Vol 38 issue 9

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New medical building officially opens Students call the new Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex home STEFANIE MAROTTA NEWS EDITOR Under a white canopy next to the CCT Building, faculty, staff, and members of the community gathered to celebrate the completion of the official opening of the Terrence Donnelly Health and Sciences Complex and the Mississauga Academy of Medicine on Tuesday. The academy is a partnership between the Government of Ontario, UTM, the U of T Faculty of Medicine, Trillium Health Centre, and Credit Valley Hospital. This year, 54 first-year medical students officially enrolled as students at the St. George campus will call the $37 million, four-storey structure home. The biomedical communications program and the Department of Anthropology also share the building. In spite of the distance from St. George, the program will provide medical students with the tools and clinical opportunities to specialize in general surgery, internal medicine, psychiatry, and both family

Men wear wedges for pledges LORI-LEE EMSHEY ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The academy will have a total of 216 students in the four-year program, providing the most close-knit learning environment in U of T’s Faculty of Medicine.

The UTM Women’s Centre held the Walk Five Minutes in Her Shoes event at the Student Centre last Wednesday to raise money and awareness of violence against women. From 1 to 2 p.m., male pledges navigated an obstacle course, catwalked, and posed in heels. “We hope the event makes people aware that the issue of violence towards women is still going,” said Synthia Truong, the advertisement and promotions coordinator at the UTM Women’s Centre. All proceeds will go to Interim Place, a women’s shelter in Mississauga, said Truong. After the obstacle course, the pledges lined up again for the catwalk challenge. Pledges, alone or in groups of two or three, walked along a chalk catwalk and posed at the end.

Building continued on page 2

Heels continued on page 3

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The ribbon was snipped; the Health Science Complex is officially open. and community medicine. “I noticed that at Credit Valley the physicians want to learn about the students. I didn’t see that in the downtown campuses,” said Shawn Chhabra, a first-year Mississauga Academy of Medicine student.

“When I though of what I wanted to get out of my four years, particularly in the last two clinical years, I knew that to get that real hands-on experience, being in a smaller setting that’s more community-focussed would happen in Mississauga.”

UCS takes a pie in the face Society raises money for cancer research at the Fair for Hope ADAM ERB The Undergraduate Commerce Society filled the Blind Duck Pub with thumping bass beats, shaved heads, and flying pies for the Fair for Hope on Thursday. The Blind Duck swelled with enthusiastic volunteers, cheering students on to give whatever they could in an effort to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society. At booths with video games, baked goods, authentic Indian cuisine, and photographs, all proceeds were donated to the cause. Students volunteered to sit on a wooden chair on the main stage of the pub and appeal to the crowd for donations. Whenever a target was met, a pie was thrown at their face, making a sloppy mess of whipped cream.

UNICEF@UTM fundraiser Principal Deep Saini dressed up as a donation box for the “Make October Count for Kids” campaign. Medium News, page 2

Drop Fees? What Dalton McGuinty actually promised—and why you shouldn’t believe what you hear. Medium Opinion, page 4

Macbeth preview

The Medium interviews the director and lead actor of the production, which opens this week. Medium A&E, page 5

The pill—and the man JUNAID IMRAN/THE MEDIUM

Students put themselves in the line of fire to raise donations. “Getting hit with a pie felt awesome, though my ears are still ringing,” said Michael Jameson, a fourth-year finance student. “It made me feel silly, but it’s for a

really good cause.” Anyone could sign up to be pied for whatever amount they had in their pocket. After the price had been named, people

would pool their money together and each had the opportunity to throw a pie. Fair continued on page 3

What you don’t know about birth control. Medium Features, page 8

White vs. Law Eagles basketball trounced Law at home last week. Medium Sports, page 11


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