On April 16th 1970, the staff at UTIAS (University of Toronto Institute of Aerospace Studies) were in the midst of a routine staff meeting when they were interrupted by a phone call that would change the course of Aerospace history forever. It was US based Grumman Aerospace, calling to convey the message NASA had received…

It all started as an experiment - an experiment to inject a healthy dose of scientific curiosity into the public. U of T Professor Dwayne Miller was riding the Berlin underground late one night, exhausted after attending a night-long science festival, when he noticed an elderly woman strike up a conversation with a young punk…

Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab at U of T's Munk Centre, is part of a team that has uncovered one of the largest online spy rings found to date. The report, released on Tuesday, is a collaboration between the Information Warfare Monitor, comprised of the Citizen Lab and Ottawa-based security consultancy SecDev Group,…

It is safe to assume that most university beer drinkers pay little attention to the beer they consume. Thankfully, the boozepaper has arrived to educate members of the U of T beer drinking community about what they should look for in a beer. As a participant in the evaluation process featured in this issue, I…

Riding down Toronto’s alleys at this time of year can be very refreshing. Imagine cool, city air blowing your hair wildly about as snowflakes float onto your face. The experience is even more riveting when you're inebriated. Fun as it maybe, this provides for haphazard, and often dangerous, confrontation with other road-users. Downtown Toronto cyclists…

GSU PUB Tucked away in a non-descript corner of the university, the Graduate Students' Union (GSU) Pub is found on the first floor of the GSU building. The building, an old house, survived the construction of the Earth Sciences complex in the 1990s, and retains its original character. The pub itself is the old front…

  As the elections for next year's UTSU executives draw to a close, the number of demerits handed out by Chief Returning Officer David Blocker are piling up for the Change slate. Candidates can accrue a total of 35 demerits before being disqualified from the elections.   On March 17, CRO David Blocker handed Change…

With the University of Toronto Students’ Union elections approaching, this year sees two full slates facing off: Change U of T and Stronger Together.

Attendees at the Governing Council Town Hall on March 1 voiced a great deal of criticism about the U of T's  Code of Student Conduct. U of T administration's recent usage of the code has raised concerns among student leaders and activists.

“As I looked at my degrees on the wall, it became clear to me that I was ashamed to be associated with a university that permitted something that was ideologically perverse, historically inaccurate, and clearly did not meet the minimum standards for taking place on a university campus.” So says Howard Rotberg, a lawyer, community…

Campus activists tried to turn heads towards Palestine’s cause this past week, as U of T hosted the sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). The week focused on the strategy of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) to pressure Israel about the seizure of Palestinian lands and the imprisonment of the West Bank populace behind an…

As U of T scrambles to patch up recent financial blunders and put together a new investment plan, many students and staff are concerned about where their money might be headed.   In 2007-2008, nearly 30 percent of the university’s endowment went down the drain due to investment mistakes. University of Toronto Asset Management (UTAM),…