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Each year, our Junior Fellows elect a Lionel Massey Fund Committee (LMF). The goal of the committee is to foster a collegial atmosphere with a calendar of social activities. 2012-2013 co-chairs Anne Ahrens-Embleton, Cai Durbin, Trevor Plint, Andrea Stuart, and Louis-Philippe Thibault report on the year’s proceedings. THE LIONEL MASSEY FUND thanks everyone for coming out in 2012-2013. We got to plan a ton of events for you, and you repaid us by turning out in force. LMF organized a raft of summer events, including barbecues in the Quad and movie nights to soak up the best of the summer blockbusters, then culminating with a trip to Stratford, Ontario to attend a performance of Much Ado About Nothing. First semester began with orientation week, which saw record turnouts for some of our events. For our pub night at the Bedford Academy, we banked on 25 people showing up, but our booking was rapidly overwhelmed with returning Fellows, Alumni, and new Junior Fellows in excess of 75 guests. Other orientation high points include the scavenger-hunt item “Masseyites playing street hockey in a major Toronto intersection,” Shawn Micallef ’s well-attended psycho-geographic walking tour, and the Don’s Dance Party. We are especially grateful to the Non-Res Committee for collaborating with the LMF on some events, including the Massey Quad Olympics and the catch-up orientation session. Making Massey a welcoming environment for non-resident Junior Fellows continues to be an important facet of College life. The first major event of the LMF fall semester was the Thanksgiving Potluck, followed by the ever-popular Halloweek, which included its usual activities: candy-grams, the zombiegame (a shout-out to Master Fraser for participating!), and the costume dance party. At this last event, Jordan Guthrie and Sophie Bowen as a zombie couple
Junior Fellows at play
were judged by Senior Resident Rev. James Merrett to have the best costumes, while College Chef Silvana Valdes decided that House IV merited the prize for the best carved pumpkin. After that, to mark the start of the holiday season, we ran excursions to the Distillery District and the skating rink at Nathan Phillips Square. Things took a turn for the sinister as the winter semester kicked off with the murder game, which saw Massey descend into a spiral of paranoia and anxiety totally indistinguishable from everyday life. Several kilograms of candy were delivered secretly in the night during Valentine’s Day candy-grams, as we did our best to make everyone’s February 14th a little sweeter. (The LMF assumes no responsibility for lost productivity resulting from hyperglycemic comas.)
This year also saw the emergence of a radical splinter group in the Massey political scene: the shadowy FML, or “Front for Massey Liberation.” For the record: the LMF does not claim to know any of their identities, and much about the organization remains a mystery. Their YouTube ransom video for the kidnapped bust of Robertson Davies (screened at this year’s Tea Hut) is well worth a viewing: it’s at < bit.ly/16lBYDS >. We would like to take this final opportunity to thank all of the people who helped with our events, volunteered, decorated, set up, tore down, and cleaned up after. An exhaustive list would probably include every Junior Fellow, followed by every member of staff – twice. In any case, we hope you enjoyed participating in the events as much as we did. As graduate students and Alumni, we look forward to seeing Massey grow, and to hearing new tales of the continuing adventures of the Lionel Massey Fund.
PUBLICATIONS TRISH GLAZEBROOK (ed.), Heidegger on Science. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012.
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___ (with A. Kuper), “Theory and Practice in the Design and Conduct of Graduate Medical Education,” Academic Medicine, 87:1, 2012: 25-33.
___ (co-ed. with Lorelei Lingard), The Question of Competence: Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. MICHIEL HORN, “Academic Freedom in Wartime: The Canadian Experience in the Twentieth Century,” in Cultures, Communities and Conflict: Histories of Canadian Universities and War, Paul Stortz and Lise Panayotides, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012, pp. 202-26. ___ (trans.), At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944, by David Koker, Robert Jan van Pelt, ed. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2012. ___ (trans.), Philosophy for a Better World by Floris van den Berg. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2013.
To be happy, you must be wise. – George Santayana