch. “Sometimes it can get of February, the “Lucky Moose investigate the crimes. began to notice a trend in re- team, Lynch and his team could physical, and we want to avoid Bill”, stemming from the case UOIT student Rishi Bhatia ports of thefts involving UOIT only do so much when it came putting any of our staff, faculty of a Toronto man being pun- and Durham College student laptops starting in the fall of to catching the thieves. or students at risk.” ished for apprehending a man Azeez Patel have been charged 2012 and saw it continue into “The issue with us is that Another limitation campus who had recently robbed his with theft. winter 2013. we were a step behind them security faced was that they store, expanded the de¿nition They are currently banned The thefts were occurring at because they were going to could only apprehend someone to allow arrests “within a rea- from all Durham College and different locations on different different locations at different when a crime is witnessed. sonable amount of time” after UOIT properties, both by a days of the week and at various times,” he explains. Let’s say they saw the crime the criminal offence. trespass order issued by the Of- times. It was going to be dif¿- “Even though we had the go down on video – they Still, Samaroo’s ability to ¿ce of Campus Safety and by cult to catch these guys. suspects on video and we could couldn’t ¿nd the suspect at a narrow down the suspect list the conditions of bail placed on Director of Campus Safety probably see them, our powers later date, or even an hour lat- using video surveillance was the two men by the courts. DC rewards outstanding faculty and part-time faculty,” said Harwood. “I’ve volun- teered at a number of different teaching and learning Harwood is a strong activities across campus as well.” Harwood works with several groups to help teach- believer in the ers develop and enhance teaching skills and tech- niques. One of the projects is Teaching in Community. This group brings faculty together a year at a time to community of teaching discuss good teaching practices. The program encourages faculty to explore and ex- periment with teaching and learning techniques. Michelle Munro She also does some facilitation with the eastern col- The Chronicle leges.