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TofTHEUNIVERSITY OF TORONTOWINNERS OF THE SHORTSTORY AND POETRY CONTESTCAN A BRAIN CHANGE?BIG BOOST FOR THE HUMANITIESCABBAGE PATCH GRADYOUNGGRADS,BIG IDEASLuis Jacob, 36, visual artist,BA 1996 University CollegeSUMMER 2007 • VOL. 34 NO. 4PM40065699

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ontents CSUMMER 2007YOUNGGRADS,BIG IDEASToday’s young graduatesare aiming straightfor the topPAGE 20PHOTOGRAPHY: KATHRYN GAITENSSHORT STORYAND POETRYCONTEST WINNERSLove Story, by Rasha MourtadaSmart Girls Writing SomethingCatch the Eye at Once,by Carleton WilsonPAGE 34Maggie MacDonald, 28,musician and writerBA 2004 University College4 EDITOR’S NOTEA Shiver of Recognition6 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGEThe Innermost Circle9 LETTERSThe Hidden Disorder11 LEADING EDGE“Cause Celeb”DEPARTMENTS17 NEW & NOTABLESpeakers of the House39 GREAT GIFTSHal Jackman Doubles Giftto the Humanities43 ALUMNI NOTESThe Cabbage Patch Kid46 CALENDAR47 CAMPUS STORIESAfter the Last Exam48 CLASSIFIEDS50 LOOKING BACKHark the HeraldryCover photograph ofLuis Jacob by Raina+WilsonWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 3

UT ofUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINEhumanSUMMER 2007 VOLUME 34/NUMBER 4Editor and Manager: Scott AndersonManaging Editor: Stacey GibsonArt Direction: Fernanda Pisani /James Ireland DesignAdvertising 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 © 2007 Governing Council,University of Toronto, and may be reprinted withwritten permission. Alumni of the university receivethe magazine free of charge. Others may subscribe:$30 (U.S. funds outside Canada). 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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.caE ditor’s NoteA Shiver of RecognitionThe best stories and poems reveal something aboutexperience that hasn’t occurred to us beforeWRITING IS NOT EASY. ERNEST HEMINGWAY CALLED WRITING FICTION“possibly the roughest trade of all in writing,” while American poet IshmaelReed described writing poetry as the “hard labour of the imagination.”I wish we could have given out more prizes in our short story and poetrycontest in recognition of the sheer effort that went into the more than 300submissions. (Entries flooded in from all over Canada and the U.S., but wealso received stories and poems from Europe, Africa and Asia.)For an amateur competition (writers who had published a book were ineligible),the quality of work was superb. Many people chose to write about life’sdifficulties, such as illness, abuse and relationships gone wrong, but a considerablenumber also focused on such pleasures as love and travel. Works thatdemonstrated a clear, consistent voice and resonated emotionally garnered thehighest praise from the judges. The best stories and poems, they said, accomplisheda lot in relatively few words, providing a fresh take on some aspect oflife. “I look for a poem that will make readers stop and think and maybe shiverin recognition of what had never occurred to them before,” commented IanLancashire, a U of T English professor and one of our poetry judges.The winning entries are featured in this issue, starting on page 34. RashaMourtada (BA 1998 New College) took first place in the story contest for“Love Story,” a tale of addiction and marital breakdown, while Carleton Wilson(BA 2000 Innis) won the poetry contest for his work, “Smart Girls WritingSomething Catch the Eye at Once.”Mourtada, a 31-year-old web editor at the Globe and Mail, says she’s beenwriting ever since she was a child. “Love Story” is set in Damascus – a cityshe’s visited with her parents, who are Syrian. “I’m fascinated by life there,”she says, “by the rhythm of the language, by the social norms and by the deepdedication to religion.”Mourtada, who had never entered a writing contest and has taken onlyone creative writing class (at U of T), says she was thrilled – and very surprised– to win. “This is a true honour and also proof that taking chances,even when you’re full of self-doubt, can lead to great things,” she said.Poetry winner Carleton Wilson has been writing poems since 1993. He isworking on his first book while also running Junction Books, a small publishinghouse. Wilson considers writing and publishing a labour of love. “Ilove the challenge of putting words together in order to make a kind of musicthat speaks to people,” he says. “To me, poetry is about the interaction of theraw material of words with the poet’s heart and intellect in order to communicatean essential concept or experience.”Martin Kofsky was named runner-up for his story “Of Schumann andSheep Skulls,” about a teacher who reaches out to a pair of difficult students,and Brigid Elson earned second place for her poem “France August 1992.”You can read these works online at www.magazine.utoronto.ca.SCOTT ANDERSON4 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

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President’s MessageThe Innermost CircleThe Humanities Play a Central Role at Uof TPHOTOGRAPHY: LAURA ARSIÈTHE FOUNDING CHARTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOcalls for the “education of youth…in the various branchesof science and literature.” However, I doubt that John Strachanand his associates who helped establish U of T everimagined that “literature” would now be taught here in morethan 40 languages!Today, as a field of scholarship, the humanities at U of Tinclude not only the languages and literature, of course, but alsophilosophy, history, religion, anthropology, the classics and thevisual and performing arts. U of T’s humanities departmentsalso figure prominently in such interdisciplinary teaching andresearch centres as the Aboriginal Studies Program, the Centrefor Ethics, and the Institute of Communication and Culture atUniversity of Toronto Mississauga, among many others.Enrolment in our humanities courses hassoared more than 80 per cent since 2000. Ibelieve that’s indicative of the excellent reputationof humanities scholars at U of T, thebreadth and depth of courses available, andour world-class libraries. But one might stillask more generally: What draws students tothe humanities in an era when science andtechnology are so prominent?I believe the enduring appeal of the humanitieslies in their encouragement of clear, criticaland imaginative thought. In a world ofshrinking distances and global competition, thehumanities teach us much about bridging culturesand negotiating the often difficult terrainof human relationships. Many of our greatestsocietal challenges, not surprisingly, have a profoundlyhuman dimension. The debate over global warming,for example, centres on climate science and economic implications,but it also raises thorny questions about individual ethicsand the responsibility of developed versus developing nations.This is why successful societies need leaders who understandhumanity broadly. To name just three exemplars from amongcountless graduates: Adrienne Clarkson, a renowned broadcasterand former Governor General of Canada, Ted Rogers, the visionarypresident and CEO of Rogers Communications, and AnneGolden, the dynamic president and CEO of the Conference Boardof Canada, all earned arts degrees at U of T. Tony Comper, recentlyretired as president and CEO of BMO Financial Group, studied6 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINEThe humanitiesteach us muchabout bridgingcultures andnegotiating thedifficult terrainof humanrelationships“”English at U of T – not business.Mr. Comper values the humanitiesfor their diversity and hassaid that “one should neverunderemphasize the quality ofthe educational experience inmany different disciplines.”In short, the humanities are at once timeless, evolving andessential. We are fortunate that so many donors have been drawnto these sometimes undervalued disciplines. Two recent donationsbear special notice. Five years ago, humanities at the Universityof Toronto received a magnificent gift of $15 millionfrom the Honourable Henry N.R. Jackman, then chancellor ofU of T. Mr. Jackman’s gift was double-matched by the universityto create a $45-million investment, whichhelped establish the largest endowed programin the humanities at any Canadian university.Now, Mr. Jackman has raised his sights evenhigher. Earlier this year, he donated an additional$15 million, triggering another $45 million insupport for the humanities. This outstandingcommitment will enable U of T to furtherstrengthen humanities education and research inmany important ways (see page 39).Mr. Jackman’s gifts have made an immeasurablecontribution to the study of the humanitiesat U of T. They have also enhanced publiclife in the city – through the JackmanProgram for the Arts. In 2005, to cite just oneexample, the program brought together writers,filmmakers, musicians, professors, criticsand many others for Voicing the Arts, a wonderful three-daypublic conference on the arts and the City of Toronto.Former U of T president James Ham once described theuniversity as a series of concentric circles. He placed thehumanities in the central ring because, he said, they definethe shape of civilization. The humanities were the beatingheart of a U of T education 25 years ago when Jim Ham waspresident and, with the visionary support of Mr. Jackman andothers like him, they will continue to play a central role forcenturies to come.Sincerely,DAVID NAYLOR

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Celebrating 100 years of studies in educationat the University of Toronto 1907-2007The 100th AnniversaryDuring 2007 the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE)will host the 100th anniversary of studies in education at the University. OISE and its antecedents:Faculty of Education, University of Toronto (FOE); University of Toronto Schools (UTS);Ontario College of Education (OCE); The Institute of Child Study (ICS);College of Education, University of Toronto (CEUT);Faculty of Education, University of Toronto (FEUT);Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE); andOntario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT),will gather together to participate.The Centennial BookThe Centennial Book, titled InspiringEducation: Celebrating 100 Years of Studiesin Education at the University of Toronto,retraces the origins of OISE and its antecedentsthrough pictures and stories. Priced at $24,the book is available to order online(www.100years.oise.utoronto.ca), in theEducation Commons (main floor library)at OISE, 252 Bloor St. W. and at theUniversity of Toronto Bookstore.The Centennial Archival ProjectOISE will showcase its remarkable heritage in aseries of archival displays including photographsand artifacts from the past. These will be locatedin the Education Commons (main floor library)of OISE.May to August 2007:Curriculum; BuildingsSeptember to November 2007:OISE around the WorldTeacher Recognition ProgramConvocation June 2007OISE will celebrate elementary andsecondary school teachers in conjunctionwith the June 2007 Convocation. Designedto recognize teachers who have had aprofound impact on students, the programbuilds on the idea that educators “stand onthe shoulders of great teachers who camebefore” them.The Centennial Lecture SeriesWednesday, November 7, 20072007 Jackson LectureSpeaker, Professor Rosemary TannockCanada Research Chair, Special Educationand Adaptive Technology, OISE andHospital for Sick ChildrenThe Centennial Celebration PartyOn Friday, November 16, 2007, OISE willhost an anniversary party as a wrap-up tothe full year of centennial celebrations.A Century of Inspiring AlumniAs part of the Archival Project, OISE will celebrate alumni - accomplished leaders whohave contributed to the world of education, literature, politics, the arts and communities.The Inspiring Alumni exhibit will feature portraits and stories of some ofour outstanding alumni, celebrating their excellence.OISE invites you to share your stories of exceptional alumni. Email 100years@oise.utoronto.caGet involved. We’d like you to be a part of the 100th Anniversary celebration.www.100years.oise.utoronto.ca

L ettersThe Hidden DisorderChronic pain exacts a costly emotional tollTHE PAIN OF DISABILITYHaving taught students with learningdisabilities for many years, I read “TheProblem of Pain” (Spring 2007) with greatinterest. Kids with learning disabilitiesoften feel that few can understand theirpain because, like chronic pain sufferers,their disorder is hidden from view.Thank you for lending credence to thisimportant topic.S.G. TannerBEd 1979Burlington, OntarioPAIN AND SPIRITUALITYMarni Jackson’s article about pain is aninformative brief study of the subject,but unfortunately is almost completelyinstrumentalist. Presumably herbook is less so. But to write ofpain without reference to its spiritualor religious impact is absurd, even givenher clear medical approach. And to usewithout attribution the title of C.S.Lewis’s well-known book on the subjectmakes the omission that much morestark. Ouch!Brad FaughtPhD 1996TorontoEd. note: The headline choice was ours.Thank you for Marni Jackson’s excellentarticle. I first heard about the problemof chronic pain several years ago from achurch member. I didn’t know where hecould get help in Toronto. Now I knowabout the Wasser Centre at Mount SinaiHospital.The book Pain: The Gift NobodyWants, by Dr. Paul Brand and PhilipYancey, provides a perspective similar toyour article. The authors suggest thatpain is God’s gift – the body’s earlywarningsystem. However, when thesystem short-circuits we need Dr. AllanGordon and his team in a big way.Rev. Graham A.D. ScottBA 1964 UC, BD 1967St. Catharines, OntarioUniversity of Toronto Alumni AssociationAnnual General MeetingMonday, June 18, 20075:30 p.m.Great Hall of Hart HouseGuest Speaker:Dr. Marla Shapiro(MHSc 1983, Faculty of Medicine)Topic:Living Well and Staying HealthyRSVP by June 8 (acceptances only)Phone: 416-978-2177 • Fax: 416-978-3958lisa.mcauliffe@utoronto.caA complimentary barbecue will follow in the Hart House QuadrangleSpace is limited.www.alumni.utoronto.caREAD MORE LETTERS AT WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CAWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 9

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LeadingEdge“Cause ‘ CelebThe Hollywood star as public intellectual‘‘ILLUSTRATION: GREG STEVENSON /i2iARTPoverty, war, environmental collapse: who will be theconscience of humankind in a world gone mad?Philosophers, activists, political leaders?How about Leonardo DiCaprio?That’s the question that Josée Johnston, a professor ofsociology at U of T Mississauga, is raising with her researchinto celebrities as public intellectuals. She is looking at howcelebrities are throwing their names and influence behind petcauses like never before, and the ramifications of this.“People are looking for a vision on moral issues increasinglythrough celebrities,” says Johnston. Shesays there’s extensive research into celebrityculture, and research into “publicintellectuals” (media-savvy academicswho speak on social andpolitical issues), but notmuch research into howthose two categories of peopleoverlap. “It seemedthere was an obvious gapbetween those two bodiesof research,” says Johnston.“All celebrities have an issue,a cause, now,” says Kristine Chandler,a sociology student at U of T Mississauga,who assisted Johnston with initial research intoDiCaprio’s public stance against conflict diamonds.DiCaprio also starred in Blood Diamond, which dramatizedthe problem of African conflicts fuelled by profits from diamondsales. It’s a serious problem with a long history, butthe lens of Hollywood tends to change the view: “Are theydistorting critical public issues, or are they actually sheddingneeded public attention on a grave and serious situation?”Johnston asks. The answer to that question is stillfar off, as Johnston’s research is in a very early stage.There’s lots of potential material; with big-name celebritiessuch as DiCaprio, Angelina Jolie and Oprah Winfreystumping for issues ranging from climate change toAIDS prevention to poverty reduction, every cause hasits celeb. – Graham F. ScottWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 11

LeadingEdge12 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007Can a Brain Change?A new book by Norman Doidge says the mind is far more flexible than previously thoughtIN THE CASEof damage caused by a stroke,one part of the brain cansometimes pinch-hit – takingover functions previouslyallocated to another areaUntil recent decades, many scientists have touted ableak theory about our brains: they have viewed ourgrey matter much like a hardwired machine, witheach part performing only one function. Like a computer, ifone part is damaged, it’s damaged for good.Enter a new wave of science known as “neuroplasticity.”In The Brain ThatChanges Itself (Viking2007) Dr. NormanDoidge, a research psychiatristand psychoanalystwho teaches at U of Tand Columbia Universityin New York, chroniclesthe study of neuroplasticity– which has shownthat the brain is far moremalleable than previouslythought, and is even capableof reorganizing itself.In the case of damagecaused by stroke, forexample, one part of thebrain can sometimespinch-hit – taking overfunctions previously allocatedto another area.Like neurologist andwriter Oliver Sacks,Doidge focuses heftily onmedical case studies.There is the woman bornwith half a brain, whoseright hemisphere hastaken over left brain activitiessuch as speaking andreading. And the young televisionproducer who, afterbecoming paralyzed on herright side, gained back muchof her mobility through constraint-inducedtherapy – atreatment that coaxes neuronsto take on new duties.There is also “Mr. L” – a formerpatient of Doidge’s – who was able to overcomea 40-year history of depression through psychoanalysis.Doidge – who has won several Canadian National MagazineAwards over the years – has the exceptional gift of notonly making science comprehensible, but also conveying themagic and wonder of these scientific breakthroughs. Hisbook also contains a bitof medical history: hetracks the roots of neuroplasticityby weaving inaccounts of influentialstudies and doctors fromthe past century.Doidge also providesthe occasional dark glanceinto the politics of science– the less-than-charmingreactions that humans arecapable of when theiregos, and theories, are onthe line. One such politicalcasualty was EdwardTaub: as a PhD studentarguing his thesis in the1950s, his findings contradictedhis professor’scelebrated behaviouristtheories. His ideas weremaligned by the professorand the scientific community,and for years hereceived no recognition.Dr. Taub now runs aclinic that, building onhis original ideas, helpsstroke victims regaintheir mobility. His situationdeftly underscoresthe premise of Doidge’sbook: an intractablestance, like an intractablebrain, is just toorigid a framework tobear. – Stacey Gibson

Under theToronto SunBraking News!PHOTOGRAPHY: ONTARIO MINISTRY OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATIONProfessorReza IravaniOne day in the not-too-distantfuture, Torontonians maylook forward to sunny daysfor more than just their warmth – moresunshine will mean more clean, renewableenergy for the city, thanks to a newproject led by U of T researchers.This past winter, the universityjoined forces with ARISE Technologiesand the Portlands Energy Centreto design the city’s first solar powerresearch facility. The centre will featurea full-fledged commercial generatingunit that will begin feeding solarpower into the Toronto Hydro electricalgrid in 2009. This will be the firsttime solar energy will be introduced toa grid in Ontario on a large scale,notes Professor Reza Iravani of theFaculty of Applied Science and Engineering,one of the project’s leadresearchers. The facility will be builton a four-acre parcel of land near thewaterfront (in the eastern portlandsnear Cherry Street) that will be coveredin solar panels about two-and-ahalfto three metres high. Iravani saysthe facility will produce an estimated1,000 kilowatts of power – enough forabout 200 homes. – Bruce GillespieNew U of T research could prevent thousands of traffic collisions a year with anovel concept for brake lights on cars. Zhonghai Li and Professor Paul Milgramused a computer simulation to demonstrate how such a system might work.“We’re causing an optical illusion that affects how people behave,” says Milgram, a professorof mechanical and industrial engineering.All drivers use subtle visual cues to determinehow far they are from the car ahead of them. One of those factors is “optical looming,”or how quickly the size of the car ahead appears to be changing.The quicker the sizeof the car ahead appears to grow, the less time drivers judge there to be before they willhit that car.When the car ahead brakes rapidly, drivers often have mere fractions of a secondto react and collisions may result. Li’s PhD research proposes using currently availablesensing and display technology to make brake lights that change their appearance dynamicallyduring emergency braking. Such lights would exaggerate the natural optical loomingeffect, but only very slightly, making the car ahead seem sufficiently closer in time.This wouldcause drivers to brake earlier to help them avoid a crash. In simulations, Li and Milgramsaw drivers increase the inter-vehicle time separations by 100 to 300 milliseconds, underlow visibility conditions.This increase, says Milgram, is potentially sufficient for “thousandsof averted crashes per year worldwide.” – Graham F. ScottIT ALL HAPPENS DOWNTOWN Serving Downtown Area for 30 yearsShuttle Service to downtown - Courtesy Cars available - Factory Certified TechniciansKnowledgeable sales staff - Certified Pre-owned Vehicles - New Vehicles - Internet AccessLarge Inventory selection - No appointment Oil Change601 Eastern Avenue east of broadview • 416.461.0775 • www.subarudowntown.comWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 13

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LeadingEdgeOne Step Closer toNew Ovarian Cancer TreatmentPHOTOGRAPHY: MIKE ANDRECHUKFrom left, Professor Christine Allen,PhD candidate Justin Grant andProfessor Michelle Piquette-MillerResearchers at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy havedevised an advanced drug delivery system for the treatmentof ovarian cancer. PoLi, developed by ProfessorsMicheline Piquette-Miller and Christine Allen, is an implantablefilm that destroys cancer cells while minimizing the side-effectsof chemotherapy.The small implant, infused with cancer-killingdrugs, is inserted directly into a tumour site after surgical removalof primary tumours. It steadily releases the drug over a twomonthperiod, and dissolves naturally – it does not have to besurgically removed.“The PoLi implant has promise in the treatmentof other cancers, including head and neck,” says Piquette-Miller.“We are also developing an injectable gel-based implantformulation that could be administered directly to the tumoursite without surgery.This could also be used in the treatment ofbreast and prostate cancers.” PoLi still requires clinical trials, anda possible partnership with industry is being explored throughInnovations at U of T. – Maria Saros Leungthe 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/WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 15

YOU AREonOUR NEWALUMNIthe road to successCongratulations to all 2007 graduates. As you takethe next step, it may be nice to know you’re not alone.Diploma in hand, world at your feet, here you go. And whichever direction you choose, we’re there for you. We offer youthe tools that can help you start a journey that’s been years in the making. We provide free career services and networkingopportunities through the U of T Career Centre. We organize great events at fabulous venues to meet other alumni, includinggraduates active in our 30 alumni associations. We send you the latest news about U of T and your fellow alumni. We offercontinued access to campus fitness facilities to exercise your body and mind. Then there are all the special deals you canget now that you’re a graduate. Whatever path you take, just remember you’re not alone.Find out more at www.alumni.utoronto.cacareer services • fitness facilities • libraries • events

ew& NotableNR ECENT DEVELOPMENTS ON CAMPUSSpeakers ofthe HousePHOTOGRAPHY: RUTH KAPLANusually law students and PhD candidateswho win the CanadianITisNational Debating Championship,not undergrads.But in March,two second-yearU of T students took the trophy home.“We were the underdogs,” admits AdrienneLipsey who with Richard Lizius trumped63 debating teams (including eight from theHart House Debating Club).The two,both 19at the time, are believed to be the youngestdebaters to win nationals.Over the three-day tournament atQueen’s University in Kingston, Ontario,Lipsey, now 20, and Lizius debated a range oftopics – such as whether those who practisewitchcraft should be prosecuted,and whetherjournalists should be allowed to film court proceedings.After winning seven of their eightdebates,the newcomers advanced to the finalround. Pitted against a team from McGill, theyargued that Quebec should be a nation withinCanada – and were declared the winners.Still being debated, though, is who the betterdebater is: Lipsey, a political science majorwho attends Victoria College, or Lizius, amechanical engineering student. Lipsey takesthe podium first, warming up the crowd withher casual,conversational style.“I try for a noveltake,but sometimes it blows up in my face,” shesays.“You can look like a bit of an idiot whenthat happens,but people forgive you for it.”Then comes Lizius,a more formal speakerwhose strength is reacting to opponents’ arguments.“I’vebeen showing a lot more emotionthis term,” says Lizius,adding that their talentscomplement each other.“He’s awesome on rebuttal,” says Lipsey.“And he has this totally charming Englishaccent.” – Susan PedwellWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 17

New&NotableFather FigurePHOTOGRAPHY: TOP, CHRISTOPHER WAHL/NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA; BOTTOM LEFT, JANE URUHARA © MICHAEL NEUGEBAUER; BOTTOM RIGHT: COURTESTY OF MICHAEL TSANGSome families hit the TV talk-showcircuit in the hope of attaining reconciliation.Bryan Friedman, onthe other hand, made a documentaryabout his bodybuilder father – who hadbeen absent for most of Friedman’s life– to better understand their dysfunctionalrelationship.The Bodybuilder and I, Friedman’sfirst feature-length film, won Best CanadianFeature Documentaryat Toronto’sHot Docs festival inApril. Last summer,the U of T law studentfollowed hisfather, Bill, now 60,and three other seniorbodybuilders as theyprepared for an internationalcompetition by pumping ironfor hours on end, attending tanning sessionsand shopping for bikini briefs.“Every individualhas a role toplay. Every individualmakes a difference.”Those are thewords of Jane Goodall,renowned chimpanzee Jane Goodallresearcher and environmentalsteward, who certainly knows ofwhat she speaks. The international JaneGoodall Institute furthers her groundbreakingwork, which connects the well-being ofhumans to species conservation.In pursuit of further connections,the JaneGoodall Institute of Canada recently foundnew habitat at U of T through a partnershipwith the university’s Centre for Environment.Centre director Ingrid Stefanovic says thepartnership is focused on students: there willbe work study and internship opportunities,and possibly exchanges with organizations inAfrica.Select students will meet with GoodallNatural SelectionBryan Friedman (far left) withhis bodybuilder father, Billand receive feedback on projectsrelating to conservationand sustainability.The partnership cameabout quite organically whenGoodall spoke at the Centrefor Environment’s NaturalCity conference in spring oflast year.As the first step toward collaboration,the centre has announced a new graduatescholarship (currently in the works)named in Goodall’s honour.“When I met herlast year,” says Stefanovic,“what absolutelystruck me was her sense of calm and hercompassion – she just exuded [these qualities];they were contagious.” – Lisa RundleJane Goodall will be presenting a lecture atConvocation Hall, hosted by the Centre forEnvironment, on September 15.The centre isplanning a formal launch of the partnership tocoincide with her visit.“I thought it was ridiculous,” saysFriedman, 27, of the subculture hechronicled. “I mean, you have a midlifecrisis – buy a car.” But the film didenable Friedman to develop a relationshipwith his father, a former lawyerwho picked up weights after he quithis job following a second divorce. “Idon’t know that I’ve ever figured outwhy he did that. But I’m starting to seehim as a father instead of some kind ofobstacle.”Friedman holds a bachelor of finearts from New York University and previouslydirected a short for the NationalFilm Board of Canada’s Momentumprogram. He would like to continuemaking films, but also enjoys the academicchallenges of law school. “It’shard to make films that mean somethingand still survive [financially],” hesays. “I’d be lying if I said I had a masterplan.” – Sarah TreleavenShall We Dance?Uof T students Vivek Patel, Janina Kowalski,Katie Williams and Krista Biedermanperformed “Escape,” a moderndance piece choreographed by Shakir Haq, atthe Festival of Dance in March.The three-daycelebration, held at Hart House Theatre, featuredan eclectic range of dance styles – fromhip hop to Egyptian belly dancing to ballroom– with performances by more than 200 studentsfrom all three campuses.18 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

AccoladesMatthew Cimone, a student inhis final year of internationaldevelopment studies at U of TScarborough, is spreading goodwill on aglobal scale: he has been chosen as aUnited Nations goodwill youth ambassador.Inhis new role,Cimone will representboth Canada and the humanitarian organizationRight to Play International.The following U of T researchers arewinners of the inaugural Premier’s SummitAward in Medical Research, which celebratesworld-class research in Ontario: Matthew CimoneUniversity Professors Tak Mak of medicalbiophysics; Anthony Pawson of medical rett of ecology and evolutionary biology andgenetics and microbiology; Peter St George- Andreas Mandelis of mechanical and industrialengineering received Premier’s DiscoveryHyslop of medicine and the Centre forResearch in Neurodegenerative Diseases; and Awards for individual research. Each SummitProfessor John Dick of medical genetics and Award winner will receive $5 million over a fiveyearperiod – $2.5 million from the programmicrobiology. As well, Professor ParhamAarabi of electrical and computer engineering matched by $2.5 million from their sponsoringreceived a Premier’s Catalyst Award as the best institution. Both Dick and Mak were sponsoredyoung innovator,and Professors Spencer Bar-by the University Health Network, while Pawsonwas sponsored by Mount Sinai Hospitaland St George-Hyslop jointly byU of T and the University Health Network.Asa Catalyst Award winner Aarabiwill receive $200,000, and Barrett andMandelis will each receive $500,000 toaccompany their Discovery Awards.Five U of T faculty members have beenappointed to the Order of Canada.Appointed as officers were: ProfessorEmeritus Dorothy Pringle of nursing, asenior researcher at the Baycrest Centrefor Geriatric Care; Professor EmeritusDennis Smith of dentistry, the foundingdirector of U of T’s Centre of Biomaterials; andProfessor Douglas Wigle, an internationallyrenowned cardiologist, teacher and scientist.Named members were Professor Emeritus TimothyMurray of medicine,who has made significantcontributions to osteoporosis research andeducation;and David Young,an instructor in theFaculty of Music and one of Canada’s premierbassists. – Ailsa Ferguson, Elaine SmithCentre for CommunityPartnerships LaunchesSecond Day of ServiceUof T’s Centre for Community Partnerships(CCP) is spearheading a second annualuniversity-wide day of service for all faculty,staff and students, to take place September 8. Last year,as part of Outreach 2006, more than 1,000U of T volunteers helped clear garbage from the city’sriverbanks, serve food in homeless shelters and plantgardens, among other activities.The day of service ispart of the CCP’s broader mission to give students theopportunity to apply their knowledge outside the classroom,strike partnerships between the university andits surrounding communities, and underscore the university’score values of civic engagement and publicservice.The CCP is supported by William R.Waters andPhyllis Waters, who have established a challenge fund tomatch private donations.Alumni interested in contributingto the CCP should contact Jacqueline Raaflaub at(416) 978-1473 or jacqueline.raaflaub@utoronto.ca.AppointmentsDavid Palmer has been appointed vicepresident and chief advancement officerof U of T,and will begin his new roleon September 1. He is currently president andexecutive director,Royal Ontario Museum Boardof Governors, and spearheaded the highly successfulRenaissance ROM campaign.Lorna Jean Edmonds has been namedassistant vice-president, international relations.David Palmer Edmonds was the director of the Office ofResearch Services and an assistant professor inthe School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University in Kingston,Ontario.Daniel Atlin is the new assistant vice-president,government,institutional andcommunity relations.Atlin comes to U of T from Credit Union Central of Ontario,where he was vice-president (corporate services) and corporate secretary.Bill Graham has been installed as Trinity’s 12 th chancellor. Graham servedas minister of national defence in the government of Paul Martin.In February 2006he was appointed leader of the official Opposition, a position he held until lastDecember.Professor Rhonda Love will begin her role as director of the TransitionalYear Programme (TYP) on July 1. Love is a professor of public healthsciences at University of Toronto.WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 19PHOTOGRAPHY:TOP, COURTESY MATTHEW CIMONE; BOTTOM, BRIAN BOYLE © ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

YOUNG GRADSBIG IDEASNo more years of paying one’s dues, or working for others.Today’s U of T graduates are aiming straight for the topPROFILES BYScott AndersonHilary DavidsonDan FalkStacey GibsonMichelle KellyCynthia MacdonaldGraham F. ScottMicah ToubSarah TreleavenDerek WeilerCarlyn ZwarensteinThere’s a revolution underway.Not the kind that setsguns blazing or topplesgovernments, but the typethat will have far-reaching consequencesfor almost everything we do.Call it youthful innovation, or theupending of corporate hierarchy. Many oftoday’s young graduates, born in the1970s, are taking the quick route to thetop by setting up their own companiesand using the Internet to promulgate theirideas. Their outlook is entrepreneurial andinternational. They thrive on change. Andtheir ideas are now shaping how we live.Think of Steve Chen and Chad Hurley,the twenty-something founders ofpopular video-sharing website YouTube,who sold their fledgling company toGoogle last fall for almost $2 billion. OrMark Zuckerberg, whose online socialnetwork, Facebook, is now used by tensof millions of people. He just turned 23.Digital technology is creating newopportunities for young people. But thisgeneration’s “do-it-yourself” attitude hasspilled over to a whole range of endeavours.While some, like Zuckerberg, aredevising innovative online tools, others areusing the Internet to sell (or share ideasabout) music, clothing, video games, filmsor books they’ve made themselves. Neverbefore have the tools of marketing and distribution– a computer and access to theInternet – been available to so many.You’ll find some of the faces of thisrevolution in the following pages –Uof T grads under 40 who have developedinteresting ideas and are forgingtheir own unique career paths. Manylive in Canada, but their perspective isglobal; their ambitions reach beyondnational borders.Twenty-four-year-old Ben Barry didn’tlike the ultra-narrow criteria used bymost modeling agencies, so he set up hisown business and scored a major coupwith the Dove “Real Beauty” Campaign.He’s now doing a PhD at CambridgeUniversity in England.Commerce graduate Andrea Brueckner,30, designs and sells handbags inthe highly competitive world of NewYork City fashion.Raja Khanna, 34, co-founded Quick-Play Media, to bring Canadians video viatheir mobile phones. And Sara Seager, a35-year-old astronomer at the CarnegieInstitution in Washington, D.C., studiesplanets outside our solar system to determinewhether they can support life.Of course, there are thousands ofyoung U of T alumni whose intriguingideas will shape the future of their chosenfields. The ones profiled here offerbut a taste of what’s to come.20 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

‘‘Usually, you’re an emergencydoc in a set of greens witha stethoscope. It’s very anonymous.Writing is the exact opposite.‘‘●VINCENT LAMAUTHOR AND PHYSICIAN ●PHOTOGRAPHY: LIAM SHARPOutside of battlefields and unhappy marriages,there is nothing like an emergencyroom to highlight extremes in humanbehaviour. And ER doctor (and happily marriedman) Vincent Lam captures thoseextremes in his Giller Prize-winning book,Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2006).Withdark humour and sensitivity, Lam writesabout everything from a medical student wholoses half of a cadaver’s head to an air-evacuationdoctor who drinks on the job.By his early teens, Lam – who earned hismedical degree from U of T in 1999 – knewhe wanted to be a writer and wanted toemulate authors such as Hemingway, whohad a large appetite for life away from thepage.“I thought, very naively,‘Oh well – whatwill I do? I’ll just become a doctor.’” As he gotolder, he realized he wanted to pursue medicinefor its own sake.In the summer of 2002, Lam was workingas a ship’s doctor for an Arctic cruise line. Ina coincidence that would seem far-fetched ina fictional work, Margaret Atwood (BA 1961Victoria) was also on the cruise. After Lamasked her if she would read his short stories,Atwood replied:“Do you want me to tell yousomething nice or do you want me to tellyou the truth?” And he answered, “Well, thetruth.” Shortly after, Lam received an e-mailfrom Atwood assuring him he could indeedwrite. He is now working on his first novel,Cholon, Near Forgotten, about a headmasterand inveterate gambler in Saigon – a storyinspired by his own grandfather.Since winning the Giller Prize, Lam, 32,also has the role of “public figure” in commonwith Hemingway. Getting recognized bypatients has taken a little getting used to forthe modest writer. “Usually, you’re justanother emergency doc in a set of greenswith a stethoscope,” he says.“It’s very anonymous.And writing is the exact opposite,because you bare your soul on the page. Soit’s kind of weird when you’re the emergencydoc and someone’s reading your book.Theyactually have access to your literary soul.”– Stacey GibsonWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 21

SARA SEAGER● ASTRONOMER ●PHOTOGRAPHY: BRIAN BRAFF●When he enrolled at U of T in 2001,Ben Barry was already the veteranCEO of an international modelling agency– which made for an unusual residenceexperience at Trinity College.“I was gettingcourier packages of portfolios every day.The porter must have thought I had a reallysupportive family,” he jokes.Barry, now 24, founded Ben BarryAgency Inc. in his Ottawa home when hewas 14 after a childhood friend – whowore a size 8 – was turned down as amodel for being “too big.”From the beginning, Barry decided hisagency would represent women of all ages,shapes and sizes. But prospective clientswere not always thrilled with thisapproach.“People would say to me,‘We’resorry consumers feel badly about theirbodies, but that’s not our problem.They’restill buying the product.’”Barry persevered, and landed his firstmajor campaign in 2003 when Dove hiredBEN BARRYMODELLING AGENT ●him to scout models for their “Real Beauty”campaign. Now he employs a staff of 20 andcounts Nike and Macy’s among his clients.As a student at Cambridge University’sJudge Business School in England, Barry iscurrently working on a six-country surveyof consumer reactions to models whodon’t conform to the usual “under-21, size0” demographic. “My hope,” says Barry, “isthat my dissertation will provide me withconcrete data I can take to the boardroomof Vogue and the offices of Paris designers.”In March, he published his first book,Fashioning Reality:A New Generation of Entrepreneurship(Key Porter Books).Barry calls himself a “business activist,”and although he occasionally considersquitting the agency for academia, he says hewon’t stop until models of all ages andsizes can find work on the runways ofMilan and in the pages of fashion glossies.“It’s more attainable than we think,” hesays. – Micah ToubWhen Sara Seager wasgrowing up, Earth andits eight siblings were the only knownplanets in the universe. Other worldsexisted only in science fiction, and theprospect of finding life on anotherplanet seemed like a remote dream.But that dream has edged closer toreality, thanks to Seager (BSc 1994). Aplanetary scientist at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, she is examiningsome of the 200-plus planets thathave been discovered orbiting distantstars. Seager, 35, has devised a way toassess the atmospheres of these farawayplanets – a crucial step in determiningwhether they can support life. At thesame time, she is helping with instrumentdesign for NASA’s TerrestrialPlanet Finder, a space-based observatorythat likely will be launched in thenext 15 years.So far, almost all of the knownextrasolar planets are more like Jupiterthan Earth – gas giants inhospitable tolife. The real prize will go to whoeverdiscovers a world similar to our ownblue-green orb – rocky, temperate andwith an atmosphere containing water,carbon dioxide and ozone. Seagerexpects one to be found in her lifetime.“Every single day I wonder ifthere is life on another planet,” shesays. “And I wonder what kind of life itmight be.” – Dan Falk22 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

●RAJA KHANNADIGITAL MEDIA PIONEER ●‘‘I think we can help createa hub here in Canada for digitalmedia. We have all the rightpeople and all the right skills.‘‘Until recently, a phone was just a phone. Butsince everyone’s favourite conversationpiece went mobile, there’s been no stopping whatit can do. These days, phones have gone waybeyond mere chatter, bringing us photographs,messages, games – and now music videos andnewscasts. Could Alexander Graham Bell haveforecasted this?Maybe not, but Raja Khanna (BSc 1993 UTM)could have. As chief creative officer of QuickPlayMedia, the self-described “digital media pioneer”provides video downloading and streaming to theCanadian mobile phone market. In three years, thecompany he co-founded has won two nationalawards, grown from two to 80 employees andsteered phones straight into the heady world ofthe Internet. Not everyone has phone video now,but Khanna thinks the change will happen fast.“The bottom line,” he says, “is that if you’ve gotthis powerful device in your pocket at all timesthat’s always connected, always reliable and simpleto use, of course you’re going to use it for mediaconsumption.”But this 34-year-old tech exec doesn’t justframe how content is presented – as a guitaristand composer for the band Dirty Penny, he alsocreates it himself. Khanna’s simultaneous embraceof art and science came early, when he enrolled ingenetics and philosophy at Erindale College (nowUniversity of Toronto Mississauga). He went on toobtain a law degree, but demand for one of hisside talents – designing websites – led to his currentcareer. “In our family, we had computersbefore most other people did, since my dad was inthe industry,” he says.Thus was born his first company, Snap Media,which ran into hard times during the dot-comcrash several years ago. (“I had to fire many of myfriends in order to pull through,” says Khanna ruefully.)But he rebounded, dove into the world oftelecommunications – and, with offices in Englandand the United States, is now taking on the world.“That excites me, because I think we can helpcreate a hub here in Canada for digital media,”says the affable Khanna, who’s surprisingly calmconsidering all that’s happened to him in the lastyear (including fatherhood).“We have all the rightpeople here, all the right skills, to make this a centreof excellence.” A sentiment with whichGraham Bell – the sometime Canadian – wouldno doubt agree. – Cynthia MacdonaldWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 23

TENNIEL CHU● GOLF MAGNATE●Business is booming in China, so itonly makes sense that golf’s popularityis growing, too, says Tenniel Chu(BA 1999), the executive director of theMission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen,near Hong Kong. “Business peopleneed places to congregate and mingle,”he says, and Mission Hills, the world’slargest golf club, is providing them.Located about an hour’s drive from HongKong, the club boasts 12 full-size courses,a five-star hotel and 20 restaurants.Chu’s parents established MissionHills in 1992, well before golf enjoyedits current popularity in China (thecountry’s first golf course was built just20 years ago). Chu joined the companyin 2001, after finishing his economicsdegree at U of T, and set about puttingMission Hills on the international map.DR. KELLIE LEITCH● ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON ●PHOTOGRAPHY: RICHARD BAINASa medical student, Kellie Leitch (MD 1994) noticed what she calls “the challengesthat all Canadians see in the health-care system” – long waits for patients andfinancial pressures for caregivers. So while doing her residency in orthopedic surgery, Leitchtook time out to learn about efficiency from the business world, by taking an MBA atDalhousie University in Halifax.Now she’s come full circle. Last fall, Leitch, 36, helped launch a new Health Sector MBAat the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London.Thenew business degree is tailored to health-care professionals – from doctors and nurses tohealth administrators and pharmacists. The aim is to impart leadership and managementskills to both front-line workers and industry decision-makers. “We really need leaders inthe system who understand the managerial side but also the clinical side of the equation,”says Leitch.That description could apply to Leitch herself; besides serving as co-director of theHealth Sector MBA, she’s the chair of pediatric surgery at Western’s Schulich School ofMedicine and Dentistry and chief of pediatric surgery at the Children’s Hospital of WesternOntario. She joined the hospital after a one-year fellowship at the University of SouthernCalifornia in Los Angeles.“It cost Canadian taxpayers almost a million dollars to train me, sothe least I could do was come home and take care of Canadian kids,” she says.To that end,in March, she signed on as the federal government’s new advisor on Healthy Children andYouth; she’ll present recommendations this summer. Even with all that juggling, Leitch makessure to maintain her own clinic hours.“I’m very fortunate – I get to fix kids who can’t playon the playground, and let them go play.” – Derek WeilerNow expansion is at the top of his todolist. “There’s a lot of unexplored territory,”says Chu, noting that Chinahas roughly 250 golf courses, comparedwith more than 20,000 in the UnitedStates. “We want to make Mission Hillsthe golfing capital of not only China,but also the world.”Chu balances a busy work schedulewith family life, which leaves him littletime to play golf himself unless entertaininggovernment officials or attendingcharity events. Still, he considers ithis favourite sport. “Just because youhave a swimming pool in your backyard,”he says, “doesn’t mean that youswim every day.’” – Sarah Treleaven24 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

ALLEN CHAN AND MATT DAVIS● INTERIOR DESIGNERS ●Allen Chan and Matt Davis first metwhile studying landscape architectureat U of T’s Faculty of Architecture,Landscape, and Design. But these days,they’re known for their work on the greatindoors, as co-hosts of Designer Guys, thepopular home-design show on HGTV. Eachepisode, Chan (BLA 1997), Davis (BLA 1997)and their colleague Anwar Mukhayesh transformtheir clients’ dowdy surroundings intohip, modernist spaces. Past projects haveranged from a slick makeover of a 600-square-foot bachelor-pad condo to a subtleupdate of Pierre Berton’s childhood home inthe Yukon, which is now a writers’ retreat.“Whether you study interior design, architecture,landscape architecture or graphicdesign, a lot of the core ideas can be thesame,” says Davis, 34.“So we took a lot of‘‘We’re always on the edgeof madness or insanity,” says Chan.“Everything’s about to fallover the edge.‘‘our knowledge from U of T – how we dealtwith space outside of buildings – and startedapplying it to interior spaces as well.”Chan, Davis and Mukhayesh (who attendedthe University of Western Ontario) are theprincipal partners in Precipice Studios Inc.,their Toronto-based design firm. “Precipice”was the name of Davis and Chan’s fictionaldesign firm at U of T.“[The name] is so fittingfor what we do,” says Chan, 34, who is also apart-time adjunct professor at the Faculty ofArchitecture, Landscape, and Design. The trio,after all, has dozens of design projects underwayin Canada and the U.S., and Designer Guysshoots 26 shows – each one a separate renovationproject – during a frenetic six-monthschedule. “We’re always on the edge of madnessor insanity…everything’s about to fallover the edge,” says Chan. – Graham F. ScottPHOTOGRAPHY:WESTWIND PICTURESWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 25

●LUIS JACOBVISUAL ARTIST ●Luis Jacob (BA 1996) is passionate aboutart, and wishes more of his ironicallydetached peers were, too.This summer, he’ll have a chance to convincethem.Jacob, 36, is one of two Canadian artistsasked to participate in “documenta 12,” a massivecontemporary art exhibition taking place fromJune to September in Kassel, Germany. ForJacob, it’s a rare opportunity to show his workto a huge international audience; more than650,000 people are expected to attend.The UC grad will unveil two pieces inmid-June as part of a single installation. Oneis called – take a deep breath – A Dance forThose of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice,Based on the Choreography of Françoise Sullivanand the Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth (withSign Language Supplements); the other isAlbum III, a collection of images concerningfluidity and rigidity, says Jacob.Like its title, the first work is complex,involving video and print. The central focus isa high-definition video of fellow Toronto artistKeith Cole performing an homage to Dansedans la neige (1948), a choreography byQuébécois artist and dancer Françoise Sullivan.To a viewer, the dancer comes across as ametaphor for the artist in a coldly conservativemilieu – the artist attempting to “meltour hearts.”Being passionate about one’s art is crucial toJacob, who laments the ironic detachment soprevalent in today’s art scene. His recent workhearkens back to artists of an earlier, less cynicalera. “Sullivan talked passionately about artin a way that to contemporary ears wouldsound awkward and embarrassing,” he says.“To me, it’s instructive.”Jacob was born in Lima, Peru, and immigratedto Canada with his family when hewas 10. Active in the Toronto anarchistcommunity, Jacob believes non-hierarchicalmodels of organization are the only ethicalones and tries to advance this idea in hiswork. “Activism has an important place inan art practice,” he says.Although he has been working single-mindedlyon his “documenta” piece for several months,Jacob is also well known around Toronto as a DJ– and an energetic dancer. “Dance has been anoutlet for me ever since I was old enough to go tonightclubs,” he says. “It’s a cathartic experiencethat I totally love.” – Scott AndersonPHOTOGRAPHY: RAINA+WILSON26 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

‘‘Writing stories and beingpublished was more accessible thanI’d realized. The message withcreative pursuits is always,‘It’s so hard.’‘‘MAGGIE MACDONALD ●WRITER AND MUSICIANMaggie MacDonald refuses to limit her art toa single medium.The 28-year-old UniversityCollege grad is probably best known aroundToronto as a keyboard player and backing vocalistfor the band The Hidden Cameras, but she’scurrently working on a second novel and finishingup a year as Hart House writer-in-residence.Her first book – Kill the Robot, published in2005 – has a U of T connection; she workshoppedit in a creative-writing class.At UniversityCollege’s afternoon teas, she met peoplewho had already published books.“Writingstories and being published was more accessiblethan I’d realized,” she says.“The messagewith writing and creative pursuits is always,‘It’sso hard.’ This made me realize,‘Wow, you cando these things.’”MacDonald’s can-do outlook infuses hermusical pursuits, too. She joined The HiddenCameras in 2001 – and only afterward learnedto play keyboards. She was later involved in twoother fiercely independent bands – Republic ofSafety and Barcelona Pavilion – and created therock opera The Rat King, which will be remountedat New York’s fringe festival in August.MacDonald’s new novel is very looselyinspired by her band tours, which convenientlybrings two of her passions together.“You could say I’m a writer-slash-adventurer.”– Carlyn ZwarensteinWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 27PHOTOGRAPHY: KATHRYN GAITENS

MARK SCHATZKER ● JOURNALISTJournalist Mark Schatzker (BA 1996Victoria) has flown in the back of an F-18fighter plane over Alberta during a mock airwar, scoured rural Quebec for artisanalcheese and spent five days at a swinger’s conventionin Las Vegas. But even the 33-year-oldU of T philosophy grad was awed by his latestassignment, from Condé Nast Traveler: tocircle the world in 80 days without boardinga single plane.An intrepid traveller, Schatzker saw Siberiaby rail, kayaked up Italy’s Amalfi coast andwalked across the entire country of Monaco.Avoiding air travel was a logistic challenge, butit forced him, as he puts it, to “see, feel andtaste the differences in the land.” While ridinghorseback through Mongolia, he encounterednomadic herdsmen and discussed Buddhismwith a monk.Although parts of the journey wereuncomfortable, Schatzker travelled in luxuryat times. He sped from New York to Californiain a souped-up Mercedes-Benz, visited theworld-famous five-star Raffles Hotel in Beijingand arrived back in New York City, where histrip began, after crossing the Atlantic aboardthe Queen Mary 2.Now that he’s travelled around the world,does Schatzker plan to stay in one place for awhile? Not on your life.“I experienced only athin strip of it,” he says.“There’s still so muchto see.” – Michelle KellyKATRINA MERREM ● CHOCOLATIERKatrina Merrem (BCom 1996) wason vacation in Switzerland whenshe realized that she didn’t want to goback to her old life as an accountant.And so, in the fall of 2003, she andhusband Noah Houghton, who alsoworked in the financial sector, packedup their life in Toronto and set off intheir car for the American Southwest.They settled in a suburb north ofDallas and founded Noka Chocolate,a luxury chocolate and truffles business.“I’m from a foodie family, andNoah is from an entrepreneurial family,”says Merrem, 35. “And we justkept coming back to chocolate. It’s‘‘It’s different than buyinga chocolate bar. We're talking aboutthe top five per cent of beansin the world.‘‘28 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

ZAIB SHAIKH● ACTOR ●Young big-city hotshot leavesToronto, travels west, and finds afinancially shaky but ultimatelynoble calling in a small communityof lovable eccentrics. Hilarity ensues.Are we talking about Zaib Shaikh,U of T graduate and co-founder ofthe Whistler Theatre Project inBritish Columbia? Or are we talkingabout Amaar Rashid, Shaikh’s character,the flustered imam on the CBCcomedy Little Mosque on the Prairie?Turns out it’s a bit of both.“The character is very similar,”muses Shaikh. “This big-city kid whodecides to take on something greaterthan himself.”Shaikh, 33, graduated from theUniversity of Toronto Mississauga’stheatre program in 1997, and hasworked in stage, film and televisionever since. Last year, he and twofriends started the Whistler TheatreProject in a resort town better knownfor its skiing than stagecraft. The theatrecompany’s inaugural production –A Midsummer Night’s Dream – was asomething we both really enjoy.”Noka’s handcrafted delicacies arenot for the faint of pocketbook. Thecompany’s set of two Grand Cru single-estatedark chocolate truffles (soldin a stainless steel box) fetch $45 US,which prompted the New York Times tonote that, ounce for ounce, they costmore than caviar. “It’s different thanbuying a chocolate bar,” explainsMerrem. “We’re talking about the topfive per cent of beans in the world.”In their bid to “share the NokaChocolate vision,” the couple recentlyopened stores in Tokyo and Dallas. ForMerrem, accounting seems like a distantmemory. “It’s incredible being a part ofsomething that makes so many peoplehappy,” she says. – Sarah Treleavenhit, and a second season is gearing up.And speaking of hits: LittleMosque broke the viewership recordfor a CBC-TV première andgrabbed headlines around theworld with its culture-clashcomedypremise. The showcentres on a group ofMuslims establishing amosque in small town,Saskatchewan. The mutualxenophobia, of both thetown’s white-bread populaceand its emergent Muslimcommunity, is at the coreof the show’s cultural satire.But the concept became apolitical hot potato longbefore the first episode aired.“I don’t think anyone anticipatedthe human-interest storythat we would become,” saysShaikh. “We were just tryingto do a good television showthat makes people laugh.”Turns out it did, and soLittle Mosque will also havea second season.Whether it’s bringingShakespeare to the ski slopesor comedy to the Koran,Shaikh says he wants tomake a lasting contributionto Canadian drama.“That’s very idealistic, Iknow, and potentiallynaive,” he says, “butthat’s how I got here inthe first place – bybeing idealistic andnaive. And so far, it’sworking out.”– Graham F. ScottPHOTOGRAPHY: SOPHIE GIRAUD / CBCWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 29

‘‘The laws of physicshave a ‘logical inevitability’that makes them appealing,says Arkani-Hamed.‘‘NIMA ARKANI-HAMED● THEORETICAL PHYSICIST ●PHOTOGRAPHY: STEPHANIE MITCHELL / HARVARD NEWS OFFICESome people see beauty in art, others in music. Nima Arkani-Hamed(BSc 1993) sees beauty in the laws of physics. They have a “logicalinevitability” that makes them instantly appealing, says the HarvardUniversity physics professor.The gold standard for “beauty” in physics was set by AlbertEinstein, who proposed general relativity more than 80 years ago toexplain how nature behaves at the scale of planets and galaxies.Einstein’s theory has stood the test of time, but physicists are nowtrying to figure out how to unite relativity with quantum mechanics,the set of laws that govern nature at the atomic scale.Since the 1980s, most physicists have been placing their bets onstring theory, which envisions a universe composed of tiny vibratingstrings – along with unseen extra dimensions and perhaps even otheruniverses beyond our own. Critics of this notion say these theoreticalstrings are so small – billions of times smaller than an atomic nucleus– that the theory can never be tested. But Arkani-Hamed and hisHarvard colleagues have imagined a different scenario: the extradimensions could be relatively large, maybe as big as a fraction of a millimetre.That’slarge enough to allow string theory to be tested usingparticle accelerators (such as the much-anticipated Large HadronCollider, now under construction near Geneva, Switzerland).Arkani-Hamed is eager to see what experiments at the LargeHadron Collider reveal about the subatomic world – and even moreanxious to find a theoretical framework that will embrace those discoveries.Thenew theory – whether it’s an offshoot of string theoryor something different – would be subject to scientific scrutiny lastingdecades. But Arkani-Hamed is confident that the right theorywould demonstrate the “beauty” that characterized Einstein’s discovery.“Isuspect if someone found the solution, we would all recognizeit,” he says. – Dan Falk30 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

ANDREA BRUECKNER● HANDBAG MAVEN ●RYAN PYLE● PHOTOGRAPHER●Andrea Brueckner owes LindsayLohan a favour. After theHollywood actress was photographedwith one of Brueckner’s handbags, theNew York-based designer found herwork in sudden demand. “A boutiquecalled and said they wanted the bagLindsay Lohan had,” says Brueckner.“I had no idea what they were talkingabout. It was only later that I saw thephoto in Us Weekly. It turned out tobe the piece of press that’s helped methe most.”Brueckner, 30, is no stranger to themedia – her bags were already beingfeatured in popular magazines such asLucky. After earning a bachelor ofcommerce while attending New Collegein 1999 and a bachelor of fine artsfrom New York’s prestigious FashionInstitute of Technology in 2003,Brueckner founded her eponymoushandbag line in 2004. “I pounded thepavement, going store to store, askingpeople to stock my bags,” she says. Herbackground in clothing design andattention to detail made her bags standout, and her self-designed catalogueshelped promote her products at tradeshows. Still, now that she understandsthe power of celebrity, she’s using it toher advantage: this spring she sentLohan a new bag as a gift, and theactress has already been photographedwith it. – Hilary DavidsonAsecond-year course on modernChina sparked a life-changing decisionfor photographer Ryan Pyle (BA2001 New College). After finishing a politicsdegree, he embarked on a threemonthtrip to the world’s most populouscountry, and found it so interesting hemoved there.Living in Shanghai, Pyle began taking picturesand scraped together money to buyfilm and cameras by teaching English. Hisfirst official photography job was forCathay Pacific’s in-flight magazine in 2004,shooting renovated colonial buildings inShanghai. In November 2005, the New YorkTimes commissioned Pyle, 28, to cover twostories: bird flu and the declining quality ofrural health care.Pyle and reporter Howard French travelledto Anhui province, about 500 kilometreswest of Shanghai, where they found avillage carrying out bird flu vaccinations.“The situation was a mess,” says Pyle. Untrainedmen were inoculating hundreds ofbirds with the same needle – raising the riskof spreading the flu rather than lowering it.Their story ran on the Times’ front page.On the same trip, Pyle photographed JinGuilian, a labourer who could not affordproper treatment for a heart ailment.Pyle andFrench found him lying helpless in an unheatedclinic outside the industrial city of Fuyang.The stories earned Pyle recognitionamong photography editors, and his clientsnow include the Wall Street Journal andGerman news magazine Der Spiegel. Thestories also taught him a lot about thegrowing disparity between rich and poorand the challenges of being a reporter inChina.“There is no freedom of the press,”he says.“If it weren’t for foreign journalistsand a handful of very brave local journalistswho defy the rules, there would bealmost no news about what is really happeningin China.”Pyle considers himself a serious studentof China and hopes to publish a book abouthis adopted home. “My academic work inpolitics at U of T taught me how to think,and how to see issues from different angles,”he says.“I take pictures to record a momentin history.” – Scott AndersonPHOTOGRAPHY: COURTESY RYAN PYLEWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 31

WENDY YU● MARKETING WHIZ ●popularity of the National Basketball Association is booming inChina – thanks to such star players as Yao Ming of the HoustonRockets.But the NBA also owes its surging appeal to Wendy Yu (BCom1998 Trinity), who since 2000 has been at the centre of the league’spush into the country.As the Beijing-based senior director of TV and digital media for theNBA’s China division,Yu oversees a team of 10 people in distributingNBA games, highlights and related programming to TV stations andInternet outlets. Currently 51 stations in China are broadcasting games,up to nine each week. Other major projects have been keeping Yu andher colleagues busy, too: last year saw the relaunch of the NBA’s Chinawebsite and the creation of an original show, NBA Zhi Zao (“Made inthe NBA”), focusing on local basketball stories.Yu’s path to the NBA began with the Toronto Raptors:she began followingthe team while at U of T,and soon became a dedicated fan.“I wouldgo to the games, watch them on TV and even tune in to the radio,” shesays.After graduating, she returned to Hong Kong, where she learned ofan opening in the local NBA office:“It looked to me like my dream job.”– Derek WeilerLAWRENCE HO ● CASINO TYCOONHe’s been called the “EnergizerBunny.”And it’s true – Lawrence Ho is justas vital, active and determined as ayoung business executive can be. Butthis 30-year-old is no ordinary companyman: as chairman and CEO ofMelco International DevelopmentLimited, he’s also poisedto be king in the heady world ofAsian gambling.Son of legendary casinotycoon Stanley Ho, Lawrence isnow making his own mark inMacau, an “eastern Las Vegas”located across the bay fromHong Kong. In May, he openedhis first major hotel-casino: theCrown Macau, a $580-millionUS complex featuring eightpresidential villas and a twolevelspa. Now, plans are underwayfor an even more ambitiousproject: the City of Dreams, a massive,multi-building venture centred arounda 430,000-square-foot “underwaterthemed”casino.Though firmly based in Asia, Ho isalso a Canadian citizen. Educated herefrom the age of nine, he says “it’s nosurprise” that he ended up at Uof T,where he earned a BA in 1999.“Canada is like my second home,”he says. “My wife [Sharen Lo, BA 1998Victoria, MA 1999] and I still visitand spend our vacations there everyyear – watching numerous ice-hockeygames, needless to say.”Lawrence, one of 17 children, says helearned a lot from his father, who taughthim to “never give up.” But he admitsthat the 85-year-old Stanley’s shadow islarge, and that “being his son made itmore difficult for me to prove myself.”Still, Lawrence’s many successes (whichinclude bringing Melco into profitand establishing a partnership withJames Packer, Australia’s richest man)have given him the confidence to tryanything. Including, perhaps, a casinoon ice? If anyone can do it, it’s thishockey-loving visionary with billiondollardreams. – Cynthia Macdonald32 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

JONATHAN ANSCHELL●ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER●Hold up a cellphone, and AnthonyLacavera (BASc 1997) doesn’t just seea convenient way to reach family and friends.He sees an entire pocket-sized computerthat will be able to do anything today’s topof-the-linedesktops can do – and more.And he’s not talking about the distantfuture.The 33-year-old chairman and CEOof Globalive Communications Corp., aToronto-based telecommunications companyhe co-founded in 1998, expects us tobe carrying such devices by the end of thisdecade. Or, we will be, if his company hasanything to do with it.Left your wallet at home? Pay by cellphone.Deliveringa multimedia presentationat a client’s office? Store it on your phone.“Within a few years, there will be so manyfeatures and applications on your cellphone,it really will change your life,” he says.At the moment, Globalive, which providestelecom services to both consumersand businesses, is a tiny player in a Canadian‘‘Within a few years,there will be so many featureson your cellphone it reallywill change your life.ANTHONY LACAVERA● TELECOM ENTREPRENEUR●‘‘landscape dominated by Bell, Rogers andTelus. But it’s moving up quickly, with a recentshowing on Profit magazine’s annual list ofCanada’s 100 fastest-growing companies.Lastyear, Globalive was named one of Canada’s50 best-managed companies, for the thirdconsecutive year.Lacavera’s strategy is to build Globaliveinto a major-league contender by offeringbetter customer care and innovative phone,data and wireless services tailored to customers’needs. One branch of the companyprovides telecom services specifically tohotels and hospitals.Like most entrepreneurs, Lacavera –who studied computer engineering atU of T – lives and breathes his company. Butit’s not all about the bottom line. He makestime to golf, ski, read – and fly. He’s still astudent pilot, but gets airborne every week– sometimes even flying himself to businessmeetings. “I love the feeling of freedom,”he says. – Scott AndersonWhile Janet Jackson’s breast-baringperformance during the SuperBowl halftime show in 2004 may haveleft the singer blushing, it created a majorheadache for U of T law grad JonathanAnschell (BA 1989 UC, LLB 1992).As executive vice-president and generalcounsel for CBS Television,Anschell has been engaged in a threeyearlegal battle with the FederalCommunications Commission, whichfined the network $550,000 for airingJackson’s “wardrobe malfunction.”It’s not the only job on Anschell’splate, of course. The 39-year-old Calgarynative and his team of 45 lawyers negotiatecontracts with actors, protect thenetwork’s intellectual property againstInternet piracy, and assess legal risks forepisodes of shows such as Survivor, CSI,and 60 Minutes. Anschell says Survivorrequires special care. “We’re always tryingto strike an appropriate balancebetween keeping the participants safeand putting them into exciting situationsthat make for good television.”Because of his work, Anschell hasrubbed shoulders with a lot of celebrities,but one meeting in particularstands out. “The first year I went to theEmmy Awards, I was seated immediatelybehind David Shore, the creatorof House,” he says. After Shore acceptedhis trophy for Outstanding Writing fora Drama Series and returned to his seat,Anschell tapped him on the shoulder,and the two chatted about somethingthey had in common. No, not television:U of T law school. – Micah ToubWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 33PHOTOGRAPHY:RIGHT, COURTESY OF CBS TELEVISION

LOVE StoryBY RASHA MOURTADAF I C T I O N W I N N E RPHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID CLIFFORDThe winners of the U of T MagazineAlumni Short Story and Poetry Contest areRasha Mourtada, for her work of fiction“Love Story,” and Carleton Wilson, for hispoem “Smart Girls Writing SomethingCatch the Eye at Once” (see page 37).Mourtada and Wilson each received $1,000.LAILA IBRAHIM ROSE EARLY, HER FEEThitting the cool marble floorbefore the sun’s first rays filledthe sky. The imam had justmade the call to prayer, his voice settlingover the quiet city, like a crisp sheetfalling over an empty bed.She wasn’t surprised to find that herhusband wasn’t sleeping at her side. Amirwould be stretched out on the couch inthe living room. She walked quickly pasthim, not needing to look his way to seehim lying there in his stained pajamas,his glasses askew across his face.“Wake up, Amir!” she called. She heard him grunt.Laila went into the kitchen to begin preparing thatafternoon’s lunch.“Ya Amir!” she shouted. Amir shifted on the couch.“What did you do with last night’s meat?” She was standingabove him, her hands on her hips, an orange apronaround her waist. “I can’t find it. Did you hide it somewhereto feed to those wretched cats?” Laila sighed. How manytimes had she told Amir only to give scraps to the strays?There were people – children – without enough to eat, andthere was Amir, kneeling on the filthy sidewalk, pressing dustinto his good pants, feeding leg of lamb to the cats.Amir finally spoke, his voice gruff with sleep. “I can’t believehow petty you are. Do you seriously think I have nothing betterto do than steal meat from your kitchen?”Laila left the room without replying. When she found theleg of lamb in the very back of the fridge, she didn’t tell Amir.SHE HAD FIRST NOTICED HIMin the bazaar, where he workedin his father’s dress shop. Hermother would drag her intothe store every Eid. The monthof fasting was behind themand the holiday about tobegin. Each year they’d walkthrough the narrow and windingDamascus streets to thedress shop, a mother with heronly daughter following closelyat her side.“Everything is pink this year?”her mother asked. Her tone madeit clear she was not impressed. Thestorekeeper, Bashar Ibrahim,spread one dress open afteranother on the counter before her.Laila was 14 that year and likedpink, but she didn’t say anything.“But, madame, pink is thefashion,” Bashar said. “It is what all the young girls are wearingthese days.” He smiled at Laila.“Fine. Pink it is then. The one in the window.”“Amir! Get down here,” shouted Bashar. His son came intothe room, a lock of black hair falling into his eyes.“Yes, Baba?” he asked.“Get the lady the dress in the window in pink. Thesize, madame?”Her mother made a big show of getting her to stand in themiddle of the store and turn around in front of the angledmirrors. “I don’t know, Bashar. You tell me what you think. Iswear, this one is getting bigger each day but can I get her tolay off the bread? Never. No man will marry you, I keeptelling her, if you turn into a fatty!”Bashar laughed and Laila noticed Amir looking at her. Hequickly looked away when their gazes locked. Laila, her cheeksflushed with embarrassment, wished he had not.34 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

AMIR WAS STILL PASSED OUT ON THE COUCH, EVEN THOUGH ITwas well after 10 a.m. She wondered how many pills he’d takenthe night before. There’d be no point in asking, because he’donly make some snide remark and deny it and then they’d fight.She had lunch to prepare; there was no time for fighting.Still in her nightgown, a piece of cloth holding her hairback, Laila went back to her chopping.AMIR IBRAHIM KNEW THAT NO MATTER WHAT HE DID WITHhis life, the one thing he would not do would be sell dresses.He’d seen the way customers talked to his father, never lookinghim in the eye, like he was some kind of servant.That’s why the summer he graduated from high schoolhe told his father that he would not be helping at the dressshop any more.Bashar Ibrahim was quiet at first.He paused to look at his son, then helooked straight ahead.Finally he spoke. “You are myonly son. The dress shop will beyours one day.”“I’m not interested in the dress shop,Baba,” Amir said. He was trying to begentle; he didn’t want to make his fatherangry. Ever since Amir’s mother had diedseven years before, he’d done everythinghe could not to upset his father. Eventoday, grief filled his father’s eyes.Bashar didn’t speak to his son for16 days. He wasn’t a man who gotwhat he wanted by force. His tacticwas guilt and he knew his silencewould hurt Amir more than anythingelse he could have done.But when Amir’s decision held firm,Bashar decided to accept it. What choicedid he have?One evening, after a 12-hour day at the shop, he calledAmir into the kitchen.“Tomorrow, you’ll go help Khaled at the pharmacy.”“What?” Amir asked.“It’ll be good for you to interact with men in the community.Don’t argue,” his father said, even though Amir hadn’tobjected. “Tomorrow, you go.”So Amir had begun work the very next day. At first hestocked shelves and counted out change. But then one day,when Khaled’s assistant was away, Amir helped dispense pills.“You know, you’re pretty good at this,” Khaled said to him atthe end of the day. Khaled had been their neighbour for 18 years.Amir had loved going to his house, where Khaled’s wife alwayshad something in the kitchen that she’d offer Amir. Milk puddinglaced with rosewater, sesame cookies or even just hot tea.The next day, when Amir arrived at work, Khaled handedhim a white jacket, just like the one he wore behind the pharmacycounter every day. Amir held it in his hands. There wasa hole near the elbow and a coffee stain on the front, but tohim, the boxy white jacket couldn’t have been more perfect.“MERHABA! WELCOME!” ANNOUNCED LAILA, AMIR BEHIND HER,when she answered the front door. It was Amir’s cousin. She’dbeen ignoring her husband all day as she cooked – but, still,she noticed he wasn’t steady on his feet and his eyes were glassy.Laila had left her husband seven times over the pills duringtheir 15 years of marriage. But each time Amir promisedher he was finished with the pills and she returned. So muchtime had passed, so many years of making excuses for him,of spending nights alone while he lay practically unconsciousin the next room, that Lailareally didn’t know what sheHer mothermade a big showof getting herto standin the middleof the store andturn aroundin frontof the angledmirrorscould do now, today, that wouldchange anything.“What’s happened to you,Sayid!” said Amir. “I see youonce a year and each time, you’retwice the size!”Laila cringed at her husband’sinsensitivity. But when she lookedat Sayid, she could see he wasright. The man was fat.“You’re telling me!” said Sayidto Amir. “The doctor says thatone of these days I’m going toreach around to wipe my ass, andmy heart’s going to stop. Lose100 pounds or you will have aheart attack, he says to me, likeit’s the easiest thing in the world.”Amir ushered his guest intothe formal sitting room.“My dear Laila, have you got a couple of cushions? A bigman like me could use a little bit of support,” said Sayid,chuckling.“Of course!” she said cheerfully, as if all of her guests askedfor a little something soft to place beneath them when theyvisited. She left the room and came back with two pillows.He placed them on top of each other on the settee and thenlowered himself on to them.Laila left the room to put lunch on the table. When she’dlaid it all out, she called to them: “What? You’re going to letme eat all of this food myself? You better come in here if youwant your share!”Sayid entered the room and took in the table. He’d alwaysloved Laila’s kibbeh (“Tell me, ya Laila, how do you know tomake the kibbeh just the way I like it? Not too oily, not toodry. Just right”). He sat himself in front of the dish, anotherpillow beneath him.WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 35

F I C T I O N W I N N E R“Ya Laila, ya Laila, you can’t imagine how I’ve looked forwardto this,” he said to her, leaning in and taking a deep breath.WHEN LAILA AND AMIR HAD FIRST MARRIED, LAILA TAUGHTEnglish at the American School. Amir spent his days countingpills behind the pharmacist’s counter. Their life was modest.But she looked forward to the end of each day, to spending theevening with her husband.She’d been devastated at first when she couldn’t have children.They tried for eight years. Every month, when she emerged fromthe bathroom crying, the stream of red vivid in her mind, Amirheld her and told her that they didn’t need children to be happy.Their blessing in life was to have each other, and for him, thatwas enough. But, Laila realized, for her it wasn’t.Eventually Amir began to look away when he noticed hertears. He’d stare straight ahead at the TV and she’d cry silentlybeside him. After a while, he turned to her less and less in bed,and soon they stopped trying for a baby altogether.One day, after they’d been married for 10 years, she beganto notice bottles of pills in Amir’s briefcase. I’m just deliveringthose to a customer tomorrow morning, he’d tell her, or I musthave put them in there by accident. She didn’t question him.But soon he was heading to bed as soon as he set foot in theapartment, barely grazing her forehead with his lips as hegreeted her. The first time she noticed his glassy eyes andclammy skin, she thought he was sick. She leaned in to kiss hisforehead to see if he felt warm and he pushed her away, so hardthat she nearly lost her balance and fell to the ground.Later, when he thought she was busy watering the plants,she saw him lean into his briefcase and then swallow a few pills.The glassy eyes, clammy skin, incoherent speech, hot temper.It all made sense. He’d been taking pills – painkillers, she’d laterdiscover – for months.She cried, begged, threatened. He’d cry with her sometimes.But a day or two later, he’d take more.AMIR COULDN’T REMEMBER HOW HE’D COME TO THIS PLACE,sitting across from a fat man and a shrill woman. His head hurtand he needed to lie down. But the woman kept looking at himangrily. So angrily. He couldn’t give her what she wanted. That’swhy she stared at him like this, full of accusation. But hecouldn’t think about that. He had to eat the food in front of him.The fat man was looking at the woman. His woman.Amir thought he might throw up. He left the table, wentinto the bathroom and leaned over the toilet. He rememberednow that he’d taken three pills earlier in the day, just to helphim get through his cousin’s visit.After what felt like a long time, he splashed water on his faceand returned to the table.WHEN SAYID HAD LEFT, LAILA BROUGHT AMIR HIS LAST CUP OFtea of the evening. He’d barely spoken a word to her all day.When she looked at him, sitting there in his raggedypajamas, a man with nothing to look forward to, any angerTHE RUNNERS-UPMartin Kofsky (BA 1974 UC, BEd 1975 OISE/UT, MA 1977,MEd 1983, EdD 1996) won second place in the short storycontest for “Of Schumann and Sheep Skulls.” Kofsky recentlyretired after teaching English at high schools for more than30 years, and is working on a collection of stories drawn fromhis teaching experiences. Read “Of Schumann and SheepSkulls” online at www.magazine.utoronto.ca.Brigid Elson (BA 1961 St. Mike’s, MA 1963, BEd 1971 OISE/UT,PhD 1973) is runner-up in the poetry contest for “France August1992.” Elson’s doctorate is in French literature.THE JUDGESSHORT STORY CONTESTElaine Stirling is the author of 10 novels and several shortstories. She teaches creative writing at the University ofToronto’s School of Continuing Studies and writes a weeklycolumn,“Third Revolution,” at www.elainestirling.com.James Grainger is a contributing editor to Quill & Quire anda books columnist for the Toronto Star. He is the co-author ofWhy I Didn’t Say Anything:The Sheldon Kennedy Story (2006). Hisfirst book of stories, The Long Slide, won the 2005 ReLit Award.Scott Anderson is the editor of U of T Magazine. He waspreviously editor of Quill & Quire and a contributor to CBC’sMidday book club.POETRY CONTESTIan Lancashire teaches in the English department at theUniversity of Toronto, edits Representative Poetry Onlineat http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca, and believes that everyoneshould write poems.Simon J. Ortiz, an Indigenous poet-writer from NewMexico, is a professor of English at Arizona State Universityin Tempe,Arizona. He is the author of several books of poetry,including Out There Somewhere (2002), After and Before theLightning (1994) and Woven Stone (1992).Sonnet L’Abbé is the author of two collections ofpoetry: Killarnoe (2007) and A Strange Relief (2001), bothpublished by McClelland & Stewart. She teaches writing atU of T’s School of Continuing Studies, and reviews poetryfor Canadian Literature and the Globe and Mail.36 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

P O E T R Y W I N N E Rshe felt subsided and she was overwhelmed with pity.“Are you going to come to bed, habibi?” she asked.“You think I’m going to come to bed with you? After whatyou did in my house today?”Laila stared at him. This wasn’t the first time he’d turned onher after his pills had worn off.“Of course, she’s pretending like she doesn’t know what I’mtalking about.”“What are you talking about, Amir?” The moment hadpassed; the rage had returned.“I’m talking about Sayid.”“Sayid? What about Sayid?”“I saw the way he talked to you. Ya Laila, ya Laila,” he said,his voice high-pitched.She looked at him in disbelief. “What are you saying?”“Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about,” heraised his voice.“Listen, Amir, we both know you’re not in your right mind.Let’s not discuss this now,” she said quietly.“We’ll discuss it when I say we’ll discuss it! I can’t believethat man, coming into my house, eating my food and talkingthat way to my wife. Does he think I’m blind? I’m deaf? Youthink I didn’t see the way you smiled at him, the way youlaughed at his jokes.”“Sayid is your cousin. Sayid puts cushions under his ass he’sso fat. You think I want to have an affair with Sayid?”“After 15 years, this is how you treat your husband? Whore.”He spat the words at her.Laila Ibrahim stared at her husband for a moment, then roseto her feet and left the room.WHEN AMIR WOKE THE NEXT DAY AND DISCOVERED HIS WIFEhad left, he looked around for something to eat. He was starving.All he could find was some meat in the fridge; he ate it standingover the sink, cold, saving a piece for the cats downstairs.At first he couldn’t remember what he’d done to make herso angry, and then pieces of their conversation last night cameback to him. Sayid. Affair. Whore. Had he really said thosethings to Laila?She’d be back, he knew. But something about her departurethis time felt different. No clean towels in the bathroom, nofood stacked in plastic containers in the fridge. He wonderedif he should go after her.But as Amir sat in the quiet apartment alone, a bottle of pillsin his hand, he realized he didn’t want to follow Laila.He swallowed a few pills, turned on the TV and fell asleep.Rasha Mourtada (BA 1998 New College) hasa degree in English from the University ofToronto and a degree in journalism from RyersonUniversity. She lives in Toronto and worksas a web editor at the Globe and Mail. Shecannot make kibbeh, but wishes she could.SMART GIRLSWRITING SOMETHINGCATCH THE EYE AT ONCE– for AlisonBy Carleton WilsonBeen three years since and I can still picture youat that table in Robarts Library, framed before awindow, the late spring campus a distant smudgedropping past your left shoulder. Maybe I’d gonedownstairs for a quick coffee or to make a phone call,but climbing back up into the stacks I caught, just intime, you giving yourself a little hug against the duskgathering outside. Then you started writing again,head bowed to the page, wisps of hair falling freefrom the bundle loose about the nape of your neck.What was it I wanted to tell you then but couldn’t?Maybe that, when I found you like this, I thoughtof all the afternoons we’d spent together in Ned’s afterclass, how it made me smile each time you’d insist thatwe get our coffee in glass mugs instead of Styrofoamcups (the environment!); or our late-night conversationsin Fran’s, most times more silence than talk, how you’dcarefully choose songs on the jukebox then sit acrossfrom me, and I’d watch your eyebrows wrinkle withconcentration, as your fingers intently fidgeted away,and wonder how you could be so truly wonderfullycaptivated by a sugar packet. Maybe this was whatI wanted to tell you then but couldn’t; instead, justsat back down without a word and watched youtuck the stray strand of hair behind your ear, thenbite your bottom lip and frown slightly. This is howI want to remember you: writing up in the stacksat Robarts Library, not even noticing my return fora few moments, until you look up at me and smile.Carleton Wilson (BA 2000 Innis) has anhonours degree in English. He is the publisherand editor of Junction Books, and thepoetry editor for Nightwood Editions. In1998, he was awarded the E.J. PrattMedal in Poetry for “Junction Sonnets.”WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 37

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GreatGiftsHal JackmanDoubles Gift tothe HumanitiesPHOTOGRAPHY: LAURA ARSIÈAnew $15-million gift by the HonourableHenry N. R. Jackman will double acommitment he made five years ago to thehumanities at the University of Toronto.The $30-milliontotal donation is the largest gift to the humanitiesfrom an individual that has ever been made toa Canadian university. Double-matched by the university,it effectively triggers a $90.5-million increasein investment in U of T’s humanities departments.“What is perhaps more significant than my giftis the fact that the university is allocating over$60 million in additional funding.This funding willhelp establish a level of excellence that would nototherwise be possible,” says Jackman (BA 1953Victoria, LLB 1956).“A further motivation is thestrong commitment to the humanities of my family.My wife, Maruja, taught humanities at both theUniversity of Toronto and York University.All myfive children have post-graduate degrees in thehumanities and two of them teach humanitiesat universities.”Maruja Jackman (BA 1959 Trinity, MA 1963) saysthe humanities are crucial to a comprehensiveeducation because they shape how people engage ascitizens.“By examining the cultural, historical, philosophicaland creative dimensions of human experience,the humanities help us to understand betterthe diversity and complexity of our world.”In 2002, the Jackmans donated $15 million to thehumanities, which was double-matched by the universityto create a $45-million endowment to supportacademic chairs, graduate scholarships, facultyresearch fellowships and a program for the arts.Thenew gift is similarly matched.Part of the new gift will establish the JackmanHumanities Building, through extensive renovationof the Medical Arts Building. Located on thenorthwest corner of St. George Street and BloorStreet West, the art deco building will house someContinued on page 40WWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 39

GreatGiftsContinued from page 39of the university’s key humanities departmentsand centres.Another portion of the funds will createthe Jackman Humanities Institute, providingit with the equivalent of a $22-millionendowment.This endowment will strengthenU of T’s ability to recruit top graduatestudents in the humanities by setting up agraduate fellowship fund. It will also supportresearch and teaching at the JackmanHumanities Institute.“The humanities are – and have alwaysbeen – central to U of T’s mission of teachingand research excellence,” says David Naylor,president of the University of Toronto.“Weare grateful to the Honourable and Mrs.Jackman for their vision and their generosity.”Jackman, who served as chancellor ofthe University of Toronto from 1997 to2003, is a former lieutenant-governor ofOntario and the honorary chairman of E-LFinancial Corporation Ltd. He is chairman ofThe Hal Jackman Foundation and the J.P.Bickell Foundation. – Diana KuprelMs Patten’s OpusMusic has been animportant partof graduationceremonies at U of T sincethe Casavant Opus 474organ was first installedin Convocation Hall almost100 years ago. But decadesof playing have left theimpressive instrument in needof major repairs – and benefactorsto contribute to restoration efforts.Earlier this year, Rose Patten, chair ofGoverning Council, committed $100,000 tothe cause.“The organ is a rare instrument -one of a handful of its kind - and an essentialpart of the convocation tradition,” shesays.“This gift should help ensure that thetradition continues.” Covering roughly halfof the project’s costs, Ms Patten’s donation,combined with other funds,will ensure that the organ isfully operational in time forspring 2008 convocations.As chair, Patten has noofficial role at convocation,but says she tries to attendas many ceremonies as possibleeach year.The refurbishment of theorgan is part of a broadercampaign to restore Convocation Hall inhonour of its 100 th anniversary this year.The U of T Alumni Association kicked offthe campaign in 2005, with a $500,000 gift.Anyone who pledges $1,907 can have adedication inscribed on a seat plaque.Including the UTAA’s initial contribution, atotal of $1.2 million has been raised so far.– Scott AndersonRose Patten40 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

PHOTOGRAPHY: COURTESY OF ROBERT RODENMembers of Delta Tau Deltain front of their house onSt. George Street, circa 1960Band of BrothersAfraternity that operated at U of Tfor almost 90 years has acknowledgedits long-standing ties tothe university with a gift to support scholarshipsfor incoming students.Delta Tau Delta was a fixture on campusfor much of the 20 th century, occupyingtwo houses on St. George Street inthe 1960s and, after the university expropriatedthose, one on Madison Avenue.At Delta Tau Delta’s peak in the early1960s, as many as 15 fraternity brothersslept at the house, while another 25 atemeals and socialized there. For many, theexperience was life-changing. “The fraternitycreated bonds of friendship thatcontinue to survive after almost 50years,” says Robert Roden (BASc 1960,MA 1961), a Delta Tau Delta member.Fraternity brother Richard Harris (BA1975 Victoria) agrees. “It was a core partof our university experience.”Delta Tau Delta’s fortunes changed inthe 1990s as fraternities fell out of favourand membership declined; as a result thegroup found it increasingly difficult tocover the costs of maintaining its property.The U of T chapter closed in 1992,sold the house on Madison and investedthe proceeds.In 2005, Delta Tau Delta alumnivoted to use the investment to set up ascholarship at U of T. “Our collectiveview was that the university had beenvery good to us,” says Harris. “We wantedto give back to the university and tofuture generations.”A donation of $180,000 will bematched by the Ontario Trust for StudentSupport to create an endowment of$360,000. The funds will likely supportthree annual scholarships for first-yearstudents at any of the university’s threecampuses. – Scott AndersonOut of the BlueBible says,“Ask and you shallTHE receive,” but Peter Wyattnever dreamed raising money for EmmanuelCollege would be quite that straightforward.At a dinner last autumn to launch afundraising campaign for theological educationand congregational leadership, theEmmanuel College principal posed a challengeto his 80 guests: raise $1.5 million fora single endowed chair.Much to his surprise, Rev. Jane Brushey-Martin (BMus 1972, BEd 1973, MDiv 2002)and her husband, Geoff Martin (BMus1971), called the very next day to say thatthey would provide the entire amount.“I thought,‘Hallelujah!’” says Wyatt.“Itwas quite out of the blue.”The decision surprised Brushey-Martin,too.“There comes a moment in our lives,at least for some of us, when a voice deepinside us prompts us to do something wehad previously never considered,” she says.Hearing Rev.Wyatt speak at the dinnerwas her catalyst.“It was as if someone hadlit a fire in my soul.”The Martins’ gift prompted Wyatt toraise the bar; he’s now seeking an additional$5 million to fund two moreendowed chairs – in church music andtheology of religions – and scholarshipsfor doctoral students.With church attendance declining inCanada,Wyatt says graduates of EmmanuelCollege need to be able to touch the constituenciesthey serve with greater imaginationand power.“It takes a more entrepreneurialstyle of ministry,” he says.Wyatt hopes the campaign will raise thecollege’s profile and make theological educationattractive for more people.“I see thecampaign unfolding as when a pebble isthrown into a pond,” he says.“The pebble isthe energy to endow a chair.As this newsspreads, more people will be touched, freshthoughts about theological education willripple out and the number of candidatesexcited about the challenge of leadershipwill grow.” – Scott Anderson and Carrie BrodiWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 41

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llumniNotesAP ROFILES•NEWS•EVENTS•CALENDARThe CabbagePatch KidLast year, Mike Wood (BASc 2003)performed at the World BuskersFestival in Christchurch, NewZealand, catching a catapulted cabbage ontop of his head with a spiked motorcyclehelmet. He has performed throughoutCanada, and in countries such as Ireland,Belgium and Spain. Now an investmentanalyst in London, England,Wood isbreaking into the city’s comedy scene.Writer Graham F. Scott spoke withhim by phone. Continued on page 44PHOTOGRAPHY: CHRIS GOVIASWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 43

AlumniNotesPHOTOGRAPHY:TOP, GRAHAM F. SCOTT; CENTRE, DOUG FORSTERContinued from page 43Where did the idea for your actcome from?I put myself through university as a streetperformer. In the early days I was a juggler,and my partner and I would juggle fivebowling balls between the two of us. It’shard to start juggling five 10-pin bowlingballs.The fifth bowling ball needed tocome in from somewhere, so I built thislittle coffee table–sized catapult with afriend from engineering.When my jugglingpartner left, I had a delicious prop withwhich to experiment.Why a cabbage?A melon is too messy; an endive is toosmall and it flies like a badminton birdie.Lettuce explodes on impact. In the end,after destroying easily a dozen differentvegetables, I settled on cabbage. It’s roughlyspherical, it’s available everywhere, it’scheap and it’s easy to spike.How did you discover that you hadthis talent?I think everybody has this talent, but noteverybody has a catapult. It’s not particularlyhard, I just thought of it first.How much do you usually makein an evening?Well, that’s something that street performersdon’t like to discuss. It’s certainlyenough to put gas in the Ferrari – let’s leaveit at that.I notice you use the term “streetperformer.” Is “busker” no longerfashionable? Is it pejorative?I don’t know that it’s pejorative. I thinkthat “street performer” is more descriptive.Because most people, if you say theword “busker” – you know,“my daughter’sboyfriend is a busker” – they think,“oh, he’s homeless but he still owns aguitar and a hat.” So for me, to preventhaving to explain myself over and overagain, I just say street performer, andpeople get the idea.What’s your annual cabbage budget?Last year, I deducted $478 worth ofcabbages on my taxes.Our Dinner with HarveyAlumnus Harvey Botting hosts a “Dinner with 12 Strangers” for new U of T studentsDon’t talk to strangers, the childhooddictum goes. U of T students,however, aren’t just talkingto strangers now – they’re sittingdown to dinner with them.Over the past few months, the departmentof alumni affairs in the division ofuniversity advancement has been organizing“Dinner with 12 Strangers” – a programthat brings together U of T students,alumni and professors for informaldinner parties. The concept is based on atradition from UCLA, which threw thefirst such dinner in 1968. Theidea then, as now, was to makea large campus smaller for newstudents by fostering friendships.Dinners will take placethroughout the school year,and will eventually involvemost colleges and faculties.On this particular March evening, 10people sit around the table in the candlelitdining room of Harvey Botting (BA1967, MBA 1985), a U of T AlumniAssociation board member and a formersenior vice-president with Rogers Media.Professor Margot Mackay (Dip AAMed1966, BSc 1967) of medicine is the facultyguest, and cookbook author BonnieStern (BA 1969) is pouring the (non-alcoholic)sangria when the students arrive.The conversation is hesitant at first,as the students figure out each others’majors, years of study and colleges. Butover the shaved fennel and orange salad,the conversation loosens up as the talkturns to the current state of Chinese cinema(several of the guests are internationalstudents from China), where toget the best ice cream and the vagaries ofhunting for a summer job. By the timethe remnants of the tiramisu sit beforeeach guest, the chatter flows freely.It’s Stern who sums up the evening aseveryone sips their tea and coffee and thecandles burn low. The group has beendiscussing restaurants again – with oneof the country’s foremost cooking pros atthe table, it’s a popular topic – and thebest places in the city to sample Japanese,Chinese, Indian, Hungarianand Mexican cooking. “Toronto’sreally changed fromwhen we were at university,”she says. “The whole food culturehas developed tremendously.Now you can get anyfood in the world here.” Thediversity of the city, like the university,has blossomed – and this evening, withits globe-trotting conversation and easyrapport, is one more reminder of that.Soon enough, the cabs arrive to takethe students back to campus, and amida chaos of coats and backpacks, e-mailaddresses are hastily scribbled andexchanged. Ambling down the frontwalk, the students call goodbyes andthanks to their host, and pile into thewaiting taxis, strangers no more.Alumni interested in hosting a “Dinnerwith 12 Strangers” can call (416) 946-8371, or visit www.alumni.utoronto.ca/stayconnected/volunteer_dinner.html.– Graham F. ScottBonnie Stern44 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

Raymond MoriyamaCanada Post issued a commemorative stampfeaturing the Ontario Science Centre, designed byINMay,architect Raymond Moriyama (BArch 1954) in1969. The stamp was one of four issued to celebrate the RoyalAccoladesArchitectural Institute of Canada’s 100 th anniversary.Moriyama, one of Canada’s most respected architects, foundedMoriyama & Teshima Architects in 1958, and was partner incharge of projects such as the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo andthe Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.Seven alumni and one student have been appointed to theOrder of Canada, the country’s highest distinction for lifetimeachievement. Appointed as officers were: Ross Campbell(BA 1940 Trinity), senior counsel, GPC/Intercon;Arthur Hiller (BA 1947 UC, MA 1950), director of suchfilms as Love Story and Man of La Mancha; and ProfessorJaymie Matthews (BSc 1979 New College) of the Universityof British Columbia. Namedmembers of the order were Craig Kielburger,founder and chair of Free theChildren; Hanna Newcombe (MA 1946,PhD 1950), peace activist and researcher;Mark Rowswell (BA 1988 UC), one ofChina’s most popular entertainers; RobertStephens (MD 1947), director of Health Partners Internationalof Canada; and Setsuko Thurlow (BSc 1956, MSW1960), Hiroshima survivor, writer and peace activist.PHOTOGRAPHY: BOTTOM, ROXANA OLIVERA; TOP CEENTRE: CANADA POST CORPORATION (2007). REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSIONGordon Cressy Leadership AwardsThis year,on the 13 th anniversary of the Khartoum government.help to spread awarenessabout Darfur.”Gordon Cressy Leadership Awards, When Gann was not153 students received recognition for busy organizing demonstrationsAmong the manytheir exceptional contributions to the university.Thecelebration at the Isabel Bader Theatreon March 1 was marked by a severe winterstorm and a second ceremony was heldon April 18 at Wycliffe College. GordonCressy, a former vice-president at U of T, wason hand to present the awards.At the reception on March 1, EleanoreGann - a French major at Innis College - wasone of the honoured students. Gann is bestknown for her work as founder and presidentor fundraiserson campus,she was runningletter-writing campaignsto the prime minister.Last November,after seeing footage ofthe devastation in Darfur,Gann assembled thecookbook Cooking for aCause: Darfur Activism inYour Kitchen. She sold allEleanore Gannother honoured studentswere AnneleenNaudts, who served aspresident of the VictoriaUniversity EnvironmentalSociety and initiatedThe Human Bean,a student-runfair-trade caféat Victoria;Michael Maksimowski,a psychologyand zoology major whoof the U of T chapter of Students TakingAction Now: Darfur (STAND), Canada’s200, and then donated the proceeds toMédecins Sans Frontières.“It meant a lot to mevolunteered with Peace by Peace, whichtrains university students to teach Grade 5largest Darfur advocacy organization. to receive the award in the company of friends children how to peacefully resolve conflict;Between 200,000 and 400,000 people havelost their lives in the region since 2003,as partof an ethnic-cleansing campaign backed by theand staff from my college, because Innis has awarm community that fosters student involvement,”says Gann.“And I hope the award willand Tasleem Murji, who represented U of T’s800 medical students as president of theMedical Society. - Roxana OliveraWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 45

CalendarALUMNI EVENTSbeginning and growth of modern architecture$5;$3 for seniors.Tuesday to Friday,12-5 p.m.;June 8. Victoria and the Island Branchin Canada.The photographs on display captureSaturday, 12-4 p.m. 15 King’s College Circle.Annual Dinner and General Meeting.the postwar Canadian dream – a sophisticated,(416) 978-1838, www.utoronto.ca/artcentreGuest speaker: Dr. Richard Beamish, U of Tleisurely and urbane lifestyle. Free admission.grad and senior scientist at Nanaimo’s PacificMonday to Friday,9 a.m.-5 p.m.The Eric ArthurBlackwood Gallery, U of T Mississauga: FreeBiological Station. Dinner, $35. Receptionadmission. Monday to Friday, and Sunday, 1-4and cocktails: 6 p.m. Dinner: 6:30 p.m. Mainp.m.3359 Mississauga Rd.N.(905) 828-3789 ordining room, University Club, University ofwww.blackwoodgallery.caVictoria. Contact Beverley Straub Watkins,(250) 370-2830.OUTDOORSU of T ScarboroughJune 18. U of T Alumni AssociationJune 20, July 12, week of Aug. 13. GreenAnnual General Meeting. Speaker: Dr.Initiatives Gardening Event. June 20: 11Maria Shapiro. 5:30 p.m. Hart House. Fora.m.-1 p.m.July 12:1 p.m.-3 p.m.Week of Augustmore information, contact Sabrina Chang at13: time t.b.a. Front entrance of the Arts &(416) 978-5881 or sm.chang@utoronto.ca.June 23. 10 th Anniversary SOAR BC Celebrationfor Southern Ontario AlumniFabergé Plant, 1950, from “Mid-Century Icons:ArchitecturalPhotography from the PandaCollection” at the Eric Arthur GalleryAdministration Building. www.utsc.utoronto.caCINEMAJune 15, July 19,Aug. 10, Sept. 12. Pictures inReunion.Cocktails:6-7 p.m.Dinner and danc-the Parking Lot.The University of Torontoing: 7 p.m. Business/formal attire. $85/person;Gallery,Faculty of Architecture,Landscape,andMississauga is holding several nights of cinema$150/couple; $600/table (seats 8). Main ball-Design. 230 College St. (416) 978-5038,under the stars to celebrate its 40 th anniver-room,Renaissance Hotel,1133 West Hastingsenquiry.ald@utoronto.ca,www.ald.utoronto.casary year. Free. For updated information onSt.,Vancouver. www.soarbc.cathis event, and other 40 th anniversary events,To June 17.Projections is the first major sur-visit www.utm.utoronto.ca/40thanniversary.EXHIBITIONSvey to trace projection-based installation inThomas Fisher Rare Book Librarycontemporary art in Canada from the lateCAMPSTo Aug. 31. The Age of Guessing is1960s to the present. The exhibition is dis-July and August.The Faculty of Applied Sci-Passed Away. This exhibition forms part ofplayed across four U of T galleries: the Black-ence and Engineering is offering SCI-Campthe continent-wide commemoration of thewood Gallery at UTM, the Doris McCarthy(grades 1 to 6) and Jr. DEEP (grades 7 andbicentennials (2007-2011) of David Thomp-Gallery at UTSC, and the U of T Art Centre8), which bring scientific and engineering con-son, who has been called “the greatest prac-and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery on thecepts to life during week-long day camps.PHOTOGRAPHY: PANDA PUSHPAMALA ASSOCIATES, N. CANADIAN ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYtical land geographer that the world has produced.”Thompson’s writings will be featuredin an examination of the fur trade’s role inthe mapping of Canada. Monday to Friday,9 a.m-5 p.m. 120 St. George St. (416) 978-5285, www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/exhibitions/current.htmlThe Faculty of Architecture, Landscape,and DesignTo Aug. 4. Mid-Century Icons: ArchitecturalPhotography from the Panda Collectionexplores the relationship betweenarchitectural photography and the study andpractice of architecture; often a photo is thefirst and only impression we have of a building.Panda Associates, a commercial photographyfirm, played a major role in documenting thedowntown campus.All of the works involveprojection, whether in the form of light, slides,film, video or television.Justina M.Barnicke Art Gallery:Free admission.Monday to Friday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday andSunday, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. 7 Hart House Circle.(416) 978-8398, www.utoronto.ca/galleryDoris McCarthy Gallery, U of T Scarborough:Free admission.Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m.-4p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m. 1265 Military Trail.(416) 287-7007, dmg@utsc.utoronto.ca orwww.utsc.utoronto.ca/dmgU of T Art Centre.Students,U of T staff and faculty,and Art Centre members are offered freeadmission with valid ID. General admission isEach course focuses on a different topic, suchas the solar system, the human body andaerodynamics. Camps start July 2 and rununtil August 24.DEEP provides high school students (grades9 to 12) the opportunity for advanced study inareas within engineering, science, business andtechnology. From biomedical engineering to a“mini MBA,” DEEP offers one of the mostdiverse ranges of pre-university courses inNorth America.All courses are taught on theSt. George campus. For a complete universityexperience,a residence option is also available.DEEP runs from July 9 to August 3.For more information about SCI-Camp,Jr.DEEPor DEEP, visit www.engineering.utoronto.ca46 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

Campus S toriesAfter theLast ExamAlumni “call it a day”as summer nearsILLUSTRATION: FRANCIS BLAKE/THREE IN A BOXUSE THE FORCE!In the late 1970s, there was a fad called“pyramid power.” The idea was to puta pyramid-shaped object in a place youthought required positive energy and,through some unknown force, itwould give you extra insight or luck.Even the Toronto Maple Leafs tried itduring the playoffs one year when RedKelly was coach.My second-year organic chemistrycourse had been very tough, and Iknew I needed help if I was going topass. I brought my molecular modelkit to the final exam, but, instead ofusing the little tubes and connectors tobuild molecules, I designed myself apyramid-shaped hat and put it on.Somehow, the pyramid conveyed specialpowers into my brain and I passedthe exam. (And the hat looked verynice according to those around me.)Not wanting to tempt fate, I gave thekit to a first-year student and avoidedorganic chemistry from then on.Clayton BabcockBSc 1981 UTMTorontoA TELEVISION FIRSTAfter graduating from engineering in1952, I got a summer job with GeneralElectric installing audio transmissionequipment at the new CBC station inToronto. The TV station – Canada’sfirst – was scheduled to begin broadcastingthat September.When I had time to spare, I wentover to the studios to watch rehearsals.One day, the CBC’s chief transmitterasked me why I was there. I explainedthat for the previous four years I’dworked on Skule Nite at U of T. Headvised me to talk to the programdirector. “I bet he’d love to hire someonewith your experience and interest.”He was right. I started work as a dollypusher, manoeuvring a cameraman andlarge camera around the studio floor.My first assignment was opening nightof the live-action drama, “Call It a Day.”Everything went fine until the last scenewhen I heard the director yelling in myheadphones, “There’s a ladder in theshot! Strike it!” That’s how I became thefirst technician to be seen on CanadianTV – carrying an aluminum ladderagainst a black drop outside the set’sbedroom window. I was almost ready to“call it a day” myself. But I didn’t – andstayed with CBC until 1965.Michael HarrisonBASc 1952Collingwood, OntarioA SUMMER TO SAVOURI was finishing up my master’s degreein English in the spring of 1980. Jobswere scarce for graduates, so I accepteda position in book publishing beforethe term ended and tried to finish mypapers while working full time. Myhyperactive launch into a career was aspectacular failure that ended in me –normally an obedient citizen – simplynot showing up to work two weeksafter I started. I hid in my room at thegraduate residence and even avoidedmy employer by putting on a Britishaccent when he called.But something else happened at theend of that term. After I apologized tomy boss, resigned from the job andtook an extension on my two remainingpapers, I spent the summer playingsoftball on King’s College Circle withfriends – an experience I almost missed,in my premature desire to be a grownup.I now remember it as the best summerof my life. It solidified friendshipsthat are mine to this day and made merealize how human I was and how preciousour time at U of T was.And there was a better job waitingin September.Barbara Wade RoseMA 1980TorontoWWW.MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA 47

ClassifiedsACCOMMODATIONSAffordable summer residences. Furnishedrooms in shared houses. $455/month plus. Steps toU of T. For more information, contact CampusCo-operative Residence Inc. at (416) 979-2161, ext.224, or e-mail khurley@campus-coop.org Website:www.campus-coop.orgB&B AND MEETING FACILITIESThe University Women’s Club of Toronto.Downtown location at Bloor/St.George subway.Idealfor meetings, seminars, receptions and small weddings.B&B for out-of-town participants. Please contact(416) 979-2000 or uwctoronto@rogers.comWebsite: www.uwconbloor.comBOOK SALESTrinity College 32 nd Annual Book Sale, October19 to 23.Proceeds to the Graham Library.To help withthe sale or for book pickup, please call (416) 978-6750.University College Alumni Book Sale, October12 to 16. Proceeds to library and students. For moreinformation and book pickup,please call (416) 978-0372.Victoria College 16 th Annual Book Sale,September 27 to October 1. Attention all booklovers! Discover thousands of books at our sale.Proceeds to Victoria University Library. Book donationsand volunteers welcome. For more information,please call (416) 585-4471.CAREER COUNSELLINGProfessional intake,assessments,résumés,cover letters,job-search strategies and career coaching. ContactDave Neary Career Counselling and Consulting at(416) 203-6535 or e-mail dave.neary@sympatico.caWebsite: www.daveneary.comEDITORIAL SERVICESU of T alumna will provide professional proofreading,editing and word processing services at competitiverates. Contact Laura Wright, Editors’ Association ofCanada member, at (613) 345-2927 or edit@cogeco.caProfessional proofreading/copy editing and relatedservices. References include Environment Canada andIn The Hills magazine. Flexible timing. Editors’Association of Canada rates. Contact Susan Robb at(416) 789-9059 or rosus9@aol.comBusiness directory of Peru. Find highly rankedcompanies. Website: www.creditosperu.com.pe/tbdirectorioempresas.phpPeople and Business directory of Spain withlocation maps.Website: www.encontrado.esEDUCATIONOcean Educations Intro Marine Science for ages16-19. Grade 12 full credit and SCUBA certification/upgrade.Pearson College, Victoria, B.C.July/August 2007. Seals, sea lions, orcas! In associationwith Peel District School Board.For more information,contact 1-877-464-6059.Website: www.oceaned.comU of T PowerMusic Camp. An exciting and funmusic day camp for students completing Grades 5 to9. University of Toronto’s award-winning music facultyteaches students to become power musicians.Daily activities include band, strings or choirrehearsals, drumming and recreation. Students mayregister for either one or two weeks; July 9-13 andJuly 16-20. Contact powermusic.camp@utoronto.caor the PowerMusic Camp Office at (416) 978-3746.Website: www.music.utoronto.ca/Events/summer/powermusic.htmAnnual Work and Study Abroad Fair. Universityof Toronto International Student Centre (33 St.George Street).Wednesday, Oct. 3 from 10 a.m. to 3p.m. All are welcome. For more information, pleasecontact (416) 978-5645 or suying.hugh@utoronto.caWebsite: www.isc.utoronto.caGIFT IDEASGifts for Professionals. Shop for employeerecognitiongifts, small leather goods, briefcases,desk accessories and luggage. Contact 1-866-248-2400 or www.giftsforprofessionals.comShop for home accessories, including traditionaland contemporary styles. Save 10 per cent withTORONTO7 coupon. For more information, visitwww.savannahcornucopia.comShop for high school and college graduationgifts at A+ Graduation Gifts. Save 10 per cent withTRN07coupon.Visit www.aplusgraduationgifts.comLIFE/WORK COACHEncouragement and support provided for successful,timely completion of grad-student theses and majorprojects. Contact Reg Lang, Ed.D., at (905) 727-4177.Website: www.reglang.caMEMORIAL VOLUMEAttention former students of the lateProfessor C. C. Love! Handsome memorial volumeentitled A Vic Sort of Man for sale at the VictoriaUniversity Bookstore, Old Vic Building. Open fromMonday to Friday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Cost $12.50.Contact (416) 585-4574.METRIC SYSTEM SEMINARLifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist PatNaughtin will speak on “Metrication in Australia -what we got right”. He will be introduced by JohnBailes (6T5), president of the Canadian MetricAssociation. July 20 at 6 p.m. in the Sandford FlemingBuilding, room 1105. For more information, contact(416) 699-2639 or jdbailes@sympatico.caPERSONALSLove at first…reading. At Science Connection,the profiles are as appealing as the photos.Website:www.sciconnect.comPRESENTATION SPECIALISTU of T alumna will provide quality PowerPoint presentations,reports and graphic support to large and smallbusinesses. Contact Heather Shaw, Folio DesignCompany, at (416) 691-9581 or hjshaw@sympatico.caRENTALSt. John’s, Newfoundland. Heritage home hiddenaway in tree-lined courtyard in the heart of downtown.Harbour view. $1,200/month. Long-term lease only.48 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

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LookingBackBY GRAHAM F. SCOTTHark the HeraldryPHOTOGRAPHY: MICHAEL VISSERThis Royal Coat of Arms forms thecentrepiece of the heraldic displayin Hart House’s Great Hall. One ofthe largest such displays in Canada,it was unveiled with the opening ofHart House in 1919. The GreatHall’s south wall includes theBritish Royal Arms and the arms ofthe 51 universities in the Commonwealthat the time, and the northwall depicts the arms of 74 universitiesfrom British-allied countriesduring the First World War.The Royal Arms and the 125other shields were painted byAlexander Scott Carter, an Englishbornarchitect and artist who cameto Toronto in 1912.Carter’s heraldicworks can be seen at Trinity College,Soldiers’ Tower and Simcoe Hall,butthe Great Hall display remains hismasterpiece.The delicate raised patternswere created by layering gessodirectly on the walls. Once theseraised textures were finished,Cartergilded the details with gold leaf andthen painted them individually.Decades of rough treatmentprompted a major restoration ofthe artwork in 2003.“The situationwas really desperate,” says RoumenKirinkov, of Zograph Studios inToronto.He and his team of restorersspent more than nine weekscarefully repairing each shield onthe south wall, paid for by U of Talumni and universities representedon the arms.The north wall, however,awaits donations to fund asimilar restoration.50 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINE / SUMMER 2007

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