EDITORIAL
Welcome to the University You
While starting university is an exciting and effervescent experience, it is undeniably overwhelming. You have more than enough voices telling you that it’s going to be the best time of your life, coupled with an onslaught of daily notifications from a confusing amount of university-affiliated websites. There’s this rush of ...
Ghomeshi verdict reminds us of the power of words
It's time to wake up to the culture of silence surrounding abuse that enabled him
Survivors refuse to be silenced
Let’s say that it’s been a tough few weeks. Especially in Toronto, where issues surrounding marginalized voices silenced by the system have been very close to the surface. After an investigation spanning several months, it was announced on March 18 that the anonymous police officer responsible for the death of ...
Promising “change” on a bad cheque
This year’s VUSAC election cycle was dominated by the idea that students aren’t properly represented by our student union. This kind of rhetoric is bad for everyone.
The letter of the law
How our language regarding sexual assault reinforces rape culture and perpetuates the battery of victims.
Stress, silence, and mental health in academia
One of the most pertinent issues plaguing the discussion of mental health in our society is its lack of normalization. As Bell’s annual “Let’s Talk Day”, which occurred on January 27 this year, implies, talking about mental health and the stigma surrounding it is key to increasing awareness and decreasing ...
Creation and consumption in the Internet age: the cultural price when artists don’t expect to get paid
The assumption that your friends aren’t going to buy your music, because they’ve already streamed it online for free, says something about the value we place on the creative work of our peers in the current age.
While the Canadian newspaper suffers, student journalism is more relevant than ever
Student journalism builds and maintains community — something that the major national newspapers are increasingly less able to do
Responsibility in the Public Sphere
When many people first heard of the terror attacks in Paris on November 13, their first reaction was to check the Internet. Whether finding out in person or over text message, it took most people only a few seconds to switch over to Google to check what major news outlets ...
“That could have been me” : in response to global tragedy
Last Friday, the news of the massacre in Paris came to my attention while I was at a bar with my co-workers after a late closing shift. The information that one site of violence was a concert for the group Eagles of Death Metal was brought up in conjunction with ...