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A TI M E LI N E O F TOO PE ’ S G L A SS E S
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standard black
rectangular
purple metal half frame
rectangular
Toope likes his halfrimmed frames. seen sometime from 2006 to 2010, Toope’s rimless lenses may seem to blend with his face, but the black halfframes provide sturdiness.
When Toope was first tapped to be uBc’s 12th president, his hair still had some colour and his glasses were a simple pair of black rectangular frames. It was 2006, and Toope was a fresh face to the uBc community. His dark plastic frames reflect that youthfulness. He didn’t look that different from your average sessional lecturer or grad student.
Illustrations by Julian Yu Words by Ming Wong Photos from Geoff Lister, Kai Jacobson, Mackenzie Walker and courtesy UBCO and McGill News Alumni Quarterly archives
thinner brow line
bold brow line
almost completely rimless
Throughout his reign time as king president of UBc, Toope has always been seen sporting a pair of spectacles, but in the eight years he’s been here, his choice of eyewear has never been stagnant.
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lighter shade
rectangular
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round frames
two-toned
almost completely rimless
He dials back the brow line with this pair, as seen in both his 2011 and 2012 annual interview with The Ubyssey. This was Toope starting his second term, the time when he began the meat of his presidency — the launching of the Place and Promise strategic plan, the $1.5 billion start an Evolution fundraising campaign — all the things that might tire a person and make one opt for lightweight glasses to combat the weight of one’s work.
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striped in bottom half
In 2013, Toope would return to the kind of narrow plastic frame he sported back in 2006, but in a lighter grey, perhaps to complement his greying hair.
Perhaps due to the many press conferences uBc has hosted this school year, the PR team has decided to fine-tune Toope’s optical style with this hipster frame. Perhaps these round frames are a callback to an older time when Toope was just Dean Toope, the youngest ever dean of Mcgill’s Faculty of Law. Maybe — just maybe — his latest choice of glasses is indicative of his return to international law, a return to academia, as he leaves to head u of T’s Munk school of global Affairs in 2015. It’s full circle for Toope. U