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ofTUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINESHOW OFFAITHThe role of religionin students’ livesWINTER 2007 • VOL. 34 NO. 2PM40065699RELIGION VS EQUALITY RIGHTS ON THE AIR AT CIUT TRASH TALKTHANKS TO OUR DONORS

EXPLORE THE WORLDUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ALUMNI TRAVEL PROGRAM 2007We are pleased to introduce our exciting destinations for 2007. Each year, about 400 U of T alumni and friendsexplore the cultures and history of great communities around the world. Join us as we follow the passage ofthe Moors, travel along the legendary Silk Road by train, and marvel at the sheer beauty of Victoria Falls.Prices quoted are in Canadian dollars, per person and based on double occupancy. Dates and prices are subject to change.Individual tour brochures are available approximately 4 - 6 months prior to departure. To request a brochure, please call416-978-2367 or 1-800-463-6048 or e-mail alumnitravel@utoronto.ca or visit us online at www.alumnitravel.utoronto.ca or mailthis coupon to: University of Toronto Alumni Travel, 21 King’s College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3J3Name: _______________________________________________________________________ Grad Year: ______________D E T A C HAddress: ____________________________________________ City: _____________________ Province: ______________Postal Code: __________________ Tel: ____________________________ E-mail: ________________________________Alumni ID number (printed on mailing address of U of T Magazine) _____________________________________________Please send me additional information about individual trips: Yes No Please check off the trips for which you would like to receive information:Great JourneysJanuary 31 - February 11Panama CanalFrom $2895 + airFebruary 8 - 15Alumni College in Yucatan(Mexico)$2145 + airFebruary 19 - March 4Treasures of SouthernAfrica (South Africa & Zambia)$6095 + airMarch 13 - 27Wings Over the Nile(Egypt & Jordan)From $5810 + airMarch 24 - 31Cruising the MississippiFrom $2040 + airApril 16 - 24Waterways of Holland &BelgiumFrom $2145 + airMay 25 - June 8Romance of the BlueDanube (Germany to Romania)From $4195 + airMay 25 - June 12Shangri-La(Yunnan & Tibet)$7299May 26 - June 3Alumni College in theItalian Riviera (Italy)$2895 + airJune 1 - 12Alumni College in theSardinia & Corsica$3345 + airJune 12 - 23Alumni College in thethe Greek Isles$3595 + airJune 30 - July 11Alumni College inIreland$2895 + airJuly 26 - August 8Alumni College inUkraineFrom $2045 + airJuly 30 - August 11Passage of Peter theGreat (Russia)From $2745 + airAug 23 - Sept 13China’s Silk Road by Train$8889September 11 - 22Alumni College in Spain$3095 + airGreat CitiesSeptember 15 - 26Alumni College in theFrench Riviera (France)$3345 + airSept 26 - Oct 4Alumni College inTuscany (Italy)$2495 + airOctober 20 - 28Island Life in AncientGreece & TurkeyFrom $3495 + airOct 26 - Nov 4Amazon River Journey(Peru)From $3890 + airNovember 7 - 15Canary Islands,Madeira & the AlgarveFrom $2995 + airNov 26 - Dec 11Romancing India$8989March 10 - 18Rome & Florence (Italy)$2499November 8 - 15Beijing (China)$2299Great AdventureSeptember 12 - 23Sailing the TurkishCoast by Gulet$2520 + air

ontents CWINTER 2007Lisa Marshall andDave Peterson of CIUT20 SHOW OF FAITHU of T’s ecclesiastic alphabet oncebegan and ended with “A” forAnglican, but now embraceseveryone from Ahmadis to Zenists27 RELIGIONVERSUS THE CHARTERCanada’s commitment tomulticulturalism is being testedin new and unexpected ways32 ON THE AIRAfter 20 years of broadcasts,CIUT is still taking chances36 HELPING HANDSVolunteers do everything frommentor students to organizebook sales. U of T wouldn’t bethe same without them44 TRASH TALKCan technology solveToronto’s garbage problem?49 THANKS TO DONORSOur annual listing of donorswho made cumulative giftsof $5,000 or more to U of T,for the period January 1, 2004,to April 30, 2006DEPARTMENTS4 EDITOR’S NOTEDays of Service7 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGEThe Alumni Connection9 LETTERS10 LEADING EDGELast Neanderthals on Earth15 NEW & NOTABLESupercommuter63 GREAT GIFTSMunk Centre Receives $5 Million66 ALUMNI NOTESCourage to Come Back69 CALENDAR70 CAMPUS STORIESGood Sports71 PUZZLERiddles in Legends and Fun72 CLASSIFIEDS74 LOOKING BACKClock WiseCover: Fourth-yearengineering student Beatrice Sze,photographed by Jim PanouWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 3PHOTOGRAPHY: DEREK SHAPTON

UT of TheUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINEDays of Servicebenefits of volunteeringE ditor’s NoteWINTER 2007 VOLUME 34/NUMBER 2Editor and Manager: Scott AndersonManaging Editor: Stacey GibsonArt Direction: Fernanda Pisani/Ireland+AssociatesAdvertising and ProductionManager: Susan WrayPublisher: Rivi Frankle,Interim Vice-President andChief Advancement OfficerEditorial Office:Phone: (416) 946-7575Fax: (416) 978-3958E-mail: uoft.magazine@utoronto.caAdvertising Inquiries:Susan WrayPhone: (416) 978-0838Fax: (416) 978-3958E-mail: susan.wray@utoronto.caAll correspondence and undeliverable copies:University of Toronto Magazine,21 King’s College Circle,Toronto, ON M5S 3J3University of Toronto Magazine, with a circulationof 270,000, is published quarterly by theDivision of University Advancement. All materialis copyright © 2006 Governing Council,University of Toronto, and may be reprinted withwritten permission. Alumni of the university receivethe magazine free of charge. 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Box 29, Lewiston, NY 14092Printed in Canadaby Transcontinental Printing Inc.ISSN 1499-0040STAY IN TOUCHDo we have your correct name and address?If not, please call (416) 978-2139 or toll free1-800-463-6048.Or fax changes to (416) 978-1066or e-mail: address.update@utoronto.caVisit our online archives atwww.magazine.utoronto.caThe University of Toronto respects your privacy.We do not rent, trade or sell our mailing lists.If you do not wish to receive the magazinein the future, please contact us at(416) 978-2139 or 1-800-463-6048 oraddress.update@utoronto.caHE’S ONLY 23, BUT U OF T GRAD CRAIG KIELBURGER HAS ALREADY DEVOTEDhalf his life to helping children in developing countries escape poverty andexploitation. Earlier this year, Kielburger won a John H. Moss Scholarship,one of the highest awards U of T bestows on a graduating student, and hewas invited to speak at the annual meeting of the University of TorontoAlumni Association (UTAA).In his speech, Kielburger challenged U of T to become the first post-secondaryinstitution in Canada to require students to perform community serviceto receive their degree. Kielburger wants each student to provide 100hours of service over four years. He sees this not only as a way for students tocontribute to the world around them, but also to grow as citizens.“My greatest memories [of U of T] are not only of the professors and theclasses,” he told UTAA members, “but also the volunteer time I spent with students– nurturing not only our minds but also our hearts, our souls and whowe are as humans in service to our community, our nation and our world.”A few days after Kielburger’s speech in September, some 2,000 U of T students,staff and faculty fanned out across the city to volunteer for a day –doing everything from running a Special Olympics soccer tournament to collectinggarbage from riverbanks. The Day of Service allowed U of T communitymembers an opportunity to see first-hand how their academic goals canfit into larger principles of community service and civic engagement. Theuniversity plans to repeat the event annually.In this issue, we list the names of people and organizations – as we do eachyear – who have made major financial contributions to the university. Butthis year, we also pay tribute to alumni who have donated a large chunk oftime to their alma mater (see page 36). The alumni profiled here are all winnersof Arbor Awards, which recognize volunteers for outstanding personalservice to the university over a number of years.U of T professors also volunteer their time; many are called upon to provideopinions to the media, as well as advise on matters of municipal, provincialand national policy. In this issue, University Professor Janice Gross Steincontributes an essay on the thorny issue of religious and equality rights, andthe difficulties that arise when they come into conflict with each other (page27). Professors are also involved with the City of Toronto in devising betterways of handling the municipality’s growing trash problems (page 44).Many religions value volunteer work, believing, as Kielburger does, that itnurtures the soul. Writer Allen Abel takes a look at the state of the U of T student’ssoul in a story that illuminates the role religion plays on campus (page20). Although it is a strictly secular institution, U of T acknowledges the importanceof spirituality in students’ lives and will open a new MultiFaith Centreearly next year – in part to foster greater understanding among all faiths.A reminder: if you feel inspired to write, please enter our Alumni ShortStory and Poetry Contest (see page 28 for contest rules). Send us a previouslyunpublished story or poem by March 1, 2007, and you could win $1,000and publication in our summer issue.SCOTT ANDERSON4 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

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Every student at U of T is committed to excellence intheir academic pursuit. TD Meloche Monnex believesin celebrating co-curricular activities as a means ofenhancing the student experience.TD Meloche Monnex Pillar Sponsor of EXCELLENCEat the University of Toronto is proud to be an ongoingsupporter of the Only Human Dance Collective – aperformance dance company made up of students,alumni and faculty all united by a love of dance.TD Meloche Monnex salutes the Only Human DanceCollective in achieving creative excellence.Other 2006 events that received sponsorship include:Rotman International Trading CompetitionUniversity of Toronto Spring ReunionAwards of ExcellenceGordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards2006-2007 Faculty of Music Concert SeasonInnis College Thirty Years of Cinematic Excellence2006- 2007 Hart House Dramatic SeasonUTSX Astronomy and Space Exploration SocietyPhotography by: Nick Perks

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LettersA Flurry of MemoriesLife changed for a day during theGreat Snow of December 1944SNOW DAYStacey Gibson’s article about Betsy Mosbaugh(the first female Varsity editor) in theautumn issue brought back vivid memoriesof the blizzard of Dec. 12, 1944.On that Tuesday morning mybrother and I found about two feet ofsnow outside our farm in Clarkson,Ontario. We didn’t want to miss anyclasses, so we set out to catch the 7:04commuter train to Toronto.We trudged all the way down ClarksonRoad from north of the QEW inthe deep snow. The train was morethan an hour late. By the time we anda few others arrived at the downtowncampus, it was clear that nothing muchwas going on – or was likely to for therest of the day.I plodded across Bloor Street to Yongethen down to Queen Street, followingthe southbound streetcar track on Yongewithout having to dodge any traffic.When I arrived at Queen, it was still tooearly to catch the 5:20 train home, so Ipassed the rest of the afternoon at theCasino burlesque theatre, about wherethe Sheraton Centre now stands.The 5:20 left right on time, and whenwe arrived at Clarkson, everythingseemed back to normal with the roadswell plowed.Ian G. HendryBASc 1947Mississauga, OntarioLetters may be edited to fit availablespace and should be addressed toUniversity of Toronto Magazine,21 King’s College Circle,Toronto,M5S 3J3. Readers may also sendcorrespondence by e-mail touoft.magazine@utoronto.ca orfax to (416) 978-3958.READ MORE LETTERS AT WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CACOLD COMFORTAt last! Someone remembersthe famous snowstorm ofDecember 1944. My mostvivid memory of that day is walkingdown Yonge Street in the late afternoon.The road was an unbroken snowdriftwith only a single-file path down thesidewalk, and strangers were talking toeach other! What was true then stillseems true now: sometimes it takes anact of nature to bring people together.Janet CampbellBA 1947 UCCampbellford, OntarioFALSE IDOLS?I received the autumn edition of U of TMagazine, and, as always, enjoyed its variedcontent. In that issue, you mentionedToronto’s City Idol and the success oftwo alumni and a student in the competition(New & Notable). However, youshould also note the successes of alumniwho have already achieved elected office.Peter Milczyn, Councillor for Ward 5BArch 1989TorontoASSESSING GREATNESSThe article by Margaret Webb about theinaugural President’s Teaching Awardwinners raises the important question ofwhat makes a great teacher (“A ConstantQuest,” Autumn 2006). Too often thewrong qualities are celebrated. Webbnotes, for example, that she does notremember the content of a particularanecdote Professor Ken Bartlett relatedin class. But she does distinctly remember“some of his narrative tricks.”To an educator, this is a bit disturbing.Among the great teachers I had at U of Twere Margaret Morrison and Lloyd Gerson,both professors of philosophy. Twoyears after taking their courses, I was ableto successfully answer questionson a graduate school examination drawingon material I had learned in theirclasses. Neither Gerson nor Morrison everbrought a Hula Hoop to class, but whatthey taught helped me to become aneffective professor of philosophy.K. Brad WrayBA 1991 WoodsworthOswego, New YorkTHINK LOCALLYWhy do Canadian journalists insiston trotting out statistics about theSouth American rainforest to make apoint about environmental issues whenlocal information is available (“ForestFriendly,” Summer 2006)? There areplenty of forests in Canada worth protecting.Besides, could we give our SouthAmerican friends a moral break andpoint the finger at ourselves a little moreoften? After all, who are we to tell themnot to do what we have already done?Louis LemieuxMSc 1984London, EnglandMIDNIGHT FUNRe: Herman Haller’s letter to the editorobjecting to the spring cover of U of TMagazine, which features an actor fromThe Rocky Horror Show (“Irrational Exuberance,”Summer 2006).Has Mr. Haller mistaken U of T fora conservative reform school fromdecades past? No one who is aware ofU of T’s academic excellence would takeexception to a few scenes of midnightfun and some (stage) makeup.Keir MoultonBA 2001 TRIN, MA 2002Brattleboro, VermontWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 9

Leading EdgeLast Neanderthals on EarthAdjunct professor Clive Finlayson found that Neanderthals survived thousands of yearslonger than previously believed – in Gorham’s Cave in GibraltarPHOTOGRAPHY: KENNETH GARRETT/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTIONNew evidence excavated from acave floor in Gibraltar suggeststhat the oft-maligned Neanderthalwas not nearly as inferior tomodern humans as once thought. “Itvery significantly shows that the arrivalof moderns into Europe did not spellthe end of the Neanderthals,” says CliveFinlayson, a director at the GibraltarMuseum, an adjunct professor at U of Tand lead author of the study publishedonline in Nature earlier this fall.The findings are based on a host ofnew artifacts recovered from Gorham’sCave, a home to early humans for tensof thousands of years. Neanderthal fossilswere not found, but in the cave’shearth Finlayson and his team did discoveranimal remains as well as fragmentsof charcoal, flint and particulartypes of stone knives and tools that havebeen linked to Neanderthals. “The artifactsonly tell us that the tools were leftthere, but we also found bones ofbutchered animals. The bones often hadcut marks, as these guys cut the flesh offthe carcass and the stone knives slippedinto the bone,” explains Finlayson. “Puttogether, charcoal, bones and stones giveus a Neanderthal barbecue.”By dating the charcoal fragments, Finlaysonsays it’s clear Neanderthals used thecave until at least 28,000 years ago. Thismeans they survived between 2,000 and7,000 years longer than conventionallyestimated, making Gorham’s Cave thelast-known refuge of Neanderthals. Finlayson’sresearch also shows that smallpopulations of Neanderthals and modernhumans lived together in the region forGorham's Cave, Gibraltar, is thelast-known refuge of the NeanderthalsPoplar Scienceabout 4,000 years. This leads him tobelieve that the Neanderthals’ demise wasdue to climate change, as the world wascooling significantly at the time andNeanderthals were more anatomicallysuited to the warm forests of southernEurope than their more modern counterparts,he says. It may also mean there wasmore interaction and interbreedingbetween the two groups than thought:this may become clearer during Finlayson’scontinued excavation of Gorham’sCave. “Some of these chambers may containburials. We will see.”– Bruce GillespiePoet Joyce Kilmer advised that only God can make a tree, but an international team ofresearchers has decoded the complete genetic instructions for the black cottonwoodtree. Professor Malcolm Campbell, of U of T’s Centre for Analysis of Genome Evolutionand Function in the department of cell and systems biology, is co-author of a paper publishedin Science, which reports on the complete genome sequence of the tree.A memberof the poplar family, the black cottonwood is the first tree, and third plant, to have itsgenome completely sequenced.This will allow new insights into how forest trees growand survive, including how they contend with challenges from weather, pests and diseases,and how they respond to global climate change. – Mary Alice Thring10 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

Enemies of the State14, 1940 –just weeks afterONJunethe German armyinvaded France during the SecondWorld War – the Nazis marched intoParis, claiming it as their own. Withindays, a tenebrous shadow fell over thecountry: Germany assumed control oftwo-thirds of France, and the Frenchgovernment signed an armistice agreeingto “surrender on demand…all Germannationals requested for extradition.”With French borders also closed, themessage was clear: the Gestapo wouldhunt down refugees from conqueredcountries and other Nazi enemies – whowould be summarily executed or transportedto concentration camps.U of T professor Rosemary Sullivan’sbook Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape,and a House in Marseille (HarperCollinsPublishers) centres around the EmergencyRescue Committee, a group that officiallyhelped refugees legally obtain visas so theycould leave France. But the group’s subrosa agenda was to spirit out of the countrythose on the Gestapo’s blacklist –specifically writers, artists and politicalactivists – by any means possible. Headedby a young American named Varian Fry,the committee forged identity papers,exchanged money on the black marketand arranged for high-risk clients to beshepherded over the Pyrenees along theFranco-Spanish border.Villa Air-Bel, a rambling 19 th -centurystone house in Marseille, served as a waystation for clients. (In fact, the villa wassoon dubbed Villa Espervisa or “Hopingfor a Visa.”) House guests included MaxErnst, a German artist and leadingmember of the dada and surrealist movements;Victor Serge, a writer who hadbeen imprisoned in Russia for his criticismof Stalin; André Breton, a Frenchpoet and the founder of surrealism; andMary Jayne Gold, an American heiresswho bankrolled much of the operation.Villa Air-Bel brings to the fore thequestion of why, in times of war,regimes immediately set out to scourgeartists and writers. Indeed, Ernst’s loverLeonora Carrington asks: “Why aretotalitarian minds afraid of art?” Sheanswers herself: “Because it gets inside.It can terrify you or give you joy.” Andduring their months of repression, theVilla Air-Bel guests did indeed respondwith the subversive acts of independentthought and imagination. Bretonbelieved surrealists must defy the spiritof Fascism “by singing, playing andlaughing with the greatest of joy.” Heand other residents created a deck ofcards antithetical to the Nazi philosophy:they replaced the conventional militaryfigures of king, queen and jackwith the suits of love, dream, revolutionand knowledge, and their face card figuresranged from Baudelaire to Alice inWonderland to Freud.Another, perhaps unanswerable, questionSullivan raises is: why do some peoplebecome rescuers? Varian Fry, a Harvardgrad and classics scholar, hadparticipated in his share of politicalactivism, but he certainly had no socialwork experience nor did he seem themost likely candidate to risk his life forthose in France. His choice came at significantpersonal cost: he was haranguedby U.S. and French officials, arrested inMarseilles and, upon return to New York,fired from the association. Yet the EmergencyRescue Committee succeeded inhelping thousands of refugees escapeFrance. In her book, Sullivan quotes oneof Fry’s friends: “A part of him hadremained in Marseille…. We got out ofthe trap like foxes that nevertheless leavea piece of leg behind.” – Stacey GibsonThe Vegan AdvantagePeople with Type 2 diabetes should consider going vegan. In a study At the end of the study, the vegans had lost an average of 14recently published by the American Diabetes Association (ADA), pounds; the meat-eaters only 6.8 pounds.Among the vegans, LDLDr. David Jenkins, a professor in the Faculty of Medicine, and colleaguesreport that a low-fat vegan diet improves glycemic control compared to 10 per cent in the other group.And improvements(the “lousy”) cholesterol levels averaged a drop of 21 per cent,– even more effectively than the ADA diet.in blood-sugar management were three times greater in thoseDuring the study, those following the vegan diet said no to meat, who had gone vegan.poultry, fish, dairy and eggs, but could eat as many vegetables, grains, Jenkins has already shown that soy, almonds, barley and oats canlegumes and temperate-climate fruit (such as apples, as opposed to, lower LDL levels. But the stunning results of this study must be personallysatisfying for Jenkins who turned vegetarian at age 13, shortlysay, papayas) as they wanted. In contrast, those following the ADAdiet practised portion control, counting every carb and calorie. after his mother tried to serve him his pet chicken. – Susan PedwellON / DE JONG); PHOTOGRAPH: SCALA/ART RESOURCE, NYWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 11

HELPINGHANDSVolunteers do everything from mentor students to organizebook sales. Uof T wouldn’t be the same without themCYNTHIA MACDONALDJim & Verna WebbCo-treasurers ofTrinity’s Friends of theLibrary committee36 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007Woody Allen once wrotethat good people sleepbetter at night than badpeople do – but the bad ones enjoythe waking hours much more.Not so with U of T’s devotedcrop of 2006 Arbor Award winners,all of whom lead lives theyenjoy, largely because of theirvirtuousness – not despite it.The awards, now in their17 th year, honour alumniand friends of the universitywhose volunteer effortssupport many valuableprograms.As is typical, this year’swinners – all 100 of them –are a diverse group, motivatedto see an alreadyeffective university liveup to its own considerablestandards. As winnerSusan Eng notes:“I used to think theywouldn’t need mehere. But when youget closer, you realize

LeadingEdgeSchool Ties“Parents and their young childrenface so many hassles,” lamentsU of T child development professorCarl Corter. With half-day juniorand senior kindergarten, for example,some parents rush from work atlunch to drive their child from morningkindergarten to afternoon daycare.The First Duty Project, which beganin 2002 at five Toronto schools, eliminatedthis stress by merging daycare,kindergarten and family support.“Childcare workers and teachers workedside-by-side,” explains Corter, the project’skey researcher. Each facility alsooffered a drop-in centre where parentsand their preschoolers could visit. Thetoddlers could listen to a family supportworker read them a storybook. The parentscould connect to other services andfind out about parenting resources elsewherein the community.The recently published results showthat the integrated program benefitedeveryone.● The children made great strides invocabulary, number knowledge and prereading.With teachers and childcarestaff planning activities together, thekids weren’t learning about apples inkindergarten, and learning about applesagain at daycare. And since the daycarecentre and kindergarten shared the sameroom, no time was wasted shuffling kidsto and fro.● The parents felt empowered tohelp their children learn. Staff at thedrop-in centres read to the children,and parents felt confident in supportinglearning at home.● The teachers and childcare workersenjoyed better communication withfamilies, more access to programresources and enhanced professionaldevelopment opportunities.The success of First Duty hasattracted international attention, but itwill be difficult to continue the integratedapproach in Canada. “It bucksthe current system,” explains Corter.“We live in a modular society. Teachers,childcare workers and schools aren’ttrained for integration.” The First Dutymodel, though, is being reflected inOntario’s Best Start plan, a redesign ofearly childhood and family supportservices. – Susan Pedwellto help his students visualize experimentsbefore undertaking them has led to internationalrenown for David Harrison, a senior lec-ANattemptturer in the physics department.About five years ago, Harrison came up with the idea of usinghomemade videos to prepare first-year physics students for experimentsby giving them a “preview” of what would happen.When oneof the videos didn’t turn out well, Harrison hit upon the idea of animatingthe experiments instead.Using a program called Flash, Harrison created “moving diagrams”of his experiments and distributed them online.They werean instant hit among his students, and since 2002 Harrison has createdmore than 80 of the animations, illustrating ideas from electricity,sound, chaos and optics, among other subjects – mostly at anintroductory level.“If a picture is worth a thousand words, I figureda moving picture is worth a million words,” says Harrison.The animations vary in complexity – from showing the differenceFlash Physicsbetween the concepts of distance and displacement to tracking theorbits of one or more planets around two suns. Students can sometimeschange parameters – such as the mass of a sun or the positionof the planets – to see what effect this has on the animation.Theresults can be hypnotizing.“It’s huge fun,” says Harrison.“That peoplefind them useful is a bonus.”The animations were downloaded more than 800,000 times lastyear,and Harrison says he receives several e-mails a week from aroundthe world from people who have discovered them online.Texts accompanyingthe animations have been translated into Spanish,Danish,Turkish,Greekand Russian,and this fall they were cited in Science, the journalof the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Harrison is constantly revising his work, and plans to keep makingnew animations, as long as people find them helpful.“I alwayshave about two or three on my ‘to do’ list,” he says.The animations can be viewed at www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash/ – Scott AndersonILLUSTRATION: SANDY NICHOLS/THREE IN A BOXWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 13

ew& NotableNR ECENT DEVELOPMENTS ON CAMPUSSupercommuterLast summer, David Toppingdid something most peoplewouldn’t do willingly.TheU of T student and Toronto nativespent more than 300 hours – andhis entire vacation – fulfilling aself-made mission to photographall 69 of Toronto’s subway and rapidtransit stations. He shot almost10,000 images (digital, of course),got spit on (just once), gotContinued on page 16PHOTOGRAPHY: JAYSON GALLOPWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 15

New&NotablePHOTOGRAPHY: TOP RIGHT, JAYSON GALLOP; BOTTOM RIGHT, CAMELIA LINTAFresh ObsessedLori Stahlbrand, president and founder of new Toronto-based nonprofitLocal Flavour Plus (LFP), says she wants to “shorten the distancefrom farm to fork” by building and supporting local markets,and by connecting Ontario farmers to local institutions.This fall, the University of Toronto became LFP’s first institutionalpartner, committing to purchase up to 10 per cent of its food from LFPcertifiedproducers. The deal will bring fresh, local and sustainable foodto many of U of T’s cafeterias and residences – and make a significant contributionto reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the process.The partnership between U of T and LFP to bring “sustainable food”to campus marks the first of its kind for a Canadian university. It’s a conceptthat looks at the whole cycle of food production and consumption.LFP certifies farms based not just on reduced reliance on synthetic pesticidesbut also on labour standards, animal welfare, attention to biodiversityand habitat preservation, energy efficiency and packaging – all valuesthat were once intertwined in the concept of organic before organic wentcorporate, says Stahlbrand.Anne MacDonald, director of ancillary services at U of T, says the LFPproposal came at an opportune time. “We’ve encouraged all departmentsto think about sustainability,” says MacDonald. “It couldn’t have been abetter fit.” Not to mention, she adds, that the school is always looking forways to “perk up” its food service: “Campus food doesn’t have a great reputation.”But since the launch of the partnership with LFP, MacDonaldhas received thank-you letters. “Students never thank me! I’m usually thepurveyor of mystery meat and the like,” she jokes.U of T’s eventual goal is to buy locally as much as possible withoutincreasing costs to students. “Given a choice, the younger generationwill opt for the environmentally friendly option,” says student andfood-review committee member Coralie D’Souza. “We’re giving themthat option.” – Lisa RundleAccoladesProfessor George Elliott Clarke of English isone of five recipients of the Order of NovaScotia, the highest honour bestowed by theprovince. Clarke, a renowned poet, playwright andnovelist, was born near the black Loyalist communityof Three Mile Plains, Hants County, Nova Scotia. Hiswork is grounded in the experience of Nova Scotia’sAfrican community. His latest novel is George & Rue (Harper Flamingo).Conductor Richard Bradshaw (LLD 2003), a senior fellow of Massey Collegeand distinguished visitor in music at U of T, has been awarded a GovernorGeneral’s Performing Arts Award (National Arts Centre Award). Bradshaw is thegeneral director of the Canadian Opera Company, and in his 18 years with theCOC he has conducted more than 60 operas and established a reputation forinnovative programming.Continued from page 15locked out (during a TTC strike) and wasthreatened with confiscation of his camerapending approval of a permit.Topping, a second-year English student,has created a set of images that cast theoverfamiliar stationsin a new light.Whenyou look at the photos,you don’t findyourself thinking ofstale air, aggravatingdelays, zombie ridersor mint green tiles.He manages to makeeven the ultra-drabhallway between theeast-west and north-south portions ofSpadina Station worth looking at.Topping’slens seems to locate the beauty in the ordinary,homing in on overlooked design features,hidden bits of personality, colour andcontrast in each station. His eye for formalcomposition projects a sense of a system –and a city – well-built and well-functioning.During his travels,Topping discovered across-section of the city he’s lived in hiswhole life but knew little about – except fora well-worn path between Dundas West(where he grew up) and Bay (near his VictoriaCollege residence).As part of his project,Topping left the subway stations andexplored the adjacent neighbourhoods.“Theareas you expect to be bad aren’t bad at alland the areas you expect to be good aren’tthat good,” he says.And while he swears the TTC isn’t payinghim for the promo,he did have a tête-àtêtewith TTC top boss Howard Moscoewho admitted that even he had not been toall 69 stations.So which Toronto subway station, afterso much dedicated study, is Topping’sfavourite? Dundas West. It may not featureart or lots of natural light, but it’s home,he says.View Topping’s photos at http://69stations.com. – Lisa Rundle16 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

The Curious Incident of Art in the Nighttime425,000 artlovers braved the coldANestimatedand rain on September30 for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche, an allnight,citywide art celebration. U of Thosted exhibitions, which included performanceand installation art, experimentalmusic and poetry slams, throughoutSt. George Campus. Try your hand at artinterpretation, below.1. U of T professor and performanceartist Louise Liliefeldt and studentsNahed Mansour and Carali McCall areseen here:a) performing Liliefeldt’s HazardRecognition, in which they haul buckets ofdried beans, rice and coffeefor 12 continuous hours as a commentaryon labour, disenfranchisement, andphysical and psychological endurance;b) giving up on the academic life andshipping out to boot camp;c) demonstrating their technique asthe world’s laziest bucket brigade.2. U of T engineering professor SteveMann, left, and composer Ryan Janzen:a) are playing a duet on the Hydraulophone,a water-powered musical instrumentdeveloped by Mann, which isplayed by blocking and unblocking smalljets of water to create different tones;b) show good knowledge of thehygienic benefits of regular handwashing;c) seriously need to reconsider theirprospects in the plumbing business.3. These Nuit Blanche visitors are:a) finding their way through Tokyobasedartist Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog inToronto #71624, a “fog sculpture” onPhilosopher’s Walk created out of artificiallyproduced water vapour that constantlyshifts in response to wind, movementand temperature changes;b) about to be set upon by werewolves;c) vigorously protesting Toronto’ssmoking ban. – Graham F. Scott123To Catch a Bike ThiefGreat for yourhealth, great for the environmentand the fastest AH,bike-riding!mode of short-haul city travel.But,in additionto careless car-door openers, a persistentnemesis haunts urban cyclists: the bike thief.Enter Bike Bait: a pilot program launchedon St. George Campus in September. Biketheft is one of the most reported crimes oncampus, according to U of T police, occurringat the rate of two or three per week.Since introducing the program, police haveseen a decrease in this rate and have laidseveral charges, including four in a single day.Bike Bait works just like you mightguess: an undisclosed number of bicycles(the bait) are planted around campus with a“very, very well-hidden” GPS (or globalthe crook. U of T is the second Canadianuniversity to implement the program, whichis modelled after a Victoria Police Departmentinitiative that reduced thefts by almost20 per cent in six months. U of T’s othercampuses and the City of Toronto are bothwatching the program closely.“Dependingon our success,” says Cpl. Franchi,“othersmay adopt the program.”U of T police are also launching a “StopTheft” program for bikes – much like thetheft-deterrent registry system for laptopsand other electronic devices – which usesmetal plates and permanent tattoos todiminish black-market value. Universitystaff, students, faculty and alumni will beable to register their items for $20 each.Ride on! – Lisa Rundlepositioning system) beacon, says programco-ordinator Cpl. Peter Franchi.This beaconallows police to track the bike – and reel inPHOTOGRAPHY: JAYSON GALLOP, ILLUSTRATION: MIKE CONSTABLE/LINKWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 17

New&NotableHistorian Margaret MacMillan(BA 1966 Trinity) knows how totell a story. The Trinity Collegeprovost and the author of Paris 1919 canconjure a time and place – and politicalconference – with exceptional force. In herlatest offering, Nixon in China: The Weekthat Changed the World, she summons amoment in February 1972 when RichardNixon was in Beijing for his historic meetingwith Mao Tse-tung, the leader of thePeople’s Republic of China. Nixon’s visitmarked the end of the deep freeze betweenthe countries, which had existed since theCommunists took power in 1949.Remembrance of Things PastPHOTOGRAPHY: SANDY NICHOLSONWhat were Chinese-U.S. relations like beforethe meeting between Nixon and Mao?There were no direct relations. Veryfew people from the West had ever beenthere. Nobody knew what was going on– it was mysterious. And the Chinesehad the same view of North America.It’s really like North Korea today – whoknows what’s going on there?The conversation between Nixon and Maowas not particularly substantive – theymostly chit-chatted – but as a symbol itwas very meaningful.It was hugely important symbolically,and it did represent something ofan earthquake in international relationsbecause suddenly you had two very bigcountries talking to each other whohadn’t been talking to each other formore than 20 years. It opened the door,just, for the future economic and culturalexchanges that were going to makesuch a difference.Did you change your mind about thesevery big characters you were writing about– Nixon, Mao, National Security AdvisorHenry Kissinger and Chinese Prime MinisterChou En-lai – as you researched?I think you always do. I knew moreabout Mao than Nixon but usually themore you learn about a person – especiallya famous person – you get moredepth, you learn about them as humanMargaret MacMillanbeings. And Nixon… I was so influencedby what happened during Watergateand, I suppose, the tail end of Vietnam,but there was much more to himthan that. I hadn’t realized really howwell prepared he was to do internationalrelations; he was a great statesman.What most surprised you?Possibly that I actually found myselfcoming to rather like Nixon. He was sortof awkward and he had sudden enthusiasms.And he wanted to do things welland he didn’t always get it. You know, hedesigned these new uniforms for theWhite House and everybody laughed atthem. And he loved Around the World inEighty Days and that was a sort of touchingside to him I thought.Almost a tragic figure.I think so. I think tragic figures areoften those who aspire to be somethingand don’t make it. They havefatal flaws or they aspire too much andthey come crashing down. And I thinkNixon wanted to be a great president,a great leader of the United States, andhe never quite made it. But he’s a seriousfigure, he’s not just a buffoon.What does understanding this meetingand its history help us understand abouttoday?It makes us understand more aboutboth of the countries. These are countrieswith strong senses of who they are;they both feel they’re a model for theworld in some ways; they both had lotsof reason to be suspicious of each other.I think understanding why there was along standoff and then why theybecame friends helps explain somethingabout the relationship. Andunless you know that, you won’t understandwhy the Chinese are so attachedto Taiwan, you won’t understand whythey’re so sensitive about the power ofthe United States and you won’t understand,perhaps, why the United Stateshas such mixed feelings towards China.They sort of fear it but they are alsodrawn by it and interested in it. So, thehistory helps us to understand. I mean,it’s just like understanding an individual.If you know what’s happened tothem in the past you have some sensewhy they behave as they do.– Lisa Rundle18 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

“Everyone wants peace,” says GuruFatha Singh, U of T’s Sikh chaplainand founder of the university’sPeace Week, “there are just differentideas as to how to get there.”To explore these ideas, Singh and aA Sustainable Peacecollective of concerned students held lectures,films, forums and concerts theweek of November 5. Events took placeon all three campuses, and ranged froma War Child benefit concert, to a yogaand meditation workshop, to a photoProfessor AndyOrchard Named Trinity’sNext ProvostWhen Provost Margaret MacMillan’s five-year term at Trinity Collegecomes to a close June 30, she will become warden of St.Antony’sCollege at Oxford University.The college has appointed ProfessorAndy Orchard as the 14 th provost and vice-chancellor. Orchard is the directorof the Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Toronto, and a facultymember in the department of English. He specializes in Old English, Old Norse,Medieval Latin and Medieval Celtic, and is the author of such books as theCassell Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend.exhibition by Global Aware. Two of thisyear’s speakers were physicist, humanitarianand U of T professor emeritus UrsulaFranklin and Christian Peacemaker andformer Iraq hostage James Loney. Bothasked audiences to put their minds andimaginations to some big questions:What if we decided that war was not anethical option? What if our concept ofsecurity were to be totally reimagined?How different a world could we create?Peace Week began as Peace Day in2002. Singh recalls: “I saw the ridiculousbuildup to war in Iraq and Ithought, ‘What can we do?’” The collectivesoon realized a day was notenough and, in 2003, launched PeaceWeek. This year’s attendance numberswere the highest yet, with nearly 400people attending the opening multifaithprayer evening. – L.R.PHOTOGRAPHY: CREDIT TO COMEWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 19

BY ALLEN ABELA LONG, LONG DAY AMONG THEsearchers and the certain begins in theWycliffe College chapel, at a hymnfilledservice with the tantalizing nameof “Wine Before Breakfast.”It is not yet 7:30 on a thundery summermorning, and outside, appropriately,the heavens flicker and shake. Ahistory major is playing his guitar nearthe altar, and vocalists are greeting thearriving congregants:SHOW OFThisFAITHU OF T’S ECCLESIASTIC ALPHABET ONCEBEGAN AND ENDED WITH “A” FOR ANGLICAN,BUT NOW EMBRACES EVERYONE FROMAHMADIS TO ZENISTSis the air I breathe,Your holy presence living in meThis is my daily bread,This is my daily bread,Your very word spoken to meand I, I’m desperate for you,and I, I’m lost without you . . .The haloed heads of apostles lookdown on us in the brick chapel, whichis painted cream and pastel blue andgreen. Barely translucent in the dankdawn gloom, stained glass portraitscelebrate intrepid evangelists such asCharles Inglis of Nova Scotia andEdmund James Peck, “the firstAnglican missionary to devote hislife to the Eskimo.”There is lusty singing of “Whata Friend We Have in Jesus,” a Circleof Blessing ringing a couple whose20 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

“You can’t come to a rational conclusion that Christ was the son of God. But if youpray, and your prayers are answered, can you accept that as proof?” – Beatrice SzePHOTOGRAPHY: JIM PANOUWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 21

wedding is a few days away, the shakingof strangers’ hands, the taking of wafersand wine and an excitement of thunderduring a reading from Romans 2:17.Apart from the multiracial, multilingualassortment of students and othersin the pews, it might be 1891, whenWycliffe College moved to this sturdyedifice. (The college was founded 14years earlier “to prepare men of evangelicalconviction for the Anglican ministry,”according to the historical plaqueoutside.) But this is the 21st century,Maged Matiasand “Wine Before Breakfast,” like theuniversity that enfolds and encircles it,attracts a much wider crowd.Among the ardent worshippers isBeatrice Sze. She is a fourth-year studentof mechanical engineering specializingin robotics, and a Chinese-Canadian originally from Montreal.Like many students, she is deeplyinterested not only in science, but thestate of her own soul.“I was raised as atheist,” Sze says, andthen quickly adds: “I shouldn’t say that!My parents were raised in the Taoist tradition,but as an intellectual family, Iguess our position was that God was nolonger relevant. In high school, I sawreligion as at best a tool to stay sane, andat worst a crutch for the weak-minded.”Yet here she is today, in the Wycliffechapel, singing “Pass Me Not, O GentleSaviour.” I ask about her own passage topiety and she says, “For me, it was aprocess that led to a moment. It allcomes down to one question: do youbelieve that it is possible that Jesus Christrose from the dead?“I mean, either Jesus is speaking thetruth, or He’s an incredible liar. Formost of my scientist peers, that’s ridiculous– in science, everything is based onlaws. Because we’ve never seen anythingviolate those laws, that’s how scienceevolved. And one of the laws is that thedead don’t rise.“The definitive moment came in aGreek mythology course – how nerdy,right? We were discussing Bacchus andthe professor drew an analogy betweenBacchus and Christ and said ‘He’s justlike Christ.’ At that moment, I personallyidentified with Christ and I realizedthat Jesus stood for everything that’s diametricallyopposed to Bacchus.“I had never known such joy as thejoy of that moment. Every cell in mybody felt like it was going to explode.”So that was how it happened.“You can’t come to a rational conclusionthat Christ was the son of God,” saysSze. “But if you pray, and your prayers areanswered, can you accept that as proof?”AT A QUARTER PAST TEN, NOUMANAshraf (BCom 2002 St. Michael’s,MBA 2006) and I sneak into whatsoon will be the Multifaith Centre inthe Koffler Institute for PharmacyManagement on Spadina Avenue,though “sneak” may be the wrongterm, considering Ashraf’s commandingpresence in full beard, smart busi-“When you come to view other religions, you can ask questions, but you wouldn’tfind a complete answer. What I find in my religion is complete.” – Maged Metias22 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

“I know that some Christians believe that you are doomed to hell if you don’taccept Jesus Christ as the Messiah. That’s not something that we believe. I haveno problem with other people and other faiths.” – Aaron Silverness suit and brilliantly shiny shoes.Ashraf is the Anti-Racism and CulturalDiversity Officer of a universitywhose ecclesiastic alphabet once beganand ended with “A” for Anglican, butwhose spires now look down on everythingfrom Ahmadis to Zenists. (Ashrafcalls the multiplicity of religions on campus“the invisible diversity.”) Hence theconstruction of the Multi-Faith Centrefor Spiritual Practice and Study, whosemandate is to provide a space where anyoneof any creed (or no creed) can practise,preach or pray.Ashraf says the centre “isn’t just goingto be a place where people meditate.This isn’t a moral United Nations or aspiritual G7, but a place where peoplewho are interested in this aspect of studentlife will find an outlet.”An elevator white with gypsum dustlifts us to the central hall, which is to bea light-filled chamber free of any overtsymbol of any particular sect. Ashraf saysthe new building is meant to encouragea mingling of minds that otherwisewould scatter to their respective chapels,gurdwaras, ashrams, mosques and shuls.He points out the panels that will recessto reveal alcoves that display the deity,idol or iconography of whichever creedis using the room, then hide it whenanother sect’s service begins.“We’re a secular institution that ispublicly funded,” Ashraf asserts. “We’renot pro-spirituality or anti-spirituality.This building allows our students to notonly develop their relationship with thespace, but also to articulate this relationshipwith that space. We don’t want toprejudge what that will look like.”JUST BEFORE NOON, MAGED METIAS, Amechanical engineering student fromPickering, Ontario, meets me on thesteps of the Galbraith Building.Metias is a communicant of the CopticOrthodox creed, an ancient branchof Christianity – established by the apostleMark in AD 42 – that counts about40 sons and daughters at the university.We talk about the duties of his sectand the contest of science and faith. “Inengineering,” he says, “there’s the lawthat says that matter cannot be createdor destroyed. But we believe that Godcreated the universe. That means thereis a flaw in one of the two laws. I thinkthe flaw is in science, because man madethe science.”“Can you be an engineer and stillbelieve that Jesus walked on water?” I ask.“If the Bible said he walked on water,”says Metias, “he walked on water.”Metias reaches into his backpack andproduces a well-worn copy of The Agpeya,the prayer book of the seven canonicalhours. He notes that while observant Jewspray three times a day and Muslims five,the Coptic Orthodox lead the league withseven: prime, terce, sext, none, vespers,compline and midnight.I wonder how he views the secularswirl of campus life, and how he relatesto students who are as devoted as he is,but to a different creed.“When you come to view other religions,”Metias says, “I think you canask questions but you wouldn’t find aAaron SilverWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 23

complete answer. If you ask a questionto a Buddhist or a Sikh, I’m sure theywould have an incomplete answer.What I find in my religion is complete.“I don’t want to say that it all makessense, because there are mysteries. Forexample, we believe the bread and wineis Christ. I guess my question in generalis, why don’t people ask questions abouttheir own religion?”I ask Metias if, given his devotion, hemight pursue life as a Coptic Orthodox(non-celibate) priest.“Our priests are chosen by committee,”he smiles, “And you don’t evenknow why they chose you. If they evercame to me, I’d say no. But that doesn’tmean they’d stop asking.”SARAH VAJDIK IS DASHING FROM PSYchologyto math. She is a soft-spokenwoman of Czech descent from Chatham,Ontario, where her father’s father helpedto build the Roman Catholic church ofSt. Anthony of Padua.Vajdik, 26, already holds a degree inhistory from the University of Ottawaand a master’s of public history from theUniversity of Western Ontario. She is atU of T to complete the one-year coursethat leads to a bachelor of education, andto pursue with almost startling constancythe faith of her fathers.It is 12:15, and bells, not thunder,are pealing above the Gothic archesand dark wood vaults of the St.Thomas Aquinas Church on HoskinAvenue. Vajdik, a “cradle Catholic”with an hour between classes, is righton time for Mass. As she always is,seven days a week.“I missed one Mass when I wasyoung,” she says. “I had a very highfever, but somebody came to our houseand brought me Communion. Then,when I was an undergrad in Ottawa, Iwas very sick and I stayed home in themorning because I thought there was aMass in the evening. But there wasn’t,and I was devastated.”And that was the only Sunday in herentire remembered life that she did notgo to church.“You lead the NHL in attendance!” Itell her.“It’s not a scorecard,” Vajdik says.“But people do have different things thatare important to them.”For Vajdik – and the six other NewmanCentre residents who have beendesignated student campus ministers– religion is not merely a wafer andwine. “There are moments,” Vajdiksays, “when you’re going throughsomething and you’re tested, but Iknow that I’m not searching. I feelvery grounded in my faith.”Vajdik notes with amusement thatmost people assume that the studentcampus ministers all are on the path tobecoming priests and nuns. It is true thata room at Newman opened up for herbecause one student left for the seminary,but the fact is that Vajdik choseToronto, as she puts it, “for a guy.”That relationship ended, but Vajdikisn’t ready for the nunnery quite yet.She spends her hours studying, praying,shepherding a dozen or so studentsthrough the Rites of Christian Initiationfor Adults and cleaning the St.Thomas Aquinas Church, an act thatshe calls “Vacuuming for Jesus, orCleaning for Christ.”“People look at me like I’m bizarre,”Vajdik admits. “Back in high school,they knew that I was different. Theyused to say, ‘Hey churchy – you’re goingto be a nun!’ But then when people hadproblems, even my friends who didn’thave faith would come and say, ‘Sarah,would you pray for me?’”AARON SILVER IS WEARING A YARMULKEwhen we meet in the early afternoon,which is pretty much the same as carryinga sign that says, “Look, everybody!I’m Jewish!”We’re in a coffee shop on HarbordStreet, across from the Wolfond Centrefor Jewish Campus Life, where he oftengoes to say mincha, the midday prayer,when his class schedule allows.Silver is a 19-year-old from Calgary,a first-year student majoring in economics.He’s a little older than many ofhis classmates because he took last yearoff to work on a kibbutz in Israel and toride with an ambulance corps as anemergency medical technician.He is a self-described “modern Orthodox”Jew – no black hat, no black suit, notasselled prayer shawl hanging out of hisjacket. But Silver adheres to a strictlykosher diet, observes his faith’s myriadholidays and festivals, and has arrangednot to have any classes on Friday afternoonsas the holy Sabbath begins.I ask him if he has had much contactwith people of other faiths since arrivingin this great poly-cultural city. He repliesthat there is a certain (rather attractive)Roman Catholic girl in his English classwith whom he has been having “not adebate – more of a conversation” abouttheir respective belief systems.“I know that some Christians believethat you are doomed to hell if you don’taccept Jesus Christ as the Messiah,” hesays. “That’s not something that webelieve – we don’t say that you’re doomedto hell if you don’t believe in the sameGod that we believe in. I have no problemwith other people and other faiths.”I ask about his career plans, and hesays that he’d like to become a lawyer.But this is far from certain. “I don’tknow where I’ll be in four years,” saysSilver. “But I guarantee you I’ll be anOrthodox Jew.”AT THE PRESCRIBED HOUR FOR DHUHR– after the sun has crossed the meridian,but before the saying of Asr – 30 Muslimmen and a smaller number ofwomen slip quietly into a rotunda onthe Bahen Centre’s ground floor, near“I could never imagine committing to one single path because one path doesn’t definemodern life. I couldn’t see myself being a devout anything.” – Adam Awad24 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

Adam Awadthe back door by the Mega Bites Café.Dhuhr is the second of five dailyprayer sessions; taken together, theseform one of the Five Pillars of SunniIslam. (The others are fasting, alms-giving,a pilgrimage to Mecca and the professionof faith in one God and Hisprophet.) The makeshift mosque atBahen, with its many large windows,serves as both sanctuary and fishbowl;everyone entering or leaving the buildingcan watch the prayer-givers as theykneel, stand and bow.Most of the women are in long skirtsand head scarves; one is veiled but for asmall slit at the eyes. The men, by comparison,are dressed in the customarycollegiate fashion, which means runningshoes, baggy pants and sweatshirts byEcko and Enyce.Then there is Tarik Abdulla, age 17.He is a first-year engineering student; abrown-haired, brown-eyed Somali byway of Abu Dhabi in the United ArabEmirates. Abdulla is wearing jeans withthe cuffs rolled up, a flamboyant orangeplaid shirt and a bright red New YorkYankees baseball cap worn, as I supposeone must when one is 17, backward,with the label still affixed.“It is part of our belief,” he tells mewhen Dhuhr has been completed, “fivetimes a day to offer prayers to our God,Allah. As human beings, when you lookat how much God has given us, fiveminutes or 10 minutes five times a dayis not much to give back. Those who donot pray are negligent, and we have theright to instruct them. They are likeChristians who do not attend church onSundays. It is sad.”With Abdulla is his friend NihadNasim, another first-year engineeringstudent from the United Arab Emirates.I ask Nasim if he is surprised to find aplace for Muslim worship on campus,and he replies, “No, because there arechurches over here and we are not aminority like 10 years ago.”I wonder how much contact theyoung Arabs have had with classmatesof varying faiths. Abdulla says he hasmet some Jewish students and thateveryone seems to get along. When Iask about the Western girls who stridepast the prayer space, decidedly notveiled or enshrouded, he shakes hiscurly head and says, “Well, you cancontrol your eyes.”FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE BASEMENT OFKnox College – beyond the banner thatproclaims “Faith Matters.” I’m with theecumenical chaplain, trying to makesense of what I’ve heard.“Most students are searching,” saysRev. Ralph Carl Wushke (ThM 2004).“But not all are searching for religion andspirituality. They might be searching forfriendship, for human community in avery big city, for intimacy, for relationships– sexual included. In my view,those all are spiritual matters.”Wushke sees a renaissance of religionon campus, and by this he does notmean the Knox College of a half-centuryago, when the graduating class wasmade up exclusively of clean-shavenwhite men.The ecumenical chaplain himself,who is a well-known queer activist andenergetic left-wing agitator, rather triumphantlybreaks the mould of the oldGothic campus and the old ChristianWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 25

“There’s no need to renounce in Eckankar. If someone can use a tool and makethem a better Catholic, that’s fine. There is one God and God is one, but if not,OK, there’s two!” – Peter Skrivanicmores. But he is not alone. “What I seenow,” he tells me, “are about 1,300 studentsin theological studies – a lot of peoplevery keen to go to chapel, keen topreach, keen to sing hymns. At EmmanuelCollege, they have the biggestincoming class of Master’s of Divinitystudents in several years.“One of the delightful things that Ihave experienced, in the Bible Studiesclasses that I offer, is to see students fromthe natural sciences, from biology andphysics, who treasure the opportunity tospend an hour and a half, a couple oftimes a week, away from the lab. Thesepeople can talk about string theory, butthey also have a profound and deepinterest in talking about God and God’spurpose in their life.”“One speaks of a resurgence of religion,”Wushke says. “There is a deepspiritual longing, but that doesn’t necessarilymean traditional religion.”And he gives me the name of AdamAwad.ADAM AWAD, WHEN I MEET HIM AT AStarbucks on Bay Street at 7:30 p.m.,turns out to be a one-man multifaithcentre: a Lebanese-Canadian BuddhistSikh who was raised as a RomanCatholic in Ottawa.Awad, 20, is combining his studies inMiddle Eastern history and politics withan avidity for circus arts. He hopes toearn his degree, work as a dancer or acrobatin the Cirque du Soleil for a while,and then enter the diplomatic service.If this is not enough to distinguish himfrom the bulk of the student body, hespent part of his teenage years as a practicingwitch. All of this, he says, is part of theprocess of self-discovery open to everyonein Canada.“When I was around 13 or so,” hesays, “I started exploring spirituality. Thefirst transition was to a sort of Wiccawitchcraft pagan spirituality. At first, myparents were frightened – I’m the youngestof four children, and the worst thing theyever had to deal with before this was mybrother acting out in class. Then here’s mecoming out as a gay witch!“Now, I’m in a strange mix betweenBuddhism and Sikhism. I guess what I’mtrying to show is that there are multiplepaths to God. I don’t think I’ve everlooked at another religion and said, ‘That’sa wrong way to approach spirituality.’”“Five years from now, do you thinkyou’ll be a Lutheran?” I ask him. “Orhave you found it?”“I could never imagine myself committingto one single path because onepath doesn’t define modern life,” Awadreplies. “I couldn’t see myself being adevout anything.”I tell him about Sarah Vajdik and theother people I’ve met on campus whoare so unflinchingly certain of their faith.They seem quite different from Awad,who doesn’t wear a turban or carry a ceremonialkirpan, who cut his hair shortlast spring (unlike observant Sikhs) andwho doesn’t exactly go around Torontoin saffron robes.“I really hope it’s a personal choice andit works for them,” Awad says. “I hopethey really find what they are looking for.”“I don’t look at religion as a mantle,as an outfit we put on,” he continues.“It’s the threads that make the outfit. Alot of my beliefs affect the way I look athuman suffering. My fondest belief isthat, yes, we can all get along, but it’snot achievable right now.”I congratulate him on his thoughtfulnessand commitment to self-awareness.“Well,” he smiles, “I don’t thinkabout these things all the time. I’m inmid-terms right now!”THE FINAL MEETING OF A LONG, LONGday is a quiet one, alone with a truebeliever in a plain-walled room.This is the Eckankar Centre onYorkville Avenue, toward closing time.Peter Skrivanic, 35, who is studyingmedical anthropology at U of T Scarborough,is telling me about the smallestcongregation at the university, that ofthe Religion of the Light and Sound ofGod. Eckankar, which adherents believeis an ancient creed revived in the 1960sby an American named Paul Twitchell,focuses on dreams, chanting, karma andreincarnation. But only a couple of peopleon campus have embraced it.“We’re not one of the Big Three,that’s for sure,” Skrivanic admits. “But ifwe look at something from a numbersgame, that’s not coming from the rightplace. There’s no need to renounce inEckankar. If someone can use a tool andmake them a better Catholic, that’s fine.There is one God and God is One, butif not, OK, there’s two!”Through the walls, suddenly andhauntingly, comes a long, low moan:“huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu . . .”These are other Eckists in the nextsatsang down the hall, performing Eckankar’ssignature one-word spiritualexercise, “Love Song to God.” Twelvehours ago, it was “What a Friend WeHave in Jesus,” and now this.“I will often chant that for 10 minutesbefore going to bed,” Skrivanicsays, basking in the a cappella tone. “Ifind that it increases the probability ofhaving dreams with spiritual content.”So this is the end of the journey: areligion for everyone that permits everyoneto keep his or her own religion. Perfect,perhaps, for the most diverse congregationin the most diverse city thehuman race has ever constructed.“Not long ago,” the true believer tellsme, “I went to the campus chaplains’lunch. I was sitting at a table with a Sikh,a Humanist, a Wiccan and an EvangelicalChristian.“And I thought, when you look at theworld at large, ‘Wow, this is a miracle!’”■Allen Abel is a freelance writer based inToronto.26 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

Religion Versusthe CharterCANADA’S COMMITMENT TO MULTICULTURALISMIS BEING TESTED IN NEW AND UNEXPECTED WAYSJANICE GROSS STEINCanadians are proudly multicultural. Alongwith publicly funded health care, multiculturalismhas become part of the sticky stuff ofCanadian identity. Section 27 of the constitution,the Canadian Charter of Rights andFreedoms, provides that the charter “shall beinterpreted in a manner consistent with the preservation andenhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians.”Canada is unique among western democracies in its constitutionalcommitment to multiculturalism – a commitment thathas worked extraordinarily well in practice. In our large cities,many cultures live peacefully with one another. One need onlywatch World Cup soccer in Toronto to testify to the city’s culturaldiversity. Bystanders are welcomed and invited to joinGhanaians, French, Italians, Portuguese and Koreans, who taketo the streets to wave flags in celebration. At its best, multiculturalismin Canada is inclusive, rather than exclusionary.Despite extraordinary successes, the Canadian commitmentto multiculturalism is being tested in unexpected ways.A resurgence of orthodoxy in Christianity, Islam andJudaism is sharpening lines of division between “them” and“us.” Canadians are uncertain about what limits, if any, thereare to embedding diverse religious as well as cultural traditionswithin the Canadian context. We know pretty wellwhat the “multi” in multicultural means, but are much lessconfident about “culture.” Does culture in Canada meanjust a respect for pluralism and difference? Or, is there more?Have we produced a broader set of shared values that must,at some point, bump up against the diversity and differencethat we celebrate as an important part of who we are?There is a sniff of smugness in our celebration of our successesas a multicultural society. That smugness, a culturallysanctioned political correctness, is becoming less acceptable asreal divisions creep into the debate about cultural and religiousdifference. How far can respect for difference go? When doesit constrain freedom of expression? That issue boiled over whena Danish newspaper published cartoons that Muslims considereddefamatory. Anti-Semitic cartoons have provoked similardebates. Does freedom of expression permit one group toinsult and stereotype another? And when does stereotypingsubtly become incitement to hatred?These questions are not important if multiculturalism islargely restricted to the celebration of song, dance, literature,language and food. It is this kind of celebration that is the stuffof the official multiculturalism policy in Canada’s large cities.On one July afternoon in Toronto, for example, residents couldchoose between the Corso Italia Toronto Fiesta and Afrofest.We are on far more difficult terrain when we ask more seriousquestions about traditions of the church – and synagogueand mosque – and the state. How committed are we inCanada to the secularization of public space? Do we welcomemultiple religious symbols in public squares in December ordo we ban them all? How far can religious practice and celebrationextend into public space? To what extent will the state,in the service of the freedom of religion, continue to allowchurches, synagogues and mosques to uphold policies thathave an impact on the fundamental rights of Canadians? Andcan public officials refuse to perform certain duties because ofprivate religious beliefs? To the surprise of many Canadianswho come from quite different ends of the political spectrum,the relationship between equality rights and the right to freedomof religion is now on the public agenda.WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 27

In Canada, we would notthink of enforcing restrictionsagainst Hebrew skullcaps,Christian crosses or Muslimhijabs in our public schools.On the contrary, we celebratealmost everyone’s religiousand national holidays. Wherewe are reluctant to go, however,is the conflict betweenthe universal human rightsthat we treasure and differentreligious and cultural traditions.One obvious fault line– one that we tiptoe around– is the rights of women indifferent religious and culturaltraditions in our midst.Women in Canada areguaranteed equal treatmentand an equal voice in thedetermination of our sharedvision of the common good.We respect rights and werespect diversity, but at timesthe two compete. How do we mediate these disputes? Whatto do about private religious schools, for example, that meetgovernment criteria by teaching the official curriculum butsegregate women in separate classrooms?Should universities make spaceavailable to student groups that segregatewomen in worship? The Universityof Toronto allows religious organizationsto determine how they use thespace they are given for prayer. Currently,Jewish and Islamic services separatemen from women in religiousservices held on campus. McGill Universityin Montreal, by contrast, maintainsthat as a non-denominational university,it is not obligated to provideprayer space for any religious group.These questions are not abstract,but very personal to me. When I challengedmy rabbi recently about hislong-standing refusal to give women inmy congregation the right to participatefully and equally in religious services,he argued: “I have not taken theposition of ‘separate but equal,’although I believe that a case can bemade for this perspective. I have notargued for a fully egalitarian expressionof Judaism, although I believe that aI have had theextraordinaryexperience ofsitting in a chapeland watching theleader of prayerscount the menin the room, hiseyes sliding overme as he counted.For all intentsand purposes,I was invisibleAre you actively involved with the University?Would you like to help shape its future?Nominations open on January 8, 2007 forthree alumni representatives on theUniversity of Toronto's Governing Council, thesenior governing body that oversees theacademic, business and student affairs of theUniversity.Each position is for a 3-year term, beginningJuly 1, 2007.Qualifications:• Alumnus(a) of the University of Toronto;• Canadian citizen;• Not a student or member of the teaching or administrativestaff of the University;• Supportive of the U of T's mission;• Active participant in University and/or communitygroups;• Willing to learn about the University's governance;• Willing to make a substantial time commitment tothe work of the Governing Council.The membership of the Governing Councilshould reflect the diversity of the University.Nominations are, therefore, encouraged froma wide variety of individuals.case can be made for this perspective. Instead, I have pressedfor increased inclusion.”Indeed, under his leadership our congregation now permitsa greater degree of involvement for women in daily services, inpublic readings and in leading parts of the liturgy. These arefar more than cosmetic changes, but to me, as significant asthese changes are, they are not enough. Women are still notcounted as part of the 10 people who must be present beforeprayers can begin. Only men count. I have had the extraordinaryexperience of sitting in a chapel and watching the leaderof prayers count the men in the room, his eyes sliding over meas he counted. For all intents and purposes, not only did I notcount, I was invisible.Contrary to my rabbi, I do not think that any argument atall can be made for separate but equal treatment. This kind ofargument has a long and inglorious history of discriminationthat systematically disadvantages some part of a community.Nor is it obvious why greater inclusion should be capped shortof full status, where women count as equals in constituting aprayer group. What principle is at work here? Even though thecharter strictly applies only to public space, I take its spirit andits values seriously.My religious obligation clashes openly and directly withvalues that I hold deeply as a Canadian. Fortunately, thereare Jewish congregations in Toronto that are fully egalitarian.My cultural and religious community is sufficiently pluralisticthat I can choose among a wide variety of options. A resolutionof my personal dilemma is available to me – I canCALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR ALUMNIMEMBERS OF THE GOVERNING COUNCILNomination forms will be available starting at 12 noonon Monday, January 8, 2007 on the Governing Councilwebsite: www.utoronto.ca/govcnclor from:The SecretaryCollege of ElectorsSimcoe Hall, Room 106University of TorontoToronto, OntarioM5S 1A1416-978-6576Nominations close at 4 p.m., Monday,February 26, 2007.For further information, visitwww.utoronto.ca/govcnclWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 29

vote with my feet – but the issue is public as well as private.These religious institutions that systemically discriminateagainst women are recognized, at least implicitly, by governments.They enjoy special tax privileges given to them by governments.Religious institutions do not pay property tax andmost receive charitable status from the federal government. Ifreligious institutions, for example, are able to raise funds moreeasily because governments give a tax benefit to those who contribute,are religious practices wholly private even when theybenefit from the public purse? Are discriminatory religiouspractices against women a matter only for religious law, as iscurrently the case under Canadian law which protects freedomof religion as a charter right? Or should the equality rights ofthe charter have some application when religious institutionsare officially recognized and advantaged in fundraising? Doesit matter that the Catholic Church, which has special entitlementsgiven to it by the state and benefits from its charitabletax status, refuses to ordain women as priests?How can we in Canada, in the name of religious freedom,continue furtively and silently to sanction discriminatorypractices? This issue was at the core of the debate in Ontarioabout Shariah law and Orthodox Jewish courts within theframework of state-sanctioned arbitration. I have deliberatelychosen a personal issue – the issue of women’s participationin religious services in my own synagogue – to open up thisdifficult discussion of the desirable balance between the rightto freedom of religion and other charter rights. Some wouldurge silence and patience until a new social consensusemerges, until we rebalance. Opening difficult conversationstoo early can fracture communities, inflict deep wounds anddo irreversible damage to those who are most open to experimentation.In my own congregation, I have been counselledfor the last five years to be patient. Give it time, I’m told, andthe synagogue will become fully egalitarian.I find it hard to be patient into the indefinite future, withno commitments from my religious leadership. I worry thatchange will stall unless we keep a civil but difficult conversationgoing. There is no question that there is a conflictbetween equality rights, on the one hand, and the right tofreedom of religion, on the other. The law recognizes thatconflict, but we need to ask hard questions about the appropriatebalance. If I am expected to be patient, almost endlesslypatient, then religious leaders must be cognizant of theresponsibilities of their organizations that receive charitablestatus and public benefit to engage with Canadian culture asit is expressed in our most fundamental laws. ■Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of ConflictManagement and director of the Munk Centre for InternationalStudies. This article is adapted from a longer essay about multiculturalismthat appeared in the September issue of the LiteraryReview of Canada.the Faculty Cluboffers all members and their guestsan elegant space for special events,meetings, conferences, receptions& weddings.thefacultyCLUBEnjoy fine dining in the WedgwoodDining Room or the Oak andBeaver Pub. Relax in front of thefirepace in the Main Lounge orFairley Lounge while admiringoriginal Group of Seven paintings.Member’s benefits to this exclusive, private club arereciprocal privileges with more than 100 other clubs inNorth America, England, and China also discounts onmany local businesses. We welcome everyone.Join the Club! Low alumni rate!For more information, please call 416 978 6325or visit www.utoronto.ca/facultyclub/30 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

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ON THE AIRIT’S8:20 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 2, and inside91 St. George Street, Andy Frank isassembling his staff for their first livebroadcast of a new show on the Universityof Toronto’s radio station, CIUT 89.5 FM. Frank is the seniorproducer of Take 5, CIUT’s new morning show, and only 10short minutes remain until his team goes on the air. “We had anexcellent dry run last week,” says Frank, hastily typing a sportsreport on the football team’s latest defeat. “We’re hoping to minimizethe number of disasters that loom.”At the next desk over, Keisha Barrett and Chris Berube, a second-yearstudent, are prepping their traffic reports by checkingwebsites that track road volume across Toronto. “No major incidents;it’s pretty light today,” says Barrett, with a hint of disappointment.Senai Iman, a fourth-year student, and RebeccaPenty, the director of Take 5, hurriedly write the news report thatIman will deliver. Frank announces to whoever happens to belistening that there’s coffee in the hallway, but for their first liveshow, most staff members are already buzzing on adrenaline.Frank offers a last bit of advice to the assembled reporters,telling them not to start talking before they’ve heard the shortmusical clips that introduce each section.“One thing that’s very important today is to watch yourthrows, and wait for your stingers,” says Frank.“Other than that, just pretend we’re not on the air.”CIUToperates out of a creaking three-storey Victorianmansion sandwiched between the RotmanSchool of Management and the Newman Centre.The U of T Sexual Education Centre occupies the groundfloor, but the rest of the building is a warren of rooms housingthe station’s operations. Everything that isn’t a broadcast studioor a cramped office is given over to storage space for CIUT’s collectionof 15,000 vinyl records – which the DJs still play withremarkable frequency – and more than 40,000 CDs. The station’s15,000-watt signal comes from a transmitter atop FirstCanadian Place, and can be heard clearly all the way from Barrie,Ontario, to Buffalo, New York.Run almost entirely by volunteers, CIUT exhibits the roughedges and deliberate rawness one expects from amateur enthusiasts:silences last a little too long, ahs and ums creep in. Thesesmall imperfections are what give CIUT its affable, comfortablesound – the kind that has long since vanished from the corporate-controlledairwaves. Yet despite its do-it-yourselfdemeanour, CIUT has helped launch some of Canada’s bestknownmusicians. Loreena McKennitt and Ron Sexsmith performedlive at CIUT early in their careers. The Barenaked32 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007Ladies played there when theywere still street-busking. Thestation may not make careersovernight, but listeners oftenhear artists perform monthsor years before they enjoymainstream recognition.Although the station islocated at U of T’s downtowncampus, many of CIUT’s listenerslive in the suburbanbelt that rings Toronto.Under its broadcast licence,“If you ever listen tocommercial radio, itsounds the same24 hours a day. CIUTprovides a home forthe kind of broadcastingthat you simplycannot get anywhereelse on the dial.”

AFTER 20 YEARS OF BROADCASTS,CIUT IS STILL TAKING CHANCESBY GRAHAM F. SCOTTSteve Birek, CIUT technicianCIUT is officially a “campus-based community radio station,”intended to serve both students and the general public, thoughhow general is open to question. Many of its shows – one concernsanimal rights, for example; another new poetry – cater toaudiences too niche for commercial radio. “One of the neatthings about CIUT is the enormous variety,” says Ian Angus(MA 1972), who helms a blues show called Let the Good TimesRoll and also serves as chair of the board. “If you ever listen tocommercial radio, it sounds the same 24 hours a day. CIUTprovides a home for the kind of broadcasting that you simplycannot get anywhere else on the dial.”The mishmash of unusual shows that make up the station’sweekly broadcast schedule draw a small but dedicated listenership.CIUT can’t afford to subscribe to a commercial ratingsmeasurement service, but one indication of audiencecommitment is the station’s biannual pledge drive. CIUTrelies on a student levy to operate and it also sells advertising,but about a quarter of its annual $500,000 budget comesstraight from its listeners. Gospel Music Machine, a Sundaymorning show hosted by Courtney Williams that’s been aCIUT institution almost from the beginning, is consistentlyone of the station’s top fundraisers. “Gospel in Toronto is avery big audience,” says Williams. “Our listeners are very dedicatedto ensuring that we stay on the air.”For many years before receiving its FM licence, the station –which has gone by many different names, including Radio Var-WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 33PHOTOGRAPHY: DEREK SHAPTON

sity, Input Radio, UTR and “It was definitely aCJUT, before settling finallyJekyll and Hyde place,”on CIUT – was “pretty mucha glorified PA system,” in the recalls Karen Parsons,words of one alumnus and now news directorformer volunteer. Deliveredby closed-circuit wiring toat 660 News in Calgary.speakers in residence commonrooms and some aca-“It was fun and funkyand delightful and ademic buildings, volunteersproduced about 80 hours a pain all rolled into one.”week of music and spokenwordprograms. Despite the closed-circuit system’s limitedbroadcast range, the volunteers considered it a rehearsal for theday they would, inevitably it seemed, make the leap to FM.It wasn’t quite that easy. An ambitious FM proposal in 1976was rejected by the CRTC as “financially weak” and “a bit toohopeful.” It took 10 years to regroup and establish a base of supportamong U of T students, who in 1985 agreed to fund thestation with a $5-a-year levy.Dave Trafford (BA 1983 St. Michael’s) chaired CIUT’sboard as it prepared to make its case to the CRTC. It was along, arduous process, but the CRTC was impressed by theplan, praising CIUT’s “excellent presentation” and “obviousgrasp of FM policy.” On March 20, 1986, the CRTC phonedto say it had accepted the application and that FM broadcastscould begin within the year.The station made its first broadcast on January 15, 1987.And almost right away, things started to go wrong.Like many organizations that rely on a large base of volunteers,the station is at times chaotic, and occasionally downrightanarchic. For many years it was wracked by infightingand teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. “We’re celebrating all34 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007Sam Petite, CIUT’s technical directorthat we are” on the station’s 20 th anniversary,says station manager Brian Burchell(BSc 1987), “but we’re also celebratingthat we’ve survived this long, through verydifficult times.”CIUT faced financial disaster for thefirst time less than a year after its initialbroadcast. Startup costs had been higherthan expected, and advertisers werescarce. With the station already morethan $300,000 in debt, staff were laid offand others quit, and an emergencyfundraising drive was needed. Less than ayear later, U of T students bailed the stationout again with a special one-timelevy. But the stress of keeping the stationafloat took its toll: in its first 13 years,CIUT had 13 station managers.Trafford, who had overseen CIUT’sFM application, served briefly as the secondstation manager. “Here’s a bunch of students trying torun a fairly significant 24-hour broadcasting operation,” hesays. “None of them are experienced in it, they’re all workingcrazy hours and some of them had other jobs on top of that.Managing a radio station takes a good deal of experience todo it well on a good day without losing money. When you’renew to it, that just compounds the problems.” Traffordresigned as station manager after just a few months in the role,citing conflict with the board of directors.The station lurched along, scraping by financially andenduring conflicts among the staff, volunteers and directors.But in 1999, as one staffer explained, “It all went kablooie.”“We ran out of money,” says Angus. “As a result, the wholestaff wasn’t paid and they quit or were laid off, then the boardquit. So we found ourselves with no management and no governingbody.” With the CRTC threatening to revoke itsbroadcast licence, the end of CIUT was a very real possibility.“It had spiralled downward by 1999,” acknowledgesBurchell. “It was akin to a forest fire, which is damaging butsometimes necessary. 1999 was our forest fire.”U of T and the Students’ Administrative Council (SAC)stepped in and petitioned the CRTC to give the powers formerlyheld by the board to Burchell, a former SAC executivewho had helped CIUT with its FM application, but hadn’tbeen involved during the years of infighting. “I wasn’t part ofany of the factions,” he says.With updated bylaws and clearer distinctions drawnamong the roles of board, staff and volunteers, CIUT emergedstronger. Volunteers who had left out of disappointment orfrustration returned to do their shows; some difficult butmuch-needed financial cutbacks were made; and theCRTC gave the station a conditional 30-month licencerenewal, providing it with time to regroup.It worked: seven years later, CIUT is still on the air – and

Left to right:Andy Frank, Lisa Marshall, Steve BirekBurchell is still its station After years of fightingmanager. Turning thingssimply to survive,around first meant financialdiscipline, Burchell says, but CIUT is planning for anit also took a change in the uncertain future. Internetaudio, MP3 playersstation’s culture. WhereasCIUT had long worn its leftistpolitics on its sleeve, the and satellite servicesreborn station is, if not exactlyare all changing the wayapolitical, more subdued.“CIUT is not a political party, people listen to radio.and it’s not an advocate,” saysBurchell. “It’s in the business of making broadcasting.” Underhis management, the emphasis of the station might be summedup as “more medium, less message.” While hosts can – and frequentlydo – advance opinions or promote causes, the stationitself no longer takes sides, and the rollicking political quarrelsthat characterized CIUT for many years are now mostly absent.“It was definitely a Jekyll and Hyde place,” recalls Karen Parsons,who worked on the show Caffeine Free in the late 1980sand is now news director at 660 News in Calgary. “It was funand funky and delightful and a pain all rolled into one.”Leaving the bully pulpit behind has allowed the staff tofocus more on the station’s day-to-day operations, clean up itsfinances, develop new talent and raise more money. TodayCIUT is financially stable, has paid off its substantial debtsand even runs a small surplus.Naturally, it was time to do something crazy.2005, during the eight-week labour dispute at theINCBC, CIUT found itself thrust into the national spotlightwhen a group of locked-out CBC staff came calling.Andy Barrie, host of Radio One’s Metro Morning, had floatedthe idea of producing a show on CIUT using CBC stafferswho had nothing to do but walk the picket line.For three weeks in September 2005, Barrie anddozens of other CBC radio personalities and producersbroadcast Toronto Unlocked, a three-hour morning radioshow from 91 St. George that brought local news,weather, traffic and sports to Toronto listeners whocould no longer hear it on the CBC.“For us, it was an opportunity to bring other listeners’attention to CIUT as a frequency,” saysBurchell. “But we also had CIUT volunteersimmersed in the whole thing. And CBC staff rememberedwhat drew them to radio to begin with.” Thebroadcasts were remarkably popular, drawing in curiousCBC listeners and reaching people as far away asRussia over the Web.The Toronto Unlocked experience was such a success,Burchell says, that CIUT decided to launch its ownmagazine-style morning show and that show is Take 5.Since the lockout, the Canadian Media Guild hasfounded a Broadcaster in Residence program at the stationto pair CBC staff with CIUT volunteers. That base ofexperience is one of the things that makes an ambitious newshow such as Take 5 possible.After years of fighting simply to survive, CIUT is lookingahead, trying to plan for an uncertain future. Its transmitteris aging, and will be expensive to replace. Internet audio,portable MP3 players and satellite services are all changingthe way listeners consume radio, and CIUT is racing to keepup, building a new website and preparing to offer podcasts ofnearly all its shows. Burchell says that CIUT is actually wellpositionedto compete in a fragmenting media landscape,since it already caters to a collection of niche audiences.Take 5 showcases CIUT’s evolving technique and growingconfidence. Five days a week for an hour and a half starting at8:30 a.m., host Lisa Marshall will lead a daily rotation of CIUTvolunteers delivering entertainment, sports, interviews, documentaries,traffic, weather and news. By focusing on Torontoissues, Take 5 provides an alternative for CBC listeners in searchof local content after the local CBC morning show ends. AndTake 5 will draw on U of T’s ranks of professors and researchersfor interviews, commentary and expertise, a resource thatBurchell says the station hasn’t adequately tapped in the past.Marshall, who spent the last 10 years doing a morning showfor CJMO FM in Moncton, New Brunswick, is an old hand atthe game, making her a centre of calm in the buzzing newsroomon this particular Monday, minutes before Take 5 debuts.“It’ll be a fun morning,” she says. “I think we have a reallygreat show.” Just before going into the studio to sign on, she callsout, “Let’s show the CBC what we can do!” The red “on-air” lightflicks on, the familiar jazz strains of Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five”fill the studio and U of T’s newest crop of volunteer broadcasterstake their places at the microphones. CIUT is on the air. ■Graham F. Scott (BA 2006 Trinity) is a freelance writer in Toronto.WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 35

HELPINGHANDSVolunteers do everything from mentor students to organizebook sales. Uof T wouldn’t be the same without themCYNTHIA MACDONALDJim & Verna WebbCo-treasurers ofTrinity’s Friends of theLibrary committee36 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007Woody Allen once wrotethat good people sleepbetter at night than badpeople do – but the bad ones enjoythe waking hours much more.Not so with U of T’s devotedcrop of 2006 Arbor Award winners,all of whom lead lives theyenjoy, largely because of theirvirtuousness – not despite it.The awards, now in their17 th year, honour alumniand friends of the universitywhose volunteer effortssupport many valuableprograms.As is typical, this year’swinners – all 100 of them –are a diverse group, motivatedto see an alreadyeffective university liveup to its own considerablestandards. As winnerSusan Eng notes:“I used to think theywouldn’t need mehere. But when youget closer, you realize

that even a very good university canalways improve.”In addition to successful careers,the seven Arbor Award winners profiledhere possess community-buildingexperience that extends beyondtheir commitment to U of T.Accordingly, they have valuable lessonsto teach alumni who maywant to get involved in volunteering,but aren’t sure of the best wayto go about it.Bill Ostrander, for example,stresses the importance of socialnetworking. Verna and JimWebb are models of inclusionand friendship. Susan Eng’sfocus is accountability, andasking hard questions. GeorgeMowbray reminds us of theneed to respect the past,while Bonnie Stern and RaymondRupert are caretakersof the future. From all ofthem we learn that doinggood, more than anythingelse, means doing.Vernaand Jim WebbEvery October, thevaulted ceiling of TrinityCollege’s Seeley Halllooks down on a feedingfrenzy that mighthave surprised therestrained seminariansof years past. This isthe Trinity CollegeBook Sale – a five-dayextravaganza that seesbibliomaniacs lining up in the predawnhours to get a crack at some100,000 used tomes, ranging fromdollar paperbacks to precious rarities.It couldn’t happen without Vernaand Jim Webb (BA 1965 UC, MA1969, PhD 1972).The retired schoolteachers act as co-treasurers ofTrinity’s Friends of the Library committee. Over thecourse of the year they are involved in most aspects ofthe sale’s myriad needs: pricing, sorting books into morethan 60 academic and popular categories, hauling boxes,George MowbrayThe writer and formereconomist is on a missionto foster dreamssetting up tablesand communicating with the hundredsof volunteers who make the sale runsmoothly. After the money is counted(last year’s sale reaped $125,000, all of it designated forTrinity’s library), the Webbs occupy themselves with thedispersal of leftover books to dealers or other interestedparties. In the eight years since they first got involved,their infectious camaraderie has attracted many likemindedhelpers to the task.WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 37PHOTOGRAPHY: DOUG FORSTER

“You just have to be welcoming,make people feel included,” says Verna,whose Tuesday sorting group is amodel of relaxed conviviality (completewith birthday cake, when called for).The Webbs were brought on board byJim’s former colleague Charles Laver,who’s worked on the sale for 28 of the event’s 31 years.Friendship and word-of-mouth are the twin engineson which this massive undertaking runs. “Books comefrom many different sources,” says Jim. “Retiredprofessors, members of the Friends of the Library, friendsof members of the Friends of the Library…. You neverknow where the next treasure will come from.”Jim attended University College, although theWebbs’ son Todd (who now teaches history at LaurentianUniversity in Sudbury) graduated from Trinity in 1997.The whole family, of course, loves books, with a tastefor history and biographies. Do they avail themselvesof the many books on offer? “We’re trying not to buymany more at this stage,” laughs Verna. “Our housewould sink!”38 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007Raymond Rupert &Bonnie SternFood plays a centralrole in the couple’s Uof TinvolvementGeorge MowbrayThe Hall of Distinction, on the secondfloor of the Sanford Fleming Building, islined with elegant plaques that tell thestories of some remarkable engineers.Their biographer isn’t an engineer himself,but a former economist, entrepreneurand technical writer whose mission is to foster dreams.“These accolades are designed to inspire young engineers aswell as to honour the recipients. Students can look at themand say ‘hey, maybe I can do that too,’” says George Mowbray,who earned an MA in political economy from the universityin 1948.Mowbray, the son of an electrical engineer, started corporatewriting while working as a management consultant in1959. Sixteen years ago his friend, engineer Bob Moore, askedif he would help write the text for the plaques. Mowbray madesure his portraits were truly holistic, capturing scientificaccomplishments as well as achievements in fields such asmusic, politics and business. “The university can claim to haveturned out people who’ve been able to apply the lessons theylearned in engineering in many other ways,” says Mowbray.

‘“Students come and act as my shadow,” says Rupert.“I’ll give them achallenge and let them work it out.” This way, students can see what medicineor management is like before they commit to entering it.It’s important for Mowbray to show students not justwhat the engineers have done, but their path to success,using colourful and compelling language. He writes thatMurray Willer’s career was, like many engineers of his age,“hardened by the fires of the Second World War.”“These are development stories,” says Mowbray, thatshow “how the engineer develops from his or her early daysinto a highly productive member of society. How they gotthere is an important part of the story.”Mowbray’s father graduated from U of T in 1915, andsome of his children and grandchildren are graduates as well.Involvement with family is but one of many ways the 82-year-old stays active. “I do this work, about a day on eachaward, to make a grateful contribution to the university,”he says, adding that a favourite quote from Henry WadsworthLongfellow sums up why he does it: “Livesof great men all remind us/We can make our livessublime/and, departing, leave behind us/Footprints on thesands of time.”Bonnie Stern and Raymond RupertHow’s this for kismet? Bonnie Stern (BA 1969 New College)and Raymond Rupert (MD 1972, MBA 1985) firstmet at the age of nine at an Ontario summer resort, wherethey put on a play together. “I was on props,” smilesRupert, “and she was this bossy little lady.” That seemed tobe the end of it, even though the two were contemporariesat New College in the late 1960s. They weren’t reuniteduntil 1978, when Rupert – by this time a successful doctor– wanted to learn how to cook. He enrolled in one ofStern’s highly regarded classes; the two have now been marriedfor 25 years.William OstranderHelps raise fundsfor the Sexual DiversityStudies programWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 39

Susan EngHer watchword isaccountabilityStern will tell you that she was hardly bossy while at NewCollege. “I was so quiet that one time I asked a question in atutorial and everybody clapped,” she says. She planned to be alibrarian, but a postgraduate stint studying cooking put anend to that idea: she is now one of Canada’s most celebratedcookbook authors, and owner of the prestigious Toronto culinaryschool that bears her name.Her community work has been similarly impressive, andincludes fundraising for New College and sitting on the Universityof Toronto Alumni Association’s board of directors.When Stern heard about U of T’s Alumni Mentorship Program,she knew it would be the perfect way for her husbandto mark his own return to the university.In addition to his medical degree, Rupert holds an MBAfrom the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. He isboth a family doctor and “case manager,” acting as a gobetweenfor patients with complex medical problems, whooften find themselves caught in a confusing labyrinth ofexperts. Under his tutelage, students learn lessons in managementas well as medicine. “Students come and act as myshadow,” says Rupert. “I’ll give them a challenge and let themwork it out.” This way, students can see what medicine ormanagement is like before they commit to entering it.Food plays a central role in the couple’s U of T involvement.Rupert likes to create a relaxed atmosphere for hismentees, planning initial meetings over dim sum in anuptown restaurant, sometimes with the couple’s three grownchildren in tow. And for a recent fundraiser at New College,40 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

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Alumni engagement is significant to Eng.“Fundraising is the primary culture,but people get tired of being asked for money without a reason why.We need not only alumni money, but alumni input.”Stern put on a “food trends presentation,” showcasing theevolution of the food scene in Toronto from the time of hergraduation (“there were barely any restaurants then”) to themulticultural gastronomy of today. There are other food-centredplans, one of which may see new students invited to theStern/Rupert house for a home-cooked meal. The kitchen isalso an area where Rupert is called on to participate. “I chopand peel,” he says. “But she’s the star.”William Ostrander“I’ve never left!” exclaims Bill Ostrander (BA 1972 Victoria,MA 1978, LLB 1980), looking back on many years of studyat – and tireless service to – the University of Toronto. Ostrandercompleted his undergraduate, master’s and law degreeshere. Now, he’s being recognized as a pivotal figure in thedevelopment of the new Mark S. Bonham Centre for SexualDiversity Studies at University College.Established in 1998, the Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS)program offers undergraduate courses, hosts academic andcommunity events, and promotes research into sexuality. Itsactivities will now accelerate thanks to a million-dollardonation from Bonham, the president and CEO of StoneyRidge Estate Winery. Bonham, who attended UniversityCollege, previously worked with Ostrander on Toronto’sInside Out Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, andserved on the SDS advisory committee (of which Ostranderis now chair). Bonham’s donation will help the programwith initiatives such as a graduate program and a regularacademic conference.A resource like this hardly seemed possible in the early1970s, when Ostrander was a student at Victoria College.He was involved in many activities at school, but sufferedfrom feelings of isolation. “I was completely closeted,”he says. “I did not know any other gay people. It severelyaffected my academic performance, and I had long periodsof depression where I was unable to complete any academicwork at all.”Today, however, things are different – certainly at theuniversity level. “There’s still homophobia in our society,but it’s not very prevalent anymore at U of T,” notes Ostrander,56. “People in senior levels of administration clearly seethe program as an important thing to do. Many of themhave stepped up and helped, and it does U of T credit.”It’s easy to see how the charming Ostrander (who practisedcorporate law for 22 years and is now in private business) hasbeen able to drum up so much support for the centre. “I’malways meeting new friends,” he says. “I really like people.”Susan EngNot many tax lawyers have parallel careers as social activists.But more than 20 years in business have given Susan Eng atough, practical perspective – one she’s been happy to applyto her impressive range of community activities.Now in her seventh year as an alumni governor on GoverningCouncil, Eng’s watchword is accountability. “Forme, this means that you look at an institution’s values. Thenyou look to see whether or not it has the best programs toachieve them. It’s not good enough for a committee just tosay, ‘we’re on it.’ We need to account for how the universityservices its own values.”For Eng, these values include diversity and student mentorship.As a governor, she also works to ensure that theuniversity provides adequate funding for student aid, toincrease accessibility for all deserving students. U of T haschanged radically since the days when Eng, the child ofChinese immigrants, used to walk from her home at thecorner of Howland Avenue and Bloor Street to attendclasses at University College in the early 1970s. “There wasa lot of cliquism then, and very few resources for visibleminorities,” she says. Diversity and tolerance have certainlyincreased since then, but Eng warns against complacency.“These values have to keep being rearticulated, to each newgeneration of politicians and students.”Alumni engagement is also significant to her. “Fundraisingis the primary culture, but people get tired of beingasked for money without a reason why. We need not onlyalumni money, but alumni input.”Eng believes that doing “good” doesn’t always meandoing “nice.” On the other hand, she’s learned what bringsresults and what doesn’t. She’s not big, for example, onprotest rallies or in-your-face tactics. “You have to appeal topeople’s self-interest,” she says, pointing to another of herrecent accomplishments: acting as co-chair of the coalitionthat ultimately secured redress and a Parliamentary apologyfrom the federal government for immigrants who wereforced to pay the notorious Chinese Head Tax.Eng is best known to Torontonians as the former chair ofToronto’s fractious Police Services Board, a post she held inthe early 1990s. This “trial by ordeal,” as she describes it,was where her biggest lessons in accountability werelearned. “It was a fascinating time,” she says now, the publicnature of which “forced me to do my job better than I’dever done before.”■Cynthia MacDonald (BA 1986) is a freelance writer in Toronto.42 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

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TRASHTALKCan new technology make Toronto’s garbage problem disappear?John LorincASreal-world educational experiencesgo, it doesn’t get more truer-to-lifethan this. Last year, Donald Kirk, aprofessor in chemical engineering,asked 12 of his fourth-year students todesign a plant that could transform Toronto’s trash intoenergy – a task that propelled the team right into the murkyheart of the city’s garbage crisis.With the help of EnQuest Power Corporation, an upstartwaste-to-energy company, the students developed a detailedproposal for a gasification plant. The team proposed feedinggarbage into a huge cylindrical kiln that’s heated to 800 Celsius,and subjecting it to steam. In this super-hot, oxygenstarvedenvironment, plastic and organic waste reduces to asynthetic gas that can be used as fuel. The small amount ofmaterial that doesn’t break down would be dumped at alandfill site.What struck Professor Kirk is that the design team didn’tfocus on the engineering aspects of the project, but rather onthe environmental and socio-economic consequences. “Theycame up with ideas for community buy-in that I thought weremore innovative than the engineering,” he recalls. One ideainvolved setting up a plant at a decommissioned landfill site,where the energy produced from the gasification processwould generate heat for a greenhouse. “They were thinkingbroadly, about how you would make this technology attractiveto the public,” says Kirk.EVERY CANADIAN knows that Toronto has world-classgarbage problems. A growing number of Torontonians feeluncomfortable about shipping garbage to distant landfill sites,and public opinion polls show a growing interest in garbagedisposalalternatives such as gasification and high-tech incineration,as practised in Europe.Many local politicians and environmentalists remain skeptical.They cite concerns with toxic emissions, reliability, costand the potentially negative impact such systems could haveon recycling programs. On the other side of the debate, proponentssay that the GTA municipalities need to reduce theirdependence on landfills, which emit greenhouse gases anddepend on a steady stream of dump trucks spewing dieselexhaust. They also say new technologies can generate energy,providing cities with economic and environmental payoffs.Since 2001, Toronto has been increasingly proactive aboutdiverting garbage from landfill. In 2005, the city’s diversionrate reached 40 per cent, thanks to expanded recycling, hazardouswaste drop-off programs, and household green bins fororganic waste. Toronto is now one of North America’s greenestmunicipalities, and city officials hope to break through the60 per cent mark by 2008.It won’t be easy. Half of the city’s residents live in apartments,and many highrises don’t have adequate recycling or green binfacilities. Another headache is finding a way to dispose of toothbrushes,mattresses and old electronics – and all the other stuffthat can’t be tossed into recycling bins. Even if Toronto achievesa 60 per cent diversion rate, it will still have to dispose of400,000 tonnes of residual waste each year. Until 2010, ourtrash will continue to be shipped to Michigan, and then it willbe dumped at a newly purchased landfill site near London,Ontario. But within the next four or five years, the city wantsto choose an alternate method for dealing with residual waste.Over the coming year, the Community EnvironmentalAssessment Team will work with Toronto’s city council to evaluatethe options. Philip Knox, the team’s chair, wants the Universityof Toronto to play a role. “We’d like to get professors andstudents to come out and help us look at these issues,” he says.WHEN JOHN ROWSWELL (MEng 1986) was electedmayor of Sault Ste. Marie in 2000, he took over a city withserious economic problems. He set out to attract new businessto the Sault – in particular, businesses that focus on wastemanagement and energy. Rowswell travelled to Forssa, Finland(Sault Ste. Marie’s sister city), for a quick education onnew approaches to energy, recycling and waste management.Forssa diverts two-thirds of its trash, and uses the energy generatedfrom it to power a district heating system.Inspired by Forssa, Sault Ste. Marie launched a daringexperiment last year. The city partnered with EnQuest to build44 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

Work crews remove illegally dumped trash from McNicholAvenue in Toronto during the city’s garbage strike in July 2002.a demonstration gasification plant at the local landfill, with aneye to generate energy from waste. The firm plans to separaterecyclables at one facility, and then gasify the remaining hydrocarbon-basedmaterials, such as plastics, wood and paper.EnQuest claims its technology can reduce garbage mass by upto 90 per cent. Sault Ste. Marie is now seeking environmentalapproval to process one tonne of garbage a day, with the possibilityof ramping up to 275 tonnes a day if the technologyproves viable.Cities have been burning garbage since the 19 th century. Therap against old-style incinerators is that they pollute the localenvironment with lead, mercury and the dioxins they create duringthe burning process. Knox says that Toronto’s environmentalassessment team will evaluate thermal processing techniquessuch as incineration and gasification, but it’s a touchy issue. Fordecades, an incinerator rained heavy-metal ash on downtownneighbourhoods until it was mothballed in 1988.In the 1990s, countries including Germany, Sweden andDenmark pushed through tough new rules limiting emissions– forcing municipalities to invest heavily in technology to captureall but the slightest traces of toxins in the ash. “It’s not aEvery problem to have a very clean incinerator,”says chemical engineering profes-Canadian knowssor Charles Jia, who has been developingscrubbing technologies for boththat Torontohas been having industry and municipalities. Waste isworld-class mechanically pre-sorted to remove hazardousmaterials, such as batteries, andproblems dealingsubstances that burn poorly or not atwith its trash all, such as glass, aluminum and wetorganics. Carbon-activated sponges canabsorb mercury vapours that are released during incineration,and alkaline filters can neutralize the acid gases. In some countries,the bottom ash – about 20 per cent of the original volumeof the garbage – is stabilized by mixing it with cement toform concrete.Do these new technologies produce safer incinerators? Thejury is still out, but a growing number of toxicologists thinkthey do. The thornier problem is the hefty capital and operatingcosts associated with incinerators, and the composition ofthe waste being fed into them. Clean incineration is almosttwice as expensive as dumping in landfill. But there’s an off-PHOTOGRAPHY: CANADIAN PRESS/TRSTRWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 45

setting benefit: the heat generated by five tonnes of waste canprovide enough power for a typical household for one year.Yet not all garbage is created equal. The most energy-efficientwaste includes wood, paper and plastic, says Jia. Butmunicipalities have become increasingly adept at recyclingthese materials, and environmentalists are loath to roll backthose gains. “One of the major arguments against incineratorsis that they need to be fed to get your money’s worthout of them,” says Phil Byer, a professor of civil engineering.“I don’t see any good argument for burning packaging.”Kirk has a different way of looking at this issue. He agreesthat it’s much more energy efficient to recycle paper andmetal products than to make them from scratch. But hepoints out that some of the materials collected in blue boxesend up in landfills, because they can’t be reprocessed. Plasticscome in so many different chemical forms, he says, that somecan’t be properly sorted. Instead of recycling plastics, Kirkadvocates converting them into usable synthetic gas (alsoknown as “syngas”). “The question I ask is, ‘How muchenergy does it take to recycle compared to the amount ofenergy you can get out of the process?’”In class, Kirk walks his students through a life-cycle analysis,which calculates the total energy used for recyclingtrucks, sorting equipment, secondary shipments of contaminatedmaterials to landfills and the greenhouse gases createdby landfills. “Most come around to the view that we shouldSome of thestuff that goes inbe using the plastics for their fuelvalue,” says Kirk.the recycling boxALTHOUGH INCINERATION andends up in landfillsites, only by attention, some waste-managementgasification garner most of the mediafirms believe there’s a less risky solutionto our garbage problem. Theway of a morecircuitous route alternative relies more on decompositionthan high-tech facilities operatingat blazing temperatures.In the early 1990s, Eastern Power Corporation, a Torontoenergy company founded by brothers Gregory (BASc 1982)and Hubert Vogt (BASc 1980) and Herman Walter, developedtwo facilities for capturing the methane gas that escapesfrom landfills, and using it as fuel. Having completed thoseventures successfully, Eastern shifted focus.They reasoned that if the decomposition process could beaccelerated, they could alter the entire logic of municipalwaste management. Through a subsidiary called Subbor,Eastern designed an “anaerobic digestion technology” capableof rapidly converting garbage into a peat-like substance.According to Eastern’s studies, anaerobic digestion is the bestbet for minimizing greenhouse gases and maximizing theenergy produced from municipal solid waste.In Subbor’s system, municipalities collect all solid waste inDid you publisha book in 2006?Are you a graduate of theFaculty of Arts and Science?If so, we invite you to participate in our annualGreat Books by Great Grads alumni book fairduring Spring Reunion 2007.To participate, please contact the Arts and ScienceAlumni Office at 416.978.1194 or e-mail:alumni@artsci.utoronto.caENTRY DEADLINE IS MARCH 2, 2007GreatBOOKSGreat byGRADSbya celebration of publishing achievementsfeaturing Arts & Science alumniFaculty of Arts & Science46 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

Missing:Harvey BottingPhilosophy Major/Jazz LoverLast seen — Victoria College, 1967YOU AREALUMNIreturning to where the stories beganOver the years, you may have lost touch with your classmates.Here’s your chance to find out what happened to them.Harvey has collected a few letters since 1967, like MBA and Senior VP. But that’s not the wholestory. Find out more about Harvey and other grads at Spring Reunion 2007, where we’re honouringgraduates of years ending in 2 or 7, and planning special events for 25th and 50th anniversaries. ThePresident’s Garden Party and Chancellor’s Medal Presentation (honouring the 55th, 60th, 65th, 70th,75th and 80th anniversaries of graduation) will cap off a weekend designed to satisfy your curiosity.Get more details and register at spring.reunion@utoronto.ca, 416-978-5881, 1-888-738-8876(toll free) or www.springreunion.utoronto.ca.Spring ReunionThursday May 31 - Sunday June 3Graduates of years ending in 2 or 7

“super blue boxes” and truck itto a central processing facility. Aseries of filters and mechanicalseparating machines remove themetals, paper and recyclableplastics so they can be sent torecycling facilities. The remainingmaterial is ground downand goes through a two-stage“digestion” process that usesbacteria to accelerate naturaldecomposition. This digestiontakes place at 55 Celsius. Theprocess yields a bio gas that canbe used to operate the facility orproduce electrical power for alocal utility. It also yields a peatlikesubstance. After sorting thepeat to remove undigested residuals,such as plastic scraps, it canbe sold for compost, landfillcover or agriculture.In 1998, Subbor approachedthe City of Guelph aboutbuilding a $30-million demonstrationfacility capable of processing480 tonnes of garbage aweek. But even after Subborbuilt the plant, anaerobic digestioncontinued to be a toughsell. Three years after signingthe contract, Guelph cancelledthe deal when city officials determinedthat Subbor couldn’thandle the volume of wastegenerated by the city. Subborsued for breach of contract, but the city maintained it didn’tviolate the terms of the agreement. A judgment is pending,but Subbor’s plans to build more facilities are on hold for thetime being.York and Durham regions also rejected anaerobic digestionas an option following an environmental assessment conductedlast spring. The assessors concluded that it would bedifficult to find a sufficiently large site and warned that suchplants – because they must be capable of storing large quantitiesof decomposing waste – have the potential to damagelocal ecosystems.Despite the setbacks, Vogt remains optimistic. “Technologycan help us in this area,” he insists. “When, I can’t predict.But we have learned to be patient.”WHAT’S CLEAR with all of these technologies is that the Cityof Toronto won’t be able to consider them in isolation fromother key policy decisions, some of which fall under the48 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007How Uof TMeasures UpIf the St. George Campus is a city within acity, it’s a community that does a pretty goodjob with its waste. Reno Strano, who runs therecycling program out of the South BordenBuilding on the campus’s southwest flank, reportsthat the downtown campus generated about5,000 tonnes of garbage last year, but diverted55 per cent of it.U of T introduced its recycling programs almost20 years ago, and now collects paper (which it sellsfor $50 to $80 a tonne), bottles, cans, computers,plastics, light bulbs, cardboard, wood, metal andtoner cartridges. Last year, the St. George Campusalso collected about 1,200 tonnes of organicwaste, mostly discarded food.The university is always pushing to increaseawareness of its recycling programs among students,faculty and staff, and seeking to add newmaterials to the diversion stream. For instance,during a recent waste audit, Strano’s staff discoveredthey could add the used animal beddingfrom medical labs to the organics stream.There are always obstacles to recycling. Largerecycling bins are difficult to install in the olderresidence buildings, for example, and each newwave of students and faculty need to be informedabout the university’s programs. Strano says thediversion rate could someday reach 80 per cent butadds,“Getting above 60 is a big challenge.” – J.L.purview of other levels of government.“Waste management has tobe seen as a system,” says Byer. “Itis a question of a package ofoptions and activities.”A major consideration will bepackaging rules, says Knox. Germanyand Sweden, for example,have much tougher national rulesrequiring manufacturers to takeresponsibility for the full life cycleof the packaging they use. Knoxsays that without tough regulations,there will be little motivationfor manufacturers to reducetheir dependence on plastic andpaper wrapping.Then there’s the role of establishedrecycling programs. Formany environmentalists, these aresacrosanct because they haveforced citizens to think about thethree Rs – reduce, reuse, recycle.But as Knox and Kirk point out,some of the stuff that goes in therecycling box ends up in landfill,only by way of a more circuitousroute. “It’s amazing, when youstart to peel back the layers of theonion, the things you find underneath,”Knox says.Beth Savan, the director of theuniversity’s Sustainability Office,says that the decision to adoptnew technologies must be guidedby a handful of key factors: toxinemission levels, the health of waste management workers, location,the risk of failure and the mechanics of transportingwaste to the disposal facilities. “This is always going to be avalue-laden decision,” she says. “There will never be a universalsystem where everyone can agree on the assumptions.”Yet both Byer and Kirk say it will be critical for Torontoto evaluate the various technologies in a scientifically rigorousfashion. Byer, who has previously advised the city onwaste management technology, knows that the claims andcounter-claims of the proponents of various systems need tobe tested carefully, especially when it comes to incinerationand gasification. He says the university is well-positioned tooffer dispassionate expert advice. “We need to be openmindedabout these technologies, but we must also take ahard look at them.”■John Lorinc (BSc 1987) is a Toronto journalist. Penguin Canadarecently published his book The New City.

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Michael WalshNadia WalterKathleen Graham WardThomas WasherDavid J.WattJames W.WattGordon E.WebbAllan Howard WeinbaumErnest WeinribTanny WellsJeffrey W.WelshRichard Wernham and JuliaWestDavid E.WessonAlisa WeymanEdward WheelerCatharine Isobel WhitesideGlen WhyteMargaret L.WhyteReginald E.Y.WickettBlossom T.WigdorJohn A.WildmanNoelle-Dominique WillemsOwen S.WilliamsBernice Carolyn WillisBill WilsonElizabeth A.WilsonPeter A.WilsonThomas A.WilsonThomas and ElizabethWilsonFlorence and MickeyWinbergKyle Winters and HowardRideoutCarol and David WishartMichael H. K.WongThomas D.WoodsRon WoottonJames M.WortzmanFrances C.WrightHarold WuAlfred YangKane G.YeePeter K. H.YeungTony W.Y.YuEberhard H. ZeidlerAlex X. ZhangLing ZhangAviva Zukerman Schure andPeter Schure596493 Saskatchewan Ltd.Joel Alleyne Inc.The Alva FoundationAnspor Construction Ltd.Architects AllianceBaghai Developments Ltd.Baird Sampson NeuertArchitects Inc.BBT Development Inc.Benign EssentialBlepharospasm CanadianResearch Foundation,Established by Sam andOlga MeisterS. M. Blair FamilyFoundationThe Boston ConsultingGroupBregman + HamannArchitectsBrumara FoundationBurgundy AssetManagement Ltd.Edward BurtynskyPhotographyThe Cadillac FairviewCorporation LimitedCaldwell Securities Ltd.Canadian Association ofChain Drug StoresCanadian Auto Association(CAA)The Canadian Foundationfor Investor EducationCanadian Foundation forUkrainian StudiesCanadian Italian Business &Professional Associationof TorontoCanadian Tire Foundationfor FamiliesCappola Foods Inc.The Catholic Women’sLeague of CanadaCDS Pharmacy GroupCenterra Gold Inc.Coulter’s PharmacyCredit Union Central ofOntarioWolodymyr GeorgeDanyliw FoundationDavis Innes LLPDeloitte & Touche LLPDentistry Canada FundEmbanet CorporationEmbassy of the IslamicRepublic of IranEncyclopedia of Music inCanadaEpstein ColeCharles F. Fell CharitableTrustFender Musical InstrumentsCorporationThe FinAid FoundationFirst Canadian TitleCompany Ltd.The Fitness InstituteFoundation - The TorontoCommunity Fdn.Forest Products Associationof CanadaFranklin TempletonInvestmentsGeorge R. GardinerFoundationGeneral Motors of CanadaLimitedGlycaemic Index Testing Inc.Charles and Marilyn GoldFamily FoundationGrace Church on the HillGreater Toronto AirportsAuthorityPegi Lee Gross & AssociatesInc.Hamilton & DistrictPharmacists AssociationHariri Pontarini ArchitectsHeenan Blaikie, S.E.N.C.HMWR TorontoHooDoo FilmsIEEE Canada - TorontoSectionIMA Explorations Inc.The Institute of CharteredAccountants of OntarioInternational Life SciencesInstitute - NorthAmerican BranchInvestments UnlimitedIreland Park FoundationKassel’s PharmacyKeen Engineering Co. Ltd.Patrick and Barbara KeenanFoundationKPMG CanadaSamuel H. Kress FoundationLBL Holdings Ltd.Legal Aid OntarioLondon Road West UnitedChurchHeather L. Main MemorialScholarship FundManulife Bank of CanadaMcCarthy TétraultFoundationMcDonald’s Restaurants ofCanada LimitedMcKellar StructuredSettlements Inc.McLean Budden LimitedMennonite HistoricalSociety of BritishColumbiaMicrosoft Research LimitedMinistry of NaturalResources - ForestsDivisionMoffat Kinoshita ArchitectsInc.Moriyama & TeshimaArchitectsFlora Morrison ResearchFund at the TorontoCommunity FoundationNational PharmaceuticalSciences GroupNovartis OpthalmicsOMSW - 2002Ontario Association ofArchitectsOntario Power GenerationOsler, Hoskin & HarcourtLLPOttawa CarletonPharmacists’ AssociationPajcov Holdings Inc.Parkinson Society Canada(Peterborough Chapter)Peel Pharmacist’sAssociationPlan B OfficePriva Computers Inc.PWU Training Inc.Quadrangle ArchitectsLimitedRotary Club of Mississauga- AirportRotary Club of MississaugaCity CentreRSM RichterSack Goldblatt MitchellSackville RecordingsSage Investments LimitedScaramouche RestaurantGeoffrey B. Scott MemorialFund at the TorontoCommunity FoundationSharp Electronics of CanadaLtd.The Gerald Sheff CharitableFoundationChristopher SheltonScholarship Fund at theToronto CommunityFoundationSobeys PharmacySociety of UrologicSurgeons of OntarioSt. James’ CathedralStandard Securities CapitalCorporationStantec Architecture Ltd.TD’s Caring and SharingHope FundTeplitsky, ColsonTom’s PlaceTopax Export PackagingSystemsTorkin Manes Cohen &ArbusToronto and Area RoadBuilders AssociationToronto Professional FireFighter’s AssociationToronto Star Fresh Air FundTorys LLPTridel Enterprises Inc.United Parcel ServicesCanada Ltd.University of Toronto ItalianCanadian AssociationUnumProvident CanadaU of T Women’s AssociationUTBAA - University ofToronto Black AlumniAssociationVanbots ConstructionCorporationVan-Rob Stampings Inc.WB Family FoundationWellington Square UnitedChurchWestern Ontario DruggistGolf AssociationThe Wiegand MemorialFoundation Inc.Wireless InteractiveMedicine Inc.Women’s Musical Club ofToronto CentennialFoundationXerox Research Centre ofCanadaThe Youssef-WarrenFoundation54 Anonymous Donors56 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

Gifts-in-KindThis list recognizes donors who have exclusively made giftsin-kindof $5,000 or more to the University of Toronto.Marjorie AbramsElizabeth Anne and HughAnson-CartwrightE. Kay ArmatageBarbara AstmanDavid and Jane Gray AtkinsJames Davidson BainHelen G. BalfourDennis and Alice BartelsJohn BeckwithGerald E. Bentley Jr. andElizabeth B. BentleySusan BertaHenry B. M. BestEdward T. BirdChristine F. BissellG. BisztrayJ.W. Michael and Elizabeth J.BlissRonald L. BlooreHarald and Jean BohneFrances and Jeffrey BotnickPaul A. R. BouissacRobert C. BrandeisThomas F. S. BrownLucie BryanPier K. BrydenWalter and DanutaBuczynskiLeah BurkeJames B. CampbellRobert CappellDouglas ChambersChun Wei ChooEileen Davidson ClairmonteLeonard CohenJody ColeroMuriel B. ConacherEvelyn and C. GrahamCotterDonald B. CrossPaul D. CrossRobert B. CrossFrances DafoeRobert G. and Mary DaleCathy DaleyHorst DantzKathleen DevecseriDan DonovanFlorence DrakeAlbert DukaczJames and Elizabeth EayrsScott M. EddieKonrad EisenbichlerBernard EtkinJohn EzykHarry FauquierRudy W. FearonGeorge FetherlingJoy Fielding SeyffertElizabeth FinchamJohn A. ForemanDulce FryRobert FulfordArnold Gelbart / Galafilm Inc.Stephen G. GilbertMary GilliamAnne Marie-ChristineGodlewskaKarol J. M. GodlewskiMarie-Christine GodlewskiMark J. C. GodlewskiPaul GodlewskiShelagh GoldschmidtSybil GoldsteinLorna Goodison and TedChamberlinGreg GormickJohn GouldRuth E. GregoryRachile Lialia GriffithRichard W. GriffithsPhyllis GrosskurthHelen Bircher GuilletJames E. GuilletMartha HardyDavid HareJean-Charles HareJohn E. HarePaul A. HareMaureen I. F. HarrisJohn E. F. HastingsConrad E. HeidenreichMary HeimlichPeter HeyworthW. Speed HillMichael HirshDavid HlynskyDeborah HobsonCynthia HoekstraErnest HowardMarshall J. L. HryciukColleen HuttonEric HuttonGary HuttonJim HuttonBarbara Ann and LawrenceHynesJohn M. IrwinRobin and Heather JacksonR. Scott JamesSteven S. JanesWilliam JohnstonWilliam KaplanBrian M. KatchanTalivaldis KeninsPenny KerpneckElizabeth Kilbourn-Mackieand Richard MackieJohn KissickSusan and Morris KlaymanGeorge J. KleiserHelen H. KnightsGeorge Korey-KrzeczowskiEva KushnerLila M. LaaksoRichard LandonSimon LangloisRobert Lantos, SerendipityPoint FilmsHeather LawsonLee L’ClercW. H. Le RicheMichael Levine and JohnGilford MooreMichelle LewinPeter K. LewinR. Douglas LloydKurt LoebStuart W. LoganSara S. MacLeanMichael MaclearPaul Robert MagocsiAlberto ManguelRosemary MarchantRobert and RenwickMatthewsOonah McFeeJohn McGreevyJohn T. McLeodBrian D. McLoughlinMaria MeindlFarley MernickMichael and Jane MillgateAlbert MoritzDesmond NeillPeter W. NesselrothPeter M. Newman andSusan KeeneSolomon A. NigosianCynthia M. O’BeirneMariel P. O’Neill-Karch andPierre KarchEric OrmsbyDavid M. OxtobySusan E. OxtobyBrock ParkR. Brian ParkerLuana Maria PetersRonald G. PetersVictor PetersJennifer PhillipsMargaret W. PhillipsJudith PocockJohn C. PolanyiDalia and Ginutis ProcutaAnatol RapoportSamuel A. ReaJohn H. ReibetanzJanet RichardStephen RigginsErika E. RitterPeter H. RussellAnne RyckmanF. Michah RynorJohn and Carol SabeanAntony SchermanMiriam Schneid-OfseyerThomas T. SchweitzerJohanna Sedlmayer-KatzFrançois SéguinFred H.W. and RoswithaSeligerDavid P. Silcox and LindaIntaschiJudy A. SilverPaul SkowronskiJosef V. SkvoreckyStudents hit the books in the west study wing of the new HazelMcCallion Academic Learning Centre at U of T Mississauga.John G. SlaterBeverley SlopenFaye Smith RosenblattDavid SolwayRosemary E. J. SpeirsJohn StanleyRalph Gordon StantonT. A. G. StauntonJohn SteinskyMavis StonefieldKazimierz StysRosemary SullivanLarry A. SwartzArlette and Frank ThomasSusan Coxeter ThomasCraig Thorburn and CynthiaCaron ThorburnMargo TimminsMichael TimminsPeter TimminsMyrtle ToddRhea TregebovJoyce TrimmerTamara TrojanowskaMillicent TuckMihkel TurkChristopher VarleyF. Michael WalshJohn B.WarrenerF. Bartlett WattTim WhitenFred WilsonThomas A.WilsonDavid YoungVladek ZogalaBallan Carpentry andMillwork LimitedBarna-Alper Productions Inc.Blue RodeoBookham TechnologiesBrand Voice Inc.Cassels Brock & BlackwellLLPCelesticaDeluxe Toronto Ltd.Eaton | PowerwareFrontline Solutions Ltd.Johnson ControlsKCI Medical Canada Inc.Lindberg HomburgerModentLocust International Inc.Magna AdvancedTechnologiesNow Communications Inc.Redwood Classics ApparelS. & S. Productions Inc.Sakura Project / SakuraCommitteeSelections WoodworkingDesign Inc.Sports RehabilitationInstituteSunsplash Design+Wilson Sports EquipmentCanada Inc.PHOTOGRAPHY: JUNE SEELFor more information about these lists, please contact Alexandra Agostino,Division of University Advancement, 416-946-3031 or e-mail: alexandra.agostino@utoronto.caWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 57

CorporateMatching GiftsWe would like to acknowledge the generosity of corporationswho match charitable contributions made by theiremployees, directors, retirees and their spouses to theUniversity of Toronto. To find out if your company is amatching gift partner, please call 416-978-3810 or visit ourwebsite at www.giving.utoronto.ca/annual/matchgift.asp.3M CanadaAccenture Foundation Inc.AlcanAnthos Canada Inc.AstenJohnsonBank of MontrealBank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi(Canada)Barclays Global InvestorBell CanadaCanadian Pacific RailwayLimitedCanWest GlobalCommunications Corp.Carrier Canada LimitedCelesticaCGC Inc.Commonwealth InsuranceCompanyConocoPhillips CanadaCSX CorporationDaimlerChrysler Canada Inc.Deutsche BankDow Chemical Canada Inc.Eli Lilly and CompanyFoundationErnst & YoungFM Global FoundationFord Matching GiftProgramFord Motor Company ofCanada LimitedGAP Foundation GiftMatch ProgramBill & Melinda Gates Fdn.Employee Matching GiftProgramGE CanadaGoldman Sachs &CompanyGreen Shield CanadaFoundationH J Heinz Company ofCanada Ltd.IBM Canada LimitedInco LimitedInternational Flavours &Fragrances Inc.Investors Group Inc.Ivanhoe Cambridge Inc.Johnson & Johnson Familyof CompaniesKPMG FoundationKraft Canada Inc.Land O’Lakes Inc.Lubrizol Canada LimitedManulife FinancialMarsh & McLennanCompaniesMellon FinancialCorporation FundMicrosoft CorporationPetro-CanadaPfizer Foundation MatchingGifts ProgramPPG Canada Inc.Pratt & Whitney CanadaThe Procter & Gamble FundState Farm CompaniesFoundationSun Life FinancialSuncor Energy FoundationSYSCO CorporationTalisman EnergyIncorporatedThe Toronto StarTransCanada PipeLinesLimitedXerox Canada Ltd.Xerox CorporationLasting LegaciesThis list recognizes those gifts received byU of T through realized bequests, trusts or insurance.Frank B. AdamstoneDonald Sutherland AllanMargaret May AllemangThomas AlleyJeanne F. E. ArmourKevin W. ArmstrongJuliet May AskewMary E.AtkinsonWilliam John BennettWilfred Gordon BigelowBenjamin Herbert BirsteinWilliam Brown BoydElizabeth M. BoyleJoyce B. BoylenDonald J.A. BremnerMargaret I. BrubacherRobert BruceC. L. Burton TrustsAlice M. BuscombeRobert William BygraveNora Cecilia CairnesMargaret CarletonHelen M. CarpenterSamuel CastrilliAthol Lillian Beatty CherryEdith L. ClareNorah P. ClarkHilda ClaytonDonald E. CluneJ. E. Geraldine CongerKenneth B. ConnK. Jane ConwayKathleen A. CookeWilliam James CopemanEdith H. CosensJ. Douglas CrashleyWilliam Douglas CroneElsie F. DickhoutFrederick and DouglasDickson MemorialFoundationMargaret M. DonnellThelma C. DowdingOrville L. DrummondPeter C. DurhamSydney DymondMary Margaret EdisonGermaine Francoise EfrainEugene R. FairweatherFrances Eden FergusonJohn Charles FieldsThomas F. FosterFrederick Hume FoxtonVirginia M. FrankJanet Agnes FraserMary Kathleen GeddesMargaret GiffenJean GlasgowBeatrice C. GlasierOlive L. GordonBetty C. GrahamJohn Osborne GrahamMurray GreenbloomMary E. HamiltonFrederick J. HamlinMarion HannaEric Ethelbert HardyHelen D. HarrisonSheryl Jane HaymanWalter John HelmGordon W. HilbornRuth Anna HolmboeAgnes Eleanor HowardPatricia A. Humphreys-VanceBernard E. HynesNancy InnisEileen B. JacksonCharles L. JanisEdward S. JarvisJohn Dalziel JohnsonFlorence JowseyKarolina A. JusOriana KalantMiet and Wanda KamienskiJoan Ewart KeageyKathleen M. KeelerEdward J. KelmanDavid I. KerKenneth Raffles KilburnCharles Leo LabineMichael LaweeStuart C. LeggeDonald W. LeonardJohn F. LeonardReuben Wells LeonardMargaret Jean LeppingtonJohn Bruce HendersonLittleAnna B. LoftusAlexander E. MacDonaldPauline MandlsohnIvy M. MaynierJ. Edgar McAllisterJohn Robertson McArthurRhoda Royce McArthurIn Memory of MarianEleanor McBryde fromWilliam A. E. McBrydeMuriel G. McCuaigHelen Jean McCutcheonDonald F. McDonaldW. J. Kent McDonaldPauline M. McGibbonLorne Douglas McGolrickJohn Spence McIntoshSarah McLeanSarah Grace MeadJohn MeagherTheophile James MeekDavid MeltzerIsabel MendizabalWilliam C. MichellPeter H. MillerA. B. B. MooreHugh and Phyllis (Foreman)MoorhouseJohn F. Morgan-JonesMargaret I. MorrisRobina D. MorrisonJames Leslie MorrowMary MounfieldWilliam K. MounfieldAnne A. MuiseViolet B. MunnsMary Edythe NeebVivien NicklinFabian Aloysius O’DeaEdward H. O’KeefeMichael J. OliverHarvey OlnickTony Mark OmilanowErnst M. OppenheimerJanet ParrH. G. Campbell ParsonsFlorence G. PartridgeAudrey L. PeachBeverley Ann PhillipsJean E. PierceAileen M. PiperMary Elizabeth PittDora Burke PlayfairFrancis Clement PowellManuel E. PusitzWilliam F. L. RathmanJames H. Rattray MemorialTrustAmy Beatrice ReedPauline Anne ReinbothOlive-Jane ReynoldsHarold V. RiceDorothy G. RiddellNorma Ruth RidleyClifton Graham RobertsJerome S. RotenbergDorothy RutherfordLinda Darlene SagarPeter and Margot SandorFanny SaundersRose Lynne ScottDee and Hank SelickColin R. SellarRobert SimkinsW. Lennox SmartCarlton G. SmithGladys SparksMerrill StaffordCatherine I. SteeleGray M. SteeleMary StephensJ. I. (Hud) StewartStratton TrustKathleen Sally SymeGertrude TackaberryHoward Alan TateGeorgia Muriel TaylorJ. Marie TaylorArthur L .ThomsonLinda Lauren TimbsClarence TrelfordDoris TrottCharles W. Trunk Jr.Marjorie L.Van VeenJanet Elizabeth WaiteWilliam James WalkerKathleen WallsDorothy WardFlora M.WardStanley H.Ward and ShirleyA.Ward Revocable TrustIsabel C.WarneDouglas G.WatsonBetty Irene WestAnne Louise White andWalter Edmund WhiteMinnie WhiteLois H.WightmanFlorence WilkinsonB. M.WilliamsDorothy Evelyn WillmotAgnes E.WoodShirley Ann Yasuzawa58 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

King’s CollegeCircle HeritageSocietyThe King’s College Circle Heritage Society recognizesand honours those alumni and friends who have thoughtfullymade a provision for the university through a futurebequest, life insurance or trust gift.Lillias Cringan AllwardKristine AndersonRonald AndrukitisT. Christie ArnoldJoseph AttardEverett Corson BarclayDennis and Alice BartelsGrace V. BeckerPeter BeynonDorothy I. M. BlackHarald and Jean BohneErika Dorthea Lina BoldtWilliam R. Bowen andSandra J. GavinchukT. Rodney H. BoxPatrick and Marilyn BrownDavid BrownfieldFrank C. BuckleyEleanor J. BurtonDonald BurwashYvonne M. CalverWilliam A. CampbellDan CamposanoK. C. CarruthersGeorge CassAlayne and KennethChristieE. Murray ClelandBrian CloughPatricia A. ColemanRon CrawfordDana CushingMargaret Jeannetta DavisJan and Jane de KoningDorothy M. DeaneWilliam Andrew DimmaMichael Faraday DixonIngrid and Karl-Ulrich (Uli)DoblerMaria L. DyckFreda M. EickmeyerJacqueline and Douglas EisnerMary A.T. ElsonMargaret E. EmmersonCaroline Seidl Farrell-BurmanWilliam O. Fennell and JeanFennellMichael J. FergusonGary Vincent FitzgibbonJohn F. FlinnDonald H. FrancisHugh R. FraserTeena Bogner and IanGaskellV. K. GilbertDoug GreenHelen GurneyPatricia HannahTerry HarrisRosemary Hall HazeltonJ. Barrett HealyKim and Alex HeathBarbara J. HeggieGrace HeggieSandra J. HeggieRuth Ellen HenstridgeFay Hethrington ScholarshipAnna Alfreda HillenPeter and Verity HobbsJames D. HosinecRobert and Velma HowieAudrey HozackGeorge Conland HuntMarnie HuntRobert D. and Catherine I. JeffsArchibald and Helen JonesLeon Katz and JohannaSedlmayer-KatzDavid KeenleysidePaul KeeryWilliam and Hiroko KeithArthur P. KennedySeitali (Babe) and MaryKerimJodi and Michael KimmBarbara E. and Edwin S.KirklandRose KirshPeter KlavoraAlbert KrakauerRobert and Carolyn LakeMaryam Latifpoor andVladas KeparoutisGrace LauEnrique J. B. Lopez De MesaBurton MacDonald andRosemarie SampsonSharon and Don MacMillanMichael and Joan MaloneyMary H. MartinDipak and PaulineMazumdarSybil Anne McEnteerJudith McErvelJoseph Patrick McGeeNancy H. McKee CondliffeCRUTDonald W. McLeodDorothy McRobbGilbert MeyerAngela and William MoreauChastity Cheryl PangilinanNazarethPaul C. S. C. NazarethAnn OaksMary Catherine O’BrienEdmond George OdetteJean O’GradyFrances Jean PhoenixNora PostRaymond S. G. PrykeR. C. QuittentonLesley Riedstra and RianMitraPaul E. RileyWilliam J. RobertsJohn D. RobinsonAllen Angus and VioletRodgersPeter A. RogersPaul RussellMary E. SarjeantMary M. SchaeferNorma Dianne SchilkeCaroline ShawyerDiane Lynn SilvermanMarjorie E. SimondsAngela L. SmithMarion Elizabeth SnyderHubert C. SoltanRoger SpaldingMickey and Annette ConveySpillaneJanet StubbsDave Szollosy and LaurettaAmundsenShirley Catherine TeolisCatharine F. ThompsonVictoria E. M.ThompsonBarbara K.TrackCarolanne G.VairJean ValeLillian VeriVictor and Sheila VierinScott Brynn VloetPaul and Valerie WalshJohn P. WardArthur and Ruby WatersElizabeth A.WellsPaula Carey and NicholasWemyssMary B.WilletNancy J.WilliamsonMarjorie A.WilsonGeorge and Isobel WinnettFrank W. WoodsDianne L.WydevenAdam ZimmermanWendy Zufelt-BaxterThe men’s rugby team will play home games at the new Varsity Centre next September.A state-of-the-art runningtrack and 5,000-seat stadium – the first phase of a major redevelopment – will open by summer 2007.WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 59PHOTOGRAPHY: JING LING KAO

PHOTOGRAPHY: KEN JONESIn HonourThe University of Toronto recognizes individualswho have had gifts made in their honour betweenMay 1, 2005, and April 30, 2006.Susan AbrahamsRona S. AbramovitchCarol Ann AkasikeMontague AlbertDorothy AmosA. Bram AppelF. Barry ApplebyJay BacherSheila BainCornelia BainesBarbara BanksAharon BarakHelen P. BattyRobert M. BennettSamantha BermanNorma BlissMichelle BroersmaRorke B. BryanHoward S. Buckstein andDanielle GoldfarbRonald L. BurkesLef BurstynJune CallwoodProvidenza CancillaBeverly CaswellWendy M. CecilJohn ChallisLorne ChapnickChristena ChruszezJohn H. and Mary E. ClarkMary Cone BarrieGeorge and Sheila ConnellFrank A. CunninghamRonald J. DanielsBryan P. DaviesJon S. DellandreaSandra DelZottoHelen DunlopAaron Charles EgierCharles ElkabasPatricia G. EricksonJohn R. and Gay EvansE. Patricia FlemingCatherine FordAllen J. FrantzenJohn J. FuredyL.Terrell GardnerReginald D. GemmellMax GluskinSid GottliebMary GrahRaphael Emile GreeneBonnie GriesAlan GrossGeorge GrossRalph HalbertMichael J. HareW. Bernard HermanAdam HerstMurray HerstSherherazade HirjiSamuel HollanderEd HolmAlexandra HoustonMaude HoustonJeffrey J. HurwitzFrank IacobucciStewart InglesJohn Peter JarrettKhursheed N. JeejeebhoyDinker JoshiRita Arbetman KandelSharyl KatesClyde A. KeeneBruce KiddRyan Samuel KirshenblattAndrea KleinhandlerMichael KleinhandlerDiane KrigerDavid H. LatnerMolyn LeszczEleanor L. LevineSheena and Peter LevittDonald J. LingemanJohn LyonRobert J. F. MaddenJ. Francis MallonJill and Geoffrey MatusDoris M. McBeanJames K. McConicaLillian McGregorAlistair Stewart McLeanand Maggie PuddenMedicine Class of 2006Joseph A. MedjuckVera MelnykFred MetrickLeah MillieBruce MitchellDavid MockThe new student centre at U of T Scarborough includes meeting rooms and lounges for a variety of studentorganizations and clubs, as well as a prayer room, bookstore, food court and restaurant. Students supported theconstruction of the environmentally friendly facility with the largest student levy in the university’s history.Jean MorrisRoss E. MorrowHeather Munroe-BlumYael NewmanJudith E. NymanLillian NymanDimitrios G. OreopoulosRose M. PattenMark Pellegrino and StuartKentHersh PerlisPaul J. and JacquelinePerronAudrey PerryMalini L. PersaudKaren PomotovTerry PromaneAnatol RapoportCheryl RegehrAnne Grace RitchieStephen J. RogersLinda R. RothsteinRoseann RunteRicky K. SchachterErnest SchnellLaurel SchwartzRenee SeigelChandrakant P. ShahSheila K. ShawOwen B. ShimeMolly ShoichetC. Anderson SilberFrank SilverEarl R. SimardLawrence B. SmithJoe Ting-Hei and Lai KwanSoHoney SpitzenJeffrey G. SprangPaula Ann SquareEric G. StanleyCynthia StesselEleanor Beecroft StewartNorma SussmanJason TannyJean TannyJeremy TannyStephen TannyKenneth D.TaylorMartin TeplitskyCarolyn J.TuohyM. M.Van CampGillian VarkulJohn A.VivashB. Elizabeth VosburghJoseph E.WalshBetty and Graeme WardWilliam WatersJohn H.WatsonAlexander R.WaughJohn H.WedgeJoseph Whitney and DianaBaxterSimon WooRuss WooldridgeS.Adrian YaffeMorden YollesSafwat Zaky60 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

In MemoryThe University of Toronto recognizes individualswho have had gifts made in their memory betweenMay 1, 2005 and April 30, 2006.Ralph AbramsPaul “Red” AdairStephanie Lianne AliJohn G. AndersonEthel W. AusterD. Rodwell AustinFrank S. BallingerGeorge BancroftSigitas BarsauskasJake BassMaureen Anne BatorCatherine BeckW. Allan BeckettDoris BellRalph R. BergerMichael K. BerkowitzAbraham D. BerlinPierre BertonWilfred G. BigelowMargaret BlackAllan BloomJohn BradleyAnthony August BraitDebra BrickRonald BrydenElizabeth BullerJ. David F. BullerLily BullerLeon C. BynoeLee CalderwoodF.W. CallaghanAngus CameronJohn CampbellMarion and Meyer CarrVictoria E. CarsonMolly ChesterSoo Jin ChongHetty C. H. ChuGianrenzo P. ClivioDavid CoffenRobert ColgateJohn A. ConnellyMary L. CoombsRuth CooperstockStanley CordL. CossuGeorge B. CraigE. Horne CraigieRosaleen CroninKeith deGruytherDoreen E. DesLauriersPeter L. DicksonMichael F. DixonEdna DonaldsonStillman DrakeJohn D. DrigoIsadore DubinskyB. Muriel EastwoodCharles W. EdmondsHarry EllenJohn A. EmersonJohn W. EmersonBenjamin EsarVassa EvansA. Ruth FallisShelly FarbermanClaire FeldmanVeronica FenyvesJanet E. FitzGeraldSpyridon N. FlengasJanet FollettLynd W. ForgusonMary L. FosterNeil W. FosterEstelle FrankelIsaac FreemanIris T. FrenchAndrew Khamis FrowGeoffrey GangbarHarvey GellmanBud GerryGina L. GesserWinnifred I. GiguereSuzette GirardSamuel GlucksteinE. Ray GodfreySara GodfreyMaisie GoldbergJerry GoldsmithPatricia GoldsteinMax GoodmanPatricia GrayGeorge K. GreasonJoseph H. GreenspanSuzanne GreenspanMichael GreggFranciszka GrodeckaLorna HallPaul HalliganJane Elizabeth HamLisa A. HamannMargaret I. HamblyPhyllis HanthoShirley HardcastleEric Ethelbert HardyMilton E. HarrisJackie HartJoan F. HatchM. Joan HawleyWilliam A. HeaslipLarry HelfandCharles E. HendryE. Elaine HenryFrank HercegJames F. HicklingMary HigginsIrwin M. HilliardJohn W. HoagAnne HoldenHugh Lewis HoylesBob HunterJohn F. M. HunterArthur IamarinoEdward B. IrvingRita IsaacEthel JacksonJaney JacobsonWilfred JacobsonWilliam A. JamesEdith JarviAra JelderianFlorence JelderianPeter JenningsJames F. JohnsonKimberley A. JohnsonRoy JohnsonAntony KalamutOriana KalantFumiko KataokaWendy M. KatesM.Aileen KellyJohn Roberts KenmureJames W. KerrGordon L. KeyesKaren A. KieserLily KingLynn KingMary Anne Maghekan KingRobert Seth KingsleyWilliam G. KingsmillBessie KirshLothar KleinHenry KorenSimon KorolnekDietmar KoslowskiEric David Baker KrauseFredrik KrofchickMarion V. G. KuhnsAlan KulanJoseph KulykSheila M. KurtzMiu B. LauAlan K. LawsWolf-Dietrich LeersArthur LeighCharles LelandGabriel LeungSuzanne LevyRita G. LindenfieldWilliam LineBrian LinehanBeatrice LipsonTerry LitovitzSim Fai LiuKurt LoebJames Henry MacLachlanWalter James MacNeillJohn F. MaddenSalim MajdalanyJim MallingerJohn M. MarshallLois MarshallGilchrist J. MartinChristina M. McCallMargaret D. McCarterLeighton Goldie McCarthyT. J. Jock McCrossanDawne McCullochBarry G. McGeeEmma L. McKinnonPeter E. M. McQuillanIsabel MendizabalLillian MessingerEdmund Richard JosephMilneA. B. B. MooreFrederick Charles MooreClive B. MortimerIan MossLoretta MostacciRay MulrooneyBrock MylesDavid W. NichollsJames R. O’BrienC. E. OgdenWalter A. O’GradyAlbert A. O’HanianRobert A. OldhamArmand OlivennesSt John O’MalleyDennis O’SheaEllis M. OstovichDaniel OutarMartha OvensSilvestre PachecoNancy ParkGeoffrey B. PayzantDouglas R. PeartM.Ann PendletonHoward PentlandLawrence PhillipsKathryn J. PooleJohn C. PopeWilliam J. PragerTed PrinceKathryn PuddenLawrence RaeJoseph RaicDiana RankinOlive-Jane ReynoldsJohn RichmondRalph Crossley RipleyMara Rhona RoebuckRachel RohnAlicia Heather RossC. D. RouillardRichard RowlandHoward RubinoffLeonard J. RussellLeslie C. RylettFrederick Dunnet SagelJohn D. SalmonRene SalsbergJoan SantonFanny SaundersStuart ScottT. Stewart ScottDouglas M. SeathAlexandra SemeniukLouis ShainhouseMeyer ShearNicky SherHarry ShidlowskiDorothy ShoolmanDavid SillersEthel SilverJoseph SilverMartin SilverJean SinclairIrwin SingerMargie SlackJohn A. D. SleminLes SmaleAnne M. SmithEvelyn SmithDaniel StaintonPhilip T. StanburyBryan Wayne StattMarvin SteinhardtJohn M. StransmanMaurice StrenFrank SumaDavid SutherlandPeter SwanDavid M. C. SweeneyPaula TakacsTing Sum TangAron Avraham TannyColleen TateR. K.TempletonJack TenenbaumAllan TennenEdwin Alexander terBruggePresidents’CircleIrene ThompsonJames ThompsonDorothy ThomsonSarah R.TileyJames ToguriGregory W.TostevinMary Prudence TracyKlaus S.TreviranusRaymond P.TrippDavid TrottFlorio ValenteJesus Ernest Julius VargasG. Patrick H.VernonMariss VetraElizabeth VickersG. Stephen VickersFrank VineySeymour H.VoskoMae WaeseDonald M.WaggLorne WagnerWalter S.WalterDorothy Kathleen WardDonald J. H.WarnerGeorge D.WattMarilyn WaxHarry WayneBeverly WedemireMaryann WellsSharon WellsRalph WevermanWilliam Robert WilsonMaurice WolpertJean E.WoodsworthClifford G.WoolfeSanford I.WorldPatrick WormaldJohn A.WrightVincent WroblewskiBetty YeomanJohnny Kar Lok YipDonna ZielinskiPresidents’ Circle members have provided vital resources toeducate deserving students, attract and retain great faculty,and build innovative facilities and programs. Thank you to allof our Presidents’ Circle members for their foresight, leadershipand generosity. To view the listing of Presidents’ Circlemembers from May 1, 2005, to April 30, 2006, please visitour website at www.giving.utoronto.ca/prescircle. For moreinformation about the Presidents’ Circle program, pleasecontact 416-978-3810.WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 61

The Nobel Prize-winning development of insulin by U of T researcherscontinues to improve the lives of diabetics worldwide.By including the University of Toronto in your gift plans, you can have a hand in transforming the future.No Canadian university and few worldwide can match U of T’s impact. From space exploration to medicine,from the sciences, philosophy, and the arts to politics, mass media, and the professions, U of T changes lives.You can create opportunities for future generations of students and enable our graduates and professorsto make a difference — now and for years to come.Ask us how: Call 1-800-463-6048 • E-mail: gift.plan@utoronto.ca • www.giving.utoronto.ca/plangivingGIFT PLANNINGMake your mark

GreatGiftsMUNKCENTRERECEIVES$5-MILLIONENDOWMENTGift will help boostinternational profilePHOTOGRAPHY: PETER SIBBALDPeter Munk (BASc 1952, LLD 1995) has donated anadditional $5 million to U of T’s Munk Centre forInternational Studies, as it seeks to expand its roleboth at home and abroad.University Professor Janice Gross Stein, director of theMunk Centre, says the endowment will allow the facility tocreate new programs, such as internships abroad at nongovernmentaland other organizations, and extend its reachinto the international community.“This groundbreaking giftfrom the Peter Munk Foundation Continued on page 65WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 63

GreatGiftsPHOTOGRAPHY: SUSAN KINGMaking PeaceSarvodaya-Canada, a charitable trustthat promotes social and economicjustice throughout Canada, hasdonated $200,000 over five years to NewCollege to fund study in peacemaking andsocial change.The donation will create a half coursefor senior-level undergraduates on the historyof social change, beginning in fall 2007,says New College principal Rick Halpern.Students who take the course will be eligibleto work with a local non-governmentalorganization, applying the skills they learnedin class.The gift will also fund a workabroadcomponent in Sri Lanka forbetween three and five students who performedwell in the course and the localplacement, and are interested in developinga further understanding of peace and advocacy.Thoseselected will work directly withSarvodaya’s founder,A.T.Ariyaratne, on apeace project in Sri Lanka.“Sarvodaya-Canada has made a veryimportant investment in the University ofToronto,” says Professor Halpern.“Asissues of poverty, war and terrorism continueto infiltrate our everyday world, weare pleased to have a partner with whomwe can develop a program that pairs classroomand practice to enhance our students’understanding of peace and equity.”Peace education is one of Sarvodaya-Canada’s top priorities.“We are excitedabout giving future leaders the opportunityto develop the skills to promote peaceboth locally and internationally,” says LloydField, chair of the board of trustees forSarvodaya-Canada.Ariyaratne was this year’s winner ofthe Acharya Sushil Kumar InternationalPeace Award.At the award ceremony inToronto, he said peace can be achievedonly if societies place a collective premiumon sharing time, thoughts, efforts andresources. Ariyaratne founded Sarvodayain 1958 based on Buddhist and Gandhianprinciples. – Krishan Mehta & Scott AndersonConvocation HallAlumni Leave Their Mark on Con HallUniversity of Toronto alumni with a sentimental attachment to ConvocationHall could soon call a piece of the grand old heritage building theirown. Alumni and friends of the university who pledge $1,907 toward therefurbishment of the landmark will see their name, or dedication of choice,inscribed on a seat plaque.The symbolic pledge amount – Con Hall opened in 1907 – is part of the university’scampaign to restore the hall in honour of its centenary next year. The U of TAlumni Association and the university have committed $500,000 each to the project,which will include renovating the stage and circular foyer, providing a new suiteof accessible washrooms and refurbishing many of the 1,731 seats.Anjali Baichwal, a communications manager in the Office of Research at U of T,pledged a seat in memory of her father, Gururaj S. Baichwal, who passed away in2004. “My father came to Canada for grad studies and received his MASc at ConHall in 1963,” she says. “U of T was a very big part of his life and he never strayedtoo far, always working on or near campus.”Another Toronto family, the Mirvishes, have dedicated three seats. “ConvocationHall has been the site of some of the finest lectures in the history of mankind,”says David Mirvish (LLD 2004). (The Dalai Lama and Nobel laureate Toni Morrisonhave spoken there, among many others.) “To be associated with, and to support,the hall is a privilege and an honour for our family.” Mirvish and his parentsreceived honorary doctorates from U of T and, like most alumni in the past century,attended graduation ceremonies at Con Hall.If you are interested in supporting the Con Hall restoration project, call(416) 978-3847 or e-mail conhallrestoration@utoronto.ca. – Susan Fischer64 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

Aclassical music fan with no connectionto U of T has left the Faculty ofMusic a bequest of more than $1 million– and a baby grand piano – to supportstudents intending to pursue classicalperformance careers in piano or violin.Alice Matheson, who died this fall atthe age of 96, made the donation inhonour of her late brother, Armen. Anengineer by training, Armen was a talentedpianist who, due to economic andsocial circumstances, had been unableto earn a living from music.“I always believedthat he wouldhave been muchhappier if he hadbeen able to pursuea career as a concertpianist,” Mathesonhad said.A Grand GestureAliceMathesonThe funds will createan endowment toprovide yearly scholarshipsfor students of classicalpiano or orchestral strings. “In endowingscholarships in his name, I am helping studentsdo what Armen would have loved todo,” said Matheson,who was not amusician herself butenjoyed gardeningArmenMathesonand watercolourpainting at her westToronto home.Don Liddell, aneighbour and coexecutorof Matheson’sestate, says sheset aside everythingon Saturday afternoonsto listen toclassical music and opera on the radio.“She was not to be disturbed during thattime,” says Liddell. He added that Mathesonkept the baby grand piano coveredand that no one had played it since herbrother died of a coronary attack 40years ago. “That piano was her prideand joy,” he says. – Scott AndersonToronto Developer Backs Future Urban DesignersAToronto developer is helping graduate studentsin the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape,and Design gain first-hand knowledgeof the challenges facing urban designers in thedeveloping world by funding study trips to twomajor South American cities.This fall,12 students travelled to Bogotá,Colombia,and spent several days studying the city andattending presentations made by faculty of theNational University of Colombia.Another group ofstudents will fly to Buenos Aires,Argentina, in 2008.The trips are integral to semester-long studios inwhich students research Latin American cities andpropose new directions for their development.The innovative course – called Studio Norte Suland offered through the Master of Urban Designprogram – is the brainchild of adjunct professorsRobert Glover and Carmen Franky and is open toall upper-level master’s students in the faculty. Studentsare selected to participate in the studio via alottery.“The study-abroad component introducesstudents to a variety of urban and architectural practices,”says Robert Levit, the director of the Masterof Urban Design program.“It helps them develop anoutward-thinking, international perspective.”A donation from Toronto developer WoodcliffeCorporation will cover flight and accommodationfor the Bogotá group this year and the Buenos Airesgroup in 2008.The gift will enable any student to takethe studio trip, regardless of financial circumstances.Paul Oberman, president and CEO of Woodcliffe,says that as Canada’s cities become increasinglyethnically and culturally diverse, so must buildingand planning policies.“We have much to sharewith the rest of the world and much more to learnfrom it,” he says.“I congratulate U of T for havingthe foresight to foster an international architecturaldialogue.” – Susan FischerContinued from page 63allows us to expand ourrole as a unique gatheringplace for scholars and policyexperts who create knowledgeand solutions for realworldproblems,” she says.A key strategy is toenhance the centre’s digitalpresence, so it becomes theworld’s best source forexpert opinion on Canada’sworld view, says Stein.Thenew web presence willinclude an interactive spacewhere the centre’s studentsand faculty can engage in discussionsabout global issueswith other students and facultyaround the world.Munk’s initial $6.5-milliongift in 1997 helped establishthe centre in DevonshireHouse at Trinity College.Now it is home to 36 internationalstudies and researchprograms and has earned areputation for excellence,public engagement and innovativepartnerships.“TheMunk Centre for InternationalStudies is a leadingCanadian institution on theworld stage and as such I ampleased to see it supports myvision of creating moreCanadian global champions,”says Munk, founder and chairmanof Barrick Gold, aninternational mining company.At a ceremony announcingthe gift, Munk – who cameto Canada from Hungary asa refugee – expressed gratitudeto the country and to Uof T for enabling him to starta new life.“U of T took me inwhen I could hardly speak thelanguage,” he said.“It made mefeel at home in this country.”– Scott AndersonWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 65

llumniNotesAP ROFILES•NEWS•EVENTS•CALENDARCourage to Come BackCheryl Peever took her first drink at13. By her early 20s, she was drinkingheavily, smoking marijuana and takingacid, among other drugs. At 27, Peever wasabusing both alcohol and cocaine. By the age of30, she says,“I was a shell of a human being, acontainer for drugs…. I wanted to die.”But this past spring, Peever (BSc 2000, MSW2002) proudly walked across the stage toreceive a Courage to Come Back Award.TheCentre for Addiction and Mental Health(CAMH) Foundation award recognizes individualsfrom Ontario who have overcome mentalillness or addiction and now use their experienceto help others. Peever says her substancedependence went hand-in-hand with her mentalillness, depression. She was trying to alleviatethe symptoms of sadness and despair.Peever, now 46, is tireless in supporting othersin their recovery.A social worker, she usesher empathy and compassion in her role as theacting manager of the Women’s Inpatient Programat CAMH in Toronto.And by summoningthe courage to accept the award, she is helpingshatter the stigmas of mental illness and substancedependence.“The idea of exposing thedetails of my former life to both strangers andcolleagues was horrifying,” Peever said in heracceptance speech. The stigmas produce aninternalized shame that leaves you feeling secretiveand embarrassed – even when you shouldknow better, she added.But with her recovery, along camecourage. “I decided that if I could beat acocaine addiction, I could do just about anything,”Peever says. At the age of 32, shestarted a bachelor of science degree at U of T.While working three jobs, she completed herPHOTOGRAPHY: RICK CHARDdegree at 40, and then entered the master ofsocial work program.“When you stop doing drugs, you feel newto life,” she says.“It’s like going to a foreigncountry. I’m still trying to find my wayaround.” – Susan PedwellCheryl Peever66 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

Rhythm NationPoetic JusticeIn 2002, Globe and Mail writer John Allemang (BA1974 Trinity) proposed a novel idea to his editors:he wanted to write a weekly “news poem” aboutpersonalities and issues of the day. Four years later, hehas written conversational verse on everything fromthe sponsorship scandal to Vladimir Putin’s presidencyto Paul McCartney’s impending divorce.Allemang’snew book, Poetic Justice: Satirical Verse from The Globeand Mail (Firefly Books), is a collection of 75 of hisfunniest, most incisive “deadline poems” and includesillustrations by Globe and Mail editorial cartoonistBrian Gable (BEd 1971). Below,Allemang muses onthe restoration of Michelangelo’s David.Jowi TaylorThis past summer, Jowi Taylor (BA 1990 Woodsworth) andGeorge Rizsanyi completed the Six String Nation guitar, comprising64 symbols of Canadian culture – including wood fromthe third Maid of the Mist tour boat in Niagara Falls; the childhood skisof Olympic gold-medallist Nancy Greene; and a snippet of walrus tusk.The guitar is at the centre of the Six String Nation project, which is amovement to connect people from all regions of Canada throughmusic and shared stories. Performers throughout the country play theguitar, and people in the audience touch it, ask questions about it, andrelate their own stories and community histories in response to it.The idea blossomed from a chance meeting between Taylor andCanadian guitar-maker Rizsanyi, who was participating in a fair at theHarbourfront Centre in Toronto. Rizsanyi told Taylor how Canadianwoods were undervalued in Canada, but prized in places such asSpain, and make extraordinary guitars. It was the eve of the 1995 QuebecReferendum, and Taylor saw that a guitar made from bits andpieces of Canada could help draw the nation together – and broadenthe definition of Canadian identity in all its diversity.Taylor, the host of the CBC Radio program Global-Village, has a historyof meshing obscure elements to form one cohesive whole. “I treatedthe university as a universe,” he says. “My major was linguistics, but Ienrolled in courses in physics, Japanese storytelling, mineralogy, playwriting.I also took computer science, but I only got 13 per cent in it.”At this year’s Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa, singer/songwriterStephen Fearing played Taylor’s guitar in its inaugural performance.Now it’s being passed from musician to musician – including BruceCockburn, Ron Sexsmith, Ariane Moffatt and an ever-growing list ofCanadian talent. After performances, audiences linger behind for aclose-up look at the unique guitar. They often want to touch the piecefrom Pierre Trudeau’s canoe paddle, and are intrigued by the goldpolka-dot from Rocket Richard’s Stanley Cup ring, says Taylor. Andthey always want to know more about the wood on the face of the guitar,which is from the felled Golden Spruce in British Columbia – the300-year-old tree revered by the Haida. – S.P.ON FIRST SEEING MICHELANGELO’SDAVID, NEWLY RESTOREDAn ageless beauty’s lipo-ed hips,Or old teeth bleached by Crest WhitestripsTo keep life’s ravages at bay,Would look less sleek, less present-dayThan David’s heightened body parts,Updated with the whitening arts.The Renaissance now seems so old,And ancient thinkers leave us cold,But this is sculpture for our time:Triumphant over dust and grime,Young David fights off aging’s linesAs easily as Philistines.Five hundred years, and he’s still buff.Art’s lesson? You can’t cleanse enough,So be like Michelangelo,And worship beauty head to toe,For who needs Art to give us Truth?We’ll settle for eternal youth.From Poetic Justice: Satirical Verse from The Globe and Mailby John Allemang. Poem copyright 2002-2006, The Globe and Mail.Illustration by Brian Gable, copyright 2006. Published by Firefly Books.Reprinted with permission from The Globe and Mail.WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 67

PHOTOGRAPHY:TOP LEFT, COURTESY OF FREE THE CHILDRENAlumniNotesActivism at the AGMU of T Alumni Association’sAnnual General Meetingon Sept. 6, speaker Craig ATtheKielburger posed a challenge to U of T:become the first post-secondary institutionin Canada to require 100 community-servicehours before graduation.Kielburger (BA 2006 Trinity), a humanrightsactivist, founded Free the Children atCraig Kielburgerthe age of 12. His brother, Mark, is the chief executive director.Under their leadership, the organization has constructed more than450 schools and created programs for kids in developing countries.Kielburger, 23, spoke of the 50 U of T students who volunteered inrural Kenya through a Free the Children project: they picked upshovels and, alongside community members, dug wells, built schools,and then filled those schools with desks and supplies. He noted thatvolunteerism provides students with new skills and friendships, anda higher grade point average. You can listen to Kielburger’s speech atwww.alumni.utoronto.ca/groups/utaa/utaa.htm. – S.P.The University of TorontoAlumni Association’s 2006-2007 board of directors,which includes both new and returningmembers, is as follows: MichaelDeck (MBA 2000),managing directorof Ethidex Inc., will serve as presidentfor the second consecutive year.Deckwas on faculty at Rotman from 1990to 1996, and helped establish theClarkson Centre for Business Ethics &Board Effectiveness. President-elect isHarvey Botting (BA 1967 Victoria,MBA 1985),chairman of the CanadianBusiness Press and former senior vicepresidentat Rogers Media Inc. PaulCadario (BASc 1973),senior managerat the World Bank in Washington,D.C.,is vice-president, governance. CarlMitchell (BSc 1984 St. Michael’s), theformer president and chief operatingofficer of V3 Semiconductor, is treasurer.Wendy Cecil (BA 1971 Victoria),chairman of the President’s Inter-UTAA Roll Call68 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007national Alumni Council, is ex-officio.Rivi Frankle (BA 1968 UniversityCollege), interim vice-president andchief advancement officer at the Universityof Toronto, is ex-officio. Otherboard members include MatthewChapman (MBA 2000), senior vicepresidentof operations at Workbrain;Rudyard Griffiths (BA 1993 Trinity),founder and executive director of theDominion Institute; Fred Kan (JD1967,BASc 1969),founder and seniorpartner at Hong Kong-based commerciallaw firm Fred Kan & Co.; BonnieStern (BA 1969 New College),founder and owner of the BonnieStern School of Cooking; EiraThomas (BSc 1991 UTM), presidentand chief executive officer ofStornoway Diamond Corporation;Evelyn Wong (BSc 1972 New College,MBA 1974, MIR 1980), director,international affairs, National TradesUnion Congress.KudosEmergency-room physician Vincent Lam (MD1999) was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prizein November for his first book, Bloodletting &Miraculous Cures.The linked stories, which centre onthe lives of medical students, will be made into a TVseries for The Movie Network.A panel of Canada’s top music journalists andbroadcasters chose Owen Pallett (BMus 2002) andhis Final Fantasy project as the inaugural winner of thePolaris Music Prize.The $20,000 award recognizes Pallett’ssecond album, He Poos Clouds, which is inspiredby the eight schools of magic in the Dungeons & Dragonsfantasy game.Owen PallettLorne Michaels (BA 1966 UC,LLD Hon.2002),thecreator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live,haswon the 2006 Governor General’s Award for LifetimeArtistic Achievement.The show,now in its 31 st season,isthe longest-running,highest-rated late-night TV show ever.This year’s Dora Mavor Moore Outstanding ProductionAward went to Zorana Kydd (2002 PhD) forThe Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Kydd’s production alsoearned four other Dora Awards – for outstandingdirection and lighting design, as well as outstandingperformances by a male and a female in principal roles.Kydd is the founder of BirdLand Theatre in Toronto.Benjamin Shinewald (JD 2002), JasonMitschele (JD 2002), Sana Halwani (JD 2004), andalum and graduate student Dr. David Kelton (MD2005) are among 15 Canadians to receive $20,000Action Canada Fellowships for assuming leadershiproles in their community.The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers andProfessional Engineers Ontario awarded Phillip Simmons(BASc 1964, MASc 1965, PhD 1968) the “EngineeringMedal – Entrepreneurship” for his outstandingcontribution to the engineering profession. Simmons isthe founder, president and chief executive officer ofEco-Tec Limited, an internationally recognized watertreatmentbusiness that specializes in purifying, recoveringand recycling industrial wastewater. – S.P.

CalendarREADINGSGraduate Centre for Study of DramaHart HouseJan. 25 to Feb. 4. Not Just Trifles: AnJan. 25. Diaspora Dialogues. Readings ofEvening of Two One-Act Plays. Stillnew works by U of T students. Diaspora Dia-Stands the House by Gwen Pharis Ring-logues is a city-wide program designed to sup-wood and Trifles by Susan Glaspell.Theseport new fiction, poetry and drama thattwo early 20 th century plays take us out ofreflects the city through the eyes of newlytoday’s urban jungle and offer us a glimpsearrived members. Emerging writers are men-into the cruel realities of rural North Amer-tored by established authors. Hart House hasica.They introduce us to women whose livesbrought Diaspora Dialogues to U of T as partare as harsh and unforgiving as the land thatof its year-long themed programming, Grandthey cultivate, and remind us that brutalDesign. 7 p.m. in the East Common Room ataction may follow inhumane treatment.Hart House.7 Hart House Circle.hh.advancement@utoronto.caTickets $15. For students and seniors, $10.PWYC on Sunday. Thursday to Saturday atU of T Scarborough8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. Robert Gill Theatre,Jan. 18. Reading: Catherine Hernandez,214 College St.(416) 978-7986.http://gradrama.11 a.m. Leigha Lee Browne Theatre, UTSC.1265 Military Trail.Feb. 7. Reading: Ruth Ohi. 10 a.m. U of TScarborough childcare centre, 1255 MilitaryTrail.Detail from The Navrasa Suite seriesby Pushpamala N., part ofthe Post Object exhibition at theDoris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC,which starts Jan. 18sa.utoronto.caHart House TheatreJan. 17 to Jan. 27. Lysistrata by Aristophanes.The women of Athens are determined to end1265 Military Trail.(416) 287-7007,dmg@utsc.the war with Sparta. Led by Lysistrata, theyFor more information, www.utsc.utoronto.ca/utoronto.ca or www.utsc.utoronto.ca/dmgrefuse their husbands all sexual favours untilculturalpeace is struck.The famous comedy receivesUniversity of Toronto Art Centrea contemporary spin, and incorporates songEXHIBITIONSOngoing. The Art of Devotion: Byzantineand dance under the directorial debut ofThomas Fisher Rare Book Library& Post-Byzantine Icons. Curated by DawnTabby Johnson. Week 1:Wednesday to Satur-Jan. 30 to Apr. 27. Hopeful Travellers: Ital-Cain.This exhibition,drawn from U of T’s Mal-day, 8 p.m.Week 2:Wednesday to Saturday,ian Explorers, Missionaries, Merchants andcove Collection,is organized around two cen-8 p.m. plus Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.TicketsAdventurers in the World, from the Middletral themes: icons dedicated to Mary and the$20; $12 students and seniors.Ages to Modern Times. 120 St. George St.Christ Child, and icons representing ChristMonday to Friday, 9 a.m-5 p.m. (416) 978-and important saints in the Christian tradition.Jan. 31 to Feb. 3. U of T Drama Festival5285, www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/exhibi-presented by Hart House Theatre and U of Ttions/current.htmlJan. 30 to March 24. Bright ParticularDrama Coalition. Four evenings of one-actStars:The Theatre Portraits of Grantplays that are student-written, -directed andDoris McCarthy Gallery,Macdonald (1909-1987).This exhibition is-acted.Wednesday to Saturday, 7:30 p.m.Tick-U of T Scarboroughorganized and circulated by the Agnes Ether-ets $12; $10 students and seniors.Jan. 18 to March 11. Post Object. Curatedington Art Centre, Queen’s University,http://drama.sa.utoronto.ca/by Deepali Dewan, curator of South AsianKingston, with the financial assistance of theArt, Royal Ontario Museum.Throughout theMcLean Foundation.Box office/information: www.harthouselate 20 th century, various art movements havetheatre.ca. U of T Tix box office: (416) 978-questioned the centrality of the object in art.Jan. 30 to March 24. James Lahey: Index8849 or www.uofttix.caPost Object puts forward ways of reconsid-PHOTOGRAPHY: PUSHPAMALA N.ering the object, and combines performance,video, installation and sculpture.The exhibitionincludes works by artists throughoutAsia, Canada and the United States, includingPushpamala N. and Michael Joo.Tuesday toFriday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.Students, U of T staff and faculty, and Art Centremembers are offered free admission withvalid ID. General Admission is $5; $3 for seniors.15 King’s College Circle.Tuesday to Friday,12-5 p.m.; Saturday, 12-4 p.m. (416) 978-1838, www.utoronto.ca/artcentreMUSICU of T ScarboroughJan. 25. Korean Drum and Dance featuringJeng Yi. Noon. Leigha Lee Browne Theatre,University of Toronto Scarborough. 1265 MilitaryTrail. www.utsc.utoronto.ca/culturalWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 69

Campus S toriesILLUSTRATION: FRANCIS BLAKE/THREE IN A BOXGood SportsAlumni recall the triumphs, andtribulations, of their athletic careersTHAT SINKING FEELINGI was a member of the Varsity Bluesrowing team from 1987 to 1989. In1988, we had a rookie coxswain namedElaine who had difficulty, at times,keeping an eight-oared shell on course,particularly at full speed. Crew membersdubbed her “No-Lane” for herinability to stay in the correct lane duringraces or practice.We rowed five days a week from 4:45a.m. until 7 a.m. One morning in lateOctober, we were practising on LakeOntario, in the dark. As we came arounda slight bend, No-Lane steered us headon,at full speed, into another eight. Aftera tremendous bang, we discovered thatthe bow of our shell had been torn offand that we were taking on water quickly.Our coaches shouted from theirmotorboats, “Stay with the boat!” andordered us to row the three kilometresback to the Argonaut Rowing Club.They attempted to protect us by circlingour sinking shell, but didn’t realize thattheir wakes were putting more waterinto our damaged boat.About 50 metres from the docks, thecoaches decided it was hopeless to rowany farther and ordered us to abandonthe boat. We looked at each other,wondering who would jump into theicy (and smelly) waters of Lake Ontariofirst, not knowing if the water would be20 metres or two metres deep. I took aleap of faith and dove in first, swimmingfrantically toward the shore. Afterabout five strokes, I realized my kneeswere hitting the bottom. I stood upand heard the seven other crew memberslaughing as they jumped from theboat and waded to shore.Michael DriscollBA 1989 St. Michael’sBuffalo, New YorkTACKLE AND RUCKIn the fall of 1970, the religion of rugbyclaimed me as a convert and has yet torelease me from her bloody-knuckledgrip. A refugee from American foreignconflicts and grid-iron football, I found asport at St. Mike’s that had the right combinationof physical bravura, intellectualengagement, international panache andintercultural adventure.Our St. Mike’s Rugby Sevens scrumhalf was a Scotsman named AndrewCairns, whose wily moves and deadlydrop kicks often led us to victory. Ouronly Canadian, fullback Brian Guzzi,cleaned up our defensive lapses. Ourfront row and wingers were all Yanks andnone of us was afraid to tackle or ruck.The thrill of touching down for a try onthe U of T back campus field in theshadow of Hart House and Trinity Collegeis something to remember. A fellowNebraskan, Mary Kevin Foley, led the St.Mike’s Rugger Huggers, our informaland unlikely cheering squad.For road trips, my VW van carriedthe team. The traditional post-gameparty and choral interlude helped healthe battle wounds and forge lastingfriendships. The long ride back to campusinvolved numerous uncharted reststops along the shoulder of the 401.Rugby was more than a game. It wasa code of honour and a way of life. Iplayed for many years after graduationand each spring still finds me in HongKong for the week of the Hong KongRugby Sevens, the world’s best rugbyfestival, where I meet old friends, playersand teammates to relive rugby memoriesand the daze of youth.Larry CiminoBA 1973 St. Michael’sIndianapolis, IndianaA SMASHING SUCCESSIn the mid-1990s, no intramural sport atTrinity College attracted quite the sameattention as the Smashers, the women’stouch football team. So many womenwanted to play that there were separateteams for offence and defence. Coachingpositions were prized and taken very seriously.And each game was attended byanywhere from a handful to dozens offans, many of whom wore tuxedos.The 1996 season was particularlymemorable for the Smashers. For threeyears in a row, the team had emergedfrom a successful round-robin seasononly to meet defeat in the semifinals atthe hands of the St. Mike’s crew.In 1996, we worked hard all fall and,finally, overcame our semifinal jinx witha victory against the team from medicine.The Smashers headed to the finals on awave of confidence. In the early morningsun of University College’s back field,watched on by formally clad Trinity menand dozens of other supporters, theSmashers saw their dream of U of Tintramural glory become a reality.We celebrated in true undergraduatestyle, finishing off a case of champagneby 9 a.m. and the start of the day’s classes.Eliza ReidBA 1998 TRINReykjavik, Iceland70 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

PuzzleRiddles inLegend and FunBy Marcel DanesiNowadays, riddles are consideredchild’s play, but ancient civilizationstook them very seriously. Legendhas it that the Sphinx, who guarded theentrance to the city of Thebes, devoured anyonewho could not answer her riddle. Samson’slife ended in calamity because of a riddlehe posed to the Philistines. And Homer’sdeath may have been precipitated by his distressover a riddle posed to him by fishermen:What we caught, we threw away. What we couldnot catch, we kept.Not all stories about riddles have an ominousshade to them. The biblical kingsSolomon and Hiram organized riddle contests for the pleasureof outwitting each other. The Greeks used riddles at banquetsas a form of entertainment. The Romans made riddles a centralfeature of the Saturnalia, a religious event celebrated overthe winter solstice. In the 18 th century, riddles were perceivedto be the educated person’s favourite form of mental recreation,and many newspapers and periodicals included them. InFrance, no less a literary figure than the great satirist Voltaireregularly composed mind-teasing riddles such as the following:What of all things in the world is the longest, the shortest, theswiftest, the slowest, the most divisible and most extended, mostregretted, most neglected, without which nothing can be done,and with which many do nothing, which destroys all that is littleand ennobles all that is great?What is it about riddles that makes them so intriguing,and yet so trivial at the same time? Perhaps it is the figurativetwist that requires us to make imaginative associations. Trythese riddles:It is red, blue, purple and green, as anyone can easily see,yet no one can touch it or even reach it. What is it?Before my birth I had a name, but it changed the instantI was born. And when I am no more, I will be called by yetanother name. In sum, I change my name three days in a row,yet live but one day. Who or what am I?It belongs to you, but others use it more than you do.What is it?I am neither clothes nor shoes, yet I can be wornand taken off. What am I?In children’s stories, riddles are often symbolic of humancleverness. For example, in 100 Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria,published in 1892 by an anonymous author, Queen Bellariaand her riddle-solving skills are pitted against the cruel KingRuggero. He wishes to invade her territory, and gives her 100riddles to solve; to fail would entail disaster. The Riddler inBatman comics is a modern-day descendant of Ruggero.Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Throughthe Looking Glass are stories that both contain riddles andwhose entire narratives are riddles, since it is difficult to interpretwhat they mean.■Answers1. The answer to Homer’s riddle is fleas.2. The answer to Voltaire’s riddle is time, which has allthe characteristics portrayed by Voltaire’s ingeniousconstruction.3. The answer to the colour riddle is a rainbow.4. The answer to the birth riddle is today. Before todaywas “born,” it was called tomorrow. And when todayis “no more,” it takes on a new name – yesterday. Thus,though it lasts only one day, today changes its namethree days in a row – yesterday, today and tomorrow.5. Your name is something that belongs to you but isused more by others.6. The answer to the last riddle is a smile.WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 71ILLUSTRATION: CHRISTIANE BEAUREGARD

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LookingBackBY GRAHAM F. SCOTTClock WisePHOTOGRAPHY: MICHAEL VISSERThough it may not always feel like it, ourbrains work pretty fast. So fast, in fact,that until the late 19 th century, scientistshad no accurate way of measuringthe speed of psychological processes.The Hipp chronoscope, seen here,dramatically advanced the precisionof psychological research.The device was invented by Swisswatchmaker Mathias Hipp. Capable ofmeasuring time to 1-1000 th of a second,it was first used by scientists to assesshow quickly people responded to stimuli.“What you did was stimulate someone’sarm up toward the shoulder, and measurehow rapidly they could respond,”says Douglas Creelman, a retiredpsychology professor who rediscoveredthis chronoscope in the late 1960s.“It gave a fairly accurate measure of thespeed of nerve transmission.”In the 1870s, some psychologists beganusing the Hipp chronoscope to study mentalchronometry – in essence, the speedof thought. Researchers would give subjectsa baseline test to measure howquickly they reacted to a sensory stimulus,such as a flash of light.Then the researcherswould give a test involving decision-makingskill (for example, subjects wouldindicate instantly if a sound was low- orhigh-pitched). In simplest terms, the timedifference between the two tests representedthe time “thought” took.This chronoscope was purchased in1890 by James Baldwin, the founder ofU of T’s psychology lab, for $87. It wasdestined for the landfill when Creelmanrescued it during a renovation of SidneySmith Hall. In 1997, the chronoscope wasloaned to the Ontario Science Centre,and there it remains today, counting theseconds until it returns home.74 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / WINTER 2007

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