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Vol. XXX No. VIII

Naylor Gets Hammered

by Students

The Art Gallery of Ontario youth council held a zine mu-ral party on Saturday evening to celebrate the release of their third issue of Seizure, which focused on the emotion “pas-sion”. By exploring passion the council was able to develop several creative writing pieces similar to previous issues that focused on gratifi cation and an-ticipation. The council has been working on this project

throughout the past month and they were able to produce some extremely evocative pieces. The young authors were encour-aged to explore their inner cre-ativity by writing poems relat-ing to their names. They then read their poems, which are also published in this issue of seizure, aloud in front of a cap-tive audience. The party doesn’t end there… The council included a live DJ, food and a mural that anyone and everyone could

contribute to. This mix made the entire event engaging for every-one and encouraged the partici-pation of artists of any age. The stage and microphones were open to any performers who wanted to sing along or dance to the music. This allowed many talented young people a chance to show everyone what they’re made of. The AGO youth coun-cil put together a colourful evening of creative expression produced by the young artists themselves.

By Ryan Hayes

On October 18, UofT President David Naylor began a town hall meeting to discuss Towards 2030 – his plan to set “long-term strategic directions” and reach “new levels of excellence” – by trying to convince his audience that he had no secret agenda. It was surreal to see Naylor stand at a podium in Innis Town Hall with the back-drop of a 15.5 ft. high image of himself on a poster created by the Arts and Science Students’ Union (ASSU). Naylor displayed the poster with the added cap-tion “Secret Agenda Exposed!” in an attempt to mock his crit-ics. While the poster made no claims about “secret” agendas, it points out clear and disturb-

ing trends toward the deregu-lation of tuition fees and the commercialization of research, which are strong themes in the Towards 2030 document avail-able at http://www.towards2030.utoronto.ca. Despite expressing his willingness to openly engage the audience in dialogue, Nay-lor spent the next hour dodging students’ pointed questions, pleading ignorance, or giving long and underwhelming re-sponses consistently absent of any new information or com-mitments. Criticizing increasing corporatization on campus, a student spoke about how Sec-ond Cup was permitted to take-over student outreach space in Sidney Smith Hall without

any consultation with students. Naylor responded that he him-self had no knowledge of these plans until after the fact. When students raised concerns about the subtle infl u-ence of corporate donors and corporate research contracts on academic freedom in fi elds as diverse as Fine Art and Medi-cine, Naylor avoided address-ing specifi c issues by citing a recent tightening of donation guidelines. Members of the Afri-can Studies Initiative (ASI) dis-cussed the severe marginaliza-tion of African Studies at UofT. After being told by Naylor that their issue was not within his ju-risdiction, a member of the ASI noted that this was the response

An institution such as a univer-sity should have mechanisms in place to ensure accountability at every level. When a student’s rights are violated on campus, we call the Ombudsperson; if they are in physical danger we call campus police. But what do we do when the university ad-ministration itself is not being held accountable? Who do we call? In cases like Adam Rog-ers’, students can be left with no one to turn to. Adam Rogers trans-ferred from the University of Waterloo with his pregnant wife and three children in the hopes of getting an education that would better serve as a foundation for Law school at

the University of Toronto's Mis-sissauga campus – at least he thought that's what he would get. “During the applica-tion process, UTM offered me a lease, so I think ‘great I must have been accepted,’” says Rog-ers, “because you have to be a full-time student to get a lease, so I signed the lease, we moved in, then a week later I got a let-ter denying me admission.” Who then is to be held accountable when the adminis-tration of the biggest university in Canada refuses to take re-sponsibility for its actions? Rogers was offered a lease agreement in July and his family moved in on the 19th of August, he received his rejec-tion on the 4th of September,

with an eviction notice for the 15th of October. He appealed the deci-sion based on the Housing De-partment's recognition of him as a student. He was quickly shut down and told he was be-ing evicted. “You cannot offer hous-ing unless it’s to a full-time stu-dent,” says Rogers, “they told me, ‘Well that’s not our respon-sibility.’” Rogers took his case all the way up to the dean and the chief administrative offi cer, who both sent him to the Dean of Student Affairs, Mark Over-ton. “His solution was to give me the number for social services, welfare and the food bank and said good luck as he

slammed the door after me.” The Dean offered Rog-ers the numbers for Ontario works and welfare, and also stated “He needs to consider Kitchener as an option and also maybe explore extended family, at least for his children.” In an email response to Rogers, Diane G Crocker, the Registrar and Director of En-rolment Management at UTM described how he was not up to academic standard, “Mr. Adams. When you applied for admission to University of Toronto Mississauga you were refused. At no time were you offered admission to the Uni-versity of Toronto. Unfortunate-ly you do not possess a basis for admission to the University of Toronto Mississauga.” The fact

that he uprooted his entire fam-ily to come to UTM because the department of housing admit-ted him as a student was not even addressed. Currently the only aid Rogers and his family are receiving is from the UTM students Union. “The student’s union at UTM has been really, really good. They gave me an emer-gency loan of 1000 dollars just over a month ago, but that didn’t last with 6 people to feed, my wife is due in 2 months with a fourth, and they are trying to kick us out.” Legally, the offer of residence and legal signing of the lease should have been recognized by both the housing department and the registrar’s offi ce. The lack of consistency in

Accountability: The University of Toronto

AGO Celebrates Youth

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Interview with She Wants Revenge

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Wanna Know What’s Wrong With Diversity?

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they had received from every administrator they had ever met with. Another student told Naylor that he would not be allowed to “pass the buck” on this issue, citing the large-ly-ignored recommendations from the 1992 Presidential Advisory Committee on Race Relations and Anti-Racism Initiatives on Curriculum. “Duly noted” was all Naylor had to say. Other issues raised included exorbitant interna-

tional student tuition fees, the refusal of the university to make its audits public, poor quality food services, skyrocketing salaries for ad-ministrators and how uni-versity policies are pushing students further into poverty and debt. Like Naylor’s per-formance in the town hall, the Towards 2030 process as a whole seems like more of a public relations exercise than an opportunity for meaning-ful discussion and debate about the future of the uni-versity. Membership on the

task forces that will make final recommendations to Naylor has been tightly con-trolled – student and staff unions were excluded, while “long-serving” faculty and staff, “prominent” alumni, and a few students on the Governing Council will be appointed. By design, such selective membership will inevitably lead to very selec-tive results. Students left the town hall feeling skepti-cal about whether their long-term goals could possibly be included in Naylor’s To-wards 2030 plan, or whether this was yet another example

where “consultation” is a mere formality before ideas are imposed from the top down. However, a newly formed coalition called the Joint Union of Staff and Stu-dents Together in Solidarity (JUSSTIS) has already recog-nized the need for a genu-ine and inclusive process in which concerned members of the university community can collectively discuss their visions for the future. Con-tact JUSSTIS at jusstis@gmail.com to learn more about how to get involved

It’s tough to take in any pub-lic discourse without com-ing across some mention of ‘diversity’. Politicians talk regularly about the need to do all kinds of lovely things with diversity: embrace it, encourage it, enhance it. The conventional wisdom is that the disproportionate poverty suffered by certain communi-ties can slowly be alleviated through direct efforts to in-clude people with varying of ethnic backgrounds, reli-gions and sexual orientations in positions of power. There are now many more people of color in post-secondary educational institutions, in management positions and in government than ever before. This is commonly interpreted as meaning that things are slowly getting better.

American academic Walter Benn Michaels argues that our love affair with di-versity has at best been mis-guided and would be better described as harmful. Mi-chaels has made the question of diversity the subject of his latest research and present-ed his findings at the Munk Center last week in a lecture called ‘The Trouble with Di-versity’. Michaels’s work pro-vides evidence that in spite of the diversity agenda be-ing granted such high prior-ity, economic inequality is steadily worsening. The av-erage working person today works longer hours for less money than working people of previous eras. The telltale statistic of inequality, the Gini coefficient, shows that wealth is now concentrated in the hands of fewer people than

ever before in contemporary times. Michaels argues that the real source of inequality lies in class separation. The greatest obstacle to upward mobility is poverty itself; appointing a few people of color to prominent positions does nothing to address the larger gap in wealth. All the while this championing of di-versity actually does damage by creating the impression of progress while none is taking place. During his talk, Michaels cited data which showed that while there are more students of Asian, Af-rican and Latin American descent in major American universities today than there were decades ago, the wider separation between the rich and the poor means that it’s actually more difficult

for low-income people to gain higher education. With top-tier academic institu-tions being increasingly ex-pensive, they are now more than ever accessible only to a small, wealthy minority. Therein lays the backbone of Michaels’s argument: that inequality as a result of dis-crimination is now so ab-horred while real inequality is a result of exploitation and goes unquestioned. When a well-off, mid-dle-aged white man like Pro-fessor Michaels pontificates about race relations he’s sure to draw criticism. Michaels may not have all the answers, but his work suggests a dif-ferent way of looking at an important set of issues that people of all colors and in-come brackets should take a moment to think about.

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Naylor cont. from pg. 1

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the administration has left his entire family on the brink. “I can’t believe this is the University of Toronto,” says Rogers, “if I have known I would have stayed at Water-loo.“ With their eldest child in school and their youngest almost due, Rogers family is suffering the most. The things we’ve had to do in order to sur-vive are ridiculous,” says Erica Rogers. “We came because they let us, and now they are telling us to leave, and its scary for me because I know this baby has to come out, a newborn in the middle of winter, what am I supposed to do with that? I don’t know what we're going to do; I’ve had times where I’ve cried so much I didn’t think that I could anymore.” While Rogers receives solace only from fellow stu-dents, his image of UofT has be-come one of a negligible insti-tution that disregards the very people who keep it running. What does Rogers want in the end? “I want to be compen-sated and then I will gladly go. I will not study here, no way. I will not have these people in-charge of my education, not af-ter this.”

Accountability cont. from pg. 1

The idea of parallel universes baffles me. In my close-minded approach to life, my existence takes place as a single “world line” where the events that occur take place only once; they have a sense of finality to them. A number of Oxford scientists however, have unearthed a mathematical dis-covery that has further verified the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of our universe.

In MWI there is no sin-gle world where physical events happen only in the way we ob-serve them. MWI views the uni-verse as an infinitely branched tree where every possible branch of history is realized. It is argued that every time a new physical possibility is explored the universe splits, thus every possible outcome is played out in its own universe (some-where, in some universe, the

Timothy Ryan Goes Where No Columnist Has Gone Before

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“I don’t like milk, I don’t like anything about it. I’ll cook with milk, but I have never liked the taste, the consistency …I just hate milk.” Justin Warfield, of She Wants Revenge, and I sat down at a coffee shop just east of the Operahouse so that he could enjoy his steaming java –with soy milk. A strict regiment and a ton of caffeine is probably what it would take to deal with the band’s schedule anyhow. After coming out with their debut self-titled album (She Wants Revenge) in late 2006, the band quickly toured and had their new disc on the shelves within a year and a half. “Because we do what we love, we just do what we want. No record company is

going to tell us to keep touring, or make another album –we would never listen to them. The reason why we made this re-cord quickly is because Adam [Bravin] and I are used to be-ing in the recording studio all the time writing and recording music. That’s what we do. By the time we were done with the tour we were just like –let’s get into the studio right now. We were bursting with ideas.” For those not familiar with the darkwave San Fer-nando duo, both Justin War-field, who handles the vocals and guitar, and Adam Bravin (aka. Adam 12) have been in the industry for a while. While they both have roots in hip-hop, Bravin making beats for people like Dr. Dre, and Warfield re-

leasing a solo rap album in the early nineties, they have both made the conscious decision to return to rock music. If you have ever seen their debut album then you would remember it; the cover shows a girl wearing a white tank-top holding a very large knife behind her back. Their new disc, This Is Forever, has a girl wearing a black tank-top sporting a veil, with a single black rose behind her. While the continuity is obvious, there is a marked change in representa-tion. “This record is darker. A lot of people in our posi-tion would play it safe. But we needed to make this record for ourselves first, and our fans second. The first record was for

ourselves, because we didn’t have any fans.” In regards to their big-gest single ‘Tear You Apart’ with an f-bomb as in in-your-face as possible, I asked him how he feels about using expletives and what it meant to possible radio play. “You know, people said to me [about the single ‘Tear You Apart’] you put the word ‘fuck’ in there just to get on the radio. Why would a song with the word ‘fuck’ get played on the radio? It was never intended to be a single. I’m from America –they censor everything! By ac-cident it happened. One DJ on free form satellite radio decided to give us a shot.” I questioned him about the lack of a parental advisory

sticker on the new album, won-dering if the decreased use of expletives was a conscious effort or not. “I make an effort not to. I did say ‘shit’ and ‘fuck’ once, but I tried not to. On this record [This Is Forever] I didn’t swear as much, not because of a sticker, but because I see it as a crutch. And while it wasn’t a crutch on the first record, I was accused of using it as one. That was prob-ably the only thing I did that was reactionary to anything said about the first album.” In only two years I asked what could possibly have changed for them between the two albums in such a short time? “On this record, we know exactly who we are. No question.”

Leafs have won the Cup before the last time it was “observed” in 1967). For example, a motor-ist who flirts with certain injury after a near-missed accident is relieved at his lucky escape; in a parallel universe however, the accident took place and the driver was killed, yet again in another universe the driver was treated at a hospital for his inju-ries resulting from the crash. In each of these worlds everything is identical except for that one different choice (to swerve into traffic or not to) and they de-velop independently, without communication between them. The mathematical basis for this theory lies in the com-plex world of quantum me-chanics. Essentially, MWI is an

interpretation on quantum me-chanics; stating nothing at the subatomic scale can really be said to exist until it is observed. Until then, particles occupy nebulous “superposition” states in which they can have simulta-neous “up” and “down” spins or appear to be in different places at the same time. Obser-vation appears to “nail down” a particular state of reality in the same way as a spinning coin can only be said to be “heads” or “tails” once it is caught. Ac-cording to quantum mechan-ics, unobserved particles are described by "wave functions" representing a set of multiple "probable" states. When an ob-server makes a measurement, the particle then settles down

into one of these multiple op-tions. Polls have shown that a significant number of physicists who study quantum mechanics believe this is in fact how the world really is. Many of them also prefer not to discuss the subject. This interpretation of quantum mechanics has dis-turbing implications on our un-derstanding of the human soul. If this is how the world really is, then MWI implies that our soul splits an infinite num-ber of times and is fragmented across the countless worlds which contain them. This ob-viously contradicts many con-temporary religious beliefs and writings, an idea many would rather forget than face.

Band Pro!le: She Wants Revenge By Joe Zabukovec

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BACKGROUND

The St. George campus of the University of Toronto is one of the only Canadian university campuses without a large student-centred community facility. Students at the Mississauga (UTM) and Scarborough (UTSC) campuses both enjoy one – but students at St. George do not.

In 2005, the University of Toronto Students’ Union (UTSU, formerly the Students’ Administrative Council) conducted a plebiscite and found that a majority of students voted in favour of building and financially contributing towards such a facility.

An interim project planning report, approved by the University’s Governing Council on June 25, 2007, describes a “Student Commons” facility that would provide the following kinds of space and services:

• 24-hour student space• commuter space• prayer space• club offices and space• lounge space• study space• meeting rooms• healthy, affordable and diverse food

options (e.g., Halal, Kosher, vegan)• rehearsal space• used bookstore• large multi-purpose space• offices for student organizations• food bank• workshop and design space• bicycle repair space• space to sell discounted TTC Metropasses

for longer periods of time• space to provide UTSU services more

effectively and efficiently

The Student Commons would be managed, operated, and governed by students – therefore protecting the Student Commons from commercialization, corporatization, and privatization.

UTSU envisions the Student Commons as a nexus of student community, co-operation, and communication.

The Student Commons would be built with a view to achieving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The Student Commons would be an accessible facility.

The University has conditionally approved construction of the Student Commons on “site 12,” located on the west side of Devonshire Place, just south of Bloor Street. It is expected that construction would commence in September, 2008.

UTSU is seeking the support of its members registered at the St. George campus to demonstrate that we are fully committed to contributing financially towards the construction and operation of the Student Commons. The proposed student levies being requested would be less than the similar levies being paid by UTM and UTSC students. The University would match student contributions to the Student Commons at a minimum rate of 50%.

PROPOSAL & QUESTION

Be it resolved that:

1. Every member of the University of Toronto Students’ Union (“UTSU”)* registered at the St. George campus (“St. George Member”) shall contribute financially to a Student Commons facility (“Student Commons”) on the express condition that the Student Commons shall be managed, operated, and governed by students through UTSU.

2. For construction costs of the Student Commons:

(a) beginning in the summer session of 2008, and until the opening of the Student Commons, every St. George Member shall contribute up to $5.00 per session; and,

(b) upon opening of the Student Commons, for a period of no more than 25 years, every St. George Member shall contribute up to $14.25 per session.

3. For operating and capital renewal costs of the Student Commons, upon opening of the Student Commons, every St. George Member shall contribute up to $6.50 per session.

4. Financial contributions collected from St. George Members for operating and capital costs of the Student Commons shall be adjusted annually to a maximum of ten percent (10%) in order to address inflationary cost increases.

Are you in favour of the proposal, as appearing above?

o Yes o No

* NB. “University of Toronto Students’ Union” and/or “UTSU” refers to the Students’ Administrative Council of the University of Toronto, Inc.

NOTICE OF REFERENDUM

The University of Toronto Students’ Union (UTSU) will be holding a referendum in conjunction with UTSU’s fall 2007 by-elections. Those eligible to vote in the referendum are members of UTSU, including full-time undergraduate students, registered at the St. George campus.

VOTING PERIOD

Wednesday, October 31

to Friday, November 2, 2007

9:00 am - 6:00 pm, daily

VOTING LOCATIONS

Alumni Hall (St. Michael’s College)

Medical Sciences Building, Stone Lobby

Sidney Smith Hall, lobby

Trinity College, Larkin Building

Warren Stevens Building (Athletic Centre)

Woodsworth College Residence

News, information, updates, and official notices in relation to the referendum, including any changes relevant to this notice, will be posted to the UTSU website (www.utsu.ca).

Please note that advocating committees are required to register in accordance with UTSU’s Charter for Referenda.

Inquiries should be directed to UTSU’s Chief Returning Officer by telephone (416-978-4911 x 228) or via e-mail (cro@utsu.ca).

Please note that, at the time of this publication,

“University of Toronto Students’ Union” and/or

“UTSU” refers to the Students’ Administrative Council

of the University of Toronto, Inc. (“SAC”).

CORRECTION: Please note the correction in paragraph 2(b) of the proposal. In the originally published and posted version of this notice, the monetary figure was printed as $16.00. The correct figure, as reflected in this second and revised version of the notice, is $14.25. UTSU elections and referenda administrative staff apologize for the error.

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the formulaic structure and in-strumentation that has been the standard of recent English gui-tar bands. Approaching their third record with a newfound interest in electronic beats and heavier guitars, the band has publicly hailed this album as their best work. Fans of their earlier al-bums, however, may not share these glowing sentiments. The

main complaint on Beyond the Neighbourhood seems to be the band’s directional indecision; in an attempt to create a profound record, Athlete has failed to dif-ferentiate between bland and thoughtful. The album’s cen-terpiece, ‘It’s Not Your Fault’, showcases the band’s tight knit instrumentation and innova-tion, but these moments are too few and far between. Too many of the tracks rely heavily on forgettable guitar and piano hooks, and although front man Joel Pott’s vocals remain one of

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the band’s stronger points, his somber voice fails to make up for the overall lack of diversity on this album. Recorded by the band themselves in their newly built private studio, one of the main detractors of Beyond the Neigh-bourhood may lie in the band’s over-tinkering with their mate-rial in postproduction.

“This time around we hit the nail on the head” is the Baby-shambles’ frontman Peter Do-herty’s comment on his band’s new album Shotter’s Nation. De-pending on what he meant, he might be right. If he’s referring to an attempt to steal the most beats and lyrics from other artists, then the Babyshambles have in-deed “hit the nail on the head”. The main victims here are prob-ably The Kinks and their ac-claimed single ‘You Really Got Me’, whose catchy tunes can be heard in ‘Delivery’ and ‘You Talk’, the two supposed lead singles. Now obviously one might think I belong to the half of people that hate the Baby-shambles, as one can only ei-ther hate or love them. Well, al-though I had my mind made up about them, I still tried to give them a fair shot and listened to their tracks objectively. The whole enterprise just proved me right: the Babyshambles are a band with no artistic talent whose main characteristic is a

frontman who is addicted to at-tention. Throughout the album you’ll hear bits and pieces of Dire Straits and the Arctic Mon-keys. But some credit should be given to the Babyshambles for actually stating, with some honesty, that their songs are ac-tually “inspired” by those other artists. Sadly enough that won’t make the Babyshambles a band to remember. Yet. The only song that mer-its some consideration is ‘Carry On Up The Morning’. But you’d better not listen to the lyrics. They'll make you realize the bit-ter reality of the Babyshambles’ inexistent artistry with cheap, repetitive and cheesy lines. Meanwhile, if you are looking for some quality eleva-tor music or some low-grade Brit pop for your 12-year-old sister, Shotter’s Nation is defi-nitely a good investment. How-ever, if you really want the Brit Rock experience, you should look into The Rakes, which are a creative post-punk revival band from London.

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