SPRING 2008 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Building a Better College for UC Students How Capital Improvements Enhance the Student Experience Meet the Commuter Student Centre Dons UC History 101 Front to Back: 2007/2008 Commuter Student Centre Don Madeline MacKenzie, 2007/2008 Off-Campus Commissioner Arman Hamidian, 2007/2008 Commuter Student Centre Don Deena UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Dadachanji in the UC Commuter Student Centre 54748-1 UC_08_SPRING_R16.indd 1 3/5/08 3:16:41 PM UC NOW CONTENTS A Message from UC Principal 2 A Message from UC Principal Sylvia Bashevkin A Message Sylvia Bashevkin 4 In Touch from UCAA Faculty and Staff News This edition of the University Recently Published President College magazine highlights Nicholas efforts to improve student life 6 Spotlight that we’ve undertaken during Meet Commuter Student Centre Dons Deena Dadachanji and Holland (UC ‘93) recent years, and hope with Madeline MacKenzie your help to pursue in the Let me begin with an ending. This is, with some sad- future. Our theme of building Come Back for Spring Reunion 2008 ness, my final message as the President of the UCAA 7 a better College draws inten- Welcoming all graduates of years ending in 3 and 8 as my wife, Tracy Hazlewood (a UC alumna), and tionally on the word building I are leaving Canada at the end of March for the – since so many of the fond Cayman Islands. And so, farewell! memories treasured by our alumni relate directly to the 8 Feature The focus for this edition of the magazine is building physical spaces at the heart of the St. George campus. Unlocking Doors: How improvements in space a better College for UC students and in this issue we Whether it’s the majestic national heritage site of the main are improving student experiences at explore the renewal of student spaces at UC. Lately, I UC buildings, the inviting comforts of the UC Union or University College have been reflecting on the spaces at UC that mattered one of the campus residences that undergrads call home, the to me as a student, both for better and worse: breakfasts places that form UC need to work well for every generation and later dancing (surely, drinking) in Reznikoff’s Pub; of students. lounging around in the Mulock, Ferguson and Hutton Many years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt observed that “the common rooms (I lived in residence for 5 years); “dining” purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to in Fung (and wondering when that slice of butter will the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer Giving Back finally fall from the ceiling); drinking coffee in Diablo’s; 11 and richer experience.” Her philosophy rests at the core of How to make a difference in the lives of UC students or sitting in the Croft Chapter House for another inter- our approach to renewing University College. Once the minable budget meeting of the Lit. That even Croft construction of Morrison Hall was completed in 2005, UC History 101 Chapter House brings back some fond memories is a 17 we turned our attention to the roughly 85 percent of UC Madeleine (Lane) Edward: A Charter Resident of Whitney Hall testament to the influence UC had on my life. students who commute, and worked closely with the Lit For the time being I still live near UC. I still walk executive on converting approximately 2,250 square feet of 19 Scene & Heard around the UC grounds (only now with my dog, space at the back of the Union building into a Commuter UC Student/Alumni Mentorship Program Update Monty). And I still drink in the Duke of York. Many Student Centre. Thanks to the generous support of David UC Alumni Making a Difference in the World of my friends and colleagues are UC grads. I will miss Leith (UC ‘81), the Provost’s Student Experience Fund and them and UC very much. our Annual Fund donors, the study, lounge and kitchenette 21 Alumni Notes For those who live in and visit Toronto, I encourage facilities in the Centre are now a hub of activity. Awards and accolades for UC alumni you to stop by UC again, get involved and volunteer You might well ask, “What about the JCR?” With about In Memoriam your time and talents. You won’t regret it. 4,300 students enrolled in the College and approximately 22 Remembering alumni In closing, I owe a tremendous thank you to all of 800 in UC-sponsored interdisciplinary programs, the JCR the UC staff, alumni, volunteers and students who has been bursting at the seams for some time. Our goal 23 Calendar of Events have made my tenure as President such fun. remains to offer multiple areas in this extraordinary public Save the date Finally, if you are visiting the Caymans and see an institution for students to meet each other, form lasting awkward, sunburned man with a beautiful wife and friendships, learn from each other, pursue the questions that yellow Labrador retriever, and you wonder what that fascinate them and collaborate on projects that they find lucky geek did to deserve all that; let me tell you. He exciting. Your support is enormously appreciated, since it volunteered at UC. Please say hello. means we can continue working each day to build a better And so we end with a beginning. College. 2 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ALUMNI MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 SPRING 2008 WWW.UC.UTORONTO.CA 3 54748-1 UC_08_SPRING_R16.indd 2 3/5/08 1:18:13 PM UC NOW CONTENTS University College 2 A Message from UC Principal Sylvia Bashevkin A Message from UC Principal Volume 33 Number 2 Spring 2008 Sylvia Bashevkin 4 In Touch Faculty and Staff News This edition of the University Recently Published College magazine highlights University College Alumni Magazine efforts to improve student life is a publication of the 6 Spotlight that we’ve undertaken during Meet Commuter Student Centre Dons Deena Dadachanji and University College recent years, and hope with Madeline MacKenzie Alumni Association your help to pursue in the University of Toronto future. 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