The best places on campus to survive a nuclear war
An unfortunately-prescient guide to UofT’s best fallout shelters
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Volume 68
Rating UofT toilets
The best and worst places for your waste to land
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Lunchbox for the apocalypse
Picture this: the world, in all of its peculiar glory, decides to end tomorrow. Imagine that this sudden apocalypse came with the token doomsday tragedies—barren, withering farmlands, desiccated fisheries, ration lines sprawling on and on and on. Imagine, somehow, that you survive. Over time, though, a question remains: What food will survive with you? Supply
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Should humanity colonise space?
As space settlement becomes plausible, we must ask whether leaving Earth is a necessity or an irreversible mistake.
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VUSAC year-end review
As the academic year comes to an end, the current VUSAC Council is wrapping up their terms and beginning the transition process for newly elected members. The Strand takes a look at VUSAC’s activities this year, changes implemented, and concerns faced. Equity and Food Security VUSAC addressed equity concerns through some engagement with administrators and
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Wastelands of American interventionism
The consequences of forcing regime change
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LVX ÆTERNA
Waterboard at seven, Legacy parkade at eleven; she reclined in her seat, black plastic smoked to crystal, and with hand like pale candelabra reached for my arm under the gridded flicker. ‘You haven’t talked to me all day.’ ‘I’ll be leaving to-morrow. ‘Perhaps I could——’
Alone in the wasteland
Everyone is dead. You are born completely alone. Would you feel lonely? At first, the answer seems obvious. Probably not. Loneliness usually feels like being cut off from other people, and if you have never known other people, then what exactly would you be missing? You would have nothing to compare your life to. No
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VI. UNREAL CITY MMXXV
The skyline is sharp and jagged So when smog slaps it, Rain bleeds, thick and oily and hesitant when Every clock broke last week in Lundentūn; This went unnoticed by all except the fellow too bored to kill himself. Omnispasmodic forgot where he was going – (Where was he going?) The destination is of little
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