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4 EDITOR’S NOTELife, the Universe and TV

7 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGEGTA Overload?

9 LETTERSA Soldier’s Story

10 LEADING EDGEWhen Flattery Rears Its Head

13 NEW & NOTABLESpace Invader

53 GREAT GIFTSA Track for a Champ

56 ALUMNI NOTESUniversity Blues?

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18THE HOUSETHAT DAVE BUILTThree years ago, U of T law grad andHollywood writer David Shore took a surlydoctor, injected a dose of twisted humourand created the medical drama House.Millions have been watching ever sinceby Stacey Gibson

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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MAGAZINECONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, MOST SUCCESSFUL SCIENTISTS DON’T EXPERIENCE

a “eureka” moment. The vast majority work away in their labs quietly, mak-ing incremental discoveries that, over many years, add significantly to ourknowledge and understanding of a subject.

That’s how Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop, the director of U of T’s Centrefor Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CRND), characterizes his workin Alzheimer’s disease over the past 15 years. “You get an interesting result,you follow it up and you do a bit more work,” he says. It’s only when youstart to add up all those “interesting results” from years of painstaking labwork and detailed analysis that you can see just how far you’ve come. Thisfall, I spoke with St. George-Hyslop and other CRND researchers about theirgroundbreaking study of Alzheimer’s, a debilitating brain illness that destroysa patient’s memory and all higher thought processes. Although a cure islikely still many years away, CRND’s discoveries have yielded some intri-guing possibilities for new ways to treat the disease (see “UntanglingAlzheimer’s,” p. 24).

Medical research tends to grab the headlines, but these are exciting timesin physics, too. In May, a team of international physicists will switch on theworld’s largest particle accelerator, built deep underground near Geneva,Switzerland. Scientists hope that experiments planned for the $8-billionfacility will yield answers to some of the most puzzling questions about thenature of the universe. Last summer, writer Dan Falk visited the LargeHadron Collider (LHC) while it was still under construction, and spokewith some of the University of Toronto scientists involved with the project(see “God’s Laboratory,” p. 30). He found their excitement contagious.Many of them, such as physics professor Richard Teuscher, consider theirLHC work a high point of their careers, and hope the experimental resultswill resolve longstanding debates in the physics community over the funda-mental forces and particles in the universe.

U of T law grad David Shore is neither a doctor nor a scientist, but hehas created a compelling television character who is – Dr. Gregory House,a maverick medical genius who heads a team of young diagnosticians at anAmerican hospital. Shore conceived of the show as a hospital whodunit,with House, his medical detective, taking inspiration from SherlockHolmes. As managing editor Stacey Gibson writes in her profile of Shore(“The House That Dave Built,” p. 18), the lawyer-turned-writer sharesmore than a few characteristics with his fictional creation. Both are highlyirreverent, rebellious by nature, very successful and like to push the enve-lope – although there’s one important difference, says Shore: “House issmarter than I am.”

We’d like you to push your own creative envelope by entering The GreatUniversity of Toronto Photo Contest (see p. 60). Take a colour shot of some-thing (or someone) related to U of T, then go to www.magazine.utoronto.ca,read the contest rules and send in your entry. We have some great prizes togive away, and winners will be published in the Summer 2008 issue. Thedeadline for entries is March 1, 2008, so get snapping!

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A Gallery PerspectiveThe Doris McCarthy Gallery at the Universityof Toronto Scarborough is a cornerstonevenue promoting visual arts fromcontemporary and historical perspectives.Recently, the gallery hosted Return,Afghanistan - Photographs by Zalmai,circulated by the Aperture Foundation.

Manulife Financial is an official Affinity Partnerand the Pillar Sponsor of Great Communitiesat the University of Toronto, proudlysupporting a wide range of activitiesincluding visual and performing arts.

Other sponsored events in 2007:

Black Alumni Association Gala Celebration of Music EducationCultural Affairs SeasonFIS Nelson Mandela InternshipManagement Apprentice ProgramManulife Financial Learning SeriesNursing Education Series Peace and Conflict Studies Rotman International Trading Comp.University of Toronto Arts CentreUTSC Doris McCarthy Gallery

OVER THE NEXT 15 YEARS, THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS

attending university in Ontario is expected to grow by120,000 – or more than 30 per cent. Growth will be espe-cially fast in the Toronto region, and many students willwant to stay close to home. That’s a splendid recruitmentopportunity for Uof T.

It’s also a trap. Our long-standing pattern of skimming thebest undergraduates from the Toronto region has paid hand-some dividends with a dynamic and talented student body.But in some respects, it has restricted our reach and our diver-sity. Last year, for instance, almost 75 per cent of the studentsentering an undergraduate program at Uof Tcame from the Greater Toronto Area.Repeating that pattern means we will contin-ue to draw a very high proportion of com-muter students who, on average, are under-standably less engaged with on-campus life.

At the graduate level, the story is different.The GTA yields 60 per cent of our graduatestudents, but 25 per cent come from outsideOntario and 15 per cent from abroad. Ourprofessional faculties are even more geo-graphically diverse. Fewer than half of allarchitecture students and about half of all lawstudents come from the Toronto area.

There’s a lesson there. Our global reputation is driven pri-marily by our research intensity and our professional andgraduate programs. And, judged by research productivity,citations and achievements – as well as discipline-specificmeasures of our reputation among academic peers worldwide– we remain the top university in Canada. One example:overall rankings of universities are by and large a mug’s game,but the Academic Ranking of World Universities at least hasstayed with one set of methods and rejected the usual tossedsalad of “adjusted” scores. By that measure, we are consistentlynumber one in Canada, with the University of BritishColumbia in second and McGill a distant third.

As I’ve noted before, the key challenge for U of T is toshare that excellence with our undergraduate students, andwe still have work to do. With rapid enrolment growth inrecent years, student-faculty ratios rose, more studentswith B+ high school averages were admitted to first yearand undergraduate students have given us some mediocre

grades on measures of satis-faction and engagement.

Better services and moreresources would help resolvesome of these issues. But weshould also consider howenrolment affects the stu-dent experience. After all, who is more likely to be satisfied andengaged? A commuting student who has little time to spend atU of T outside of classes, or a student living on or near one ofour three campuses?

These and related questions are now beingraised by a high-level task force on enrolment,launched under the auspices of our “Towards2030” strategy-setting exercise. Among therelated questions: How much more growthcan Uof T accommodate on each of its threecampuses? And, perhaps the toughest of all:Are entering grades the sine qua non of stu-dent excellence? If not, what other attributesmatter in undergraduate recruitment?

Once we’ve clarified our strategy, theharder work of implementation begins.Better communication with high schoolguidance counsellors, advertising, visits to

selected schools, involving local alumni in recruitment – theseare part of the picture. Growth in our scholarship programs isalso a priority. Currently, the university bestows some 1,400admission scholarships – valued at a few hundred to severalthousand dollars – to the top incoming students each year. Yetfewer than 400 students receive scholarships valued at thelevel of tuition in first year.

Traditionally, alumni have been tremendous supporters ofscholarships and awards. They have also been telling me, inone city after another, that if we are prepared to launch amore proactive recruitment strategy, they will be ready to helpus draw more of the best and brightest high school studentsto U of T from across Canada and around the world. For that,and for your continued support, my deepest thanks. We’ll becalling on you as our long-term planning exercise draws to aclose in the months ahead.

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A TOWER’S MEANINGI always enjoy reading U of T Magazine,but the Autumn 2007 issue was particu-larly good. The articles “Witness to War,”by Stacey Gibson, and “Behind EnemyLines,” by Alec Scott, were both extre-mely interesting. When I attended theUniversity of Toronto, I often walkedpast Soldiers’ Tower but didn’t think toomuch about it. After reading the storyabout J.K. Macalister and Frank Pickers-gill and their capture by the Nazis in theSecond World War, I would like to learnmore about the individuals who gavetheir lives for our country.

Linda KlassenPharmD 1995

Saskatoon

THE STORY BEHINDTHE SCHOLARSHIPThank you for the story on John KennethMacalister (“Behind Enemy Lines,”Autumn 2007). I won the J.K. Macalis-ter scholarship at Guelph Collegiate Voca-tional Institute. Like Macalister, I alsowent on to U of T. However, unlike him,I subsequently returned to Guelph andlived near the park named in his honour.Although I knew the bare bones of hisstory I was interested to learn more.

Angela HofstraBScPhm 1986, PharmD 1993

Guelph, Ontario

GOOD NEWSFOR A CHANGEI wish to commend you for your wonder-ful work, but I also wish to draw yourattention to certain aspects of the Autumn2007 issue that you may not be aware of.

On the cover, Dr. Samantha Nutt isholding a picture of an apparently mal-

nourished African child. Another storyconcerning black people, “The SchoolsWe Want,” is about black youths havingdifficulties in school.

I appreciate your efforts to make theconcerns of black people news, but, onthe other hand, it’s rather distressingthat the news about Africans and blackpeople is so often about suffering, vio-lence and pain.

May I suggest that the next time ablack person makes your cover it begood news?

Emmanuel MbamThM 2006

Toronto

DOING THE RIGHT THINGIt never fails to astonish me that eachyear more and more people give moreand more money to charities and uni-versities. From the cynic’s point of view,people like Sheldon Inwentash andLynn Factor and the Goldring family(“Great Gifts,” Autumn 2007) givebecause they get a great tax receipt orbecause they can’t use all that wearisomecash anyway or because they want theirnames on a building or two. But does itmatter whether the cynics are right? Notreally. The point is they have chosen todo some public good with their wealth

instead of rolling around in it likesome self-indulgent Scrooge McDucks.Good for them.

Geoff RytellBEd 1975

Toronto

SLURRING WORDSLike H. Farrugia, I am upset that U of TMagazine used the term “white-bread”to refer to whites (“Letters,” Autumn2007). What a sad world we live in ifwe have to cross the line of decency toemphasize a point. By the way, I canfind many racial slurs in various dic-tionaries, but that doesn’t mean that Ihave to use them. There is somethingthat each of us should use – and that isgood taste.

M. NovarMississauga

AT THE TOP OF THE J.K. MACALISTER FILE AT THE UNIVERSITYOF Toronto Archives is a clipping from an April 1945 editionof the Guelph Mercury – one which, despite its understatedlanguage, wields a wallop. “Notification has been receivedfrom the British War Office by A.M. Macalister, editor ofThe Mercury, and Mrs. Macalister… [residing on MetcalfeStreet], of the death of their son Capt. John KennethMacalister on September 14, 1944. The parents had beennotified previously that their only son hadbeen missing in June.”

“The Macalisters sort of disappearedfrom Guelph after his death,” a high schoolfriend, George Hindley, recalls during aninterview from his home on the same sleepy,tree-lined street where the Macalisters oncelived. “As far as I know, he was the last ofthat whole line.”In high school, Macalister was a strong,but not stellar, student. In addition to histo-ry, he particularly enjoyed French – and thestylish, lively French teacher, Olive Freeman(who went on to marry John Diefenbakerand frequently sported Chanel at otherwisedowdy Ottawa events). Hindley, a top stu-dent, recalls: “You knew Ken was smart, butyou didn’t suspect in high school that he’d beable to compete with the best in the province– let alone at Oxford.”

In 1933, the pair went off to U of T with many of theprovince’s best, Hindley to study classics at Victoria College,Macalister to study law at University College. “We didn’t seemuch of each other, being at different colleges,” Hindley says.“But I did appreciate him taking me out to dinner once earlyon. I was 16, a farm boy; he was a little older, more sophisti-cated, the son of a newspaper editor.”In addition to excelling at his studies, Macalister threw him-self into the extracurricular life of the university, joining theUC Literary and Athletic Society, playing rugby, debating atHart House, serving as chief justice of the moot court, andchatting en français with the French Club. A working knowl-edge of French was viewed as helpful for English Canadiansinterested in entering politics – Macalister’s ultimate ambition.IN 1937, MACALISTER BOARDED A STEAMER AND EMBARKED

on the month-long journey to the U.K. to register in law atOxford’s venerable New College. The small-town Ontarioboy didn’t let the grandness of the stage affect the quality ofhis performance; he earned excellent grades in his first twoyears. In the summer break of 1939, still hoping to polishhis French, he went to live with a family in Lisieux,Normandy. The daughter of the house, Jeannine Lucas,captivated him and, by the end of the summer, they mar-ried. Theirs was a brief idyll: in September, Germany sentits tanks into Poland, and Europe again found itself at war.

Macalister tried to sign up for the French military, but hisnearsightedness disqualified him. He decided to return toEngland. When he left his wife with her family in France, theydidn’t suspect that she was pregnant – or that the war wouldirrevocably divide them. It was an emotional time, a time ofswift unions and equally quick, unintentionally final partings.

Back in Oxford, the armed forces’ recruiting board turneddown Macalister’s application to join the military (again becauseof his poor eyesight) and encouraged himto complete his studies. He did so, graduatingin spring 1940 with a first in jurisprudence,though any celebrations would have beencut short. In April, he received heartbreakingnews from France: Jeannine had given birthto a stillborn daughter – their daughter.He carried on with his studies. At thebar exams that year, he came first among the142 from across the empire who sat thetests. Unsure what to do next, he contem-plated returning to Canada. Hart Clark,another Canadian Rhodes Scholar atOxford reported that it was unclear whetherCanadians in Britain should enlist inCanada or England. Macalister wrote to aformer U of T prof of his, W.P.M. Kennedy,to let him know he was at loose ends. Theprofessor at once wrote back, offeringMacalister a faculty job, but it was too late.

“In army since yesterday,” the young man telegraphedKennedy in September 1940. “Sorry. Many thanks.”AFTER THE FALL OF NORWAY, DENMARK, BELGIUM, HOLLAND,France and much of eastern Europe, the British war cabinetdecided in July 1940 to set up an agency to encourage resist-ance – through sabotage and propaganda – in Axis-occupiedterritories. The Special Operations Executive (SOE) – thatMacalister joined midway through the war – was like some-thing out of a John le Carré novel. It was typically headed bya knighted Whitehall insider, known in the organization sim-ply as CD. A bunch of Old Boys were appointed to run it.Potential recruits met Selwyn Jepson, the SOE’s recruitingofficer, in a stripped-down room at London’s North-umberland Hotel. Interviewing half in French and half inEnglish, Jepson was looking for reflective men and women,not impetuous sorts. He told potential recruits that there wasa one in two chance they’d die in the service – and told themto sleep on it before opting in or out. “I don’t want you tomake up your mind too easily,” he is reported to have said.“It’s a life-and-death decision.”In mid 1942, Macalister opted in and began five monthsof gruelling training across Britain. The recruits learned para-chuting near Manchester and railway sabotage (using reallocomotives) and firearm handling on Scotland’s northwestcoast. At Beaulieu Manor near lush New Forest, ex-Shanghai

FOR his 2002 history of the University of Toronto,Martin Friedland researched the contribu-tions that U of T alumni made to the Allied cause in thetwo world wars. Among the 630 students and grads whodied in the First World War and the 557 in the Second, oneparticularly affected Friedland. “Maybe because law is alsomy field, the loss of this promising young lawyer, J.K.Macalister, stood out for me,” says the former dean of U of T’slaw school. “There was something about the photographsof him. And then what I learned about his story intrigued– and horrified – me. I still get a bit shaken when I thinkof him.”

The briefest description of John Kenneth Macalister’sattainments illustrates the promise Friedland saw. After grad-uating at the top of his law class at U of T, Macalister attendedOxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He graduated from therewith first-class honours, and went on to the bar exams inLondon where he placed tops in the empire. When war broke

out, Macalister signed up with the Field Security Wing of theBritish Intelligence Corps. After Continental Europe’s rapidfall, he enlisted with a new intelligence service, the SpecialOperations Executive, which had been set up to foment resist-ance in German-occupied territories.“Set Europe ablaze,” instructed Winston Churchill. After ahasty training in spy-craft, the French-speaking Macalister wasparachuted into the Loire Valley in 1943. Unfortunately,before he could set his little bit of the continent on fire, theGestapo captured and imprisoned him.In the war’s final days, a panicked Hitler ordered the execu-tion of captive spies, such as Macalister, to prevent them fromdescribing their appalling treatment. After hanging Macalisterand 15 other captives in the bowels of Buchenwald – withpiano wire attached to meat-hooks – the SS guards crematedthe remains. It was Hitler’s aim to keep their fates a secret. InMacalister’s case, the führer and his minions failed. The Nazisdisposed of his body, but they couldn’t destroy his story.


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Parents cajole their children to always tell the truth, over-looking the fact that flattery – along with showingmodesty, agreeing with another’s views and telling

white lies – is an important social skill that psychologists dub“ingratiation behaviour.”

Kang Lee, professor and directorof the Institute of Child Studyat OISE, has been conduct-ing some of the first stud-ies of the emergence offlattery in children. Itis a natural area ofinterest for Lee, whohas been researchingthe development oflie-telling in childrenfor the past decade. Ina study published inDevelopmental Science, Leeand his colleague Genyue Fuof Zhejiang Normal University inChina reveal much about when and howchildren first use flattery. They asked a group of pre-school children ages 3 to 6 to rate drawings by children andadults they knew, as well as strangers. The preschoolersjudged the artwork both when the artist was present, andwhen he or she was absent. The three-year-olds were com-pletely honest, and remained consistent in their ratings; it

didn’t matter who drew it, or whether the person was in theroom. Five- and six-year-olds gave more flattering ratingswhen the artist was in front of them. They flattered bothstrangers and those they knew (although familiar people got

a higher dose of praise). Among the four-year-olds, half the group displayed

flattery while the other half didnot. This supports the idea

that age four is a key tran-sitional period in chil-

dren’s social under-standing of the world.

Lee suggests adultsflatter for two reasons.It can be to show grat-

itude for some positiveaction in the past. As

well, when they’re meetingsomeone for the first time –

someone who may turn out tobe important for their advancement

down the road – flattery is also used as aninvestment for future favourable treatment from the per-

son. “We don’t know which the child is doing,” says Lee.However, the fact that the older children flattered strangers aswell as familiar people suggests “they are thinking ahead, they aremaking these little social investments for future benefits.”

– Conrad McCallum

When Flattery Rears Its HeadChildren as young as four understand that well-placed praise can yield social benefits


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in the department of chemical engineering and

applied chemistry, is creating a low-cost and

flavourful drink that comprises clean water, pro-

tein, vitamins and micronutrients in fruit juice and

soft drink formulas. “With this, you can prevent

deficiency diseases, add some food protein value –

which is expensive because you usually get it in

meat – and provide safe drinking water at the

same time,” he says.

Diosady hopes to have test products by late

2008 or early 2009, and run a pilot project per-

haps one year after that – or sooner, if he can find

a corporate partner. He expects the drink (which

has been given the working name “Live-Ade”) to

become a self-sustaining, commercial product,

distributed through a major bottler or protein

manufacturer. He foresees marketing the drink in

areas such as India and China, or giving it away in

a relief capacity in places such as Darfur refugee

camps with the help of a sponsor. “It’s entirely

possible that, maybe not Live-Ade but something

of this sort will become the Coke of the devel-

oping world,” says Diosady. “The wildest dream

of everybody in this field is to eliminate diseases

caused by poor quality food.”

– Tim Johnson

Nutrition in a Bottle

AU of T study released lastNovember addresses the disqui-eting problem of homeless men

and women trapped in a revolving doorof prisons and shelters – and thatresearch has now led to a pilot programfor those who have lived on the streetsand been incarcerated.

The report, released by U of T’sCentre for Urban and CommunityStudies (CUCS) in partnership with theJohn Howard Society (JHS) of Toronto,found that over a five-year period, thegroup caught in this jail-shelter-jailcycle had grown larger. “With failuresacross various programming areas –health, housing, criminal justice, etcetera – we’re seeing a number of peoplewho are completely lost amongst theseinstitutions and just bouncing around,”says Sylvia Novac, lead researcher and aCUCS research associate.

The study also indicates that home-less people are more likely to be victimsthan perpetrators of crime, and high-lights the role of the troubled relation-ship between the homeless and police.“Some homeless people are reluctant to

report how they’ve been victimized onthe street, precisely because there’s somuch suspicion of them being crimi-nals,” says Joe Hermer, assistant professorof sociology and criminology at U of Tand one of the report’s authors.

The initial findings helped give riseto a pilot project called the PostIncarceration Housing Support Pro-gram. It includes transitional accom-modation that has successfully housed130 people who have been homelessand incarcerated. Workers help clientsfind and maintain affordable housingand offer follow-up support. BothJHS and Toronto’s Streets to HomeInitiative are involved in the project.Amber Kellen, who oversees advocacyand community programs for the JHSof Toronto and participated in theresearch, is confident that the programwill be extended. “So far, the reporthas proven to be much more than adocument that sits on a shelf gatheringdust. It’s taken on a life of its own,”she says. “I see this as the beginning ofsomething more.”

– Tim Johnson

When OpposingThoughts Attract

When Alan Lafley took over as

CEO of Procter & Gamble in

2000, the company was on a

downswing. Profits were tanking and many of its

biggest brands were losing market share to

lower-priced competition. Some of the com-

pany’s senior executives urged Lafley to spend

more on research and development.They rea-

soned that P&G needed to introduce exciting

new products to spur growth. Others believed

just as strongly that P&G had to rein in costs

and lower its prices to compete with store

brands and private labels.

Lafley considered the options, and then

chose neither. Or, rather, he chose both. Over

the next several years, he eliminated layers of

management and instilled a relentless focus on

cutting costs. At the same time, he adopted a

new approach to innovation by teaming up

with smaller companies to develop new prod-

ucts. Before long, P&G was back on track.

Roger Martin, dean of the Joseph L. Rotman

School of Management, tells Lafley’s story in his

new book, The Opposable Mind: How Successful

Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking (Harvard

Business School Press). It illustrates Martin’s

concept of “integrative thinking” – the ability to

consider two opposing ideas, synthesize them

and come up with an entirely new, and better,

idea. Martin believes this skill is what sets apart

great leaders from merely average ones, and for

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teaching it to MBA students. Most management

books, and many MBA programs, examine what

successful managers do. A more useful approach,

says Martin, is to study how they think. So he inter-

viewed 50 respected business leaders – sometimes

for as long as eight hours – to tease out how they

make important decisions.

When attempting to resolve a dilemma, “inte-

grative” thinkers differ from regular thinkers on four

key points, writes Martin.They take a broader view

of what’s relevant to their decision, more fully

explore how these elements relate to each other,

consider the problem in all of its complexity rather

than breaking it into parts, and don’t accept

unpleasant trade-offs in order to find a solution.

They always search for a creative outcome.

Martin provides plenty of vivid, real-life exam-

ples to illustrate this process, though one wonders

if the decisions the managers faced were quite as

simple as the either-or choices he describes. (Lafley

must either cut costs or boost R and D spending.

Hotelier Isadore Sharpe can build either small

motels or large business hotels.)

Martin devotes the second half of the book to

teaching readers how to develop their own integra-

tive thinking skills. He introduces a lot of new con-

cepts – the section reads a little like a series of com-

pressed MBA classes – but thankfully avoids jargon

and provides exercises that allow readers to

approach problems as Lafley might. “Reflecting on

how you think is a powerful way to change how

you think,” writes Martin.While this is true, most of

us don’t know where to start. The Opposable Mind

provides a map.

– Scott Anderson


There’s been a lot of discussion about manmade gases inthe atmosphere wreaking havoc on the Earth, but thisone is a killer. Literally.

Allied and Central powers used phosgene as a chemicalwarfare agent in the First World War. But a University ofToronto project has found the deadly gas in ouratmosphere as a result of human industry.

Phosgene is produced when chloro-carbons, a chemical relative ofCFCs, break down in the upperatmosphere. On the ground,chlorocarbons are non-reac-tive strings of carbon andchlorine. They are used inthe production of phar-maceuticals and insecti-cides and are even foundin dry-cleaning fluid. But,when those chlorocar-bons reach the strato-sphere, ultraviolet lightbreaks them down intohighly reactive smaller mole-cules. Not only do these mole-cules turn into nasty chemicalgases, but they also contribute to thedestruction of the ozone layer.

Dr. Kaley Walker, an assistant professor ofphysics at U of T, was part of an international team ofresearchers (from the University of Waterloo, the Universityof York in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and theNew Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) that used

the Canadian Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment satellite tomeasure worldwide concentrations of the gas for the firsttime. Their research, published recently in GeophysicalResearch Letters, shows that concentrations of phosgene arehighest around the equator where the greatest amount of UV

radiation hits.The team also found that phosgene con-

centrations have steadily declined sincethe Montreal Protocol, which

banned many varieties of CFCs,chlorocarbons and other ozone

destroyers, was signed 20years ago. (The researcherscompared their worldwidemeasurements to isolatedassessments from decadesearlier, as well as the lastfew years.) Internationaldelegates met in Montrealon the 20th birthday of the

Montreal Protocol this pastSeptember, and agreed to

more stringent target dates forbanning the final ozone-des-

troying compounds.Although phosgene is harmful, the

levels the researchers found in the atmos-phere are at least 10,000 times less than what is con-

sidered an acceptable exposure for humans. The work wasfunded by the Canadian Space Agency and the NaturalSciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

– Graeme Stemp-Morlock

Something in the AirAn international research team has found traces of phosgene in the atmosphere

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blasted into orbit on Aug. 8, Dr. Dave Williams and

his crewmates closed their visors and turned on the

oxygen in their spacesuits. Moments later, Williams – an

adjunct professor of surgery at U of T – felt the rumble of

the shuttle’s three main engines coming to life. When the

rocket boosters ignited, creating seven million pounds of

thrust, the rumble became what he calls “a dramatic kick in

the pants.” Within minutes, the astronaut was hammered

into his chair by three times the normal force of gravity.

Eight-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, the main engines flick-

ered out,Williams was thrown forward in his harness and he

was floating in the weightless realm of space.

During the mission to the International Space Station – his

second space shuttle flight – Williams broke two Canadian

records when he performed three spacewalks, spending 17

hours and 47 minutes outside the station.Working in the bulky

spacesuit was both physically and mentally demanding, and he

was often in close proximity to hazardous “no-touch” zones.

As well as serving as the flight’s medical officer,Williams was

part of a busy construction mission – replacing a faulty gyro-

scope, installing a new truss segment and assembling a module

to allow space shuttles to draw power from the station. It was

an exhausting 12-day journey,but Williams’ vantage point more

than made up for the discomfort. “You have this panoramic

view of the horizon of the Earth and the atmosphere,” he says.

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T here was an eerie synchronicityabout Richard Florida’s entryon the Toronto scene just as

Jane Jacobs exited it for the last time.Jacobs had left her beloved New Yorkfor Toronto in the 1960s and Floridagave up an endowed chair at GeorgeMason University in WashingtonD.C. to run the new $120-millionMartin Prosperity Institute at theRotman School. Both emigrationsgenerated much comment. And thereare intellectual ties between the twourban theorists: Jacobs is one ofFlorida’s idols, and his work aims toplow the fields cleared by her seminal1961 tract, The Death and Life ofGreat American Cities.

Florida’s recent best-selling books,The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) andThe Flight of the Creative Class (2005),argue that cities live and die based ontheir ability to attract and retain creativetypes. The two volumes have becomegospel for progressive city planners. “It’snot just about building high-tech officecorridors,” he says. “It’s about creatingthe sort of cities that creative peoplewant to live in.” So pervasive are hisideas that comedian Stephen Colbertdid a segment on Florida’s use of a gayindex, to estimate how attractive a city isto the group he calls the creative class. “I

used this rough measurement of theconcentration of lesbians and gays in aregion to measure how comfortable acity could make a diverse set of people,creative people, and that drew a lot ofcomment and controversy,” says Florida.

The trained economist’s interest inwhat makes cities thrive or wither hasroots in his own life. The son of anItalian-American factory worker watcheddisenfranchised (mainly black) riotersrun amok in his hometown of Newark,New Jersey, in the 1960s, precipitatingthe flight of its (mainly white) middleclass to the suburbs. “The key work thatthis institute will have to do, and the rea-son we’ve called it the ProsperityInstitute, is to marry a discussion ofgrowth and competitiveness with a dis-

cussion of social inclusion. The ques-tion is, ‘Can you have growth that isnot so divisive?’”

Florida, 50, is among the many com-mentators to see two nations emergingin his native America. With a typicallyspeedy burst of words, he paints thesplit in the States in more than red andblue: “The people voting George Bushinto office, the people Karl Rove is tar-geting, are the people on the wrong sideof the class divide. They’re scared, anx-ious that they’re being left out. Theydon’t see many options for their kids;they’re not technologists; they’re notartists. They live in more rural areas,and what they’re hearing is, ‘gay folksare the cause of your problems, immi-grants are taking your jobs.’”

Which brings him to another aimfor the fledgling institute (named afterDean Roger Martin’s parents): to focuson how smaller centres can remain com-petitive in a swiftly urbanizing world.“This is not just about Toronto. Wewant to have day sessions where peoplefrom across the province can come andget a tool kit and go back to their townsand try out some of these ideas.”

This ebullient man, an avid bicyclistand committed social activist, doesn’tthink universities should be ivory tow-ers, places for pristine thoughts orretreats from the too, too frantic world.He enjoys articulating theories, but,like Jacobs, likes to watch them inaction. “I love that we’re in the MaRSbuilding, under the cupola, that we’repart of the downtown, not on a sepa-rate campus. We want to make it aplace where not only scholars feel com-fortable, but where policy-makers, cre-ative folk also feel at home, where youcould see both a Leslie Feist and aDalton McGuinty.” – Alec Scott

Urban LegendCelebrated American academic Richard Florida

heads up the new Martin Prosperity Institute at U of T

“It’s truly magnificent, it’s spectacular…

there is a sense of magnificent isolation –

even though you can hear people talking to

you on the radio, you feel kind of alone in

the universe.”

Although he would happily return to

space,Williams’ priorities have shifted to the

next generation of Canadian children who

share his passion for exploration. When a

seven-year-old Dave Williams first turned

his eyes to the stars, Canada didn’t have an

astronaut program and he was told his

dream was impossible. “What I’d like to

share with students is that when you get to

those moments, don’t give up on your pas-

sion and your dream,” he says. “Anything

that’s truly meaningful is not easy. It’s the

paradox of life.” – Nicolle Wahl

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You don’t become U of T’s mostsenior fundraiser by thinkingsmall, and David Palmer, who

started as chief advancement officer inSeptember, has some big ideas aboutU of T’s role in advancing Canada’s eco-nomic and social agenda. Palmer is theformer president of the Royal OntarioMuseum’s board of governors and thearchitect of the $300-million Renais-sance ROM Campaign. He spoke withU of T Magazine editor Scott Andersonin October about his initial impressionsof U of T, its strengths and his prioritiesin the coming year.

You’ve been on campus twomonths now. What are yourearly impressions of U of T?What has struck me most is the univer-sal commitment to leadership I’ve seenamong faculty, staff, students and volun-teers. Many are undisputed leaders intheir field or, in the case of students,leaders-in-making, whose work is con-tributing in significant ways to the bet-terment of society. But my impression isof more than just hard work and dedica-tion. People derive a fundamental senseof accomplishment and satisfactionfrom their association with U of T.These are individuals who are making adifference. It’s why our alumni volun-teers and donors make such a passionatecommitment of time and energy andwhy they thrive on their involvementwith U of T. That’s what makes the uni-versity such an exciting place, and why Ifound it an irresistible destination.

What do you see asU of T’s public role?As a national institution of international

importance, U of T isvital to Canada’s futureeconomic success andcompetitiveness. Theuniversity has a remark-able depth of talent,research, teaching andoutreach that makes it aleader in areas that gowell beyond the aca-demic community. U of T is an enginefor growth – a source of both leadershipand innovation.

What are our strengths?What challenges do we face?The university is still vastly underfund-ed, on a per-student basis, compared toits peers in the United States. Despitethis, U of T is arguably, dollar for dol-lar, the most productive research uni-versity in the world – second only toHarvard in research impact as meas-ured by citations. For students, suchresearch means access to discovery andan educational experience of theutmost currency and relevance. Foralumni, it means access to some of themost exciting thinkers in the world.For society, it gives Canada a competi-tive edge in research and innovation.Building on these strengths will requirean enormous commitment of time,energy and resources.

Your title is vice-president andchief advancement officer. Howdo you define “advancement”?For me, advancement is about the pur-suit of excellence. It’s about theenhanced opportunities for studentsand faculty that come from investmentin growth and innovation.

What will your priorities bein the coming year?The university’s responsibility to its stu-dents doesn’t end with graduation. Wehave to look for ways to add value to thealumni experience over a lifetime. Anew online alumni community to belaunched next year marks a great addi-tion to that lifelong partnership. It willoffer grads new ways to connect withother alumni and easy access to themany services the university provides.

I also plan to meet with U of T’salumni in Canada and around theworld to encourage the participation ofa more diverse range of grads. I knowfrom the ROM how successful aninstitution can be when it throws itsdoors open to a broad group of people.And I know that initiatives like thatexist in different places around the uni-versity. It’s an approach from which Ithink all of U of T will benefit.

Finally, we will be laying the ground-work for the next generation of fundrais-ing at U of T. The university’s mostrecent campaign ended in 2003 andraised $1 billion. Since then, we’ve begunbuilding new momentum with somevery important major gifts. The key isbuilding a base of support, involvementand interest commensurate with theaspirations of the university.

Thinking BigChief advancement officer David Palmerlays the groundwork for the next generationof fundraising at U of T


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W alk down a busy thorough-fare on any universitycampus today, and, sooner

or later, you’re bound to overhear thatmagic word: Facebook. The social-net-working website Facebook.com startedin 2004 at Harvard, and is now amongthe 10 biggest Internet sites.

Facebook has become the virtualtown square for the U of T community:more than 61,000 students, faculty andalumni are part of the university’sFacebook network. It’s sprawling,chaotic and often a terrific time-waster,but increasingly essential to universitylife. One popular feature is events list-ings, where student groups post newsabout meetings or parties. One recentday in October, the U of T networkhome page touted a toga party, anopen-mic poetry reading and a game ofhide-and-seek in the UniversityCollege quad. Students had also postedmessages looking for lost textbooks,requesting tutors and advertisingapartment rentals. New features popup daily, from online Scrabble gamesto music jukeboxes to virtual gifts.

Alumni are getting into the action aswell, forming Facebook groups for theirown faculty or class. The umbrellaUniversity of Toronto alumni groupposts information about events andprovides networking opportunities forits small but growing list of members.

This additional layer of interactiononline is altering the social landscapein ways large and small. For studentsalready living cheek by jowl in resi-dence, it may seem odd to sit at yourcomputer typing a Facebook messageto someone down the hall, but it’scommon. For commuter studentswho are not always on campus, it’s away to stay in the loop socially and

academically. But the site’s complexetiquette is still emerging. Forinstance, looking at someone’s profileif you aren’t officially confirmed asfriends is known as “creeping,” a prac-tice that is discouraged but wide-spread. And the way students presentthemselves – some are intensely pri-vate, offering few personal details,while others let it all hang out withphotos, employment histories andromantic escapades – reflects the hugecross-section that mingle at the site.

However, Facebook shows signs ofbecoming a victim of its own success.Users such as Rachel dela Fuente, afourth-year sociology and anthropologymajor and a Facebook user since herfirst year at Innis College, feel burned

out by the flood of messages, articles,videos, photo albums and party invitesthat pile up on the site every day.“Sometimes I think it’s ridiculous,” shesays. “It’s a good way to get a summaryof what’s going on with your friends,but most of the people that I do talk to[on the site] are the people that I talkto regularly anyway.”

Facebook’s many contradictions havemade it a fascinating, maddening anddownright addictive tool for U of Tusers. But, as dela Fuente says: “I’ll losetouch if I don’t use it.” – Graham F. Scott

U of T will launch its own onlinecommunity for alumni this summer. Watchfor a story and information about how tosign up in the Spring 2008 issue.


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Recently, Facebook’s U of T network home page touted a toga party, an open-micpoetry reading and a game of hide-and-seek in the University College quad

Are you actively involved with the University?

Would you like to help shape its future?

Nominations open on Friday, January 11, 2008

for three alumni representatives on the

University of Toronto’s Governing Council,

the senior governing body that oversees the

academic, business and student affairs of

the University.

Each position is for a 3-year term, beginning

July 1, 2008.

Qualifications:• Alumnus(a) of the University of Toronto;• Canadian citizen;• Not a student or member of the teaching or admin-

istrative staff of the University;• Supportive of the University’s mission;• Active participant in University and/or community

groups;• Willing to learn about the University's governance;• Willing to make a substantial time commitment to

the work of the Governing Council.

The membership of the Governing Council

should reflect the diversity of the University.

Nominations are, therefore, encouraged from

a wide variety of individuals.

Nomination forms will be available starting at 12 noonon Friday, January 11, 2008 on the Governing Councilwebsite: www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca

or from:

The SecretaryCollege of Electors

Simcoe Hall, Room 106University of Toronto

Toronto, OntarioM5S 1A1

416-978-6576Nominations close at 4 p.m., Monday,

February 25, 2008.

For further information, visitwww.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR ALUMNI MEMBERS OF THEGOVERNING COUNCIL

Want to know more about U of T Facebookmembers? Here are a fewparticulars to get you started.Plays well with others?43 per cent of network members list norelationship status at all. 25 per cent definethemselves as single, 22 per cent are in arelationship, 5 per cent are married, 2 percent are engaged and 2 per cent say, well,“it’s complicated.”Political – or, apolitical – stance64 per cent of network members don’t listtheir political leanings. 13 per cent describethemselves as “liberal,” 3 per cent as “con-servative” and 2 per cent as “apathetic.”Londoners ruleUntil July 2007, when London, England,surpassed it,Toronto was the largestFacebook network in the world, withmore than half-a-million members.

There will be a slight delay in handingin my assignment…Number of “University of TorontoProcrastination Association” members: 3,894Bookish bentThe top five books (or series) are: 1. HarryPotter; 2. 1984; 3. The Catcher in the Rye;4. Pride and Prejudice; 5. Life of PiCheesy sitcom faveRank, among most popular TV shows onthe U of T network, of Friends, an NBC sit-com that first aired in 1994: 6We are the championsNumber of members in the group “I go toU of T, of course I’m better than you!”:4,471We are the ninjasNumber of members in the group“University of Toronto sucks so I’mbecoming a ninja”: 75

– G.F.S.

U of T Facebook Factoids

A $7.5-million gift from David Asperto U of T’s Faculty of Law willestablish a constitutional centre

named in the donor’s honour.A significantportion of the gift – the largest ever to alaw school in Canada – will also support thefaculty’s recently announced buildingrenewal and expansion.

“David’s gift will have a transformativeeffect on constitutional rights here at homeand will also play a vital role in articulatingCanada’s constitutional vision to thebroader world,” says law dean Mayo Moran.

Asper,executive vice-president of Can-West Global Communications, says the giftstems from a commitment to the rightsand freedoms enshrined in the CanadianConstitution. “Rights, freedoms and therule of law are everything if we are toachieve enduring success as a civilization. Ittakes deep commitment to test, study andevaluate our state of freedom on an ongo-ing basis.”

ConstitutionalCentre at Law School


R osannagh MacLennan, a sec-ond-year physical educationand health student,has bounded

her way to a spot in the Beijing 2008Summer Olympics.The trampolinist se-cured a 10th-place finish at the WorldTrampoline and Tumbling Champi-onships in QuebecCity in November,earning herself aplace at the Games.She and teammateKaren Cockburn,who also qualified,won their fifth goldmedal last April atthe Trampoline andTumbling World Cup.

TrampolinistBeijing Bound

RosannaghMacLennan

IT’S OCTOBER 6, AND A CROWD OF TV ENTHUSIASTShas gathered at the Florence Gould Hall in Manhattan to hear“Outside the Box: Television Masterminds.” The panel, part of TheNew Yorker Festival, features the creators of some of the edgiestshows discussing the occupational pleasures and hazards of writingfor the small screen.

The 400-seat auditorium is sold out, each red velour seat occu-pied by the kind of audience member that only New York canattract. There are brassy matrons with Upper East Side accents wear-ing garishly patterned blouses and bright lipstick, and pale, thin 20-something guys with wild mops of hair and retro T-shirts – appar-ently the cultivated look of aspiring screenwriters. And there’s a

smattering of vaguely familiar actors, including Sex and the City’s Stanford Blatch, Carrie’s bestguy friend, with a real-life coterie of four gal pals.

The empty stage projects the pretentious vibe of James Lipton’s Inside the Actors Studio: blackfloor, black walls, tables with black tablecloths, even black director’s chairs – the entire mise enscène as dark as a blank TV screen. Then, like a set flicked on, a colourful gaggle of writers andproducers enter and take their seats. The panel is stacked with HBOers, who exist on the fron-tier or hinterland of the TV world, depending on your viewpoint. There’s Jenji Kohan, the cre-ator of Weeds – the show about the travails of a suburban mom who doubles as a pot dealer.(“Jenji,” snickers a nearby 20-something guy. “Like, ganja.”) David Milch, a dissipated-looking


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character in a rumpled brown blazer, is the panel’s provoca-teur and the swaggering renegade writer behind HBO’sDeadwood. Outer-space guru Ronald D. Moore developed aversion of Battlestar Galactica for the Sci Fi Channel, and for-mer Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon pens the HBOcrime drama The Wire.

Sandwiched in the middle is David Shore (LLB 1982), aU of T Faculty of Law grad and the lone representative of theTV networks. Shore is the Emmy Award-winning writer, cre-ator and executive producer of House – the Fox medicaldrama featuring the misanthropic Dr. Gregory House, a bril-liant diagnostician who thrives on solving the most bafflingmedical puzzles. Shore looks like conservative Network TVGuy with his sharply pressed dark suit, polished black shoes,distinguished grey hair and self-confident demeanour. Hetakes a little good-natured ribbing from Kohan of Weeds, whojokes that The New Yorker bought Shore the expensive seat onthe plane, while forking out less for her ilk. (House fetches 18-19 million viewers per episode, while Weeds weighs in at lessthan one million.) But when Shore recounts a story about anearlier writing gig, he displays an unconventional, subversivebite not usually associated with network types. “When I waswriting for Law & Order, someone asked me, ‘How comethey always arrest and convict the bad guys?’ I said, ‘Theydon’t.’ He said, ‘Name three [episodes].’ I went back andcounted three. They were all the ones I wrote.”

The conversation winds its way to the issue of networkcontrol – how much say executives have over writers’ scripts– and the agenda of networks versus cable. BattlestarGalactica’s Moore maintains that “cable pushes me to go fur-ther, networks reined me in.” Deadwood’s Milch argues that“the network is selling Massengill douches” and, clearly anadvocate for no one, later adds, “Cable is selling ‘It ain’t TV– it’s HBO.’” Shore counters that network execs exert littlecontrol over House, and freedom comes partially from viewernumbers. He points to an episode in which Dr. House givesthe hospital administrator, Dr. Cuddy, an injection in her,ahem, posterior. They clearly couldn’t show a rear view, butthey could be a little cheeky from the side. “When you’re get-ting a 19 share,” he jokes, “it’s OK to show more ass.”

Later Shore adds that network control “tends to be aboutnudity and words – not about politics, not about the stancethe character takes.” Good thing, given that House, played byHugh Laurie, is possibly one of the most contentious charac-

ters that network TV has ever seen. A Vicodin-addicted mal-content, House walks with a limp (his cane is painted withflames, he says, to “make me look like I’m going faster”) yetmetaphorically dances on the edge of a surgical blade. He candiagnose the most confounding conditions (29-year-oldwoman suffering from seizures? Have you considered theham in her fridge? Tapeworm in the brain, anyone?). Hismethods, however, range from unorthodox to overtly illegal,such as sending hapless employees to break into patients’homes to find clues to their illnesses. House holes up in hisoffice to avoid dealing with all of humanity – he believespatients always lie but symptoms never do – yet emerges longenough to alienate roomfuls of people, smiting them withacerbic lines that would send lawsuits flying onto lesser men.(He orders a Mormon doctor to stay away from a patient, orthe patient will “start singing Osmond songs and proposingto five nurses at once” and tells a female colleague that herhair colour makes her “look like a hooker. I like it.”)

‘‘Ilike to think that he is a bigger asshole than I am.I like to think that I’m not an asshole,” quips Shore,48, over breakfast at Bryant Park Hotel’s KoiRestaurant the next morning. Shore doesn’t look like

Network Guy anymore. He looks more approachable, like ahip, laid-back writer, with youthful looks, tousled hair anddark brown eyes suffering slightly from the shadows one pos-sesses at ungodly Sunday morning hours. He’s sporting top-notch Nike sneakers – a Dr. House trademark and Laurie’s giftto the staff during the third season’s wrap. “And House issmarter than I am, which allows him to get away with stuff. Ifhe was of average intelligence with that same attitude and if hewas wrong 50 per cent of the time, he would just never be tol-erated. The only reason he’s tolerated is because he’s right,invariably. I don’t think I fall into that category. But his atti-tudes, his outlook toward the intellect versus emotions, hisoutlook toward almost everything comes from me.”

In 2004, Shore and executive producers Katie Jacobs andPaul Attanasio pitched House to Fox as a medical detectiveshow, a hospital whodunit in which doctors sleuth their waythrough symptoms until they find the medical culprit. It wasafter the show was sold that the idea of a human touch –House – was added. His name is a twist on the granddaddyof all detectives, Sherlock Holmes. Shore found inspiration inHolmes’ cold analysis, his search for an objective truth and

“House is smarter than I am, whichallows him to get away with stuff.He’s tolerated because he’s right”


his fascination with puzzles – “although he was kinder thanHouse,” says Shore. The writings of the late Berton Roueché,The New Yorker staff writer who chronicled intriguing med-ical cases in a gumshoe style, inspired the plots for some ofthe show’s early episodes.

House writers consult regularly with physicians to ensureaccuracy, and Laurie, who hails from Britain, takes greatpains to deliver tongue-twisting terminology with an impec-cable American accent. (“He does a great job with it…but as

he says, he’s playing tennis with a salmon instead of a tennisracquet,” says Shore. “He’s got to fake an accent andact at the same time. And, it’s tough.”) But unplug the heartmonitors, wheel away the gurneys and yank out those IVtubes, and Shore maintains you’ll still find a healthy story-line with general appeal. “In many ways I don’t consider thisa medical show…. The things that interest me in the showare the philosophical things. When House goes on, it’s rarelyabout medicine, it’s about the nature of right and wrong.”

“There is a philosophical bent to the show, an opportunityto speak about life and how to live life,” continues Shore, whois married with three children. “I think good shows alwaysdeal with ethical dilemmas and ethical questions. Good dra-mas are usually about throwing your characters into situa-tions where, do you turn right or do you turn left? Andsomething bad will happen if you turn right and somethingbad will happen if you turn left – which one’s worse? Thisshow has a lot of these moments, which is a great opportu-

nity, but it also has chances for my personal perspective onthe world.” He pauses. “God, that sounds terrible.”

Since debuting in November 2004, House has taken offin the ratings and now holds steady in Nielsen’s top prime-time TV shows of the season. For the week of November 5,House ranked number six. In 2005, Shore won an Emmy inthe “Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series” category anda 2006 Humanitas Prize, both for his episode “ThreeStories,” in which House presents three narratives to a class

of medical students, ultimately revealing the story of hisown medical struggle.

S hore grew up in London, Ontario, the eldest of threeboys. (His younger twin brothers are now rabbis inIsrael.) An avid TV watcher, he loved comedies andThe Rockford Files detective series. But writing, for any

medium, wasn’t a career goal. After studying math for two yearsat the University of Western Ontario in London, he enteredU of T’s Faculty of Law. “I wanted to be a lawyer from the timeI was 12 years old until the second week of law school,” saysShore. “I didn’t like law school. I liked it socially; it just wasn’tright for me. I made good friends there, but academically I justkind of drifted through.”

What he did enjoy was working on the Faculty of Law’sstudent newspaper, Hearsay, which he edited with Mark Gray(LLB 1983) and David Hoselton (LLB 1982). (Shore suc-cinctly summed up his take on law school in one issue of

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“Dave definitely pushed the envelope and still does today,”says Hoselton, who is now a co-producer of House. “Whenwe took the paper over it was called the University of TorontoLaw School Newsletter – which was very imaginative. And itwas filled with University of Toronto law school news. Afterchanging the name to Hearsay, you can imagine what it wasfilled with. And we got into a little bit of trouble for trying tomake it a little less reverent. It was always about amusing our-

selves and taking chances with the material andgoing as far as we could possibly go with it.”

The newspaper featured plenty of offbeat, oftensophomoric, humour – usually lobbed at facultymembers and classmates. One “Fun with theFaculty” department invited readers to match profswith their likeliest method of committing murder;open-party announcements included the homeaddresses of unsuspecting students; and in the “Askthe Daves” column, the editors answered their ownfake letters. (Sample question: “Dear Daves:

Everyone knows the Chipmunks were Alvin, Theodore andSimon, but what the heck was their manager’s name? Youknow, the human guy? Dave.” “Dear Dave: Dave.”)

“There was some fallout from the same stuff I get falloutfrom today – the standards and practices department,which back then was the dean,” says Shore. “If we did any-thing that was a little off-colour, we would hear about it.”Frank Iacobucci was the dean at the time, but it fell to stu-dent liaison and Shore’s close friend Lorne Cameron – nowa screenwriter in L.A. – to relay the dean’s directives. SaysShore, “I remember Iacobucci basically asked us to makefewer masturbation jokes. We didn’t get that directly fromthe dean. In a way, for us, it was more fun that it came fromLorne.” (Indeed, a tongue-in-cheek note from Cameronappears in one issue: “The buck stops here. Thus as vice-president and chief returning officer, I must take fullresponsibility for Dave Shore’s incompetence. There, I didit. Now leave me alone.”)

Shore also found creative outlets on stage. He hosted thefirst annual Law School Follies and did standup gigs at clubssuch as Yuk Yuks. He entered a comedy contest in his home-town, and his standup skills earned him the title The ThirdFunniest Person in London. (“One day, hopefully, I can ful-fil my dream of working for the first funniest man inLondon,” jokes Hoselton.)

After completing law school, Shore articled for one year inLondon, Ontario, and then practised corporate and munici-pal law for almost five years at a Toronto firm, where he madepartner. His friends Cameron and Hoselton had moved toLos Angeles to write movies shortly after bar exams – and theidea of making a similar move was brewing in Shore’s mind.In 1991, he readied to take a leap, with an initial plan to writecomedy scripts and possibly do some standup. Shore recallsPH

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From movies to TV and comedy to animation, here is a small sampling of

U of T alumni who wrote their way to success south of the border.

Before he began his decades-long domination of Saturday’s late-night

airwaves with Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels (BA 1966 UC)

produced and directed the student-run University College Follies.

Some of Michaels’ earliest gigs included writing for Rowan & Martin’s

Laugh-In and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. He and

Hart Pomerantz (BA 1962 UC, LLB 1965) also wrote

and performed in their own CBC variety show, The

Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour, in 1970. Then, in 1975,

Michaels created his oft-imitated, never-duplicated

SNL, which has provided a hip launching pad for gen-

erations of comedians. Michaels is also executive pro-

ducer of Late Night With Conan O’Brien, and has pro-

duced a multitude of movies associated with SNLers,

including Mean Girls, Wayne’s World and Tommy Boy.

Graham Yost (BA 1980 TRIN), who has written for both the big

and small screens, comes by his love of movies honestly: his father is

Elwy Yost (BA 1948), who hosted TVOntario’s Saturday Night at the

Movies for a quarter century. (Elwy once sent his son to school with

the note:“Graham is late for school because I had him stay up late to

watch Citizen Kane.”) Yost is creator, executive producer and writer

of Raines - the police drama featuring Jeff Goldblum as an LAPD

homicide detective with an eccentric manner of solving murders

(chiefly, having imagined conversations with dead victims).Yost was

the creator and executive producer of the TV show Boomtown, and

a writer on the miniseries Band of Brothers and the Sandra

Bullock/Keanu Reeves flick Speed. He is now a writer and co-execu-

tive producer on the HBO miniseries The Pacific.

It’s hard to mention David Hoselton (LLB 1982), a co-producer on

House, without mentioning screenwriter Lorne Cameron (LLB

1982), given their extensive collaboration.The gig that started it all? The

inaugural Law Follies in 1979 - which was emceed by their friend David

Shore.More illustrious jobs were in their future: they wrote First Knight,

featuring Sean Connery as King Arthur, the Disney-animated feature

Brother Bear and the DreamWorks Animation film Over the Hedge.

As a writer at The Varsity student newspaper, Tim Long (BA 1992

UC) recognized he had a “knack for making fun of people,” he told

U of T Magazine in 2001. He parlayed that dubious gift into the kind of

career not listed in guidance counsellors’ handbooks: professional

lampoonist. Long interned at Spy Magazine, and has been a staff writer

at Politically Incorrect and head writer at The Late Show with David

Letterman. He has now spent nearly a decade putting words in the

cartoon mouths of the buffoonish brood The Simpsons. Long is a

supervising producer on the show, and was also a consulting writer

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breaking the news to his law partners. “I announced, ‘I’mleaving in three or four months to go to L.A. to be funny.’And it got the reaction you’d expect from everybody. Theythought I was insane. They said, ‘You’re not that funny.’”Shore negotiated the opportunity to return to the firm ifthings didn’t work out within two years.

At 31, Shore rented a tiny one-bedroom apartment, oneblock from Hollywood Boulevard and not far from Mann’sChinese Theatre. He didn’t take writing classes; instead, heread plenty of scripts. His first writing attempt was a filmscreenplay. “I showed it to my friends who were down there,and then I didn’t show it to anybody else. It wasn’t verygood,” he claims. Then he wrote a spec episode of Seinfeld –which his friends did like. He found an agent based on thestrength of that and a spec L.A. Law script, and continued todevelop his knack for TV writing. And approximately twoweeks past his two-year deadline, he was offered a freelancewriting gig for the TV show The Untouchables.

A year later, Shore landed his first staff-writing job, onDue South, the comedy-drama that followed CanadianMountie Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) through his investigativeexploits. Shore moved back to Toronto for the show, and in1996 picked up a Gemini Award for Best Writing in aDramatic Series for his work. That same year, Shore becamehead writer on and supervising producer of the Canadianshow Traders. He then headed back to L.A. and wrote forsome of TV’s biggest hits, including NYPD Blue and the firstseason of The Practice. After garnering two Emmy nomina-tions in 1998 and 1999 as a producer on Law & Order, heserved as executive producer on Family Law and Hack. Housecame along in 2004, and Shore has been putting caustic linesinto his main character’s mouth ever since.

W riting for television is a pressure cooker.Consider, the average film shoots two pagesof a 100-page script a day and takesmonths to complete, while a weekly TV

show shoots six to eight pages per day – and wraps up in eightdays. The House crew works on multiple episodes at once:while one is being shot and another prepped, writers are com-pleting the next script.

Ninety per cent of Shore’s job is writing – and rewriting.He heads a team of 13 writers, who work individually or inpairs on an episode. Shore meets with them about the storiesthey’re working on, then provides extensive feedback on theirinitial outline and first draft. On the second draft, he polishesor rewrites – a process that takes one to four days. Before anepisode is shot, Shore walks the director through the script,telling him what each scene is about and the moments hewants to capture. And about half-a-dozen times a day, he’scalled to the set to watch a rehearsal and give his input beforethe shooting takes place. So, even though Shore’s name maynot be on the script, it always contains his voice, ensuring theshow has a consistent look and feel.

And, of course, the character of House has its own partic-ular challenges – such as creating those outrageous Housemoments without being gratuitous. “The audience is expect-ing, ‘What crazy thing is he going to do that’s going to shockme this week?’ And how am I going to shock somebody who’sexpecting to be shocked? I’m hiding in the closet about tojump out and yell ‘boo,’ and the audience is standing outsidethe closet waiting for the door to open. But you’ve got to keepit organic, it’s got to be true to the character. Internally, whatI say is, ‘The punishment may not fit the crime, but there’salways a crime. If House is giving somebody crap, there’s areason he’s giving them crap.’” Otherwise, laughs Shore, “hebecomes a jerk as opposed to an interesting jerk.”

Despite the inventive writing in many shows, TVis vilified in a manner that other creative medi-ums are not. Perhaps it’s because shows getlumped together with the lowest common

denominator – if, say, Dancing with the Stars is accruing thehighest audience numbers, people tend to link TV withMarie Osmond lurching around in tights. Or, perhaps it’saccessibility that breeds contempt. As Shore says, “It’s a massmedium, and I think there’s a tendency for us to dismiss any-thing that, ‘oh well, everybody’s enjoying it, it must not bethat good. It’s not just for us smart people.’”

Shore recalls a dinner party at his brother’s house, where aguest announced he had sworn off television. “It was a bigdinner party, I was just sitting there and nobody knew whatI did, and he said, ‘I got rid of my TV. I haven’t watched TVin six months.’ And everybody around the table was like,‘Good for you! Excellent! Oh God, I know how hard that is!’It was literally like the guy said he had given up heroin. AndI’m sitting at the end of the table, the guy who is outside theschoolyard, going, ‘Hey kid, come here.’”

Despite the analogy to TV writer as dealer, Shore believesthat perceptions of TV are changing – partly because it hasbecome so diffuse, with so many channels and shows target-ing niche audiences. “I do think television is storytelling. I’min the storytelling business, and when did that become bad?Why is TV somehow worse than books – OK, because booksmake you use your imagination. Well, why is TV worse thanmovies? Why is TV worse than plays? You know, theatre – myGod, you’re a playwright, that’s so tremendous. But if it’ssomething that’s getting filmed, somehow you’re a hack.”

And House, with his inherently rebellious nature, offersplenty of fodder for a storyteller. After all, he’s the guy withthe chutzpah to say everything you think – and much, muchmore. Does Shore share some of the same rebelliousness as hisfictional creation? “I’m a rebel in the sense that I do look atthings and, like anybody does, go, ‘Oh God, give me abreak,’” he says. “I am just in a situation where I’ve got a pul-pit to actually say ‘give me a break’ to 19 million people.”

Stacey Gibson is the managing editor of U of T Magazine.


Five years ago,Mary McKinley began to notice thatsimple tasks at the office where she worked were taking herlonger than usual to complete. Ringing telephones and clack-ing keyboards distracted her. She became easily confused andcouldn’t sit at her desk for longer than an hour without tak-ing a break outside, away from the din. At first she thoughtthere was a problem with the air in the building. But none ofher co-workers were complaining.

The confusion persisted, so McKinley, 63, found a newjob in a quieter environment at a lawyer’s office, not far fromher home in Picton, Ontario. One morning, she forgot howto turn her computer on. Not long after, while making bread,she poured flour into the sink instead of the breadmaker.Putting in dentures – something she’d done every morningfor years – suddenly proved baffling. “At that point,” she says,“I knew something was screwy.”

McKinley booked an appointment with her doctor andunderwent a battery of tests, including a mini-mental stateexamination – 11 questions that physicians commonly useto screen for dementia. The doctor asked McKinley to statethe day’s date and the location of his office. He asked her tofold a piece of paper in half and put it on the floor. Whenhe asked her to count backward from 100 by sevens, herbrain seemed to freeze; she couldn’t remember how.McKinley says the doctor’s eventual diagnosis – Alzheimer’sdisease – came as a complete surprise to her. “I didn’t know

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Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslopdidn’t know much aboutAlzheimer’s disease, either, when

he was a second-year medical student atthe University of Ottawa. He recallsexamining a woman who exhibited nophysical problems but appeared con-fused and couldn’t remember why shehad come to see a doctor in the firstplace. “It was very intriguing to me,”

says St. George-Hyslop, now a U of Tprofessor and leading authority onAlzheimer’s. “Everything worked, excepther faculties of higher reasoning.”

A talented medical student whograduated at the age of 21, St. George-Hyslop went on to train in neurologyand internal medicine and do post-doc-toral work in molecular genetics atHarvard Medical School. There, hebegan investigating the genetic under-pinnings of Alzheimer’s, a cruel and, asof yet, incurable disease that graduallyrobs patients of their memory and allhigher thought processes. St. George-Hyslop was intrigued by the gooeyplaques and tangled fibres – firstobserved by the German physician AloisAlzheimer more than 70 years earlier –that develop in the brains of those with

Alzheimer’s. In 1990, he returned toToronto, to U of T’s newly establishedCentre for Research in Neurodegen-erative Diseases (CRND), to continuehis work in genetics and study howthese plaques and tangles form. Today,he leads the research efforts of more than60 CRND staff as they hunt the geneticcauses of – and potential treatments for– some of humanity’s most debilitatingbrain illnesses, including Alzheimer’s.

It’s an immense undertaking. Re-search into the genetic causes of a dis-ease is an extremely complex, time-con-suming and competitive process thatinvolves gradually narrowing down thelocation of one or more genes from theestimated 20,000 that comprise thehuman genome. In his book, TheSelfish Gene, Oxford University evolu-tionary biologist Richard Dawkinscompares the human genome to 46rolls of ticker tape – corresponding tothe 46 human chromosomes. On theseticker tapes is written an individual’sentire DNA code, comprising somethree billion coding units called “basepairs.” Dawkins defines a gene as a sec-tion of code on one ticker tape, withnothing to clearly mark the end of onegene and the start of another. One canunderstand, then, why locating a specif-ic gene is so difficult.

By the time St. George-Hysloparrived at CRND, the race to be thefirst to identify a major gene responsiblefor Alzheimer’s was in full swing. In1992, scientists narrowed the search toa large section of Chromosome 14.Through some clever detective workand painstaking analysis over the nextfew years, St. George-Hyslop and histeam eventually identified a singlemutation in a previously unknown geneon Chromosome 14 as a cause of early-onset Alzheimer’s. The gene, whichthey called “presenilin 1,” heraldedCRND’s arrival as a significant interna-tional force. “That really was a fiercelycompetitive piece of research,” recallsSt. George-Hyslop, noting that severalother academic groups and biotechcompanies had been hunting for thesame gene. Being first confers a range of

advantages: international accolades andattention, and the likelihood of greaterresearch funding. “In terms of gettinggrants, it’s much better to say, ‘I wasfirst,’” says St. George-Hyslop, whoseems to appreciate such accoladesmore for their help in advancing thecentre’s mission than any sense of per-sonal reward. “I like an interestingproblem and a neat solution. I prefernot to be publicly outlined.”

CRND’s discovery of presenilin 1(and, a few months later, presenilin 2)helped guide the direction of subse-quent research into Alzheimer’s disease.As St. George-Hyslop explains, the pre-senilin genes produce proteins that initi-ate the disease. He understood that bylearning how these proteins interactwith each other and the neurons theydestroyed, he and his team might beable to point the way to new Alzheimer’streatments. They might, for example, beable to propose how to stop the bodyfrom producing the amyloid-beta pro-tein that causes the toxic plaques,remove it from the brain or prevent itfrom aggregating into plaques. Then,they might be able to provide new hopefor the millions of people worldwide –and the 300,000 in Canada – who suf-fer from Alzheimer’s disease.

Doctors advise Alzheimer’s pa-tients to stay as active as possible,since studies show that physical

and mental stimulation may help slowthe disease’s inevitable progression.

McKinley, who enjoys doting on her10 grandchildren, couldn’t imagine notliving an active lifestyle. “If you sit anddwell on it, and think ‘Poor me,’ you’llgo downhill fast,” she says. Instead,McKinley, now retired, writes a weeklyblog and still manages to bake breadevery other day. Last summer, she andher husband, Jim, cycled the countryroads outside of Picton on a tandembike. For a while, she hosted an onlinechat room for Alzheimer’s sufferers andcaregivers run by the Fisher Center forAlzheimer’s Disease at RockefellerUniversity in New York City. She stillspends several hours a day online,

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researching her condition and sharinginformation about it with some of themore than 600 people she’s met in thechat room in the past two years.Gregarious by nature, McKinley keeps adetailed record of everyone she meets. “Ilove chatting with people,” she says.

So far, McKinley hasn’t experiencedthe debilitating short-term memory lossthat affects most Alzheimer’s patients.In fact, this oddity cast some doubt onMcKinley’s diagnosis. Dr. Sandra Black,the head of neurology at SunnybrookHealth Sciences Centre in Toronto,tested McKinley and told her she has aform of frontotemporal dementia, acondition similar to Alzheimer’s. Afterrunning additional tests, Black changedher mind and now believes the originaldiagnosis is correct. “It seems to dependon what my brain is doing on any givenday,” shrugs McKinley, who also suffersfrom poor balance, an early indicationof Alzheimer’s.

Medications have eased McKinley’ssymptoms. She takes Aricept and Ebixa– drugs that temporarily reduce the tell-tale signs of Alzheimer’s but don’t halt orslow its progression. Since starting thetwo drugs about a year-and-a-half ago,“things have gotten better and better,”she says.

Still, the disease has forced McKinleyto adapt. She gave up driving after ascare while overtaking a farm tractor onthe road to Picton. (She noticed anoncoming truck and couldn’t decidewhether to slow down or speed up topass.) She doesn’t enjoy dinner parties;the loud, overlapping conversationsconfuse her. McKinley uses a walkeroutside the house to keep her balance.Inside, she steps carefully, placing onehand on the furniture, a wall, the door,to steady herself. Despite facing daunt-ing challenges and a grim prognosis, sherefuses to succumb to anger or self-pity.“This is just a new part of life, anotherjourney,” she says, philosophically. “Youjust do things a little differently: a littlemore slowly.”

Like many Alzheimer’s patients andtheir caregivers, McKinley watchesclosely for news of drug developments.

She tells me about a potential new drugthat’s designed to prevent the amyloidplaques from forming in the brain. “Afew people say that it will reverse symp-toms,” she says, hopefully. “There’s a lotof talk in the chat room about that.”

F rom the moment a scientist iso-lates a molecule with intriguingtherapeutic potential to the day

Health Canada approves it for publicuse is a long and tortuous journey withmany potential dead-ends. The wholeprocess often takes a decade or longer,and the vast majority of potentialdrugs don’t make it out of the testingphase. Earlier this year, Quebec-basedNeurochem announced plans to mar-ket Alzhemed, its leading Alzheimer’scandidate drug, as a nutraceutical (adietary supplement) rather than a drugafter testing in patients failed to showconclusive positive results.

Patients and caregivers grasp at anyhint of hopeful news, which is why St.George-Hyslop is careful to be realisticabout CRND’s efforts in the area ofpotential therapies. Yes, pharmaceuti-cal companies are testing some inter-esting possibilities as a result of thecentre’s research, but no, there’s noth-ing that actually slows the disease inAlzheimer’s patients – yet. He prefersto steer attention to the centre’s inves-

tigations into the biology of how thedisease progresses.

Since St. George-Hyslop and histeam identified mutations in the prese-nilin genes as a cause of Alzheimer’s,some of the centre’s researchers havebeen seeking to understand exactly whatthe presenilin genes do and how muta-tions in these genes lead to the disease.As is often the case with scientific inves-tigation, things are significantly morecomplex than they first appear.

Paul Fraser, one of CRND’s principalresearchers, has worked closely with St.George-Hyslop since arriving at the cen-tre in 1991. Fraser earned a PhD in bio-chemistry at U of T and did post-doc-toral work in neurobiology at Harvard

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Dr. Paul Fraser studies proteins in thebody that cause Alzheimer’s

Medical School. He has spent a lot of time inves-tigating the presenilin genes, which, it turns out,regulate not just a single protein in the brain, buta whole family of proteins involved in producingamyloid. Scientists have uncovered four majorproteins, says Fraser, but there are “probably manymore that impact on each of those four.” In 2006,Fraser was part of an international research teamled by the University of Toronto that uncoveredTMP21, a naturally occurring protein in thebrain that inhibits the production of amyloid.

Figuring out what all these proteins do andhow they interact will be a time-consumingprocess, requiring years of lab work. But theknowledge should yield some promising avenuesfor new therapies. Teasing out exactly howTMP21 inhibits amyloid, for example, and whyit doesn’t affect other functions in the presenilincomplex could provide a blueprint for an effec-tive drug. (Presenilin governs several importantsignalling processes in the brain, and previousattempts to block or slow the production ofamyloid have resulted in serious complicationsin patients.)

On another front, the centre has conductedresearch that could lead to an Alzheimer’s vaccine.In 2000, St. George-Hyslop and his team showedthat a vaccine worked in a mouse model ofAlzheimer’s. The vaccine went into clinical trials,but the trials were stopped when some of theimmunized patients developed brain inflamma-tion. Since then, CRND’s researchers have shownwhat may have caused the toxic effect. This workhas served as a basis for the development of new,refined vaccines.

Last year, CRND researchers published apaper in Nature Medicine describing a moleculethat prevents the amyloid protein from aggregat-ing into toxic plaques. The centre tested themolecule in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s andfound it improved the mice’s cognitive ability.CRND has licensed the potential drug toToronto’s Transition Therapeutics for testing inhumans. In August, Transition announced thesuccessful completion of Phase 1 clinical trials(to test the drug’s tolerability in healthy humans)but has yet to start Phase 2 trials (to test tolera-bility in people with Alzheimer’s). At this earlystage of development, the drug is still a long shotto succeed.

Despite all of these intriguing therapeuticpossibilities, St. George-Hyslop believes aneffective Alzheimer’s treatment may still bemany years away. He compares our understand-

ARE YOU AT RISK OFDEVELOPING ALZHEIMER’S?


Genetic testing may provide an answer – but it’s rarelydecisive and can have unexpected consequences

People with a family history of Alzheimer’s disease mayconsider genetic testing to find out if they are at risk. Butexperts say the tests are only useful in certain circum-

stances, and they raise a host of thorny personal and legal issues.Two types of genetic tests exist for Alzheimer’s.A predictive test

determines whether an unaffected person has a very high chanceof developing the disease, but is useful for only the small numberof people who carry a genetic mutation causing the early-onsetform. (At least 90 per cent of Alzheimer’s cases are late-onset andnot clearly hereditary, so a negative test result doesn’t rule out thepossibility of developing the disease.)

Another test, known as genetic risk assessment, indicates ifsomeone has a somewhat greater likelihood of developingAlzheimer’s, but it can’t predict with any certainty who will or willnot develop the disease. Because the test is not predictive, it’s notoffered as a clinical service in Canada.

People considering genetic testing for Alzheimer’s will want to thinkcarefully about how a positive result could affect them – and familymembers – psychologically, since there is no long-term effective treat-ment or cure.They may also want to think twice before stepping intoa legal grey zone, says Trudo Lemmens, a U of T law professor and co-author of the book Reading the Future? Legal and Ethical Challenges ofPredictive Genetic Testing. Lemmens says the law is still unclear, forexample, about who can use the information from a genetic test andfor what purpose. Should insurance companies be able to screen peo-ple on the basis of a genetic test? What about adoption agencies andemployers? “Risk of early death is certainly information that would beinteresting to some of these groups,” he says.

As the tests become cheaper to conduct, Lemmens says insurancecompanies could use genetic information to deny coverage or chargehigher premiums to individuals with an increased risk of developing alife-threatening disease. In theory, employers could use it to excludeemployees with undesirable traits from the workplace, and adoptionagencies could use it to rule out some prospective parents.

On the other hand, there are situations in which the genetic testresults could prove beneficial. For people who have a family historyof Alzheimer’s, a negative result could yield a reduction in insur-ance premiums. (These people normally pay higher premiums, sinceinsurance companies already use family medical history to assessan individual’s health risks.)

To guard against the misuse of genetic information, the lawshould regulate who can conduct genetic testing and for whatpurpose, says Lemmens. “This is a fundamentally personal decision.We don’t want people to be forced to undergo genetic testing foremployment or insurance purposes, for example, and to knowsomething they didn’t want to know.” – SA

ing of the disease today to where can-cer research was 20 years ago. The firstgeneration of anti-amyloid drugs arebeing tested and, until the results arein, “all bets are off,” he says. Althoughconfident that new therapies will slowthe disease and may even induce aslight improvement in patients, he’sdoubtful that removing the amyloidplaques is the end of the story.

St. George-Hyslop is particularlyconcerned about the tangled fibres thatform inside diseased neurons. Althoughit’s possible that treating the amyloidwill be all that’s necessary to bring aboutimprovements in Alzheimer’s patients,the amyloid may, in fact, have causedtangles to form or irreversibly damagedneurons in other ways. In other words,simply removing amyloid from thebrain, or preventing it from aggregating,may not be enough. (Scientists nowbelieve that amyloid builds up in thebrain for years, or even decades, beforepatients start to show symptoms.) St.George-Hyslop worries that the tangles,which are deadly to neurons, may causethe disease to progress until they arestopped. “That’s a major concern at thispoint,” he says.

Research into any disease proceeds inthree phases: first, understanding itscauses and how it works; then, design-ing treatments to stop or prevent it; andfinally, repairing the damage it hascaused. So far, most Alzheimer’s researchfalls into the first category; work on thesecond phase, designing treatments, isjust beginning. However, CRND is nowlooking for researchers for the final stage– studying how neurons are born, movearound the brain and connect with eachother – in the hope of being able torepair brain damage.

Last spring, St. George-Hyslop wonthe $5-million Premier’s SummitAward, which recognizes world-classresearch in Ontario. He will use themoney to recruit researchers interestedin neuronal repair. This type of study isin its infancy, but could have hugeimplications not only for people withAlzheimer’s disease, but for individualswho have had a stroke or who have a

brain tumour or mental retardation, saysSt. George-Hyslop. “Even in a simpleanimal, such as a worm or fly, under-standing these processes is going to bevery difficult. In humans it will take adecade or two.”

As with all research endeavours,money is crucial – and not always easyto come by. For the bulk of its funding,CRND relies on peer-reviewed researchgrants and donations from individualsand non-profit societies interested inneurodegenerative diseases. Although a$5-million grant is considered unusuallylarge in Canada, St. George-Hyslop saysit would be fairly typical in the U.S.With its funding limits, CRND mustchoose its projects carefully. “Right nowwe’re constrained to pursuing a numberof main ideas, but there are many otherprojects we could do in six months or ayear if we had the resources,” he says.

In the meantime, the difficult labwork continues. St. George-Hyslopdoesn’t encounter Alzheimer’s patientson a day-to-day basis, but the centre hasrelationships with many of the families

who have donated DNA for studies.He’s aware that they’re grateful for thegroundbreaking research at CRND, buthe’s not prepared to accept any plaudits– not until an effective treatment isfound. “We haven’t accomplished ourgoal yet,” he says.

McKinley understands that hercondition will worsen. Sheremains hopeful, however,

that the work of St. George-Hyslopand other researchers around the worldwill lead to an effective treatment and,one day, a cure. In the meantime,McKinley knows that, despite thedrugs she is taking, she will graduallylose the ability to do many of the thingsshe likes, such as baking bread andcycling with her husband. I ask her ifshe fears for the future. She shakes herhead, smiles. “I’m loving life and I havea very good feeling with God,” she says.“I have no problem moving on.”

Scott Anderson is the editor of U of TMagazine



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THE EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR NUCLEARResearch – known by its French acronym,CERN – occupies a sprawling complex on theoutskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. The cluster of

nondescript white buildings doesn’t look much like a sciencelaboratory, let alone one of the foremost labs in the world.But here, in just a few months, physicists and engineersfrom around the world will fire up a machine to answersome of the most fundamental questions about the struc-ture of the universe. To a first-time visitor, only the streetsigns – Route Newton, Route Einstein – offer a hint ofwhat is going on here.

The real excitement is below ground.Accompanied by an official from

CERN’s press office, I make my way tothe northeastern corner of the complex –to Building 2155 – where Mike Lamont,a senior CERN engineer, greets me.Lamont hands me a hard hat and ushersme through a series of security doors and into what lookslike a large freight elevator. We descend 80 metres belowground to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). When it’sswitched on this spring, the $8-billion facility will be theworld’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator – andthe biggest, most complex science experiment ever devised.

The accelerator is being built in a tunnel that’s shapedlike an enormous doughnut, 8.5 kilometres in diameter.Longer than the London Underground’s Circle Line, thetunnel straddles the border between Switzerland and

France, lying underneath towns and farms in bothcountries. As I look down the length of the tunnel’sconcrete walls, I can just see where it begins to curve.Lamont tells me that were I to broach the securitydoors and enter the tunnel when the accelerator wasrunning, the radiation would make my visit brief.“You’d be dead within a few minutes,” he says dryly.

Work crews are still constructing the LHC,although the section we’re visiting is almost com-plete. As Lamont and I stand by the tunnel wall,the only sounds we can hear are the rumbling of

vacuum pumps and the dis-tant footsteps of engineersand scientists. In front of usis a blue and silver metal pipeabout a metre wide, whichruns the length of the tun-nel. Lamont explains thatinside the pipe, streams of

protons will be accelerated to within a fraction ofthe speed of light. (The protons will move soclose to the speed of light, in fact, that if theychased a beam of light on the four-year journeyto Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our sun,they’d lose the race by a single second.) Theworld’s largest array of superconducting electro-magnets will steer the accelerated protonsaround the pipe. To keep the current flowing inthese magnets resistance-free, huge tanks of liq-

The Globe of Scienceand Innovation at CERN

This spring, an international team of physicists, including severalfrom U of T, will launch the most ambitious science experimentever devised.Their goal: to unlock the secrets of the universeBY DAN FALK

Inside this pipe at the Large Hadron Collider, streams of protons will be accelerated to within a fraction of the speed of light.Physicists hope that collisions between the protons will yield insights into the fundamental structure of matter

uid helium will cool them to a temperature of 1.9 degreesabove absolute zero – about one degree colder than outerspace. The protons will zip around the pipe at a rate of morethan 11,000 laps per second, passing breezily back and forthbetween France and Switzerland on every lap.

At the same time, the scientists will send a second streamof protons whizzing through the pipe in the opposite direc-tion. The debris from the resulting proton collisions will belike gold to the physicists – who include a large U of T con-tingent. The LHC will allow scientists to glimpse exotic par-ticles and, by simulating the conditions in the early universe,help them understand how the fundamental building blocksof matter interact. Experiments at the LHC could helpexplain why there’s so much matter and so little antimatter inthe universe. They could give physicists a peek at possibleextra dimensions beyond the three dimensions of space – andone for time – that we’re familiar with. And, perhaps aboveall, they may help explain the origin of mass – why the uni-verse is full of stars and galaxies in the first place.

Erich Poppitz, a U of T theoretical physicist who wasspending a month at CERN when I visited last summer,described the LHC as “the most important experiment to comeonline in particle physics in the last 20 or 30 years. It is cer-tainly the most important experiment in my lifetime in physics.”

PARTICLE PHYSICS HAS COME A LONG WAY SINCEscientists first began to probe the structure of the atom at thestart of the 20th century. While the ancient Greeks imaginedthat the atom’s nucleus was an indivisible entity, scientistsnow know that the nucleus is made of two sorts of heavy par-ticles – protons, with a positive electrical charge, and neu-trons, with no charge. Swirling around these heavy particlesare much lighter electrons, with a negative charge. By the1970s, the number of fundamental particles (those thoughtnot to be made up of anything smaller) swelled dramatically.Scientists discovered that protons and neutrons were made

up of two kinds of quarks, dubbed “up” and “down.” Fourother quarks, given such fanciful names as “charm,”“strange,” “top” and “bottom,” rarely show themselves innature but have been created in particle accelerators. Theelectron has heavier cousins (also carrying a negative electri-cal charge) known as the muon and the tau. Physicists havealso learned that the electron, muon and tau are each associ-ated with a tiny, chargeless particle called a neutrino. And ahandful of messenger particles, known as bosons, mediateinteractions between all of the other particles. (If we think ofquarks and electrons – the building blocks of solid matter –as political leaders, then bosons are the diplomats who shut-tle information back and forth between them.) The mathe-matical description for these particles and their interactions isthe Standard Model of particle physics.

In many ways, the Standard Model – developed morethan 30 years ago – has held up remarkably well to experi-mental scrutiny. Several particles predicted by the model havesubsequently been observed. (Scientists postulated the exis-tence of the W and Z bosons in the late 1960s and discov-ered them at CERN in the 1980s.) The theory still suffers asignificant flaw, though. A particle called the Higgs boson,first theorized in 1964 by Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, hasyet to be observed. Finding the Higgs is a priority of LHCscientists. “It is really the one missing piece of the StandardModel,” says Richard Teuscher, a U of T experimental physi-cist who has been working on the LHC for nearly a decade.“It’s as if you’ve taken a whole chunk out of the puzzle; itdoesn’t hold together.” In the world of particle physics, theHiggs shoulders a lot of responsibility. Some physicists jok-ingly refer to it as “the God particle.”

The Higgs boson is a vital part of the Standard Modelbecause it explains why other particles exhibit the mass thatthey do. It explains, for example, why the top quark is soheavy (it’s almost as massive as an atom of gold), and why theelectron is so light. The Higgs is thought to create a field (like


Above:A large contingent of University of Toronto physicists is working at the LHC; in the front row, from left are Robert Orr,Richard Teuscher and William Trischuk. Right:A section of the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of four particle detectors at the LHC

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an electromagneticfield) that permeatesall of space. This fieldmakes other particles

seem heavy as theystruggle to move through

it. John Ellis, a theoristbased at CERN, provides

the analogy of a snow-covered field: “Imagine vari-

ous people trying to cross thefield,” he says. “If you’re wearing

cross-country skis, you can gopretty fast.” The skiers correspond to a

massless particle, like the photon, whichtravels at the speed of light. Now, consider

somebody on snowshoes. “They go somewhat slow-er; they sink a little bit into the snow – they don’t travel at the

speed of light, and for us that means that they have a non-zeromass.” Finally, consider someone trying to cross the field inhiking boots. “They’re going to sink way down into the snow;they’re going to go very, very slow indeed – and that will be aparticle which has a very large mass.”

Most theorists are confident that the Higgs boson exists,believing that the only reason why no one has observed it yetis because of its large mass. Until now, no particle acceleratorhas been powerful enough to bring the Higgs into view. “Forme, as an experimental physicist, until I’ve seen it, touched it,played with it, manipulated it in the lab, I don’t think wereally have an understanding of it,” says William Trischuk,a U of T physics professor. “We have a mathematical model.Until we actually make one, it’s not really physics.” If theHiggs is real, the LHC ought to be able to find it – or elseshow that it doesn’t exist.

THE LHC’S MOST SOPHISTICATED COMPONENTSare four particle detectors that are being assembled at dif-ferent points along the circumference of the maintunnel. ATLAS (which stands for A Toroidal LHCApparatuS) is one of the largest of these detec-tors. Scientists hope it will identify the exoticparticles that appear when the two beams ofprotons smash into one another.

Like all of the LHC detectors, ATLASlies deep below ground, in a concrete cav-ern that’s roughly the size of the main lobbyof Toronto’s Union Station. ProfessorTeuscher guides me along the scaffoldingthat surrounds what looks like a jet engine –if you can imagine a jet engine the size of asmall office building. When it’s finished,ATLAS will weigh 7,000 tonnes and be madefrom the same amount of steel that was usedto construct the Eiffel Tower, says Teuscher.

Like many of the U of T faculty involved in assemblingATLAS, Teuscher is spending most of his time at CERN thesedays – especially now that the final stages of the detector aretaking shape. Besides professors Teuscher and Trischuk, fiveother U of T physicists are directly involved with ATLAS:Robert Orr, who heads Canada’s ATLAS team; Pekka Sinervo,who will be stepping down as dean of the Faculty of Arts andScience next summer to work on the detector; and professorsDavid Bailey, Peter Krieger and Pierre Savard. More than adozen research associates and students (graduate and under-graduate) are also involved.

Teuscher points out some of ATLAS’s shiny metal com-ponents, explaining that magnets will steer the particles,calorimeters will measure their energy content, and a vari-ety of tracking devices and detectors will record where theparticles end up. A staggering array of electronic equipmentwill keep ATLAS’s parts working in concert. Many of thecomponents that make up the calorimeters were built atU of T and shipped to CERN, where they will help Teuscherand his colleagues identify the particles being created deepwithin the detector.

The protons that will whiz through the accelerator willcontain enormous amounts of energy. When they collide,some of that energy will be converted into matter, or parti-cles with mass. (Einstein showed us how mass and energyare related with his iconic equation, E = mc2.) Usually theseparticles will be the familiar kind: quarks, electrons andmuons. But very occasionally, the collisions may producenew particles, such as the long-sought-after Higgs. Otherexotic particles that newer theories have proposed could alsoturn up – perhaps for the first time since the big bang, some13.7 billion years ago.

While the LHC is better equipped than any other acceler-ator to create these exotic heavy particles, detecting them willstill be enormously difficult. Heavy particles decay in an

“Exotic particlescould turn up forthe first timesince the bigbang, 13.7billion yearsago”


This computer-generated image shows the location of the 27-km long LHCtunnel (in blue).The four particle detectors are located in undergroundcaverns (in grey) connected to the surface by 50 m to 150 m shafts

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infinitesimally smallfraction of a second, leavingonly a puff of more familiar, stable particles. It’s this burst ofsecondary particles that ATLAS will detect. And with a clearpicture of what these particles are doing – how fast they’removing and in what direction – physicists hope to workbackward to deduce what kinds of particles popped into exis-tence inside the detector before they vanished. Apparently,catching particles in not quite like collecting butterflies witha net; instead, it’s more like identifying the Cheshire cat basedon a snapshot of its fading smile.

To find the elusive Higgs, physicists will wade throughoceans of data. The LHC will produce a staggering 600 mil-lion proton collisions every second. The raw data from thecollisions will flow out of the detectors at a rate of 28 giga-bytes a minute – enough to fill three million DVDs a year.Teuscher says that most of the collisions will be “uninterest-ing” – the protons will “just scatter off at an angle” ratherthan collide with the full force of the accelerator. “But a fewtimes, there’ll be very interesting collisions,” he says – per-haps as many as 200 per second. That’s still an enormousamount of data, and it’s no surprise that physicists at theLHC will spend a lot of time at their computers – writingthe programs to sift through the numbers, highlightingsome collisions and ignoring others, and carefully examin-ing the results.

The ATLAS team won’t be the only group looking forthe Higgs. A second detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid(CMS), sits just a few kilometres down the tunnel. (Theword “compact” is misleading; when CMS is finished, itwill weigh more than 12,000 tonnes.) CMS, like ATLAS,is being assembled in its own enormous undergroundchamber. It’s more of a “friendly competition” than a race,says Claire Timlin, a PhD student at Imperial College inLondon who is now based at CERN to work on the finalstages of the CMS detector. If both teams are able toglimpse the fabled particle – two detections from two verydifferent machines – it will confirm the idea that the Higgs

really exists. Plus, sheadds, it “gives both teams a push

to achieve as much as they possibly can.”In the 30 years since proposing the Standard Model, the-

oretical physicists have forged ahead with ever-more com-plex theories to explain how the universe works. One suchtheory – string theory – envisions a universe composed oftiny vibrating strings, along with unseen extra dimensionsand perhaps universes beyond our own. Physicists are alsolooking for signs of supersymmetry – a model that suggeststhat the particles we have observed each have heavier, not-yet-seen partners. Supersymmetry could help explain whythe masses of the known particles differ so greatly, and assistin the construction of the long-sought unified theory ofphysics. Yet without evidence that either supersymmetricalpartner particles or string theory’s hidden dimension exist,such musings remain only that. Data from the LHC mayfinally show which of these new ideas is worth exploring fur-ther and which is a dead end.

Finding evidence at the LHC to support extra dimensionor supersymmetry theory would herald a revolution in ourview of the universe, says Teuscher. “For the first time, we’dhave proof that these are not just dreams of ours – that they’rereally something solid.” It’s no wonder that the completion ofthe LHC is one of the most anticipated events in the interna-tional physics community. When the LHC comes onlinenext summer, it will mark the high point in the careers ofhundreds of scientists. These theorists and experimentalistshave been waiting for decades to see what lies beyond thefamiliar quarks and photons and electrons of the StandardModel. “It will be all unknown,” says Teuscher. “It will be likegoing to a continent for the first time and exploring a new,uncharted territory.”

Dan Falk is a science journalist in Toronto and the author ofUniverse on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Every-thing. He is writing a book about time, which McClelland &Stewart will publish in 2008. ■

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Toronto Centre forLesbian and Gay Studies

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Enwave EnergyCorporation

ERCO Worldwideethica Clinical Research

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Canadian Professionals(Ontario) EducationFoundation

The Federation ofEngineering andScientific Associations

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The Grosso GroupHalcrow YollesHalocom Society of

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M&M Meat Shops Ltd.Mach-Gaensslen

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Sciences CentreSunnybrook Health

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Tamil Studies CoordinatingCommittee

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AssociationUnilever Canada LimitedUniversity College Literary

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University of Toronto -Hart House

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University of TorontoFaculty Association

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FoundationThe John Zdunic

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$10,000 to $24,999Susan M.Addario and

David R. DraperAntoinette AgostinelliSyed W.AhmedHira AhujaWilliam and Haide AideJohn E.AkittVirginia and Oktay AksanIyad Shareef Al-Attar and

Mehran OmidvarDerek AllenDouglas AllenGuy Pierce AllenJames E.AppleyardPasquale ArnonePhilip D.ArthurDavid and Janis AusterSalah BachirBrad and Katherine BadeauJohn BajcLawrence BaldachinDaniel and Wendy BalenaHelen G. BalfourPeter F. BarkerJohn and Iris Barrington-

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Hatanaka

Students Patricia An, Erhan Soyer-Osman, Gina Lee and Ilan Bahar do some after-class networking at the Bahen Centre,named for donors John Bahen (BASc 1954, DEng Hon. 1999) and Margaret Bahen (Dip Occupational Therapy 1952)

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ATI Technologies Inc.The Jane Austen Society of

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BIO150Y Teaching TeamBMO Fountain of Hope

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The Brookfield FoundationEdward Burtynsky

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ExecutivesCanadian Foundation for

Ukrainian StudiesCanadian-Polish Congress

Carnegie Institution ofCanada

Carswell,A Division ofThomson CanadaLimited

Casco Inc.Cassels Brock & Blackwell

LLPCIBPA Education FoundationCitytv, Division of CHUM

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TrustCollins & Aikman Plastics

Ltd.Cook Canada Inc.Dainippon Pharmaceutical

Company LimitedThe Dalglish Family

FoundationWolodymyr George

Danyliw FoundationDatex-Ohmeda (Canada)

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Division of Nephrology, St.Michael's Hospital

Dundee Precious Metals Inc.Early English Text SocietyEastman Kodak CompanyEdwards Charitable

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Chapter 40EllisDon CorporationEmbanet CorporationEpilepsy OntarioEpilepsy Research Fund of

CanadaExport Development

CanadaFamous Players Media Inc.Raymond Farquharson

TrustFisher & Ludlow,A

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Fraser Papers Inc.Fringe Jazz TorontoFujisawa Canada Inc.George R. Gardiner

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Karol J. M. GodlewskiMarie-Christine GodlewskiMark J. C. GodlewskiPaul GodlewskiShelagh GoldschmidtSybil GoldsteinLorna Goodison and Ted

ChamberlinJames W. GoodwinGreg GormickCalvin C. GotliebJohn GouldRuth E. GregoryRachile Lialia GriffithRichard W. GriffithsBrian GroombridgePhyllis GrosskurthHelen Bircher GuilletJames E. GuilletJoseph GulsoyRonald HambletonJean HandscombeMartha HardyDavid Hare

Jean-Charles HareJohn E. HarePaul A. HareMaureen I. F. HarrisT. Richard HarshawJohn E. F. HastingsConrad E. HeidenreichMary HeimlichGarrett HermanPeter HeyworthW. Speed HillMichael HirshDavid HlynskyDeborah HobsonCynthia HoekstraMargaret Bloy GrahamErnest HowardMarshall J. L. HryciukMihali HulevColleen HuttonEric HuttonGary HuttonJim HuttonBarbara Ann and Lawrence

HynesJohn M. IrwinRobin and Heather JacksonR. Scott JamesSteven S. JanesWilliam JohnstonWilliam KaplanBrian M. KatchanShelagh KeeleyWilliam and Hiroko KeithMonique KellyTalivaldis Kenins

Penny KerpneckElizabeth Kilbourn-Mackie

and Richard MackieJohn KissickSusan and Morris KlaymanDavid KleinEric V. KleinGeorge J. KleiserMiro C. KlementJohn KloppenborgHelen H. KnightsMurray and Marvelle KofflerGeorge Korey-KrzeczowskiEva KushnerLila M. LaaksoRichard Landon and Marie

KoreySimon LangloisRobert Lantos, Serendipity

Point FilmsHeather LawsonVirginia LawsonLee L'ClercW. H. Le RicheMichael Levine and John

Gilford MooreMichelle LewinPeter K. LewinR. Douglas LloydKurt LoebStuart W. LoganSara S. MacLeanKyo MaclearMichael MaclearPaul Robert MagocsiAnn Malcolmson

Alberto ManguelEarl Harold MannRosemary MarchantRobert and Renwick

MatthewsOonah McFeeJohn McGreevyDonald McLeodJohn T. McLeodN. Bruce McLeodBrian D. McLoughlinHarold MedjuckMaria MeindlFarley MernickRon MernickJohn and Myrna MetcalfMichael and Jane MillgateJohn Gilford MooreAlbert MoritzKaren A. MulhallenJohn H.A. MunroDesmond NeillPeter W. NesselrothShirley C. NeumanPeter M. Newman and

Susan KeeneSolomon A. NigosianJames NixMark and Edith Nusbaum

(Nusbaum FamilyCharitable Foundation)

Cynthia M. O'BeirnePierre Karch and Mariel

O'Neill-KarchEric OrmsbyDavid M. Oxtoby

Gifts-in-KindThis list recognizes donors who have exclusively made

gifts-in-kind of $5,000 or more to the University of

Toronto between January 1, 2004, and April 30, 2007.

Sherryl Fenol (BA 2007) was one of more than 3,500 graduands who took part in convocation ceremonies inNovember. Thanks to the generosity of donors, Convocation Hall will be restored to its former glory and remainan important landmark for the entire U of T community


Susan E. OxtobyBrock ParkR. Brian ParkerStephen Geoffrey PearceLuana Maria PetersRonald G. PetersVictor PetersMichael PflugJennifer PhillipsMargaret W. PhillipsMarilyn Piccini RoyJudith PocockJohn C. PolanyiDalia and Ginutis ProcutaAnatol RapoportSamuel A. ReaJohn H. ReibetanzJanet RichardStephen RigginsErika E. RitterJan RubesPeter H. RussellAnne RyckmanF. Michah RynorJohn and Carol SabeanA. Edward SafarianAntony SchermanMiriam Schneid-OfseyerThomas T. SchweitzerJohanna Sedlmayer-KatzFrançois SéguinFred H.W. and Roswitha

SeligerDavid P. Silcox and Linda

IntaschiJudy A. SilverPatricia SimpsonPaul SkowronskiJosef V. SkvoreckyJohn G. SlaterBeverley SlopenDavid W. SmithFaye Smith RosenblattPeter H. SolomonDavid SolwayRosemary E. J. SpeirsAlex and Kim SquiresJohn Stanley

Ralph Gordon StantonT.A. G. StauntonGuy St-DenisJohn SteinskyMavis StonefieldKazimierz StysRosemary SullivanLarry A. SwartzRichard TelekyArlette and Frank ThomasSusan Coxeter ThomasCraig Thorburn and Cynthia

Caron ThorburnJames E.TillMargo TimminsMichael TimminsPeter TimminsMyrtle ToddRhea TregebovJoyce TrimmerTamara TrojanowskaPhilip M.TrottMillicent TuckMihkel TurkChristopher VarleyF. Michael WalshJohn B.WarrenerF. Bartlett WattTim WhitenFred WilsonPaul R.WilsonThomas A.WilsonYvonne WilsonDavid YoungVladek Zogala

Alert Music Inc.Ballan Carpentry and

Millwork LimitedBarna-Alper Productions

Inc.Blue RodeoBookham TechnologiesBrand Voice Inc.Cassels Brock & Blackwell

LLPCelesticaDeluxe Toronto Ltd.

Dun & Bradstreet CanadaLimited

Eaton | PowerwareFrontline Solutions Ltd.Insight Production

Company Ltd.Johnson ControlsKCI Medical Canada Inc.

Lindberg HomburgerModent

Locust International Inc.Magna Advanced

TechnologiesMicro-g LaCoste, Inc.Now Communications Inc.Redwood Classics Apparel

S. & S. Productions Inc.Sakura Project/Sakura

CommitteeSelections Woodworking

Design Inc.Sports Rehabilitation

InstituteSunsplash Design Plus

Wilson Sports EquipmentCanada Inc.

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Accenture Inc.ADP DataphileAIM Trimark InvestmentsAlbany InternationalCorporation

AlcanAllstate InsuranceCompany of CanadaAstraZeneca Canada Inc.Bank of America

Bell CanadaBell Canada - EmployeeGiving ProgramBlackRockBMO Financial Group

BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc.Boeing CompanyCanadian TireCorporation, LimitedCargillCelesticaChubb Insurance Company

of CanadaCSX CorporationDell Canada CorporationDeutsche BankThe Dorsey & WhitneyFoundationDow Chemical Canada Inc.EnCana Cares FoundationErnst & YoungFalconbridge Limited -Kidd Metallurgical DivisionFord Motor CompanyGAP Foundation GiftMatch ProgramGE CanadaGreen Shield CanadaFoundationH. J. Heinz Company of

Canada Ltd.Hydro OneIBM Canada LimitedInco LimitedIvanhoe Cambridge Inc.Janssen-Ortho Inc.Kennecott Utah CopperCorporationKodak Canada Inc.KPMG FoundationKraft Canada Inc.Manulife FinancialMerrill Lynch & Co. Inc.

FoundationMicrosoft CorporationMarsh & McLennan

CompaniesPearson Education

Canada Inc.The PepsiCo FoundationPetro-CanadaPPG Canada Inc.Pratt & Whitney CanadaProcter & Gamble Inc.Rothmans Bensons &

Hedges IncorporatedSprint FoundationState Farm Companies

FoundationSullivan & Cromwell LLPSuncor Energy FoundationSYSCO CorporationTalisman EnergyIncorporatedTransCanada PipeLines

LimitedTSX GroupWells Fargo FoundationEmployee Matching Gift

ProgramWestern Asset

Management CompanyCharitable FoundationXerox Canada Ltd.Xerox Corporation

CorporateMatching Gifts

From left: Joseph Mulongo, Kirk Perris and Mira Gambhir are among the 1,650 graduate stu-dents enrolled at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. OISE celebrated 100 yearsof studies in education at U of T with a centennial birthday party in November

We would like to acknowledge the generosity of

corporations who match charitable contributions made

by their employees, directors, retirees and their spouses

to the University of Toronto between May 1, 2006, and

April 30, 2007.To find out if your company is a matching

gift partner, please call (416) 978-3810 or visit our web-

site at www.giving.utoronto.ca/annual/matchgift.asp.

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Frank B.AdamstoneDonald Sutherland AllanMargaret May AllemangThomas AlleyJeanne F. E.ArmourKevin W.ArmstrongJuliet May AskewMary E.AtkinsonMary BarnettM. Elizabeth C. BartletWilliam John BennettWilfred Gordon BigelowBenjamin Herbert BirsteinErika Dorothea Lina BoldtMargaret BondWilliam Brown BoydElizabeth M. BoyleJoyce B. BoylenDonald J.A. BremnerMargaret I. BrubacherRobert BruceC. L. Burton TrustsAlice M. BuscombeRobert William BygraveNora Cecilia CairnesMargaret CarletonHelen M. CarpenterJohn Angus CartherSamuel Castrilli

Florence Grace ChadburnAthol Lillian Beatty CherryEdith L. ClareNorah P. ClarkHilda ClaytonDonald E. CluneJ. E. Geraldine CongerKenneth B. ConnK. Jane ConwayKathleen A. CookeWilliam James CopemanEdith H. CosensJ. Douglas CrashleyCatherine E. CratchleyWilliam Douglas CroneWilliam A. DevereauxElsie F. DickhoutFrederick and Douglas

Dickson MemorialFoundation

Margaret M. DonnellThelma C. DowdingOrville L. DrummondPeter C. DurhamSydney DymondMary Margaret EdisonMarie Evelyn EdwardsGermaine Francoise EfrainEugene R. Fairweather

Dorothy Grace FattFrances Eden FergusonJohn Charles FieldsAbraham Fink and Freda

Fink Charitable AnnuityTrust

Marilyn V. ForbesThomas F. FosterFrederick Hume FoxtonVirginia M. FrankJanet Agnes FraserM. Constance FraserMargaret S. GairnsMary Kathleen GeddesAlan Osler GibbonsMargaret GiffenJean GlasgowBeatrice C. GlasierJessie Mackenzie GlynnOlive L. GordonBetty C. GrahamJohn Osborne GrahamJohn W. GrantMurray GreenbloomMary E. HamiltonFrederick J. HamlinMarion HannaEric Ethelbert HardyHelen D. Harrison

Sheryl Jane HaymanKenneth Frederick HeddonWalter John HelmGordon W. HilbornLucie H. HoerschingerRuth Anna HolmboeElizabeth Barclay HopeAgnes Eleanor HowardPatricia A. Humphreys-

VanceHenry Stanley HunnisettBarbara Vancott MacBeth

HurstBernard E. HynesNancy InnisEileen B. JacksonCharles L. JanisEdward S. JarvisJohn Dalziel JohnsonFlorence (Barber) JowseyKarolina A. JusOriana KalantMiet and Wanda KamienskiJoan Ewart KeageyKathleen M. KeelerEdward J. KelmanDavid I. KerKenneth Raffles KilburnPaul and Sarah KirznerCharles Leo LabineMichael LaweeAnne LawsonStuart C. LeggeDonald W. LeonardJohn F. LeonardReuben Wells LeonardMargaret Jean LeppingtonLillian LeranbaumSophie Lewar Trust

Stephan Lewar TrustJohn Bruce Henderson

LittleAnna B. LoftusStanley Peter LoosRenee LyonsAlexander E. MacDonaldThelma Ariel MacDonaldEileen and Nicholas

MacLeodPauline MandlsohnAlice Mary MathesonElizabeth L. MathewsIvy M. MaynierJ. Edgar McAllisterJohn Robertson McArthurRhoda Royce McArthurIn Memory of Marian

Eleanor McBryde fromWilliam A. E. McBryde

James Samuel McClearyMuriel G. McCuaigHelen Jean McCutcheonDonald F. McDonaldW.J. Kent McDonaldPauline M. McGibbonLorne Douglas McGolrickJohn Spence McIntoshSarah McLeanSarah Grace MeadJohn MeagherTheophile James MeekClifford MegginsonDavid MeltzerIsabel MendizabalWilliam C. MichellPeter H. MillerA. B. B. MooreHugh and Phyllis (Foreman)

MoorhouseJohn F. Morgan-JonesMargaret I. MorrisRobina D. (Taylor) MorrisonJames L. MorrowMary MounfieldWilliam K. MounfieldAnne A. MuiseViolet B. MunnsMary Edythe NeebVivien NicklinFabian Aloysius O'DeaEdward H. O'KeefeMichael J. OliverHarvey OlnickTony Mark OmilanowErnst M. OppenheimerPearl Gudrun PalmasonEdmund T. ParkinJanet ParrH. G. Campbell ParsonsFlorence G. PartridgeOlive Madeline PattersonAudrey L. PeachBeverley Ann PhillipsElmer S. PhillipsJean E. PierceMarion L. PilkeyAileen M. PiperMary Elizabeth PittDora Burke PlayfairFrancis Clement PowellSidney A. PulleyManuel E. PusitzDoris Elizabeth QuineyLouise Wilhelmina Rae

William F. L. RathmanJames H. Rattray Memorial

TrustAmy Beatrice ReedPauline Anne ReinbothJames A. RendallOlive-Jane ReynoldsChristine E. RiceHarold V. RiceDorothy G. RiddellNorma Ruth RidleyClifton Graham RobertsNellie Evelene RoszelJerome S. RotenbergKatherine Riddell RouillardDorothy RutherfordLinda Darlene SagarPeter and Margot SandorFanny SaundersRose Lynne ScottDee and Hank SelickColin R. SellarH.Theresa SimRobert SimkinsMary Verna SimmondsW. Lennox SmartCarlton G. SmithGladys SparksMerrill C. StaffordMargaret E. StedmanCatherine I. SteeleGray M. SteeleMary StephensJ. I. (Hud) StewartStratton TrustKathleen Sally SymeGertrude TackaberryVictor TalalayHoward Alan TateGeorgia Muriel TaylorJ. Marie TaylorArthur L.ThomsonHarold G.ThreapletonLinda Lauren TimbsClarence TrelfordDoris Carol TrottCharles W.Trunk Jr.Marjorie L.Van VeenRuth Estella VanderlipJanet Elizabeth WaiteWilliam James WalkerKathleen WallsFlora M.WardDorothy WardStanley H.Ward and Shirley

A.Ward Revocable TrustIsabel C.WarneDouglas G.WatsonBetty Irene WestAnne Louise White and

Walter Edmund WhiteMinnie WhiteLois H.WightmanFlorence WilkinsonB. M.WilliamsDorothy Evelyn WillmotBeatrice A.WilsonAgnes E.WoodEdward Rogers WoodShirley Ann Yasuzawa54 Anonymous Donors

Lasting LegaciesThis list recognizes those gifts received by Uof T

through realized bequests, trusts or insurance between

January 1, 2004, and April 30, 2007.

Wenda Oprea (MASc 2004) and Lean Windisch (BASc 2006) used electronic pipettes whileconducting experiments at a Mining Building lab


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RodgersIvor A.ArnoldT. Christie ArnoldJoseph AttardDouglas AuldEverett Corson BarclayDennis and Alice BartelsGrace V. BeckerBernice BellPeter BeynonDorothy I. M. BlackRonald and Laurie BlaineyHarald and Jean BohneWilliam R. Bowen and

Sandra J. GavinchukT. Rodney H. BoxPatrick and Marilyn BrownDavid BrownfieldNadine A. BuchkoFrank C. BuckleyBonnie BurstowEleanor J. BurtonDonald BurwashYvonne M. CalverWilliam A. CampbellDan CamposanoRobert CandidoK. C. CarruthersGlenn H. CarterGeorge CassBen ChanAlayne and Kenneth

ChristieBrian CloughPatricia A. ColemanRon CrawfordMary C. CrichtonDoreen G. CullenDana CushingMargaret Jeannetta DavisEdward and Dorothy

DawsonJan and Jane de KoningDorothy M. DeaneWilliam Andrew DimmaMichael Faraday DixonIngrid and Karl-Ulrich (Uli)

DoblerMaria L. DyckFreda M. EickmeyerJacqueline and Douglas

EisnerMargaret E. EmmersonRobert F. J. FeeneyWilliam O. Fennell and Jean

FennellMichael J. FergusonGary Vincent FitzgibbonJohn F. FlinnDonald H. FrancisHugh R. FraserDiane and Stan GasnerV. K. GilbertBill GouliosFred K. GrahamDoug GreenHelen GurneyPatricia HannahTerry HarrisRosemary Hall Hazelton

J. Barrett HealyKim and Alex HeathFreia (Nee Kaiser) and John

A. HeberBarbara J. HeggieGrace HeggieSandra J. HeggieRuth Ellen HenstridgeFay Hethrington ScholarshipAnna Alfreda HillenPeter and Verity HobbsDorothy (Flannery)

HorwoodJames D. HosinecRobert and Velma HowieAudrey HozackGeorge Conland HuntMarnie HuntJohn Ibbitson

Ross Barrett IrwinRobert D. and Catherine I.

JeffsArchibald and Helen JonesSidney M. and Elaine

KadishLeon Katz and Johanna

Sedlmayer-KatzDavid KeenleysidePaul KeeryWilliam and Hiroko KeithArthur P. KennedySeitali (Babe) and Mary

KerimJodi and Michael KimmBarbara E. KirklandRose KirshAngela L. Klauss and

Colin DoylePeter KlavoraAlbert KrakauerStephen Kurtz and Shiela

Weisinger KurtzRobert and Carolyn LakeMaryam Latifpoor and

Vladas KeparoutisGrace LauBurton MacDonald and

Rosemarie SampsonSharon and Don MacMillanMichael and Joan MaloneyMary H. MartinDipak and Pauline

MazumdarSybil Anne McEnteerJudith McErvelJoseph Patrick McGeeNancy H. McKee CondliffeDonald W. McLeod

Dorothy McRobbGilbert MeyerWilliam G. and Diane C.

MillerRuth MorawetzAngela and William

MoreauChastity Cheryl Pangilinan

NazarethPaul C. S. C. NazarethMary Catherine O'BrienEdmond George OdetteJean O' GradyMichelle and Richard

OsborneK.Ann PattersonPaul F. PhelanEdward and Frances Jean

PhoenixNora PostRaymond S. G. PrykeR. C. QuittentonMarjorie Lavers ReynoldsLesley Riedstra and Rian

MitraPaul E. RileyWilliam J. RobertsJohn D. RobinsonPeter A. RogersPaul RussellMary E. SarjeantMary M. SchaeferNorma Dianne SchilkeCaroline Seidl Farrell-

BurmanCaroline ShawyerDiane Lynn SilvermanMarjorie E. SimondsAngela L. Smith

Ron SmythMarion Elizabeth SnyderHubert C. SoltanMickey and Annette Convey

SpillaneJanet StubbsColin J. SwiftDavid Szollosy and Lauretta

AmundsenShirley Catherine TeolisCatherine F.ThompsonVictoria E. M.ThompsonJ. Lynn TomkinsBarbara K.TrackCarolanne G.VairJean ValeTheodore van der VeenLillian VeriVictor and Sheila VierinScott Brynn VloetPaul and Valerie WalshJohn P.WardArthur and Ruby WatersElizabeth A.WellsPaula Carey and Nicholas

WemyssDorothy Joblin WestneyGerald WhyteMarni & Roland WieshoferMary B.WilletNancy J.WilliamsonLee WilsonMarjorie A.WilsonGeorge and Isobel WinnettFrank W.WoodsDianne L.WydevenAdam ZimmermanWendy Zufelt-Baxter93 Anonymous Donors

University of Toronto Varsity Blues captured their 10th national field hockey title with a 1-0 overtime victory against theGuelph Gryphons in November at Varsity Centre.The centre, which opened in 2006, is the first phase of a redevelop-ment of Uof T’s athletic facilities that will include the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport

King’s CollegeCircle HeritageSocietyThe King’s College Circle Heritage Society recognizes

and honours those alumni and friends who have

thoughtfully made a provision for the university

through a future bequest, life insurance or trust gift

between January 1, 2004, and April 30, 2007.

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Rosalie AbellaRona S.AbramovitchBluma AppelJerald BainGerald I. BakerAharon BarakMartin BarkinW. BeattieJ. Stewart BellRobert M. BennettWilliam C. BermanJ. Michael BlissHarvey BottingHelen BozinovskiRudolph P. BrattyMichelle BroersmaRoel C. BuckHorace CampbellDebbie ChachraBebe CiglenDavid Clandfield

Marian CobbanFrank CollinsKryzstof ConradDavid CowanLarry DaviesLyne C. DellandreaDaniel L. DonovanRichard B. DonovanCharles DyerMarjorie L. EwingJames M. FarleyHarry FarrarIrwin FefergradRobert M. FillerJerome FisherEvelyn M. L. FitzGeraldE. Patricia FlemingEdith GardinerGlenn GardinerLaunnie GaretsonElizabeth A. Gerrie

Barnett I. GiblonJ. Ian GiffenWayne L. GoldAl GoldbandJane GoldbandShelagh GoldschmidtKayla GorenSurche GradzanowskiD. GuptaGerald HalbertMargaret A. HancockPaul HazlettAntonette D. P. HealeyRobin HealeyHarry HelfandPhyllis HelfandJo Ann HoffmanJoan M. HollandAmilcare A. IannucciKhursheed N. JeejeebhoyRachna Juneja

Carol KaplanMolly KatesWilbert J. KeonAndrea KleinhandlerMarvelle KofflerMurray B. KofflerJudy KopelowAnne KovenJack KovenPhilip KovenJim Yuan LaiBernard LangerRyna D. LangerJennie LauJohn B. LawsonGerry LeishmanNicky L. LeungJudith E. LeveneJ.Alexander LowdenTrudy A. LusinkByron A. MacDonaldRobert J. F. MaddenJ. Francis MallonRuth E. MandersMedicine Class of 2006Murray MenkesDwayne MillerElizabeth A. MorleyMary MorrisonAilsa Moulsdale

Eyal NavchEllen NewmanDavid C. NimmoLinda O'Brien PallasMichael OerbachRoy OglesbyBertha E. OliverMariel O'Neill-KarchJoseph PerniceSamuel Stein PerniceDavid R. PetersonVivienne PoyKingsley Stein QuaoEstarita RajskyJoan R. F. RandallHenia ReinhartzJoseph E. RogersRoseann RunteBeverley N. SalmonLionel H. SchipperErnest SchnellRena SchwartzR. Bruce ScottSheila K. ShawDana SherrardKwong-loi ShunMathew SilcossJulie C. SilverPeter SingerDoris Sommer-Rotenberg

Joseph D. M. SorbaraEric G. StanleyEleanor Beecroft StewartBarbara M. StittHubert J. StittJudy SturmPaul E. SzarmachStephen TannyGilda S.TanzMark M.TanzMartin TeplitskyLilian ThompsonMichael UkasMarilyn A.Van NormanRobert C.VipondB. Elizabeth VosburghBarry WalfishWilliam WatersFay WeisbergCatharine Isobel WhitesideA. Murray WileyPamela WileyMorden YollesSaul Zuker

In HonourThe University of Toronto recognizes individuals who

have had gifts made in their honour between May 1,

2006, and April 30, 2007.

Charles AckerIsabel AklinElisabeth AlfoldiStephanie Lianne AliDavid AngellRose Burgess AnthonyBeverley AntleIsrael AppelGraham John AstlesMarija AukstaiteEthel W.AusterFrank S. BallingerHyman BaltzanRemo E. BandieraPeter BaronRobert Michael

Barrington-LeighDiran BasmadjianEdward Samuel BeattyRobert BeninatiWilliam Russell BennettBerry BerensonAlfie BergerMichael K. BerkowitzJohn F. BidewellRaymond C. BinkleyPaul P. BiringerClaude Thomas BissellSydney H. BlackmanKen C. BlakelyAllan BloomDavid Wilson Blyth

Pat BlythDaniel P. BohnenH. Patricia BolgerRuth BorchiverPeter BosaJohn BradleyAnthony August BraitSam BrittCarmen BrockPeter BrockFaye M. Hockaday BrooksNorman BrownGeorge S. BuckFrank BusseyMary Isabel Dobson ButlerSharon ButlerLeon C. BynoeLee CalderwoodCharles CallenderAngus CameronJohn CampbellAlan W. CarrieVictoria E. CarsonJudith CasaroliWilliam ChewchukSoo Jin ChongHetty C. H. ChuDonald R. ClarkE. Ritchie ClarkEileen ClarkRoy P. ClarkeJock Cleghorn

Gianrenzo P. ClivioDavid CoffenStan CohenAdam Douglas Leslie Do-

Mun ColbourneRowland L. CollinsWilliam E. ColterJoe A. ConnollyMary L. CoombsRosemary K. CoombsAnnabelle CooperVirginia CooperRuth CooperstockGlenwood Potter CorlettRobert CraddockGeorge B. CraigFerenc CsillagNetty DanielsPeter DarbyshireMichael F. DixonSac Thi DoanRichard John DowneySalvador Piokquinto

DrapizaJeffrey DrdulJohn D. DrigoOrville L. DrummondJ. Bruce DunlopJack DurfeyBeverley Echlin StapellsPatricia EddsMarie Evelyn Edwards

Karin EensildBill EvansAron FainerBubby FayLorand FenyvesGertrude FinkleMarie J. FischetteJanet E. FitzGeraldBarbara FlynnGlenn FordLynd W. ForgusonDonald F. ForsterNeil W. FosterLloyd FrancisEstelle FrankelIrving FrankleMildred FranklinThomas FriedLewis FriedlichAndrew Khamis FrowLeo C. FungGina L. GesserGeorge G. M. GiblinPaul P. GinouRose GladstoneRobert Graydon Weir

GoodallMark GoodmanMillie GoodmanWolfe D. GoodmanDavid GordonCarol GottesmanWalter Harvey Russell

GouldJohn W. GrantJoseph H. GreenspanSuzanne GreenspanPatricia GregorovichJohn N. HaddadRosemarie HagerLi Yau Kam HahJames Conrad HallFran Halpern

Jane Elizabeth HamMargaret I. HamblyShannon L. HammMatthew William Fraser

HansonPhyllis HanthoVivy HaritonMilton E. HarrisDona Marie HarveyNoor HassanaliWilliam A. HeaslipMary G. HeintzmanDora HellerRichard J. HelmesteE. Elaine HenryElaine HenryPeter L. HeyworthIrwin M. HilliardAnne HoldenJeannette HorwitzAlbert Warren HowardNicholas HoweGordon F. HughesVictor Yick Ho HumBob HunterBernard HuppeAmilcare A. IannucciV. Diane InglisHerbert Lourier IrwinMarie IshojMary ItzkovitchEthel JacksonClarence JenkinsArthur B. JohnsMary Carol JohnsonAndre JonasAudrey I. JonesFranciscus JuniusOriana KalantWendy M. KatesPhyllis M. KaylerGeorgia KelmanAndrew Kennedy

Elspeth M. KennedyKaren A. KieserRobert J. KoabelEichi KondoDietmar KoslowskiJune KovarEric David Baker KrauseKeith KressKerey KrzeczowskiCharles KulakAlan KulanBarbara A. KwantF. Mary LanganMiu B. LauHildegarde Le GresleyWolf-Dietrich LeersFrancis Jsoeph LegenzaBruce J. LeggeGarth W. LeggeDonald LeighGabriel LeungG.V. LevanJohn R. LevittJohn F. LeyerleYumin LiMyrna S. LibrachWilliam LineAnn LintonNeville LittleAudrey LoudenDonald H. H. MacKenzieDonald A. MacRaeEarl F. MahoneyHermine MallingerFrancesco MancusoEd MarraGilchrist J. MartinJudith Anne MasonJ. Catherine MassonGwendolyn McCorkindaleClement McCullochJohn McManusAlberto Mendelzon

In MemoryThe University of Toronto recognizes individuals who

have had gifts made in their memory between May 1,

2006, and April 30, 2007.

Paula MenendezLillian MessingerCatherine Murdina

Mackenzie M. MillsMax MishnaRonald W. MissenJames F. MoffatWilliam J. MollardJames MooreC. Eleanor Moorhouse-

GenoveseNina H. MorleyJohn Earl MoserRay MulrooneyPeter A. NaglikGurdev Kaur NeelamDonald G. NeelandsRebecca NewmanHelen NormanRuth J. NortonFreda NoyekEdward W. NuffieldGreg O'BrienJames R. O'BrienWalter A. O'Grady

Tom OlenickDennis O'SheaEllis M. OstovichBernard OstryIrving PaisleyElizabeth ParkinsonColin PatersonPeter T. PattersonJosephine PeckhamHoward PentlandJacqueline Helen PerryJonathan Francis PicklesKathryn J. PooleCatherine QuesnelColin Ramplee-SmithDiana RankinEdward Bevan RatcliffeJerry ReingoldKatherine McGarvie

RemusMarie-Michele Renaud-

DesrochersOlive-Jane ReynoldsDorothy E. RichardsJohn Richmond

Patricia RideoutFriedrich P. J. RimrottEugene D. RittichLloyd G. RobertsonMara Rhona RoebuckAlbert RoseNorman RossArthur Sommer RotenbergKatherine Riddell RouillardE. RushJohn D. SalmonDerek SawyerErnest SchnellT. Stewart ScottAnna H. SeidlitzJohn SeltzerAlexandra SemeniukPaul H. SersonGiuseppe SettinoKenneth C. SevcikIrene ShapiroLeslie Earl ShawSusan W. SheafferSara ShefskyJean A. Shek

Oswald George ShepherdJoseph SilverJohn R. SimpsonMargaret SkerathJohn A. D. SleminMuriel J. SloanAllan G. SmithPaul Edward SnyderWilliam Garfield SpencerPhilip T. StanburyHenry StanfieldBryan Wayne StattGray M. SteeleSamuel SteinJames T. SterlingRonald SternbergTrevor StoreyJohn M. StransmanNathan StraussMaurice StrenMuriel SverskyC. SwartzJohn H. SwordTing Sum TangJohn Tanner

Aron Avraham TannyAnne TartickColleen TateRonald Ryan TaylorLouis H.TepperEdward H.ThringAlex TobiasJames D.ToddMary Prudence TracyEdward W. H.TremainBetty UmanskyKiran van RijnW. R.Van RiperHubert Van TolLester VardenG. Stephen VickersHildegarde M.VierkoetterVince VolpeSeymour H.VoskoLorne WagnerJoseph E.WalshDorothy Anne C.WalterWalter WalterBeverly WedemireFrederick Weinberg

Rosalind WeinbergerSteve A.V.WellerIona WellmanSharon WellsDonald F.WhitewoodClaire WillcoxRobert C.WilliamsonJohn WillisPercy WilnerJ.Tuzo WilsonM. Jean WilsonRobert WoofPatrick WormaldJohn A.WrightVincent WroblewskiVasilios XipoliasAlfred YeamanBetty YeomanJohnny Kar Lok YipKatherine ZeldinDonna ZielinskiSheldon P. Zitner

PRESIDENTS’ CIRCLEPresidents’ Circle members have provided vital resources to educate deserving students,attract and retain great faculty, and build innovative faculties and programs through theirannual leadership giving.Thank you to all of our Presidents’ Circle members for theirforesight, leadership and generosity.To view monthly listings of new and renewedPresidents’ Circle members, please visit our website at www.giving.utoronto.ca/prescircle.For more information about the Presidents’ Circle program, please contact (416) 978-3810.

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The bright blue, eight-lane track at the new Varsity

Centre now sports a name, thanks to the family

of the late John L. Davenport, a 1929 chemical

engineering grad and Varsity pole vault champion.

The Davenport Family Foundation has donated $1.7

million to the Varsity Centre campaign,which aims to raise

a total of $70 million for the stadium and track, arena ren-

ovations and the Goldring Centre for High Performance

Sport. John Davenport’s son Peter says his father strived

to get the most from his U of T experience.“Dad tried to

do more than just the academic routine,” says Peter.“If he

were alive today and this opportunity came up, he would

write a cheque instantly. It was that important to him.”

John developed a successful athletic career while tak-

ing a full engineering course load. He won the Canadian

pole vault championship in 1928 and the following year led

the Varsity Blues to the coveted Intercollegiate Track Trophy.

“John Davenport’s academic and athletic accomplish-

ments are the ideal reflection of the philosophy behind the

new Varsity Centre, which will contribute to the fullness of

the student experience at U of T,” says Bruce Kidd, dean of

the Faculty of Physical Education and Health.

The Davenport Family Foundation has previously sup-

ported the John and Edna Davenport Chemical Research

Building and the renovated Lash Miller Chemical Labo-

ratories at U of T. – Althea Blackburn-Evans

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INApril 1951, Joey Tanenbaumleft first-year civil engineeringto join his father’s steel com-

pany. But his initial foray into the work-ing world didn’t last long. Tanenbaumreturned to classes a year later – againsthis father’s wishes – and went on to grad-uate second in his class, with a BASc, in1955. He says going back to school wasthe smartest thing he’s ever done.

Now, Tanenbaum and his wife, Toby,want to ensure a new generation of stu-dents can afford to attend university, and

have pledged $1 million to establish theJoey and Toby Tanenbaum AdmissionScholarships in the department of civilengineering. The gift will be matched inpart by the faculty’s Academic ExcellenceFund to create a total endowment of$1.5 million for scholarships.

Cristina Amon, dean of the Facultyof Applied Science and Engineering,said the new scholarships will help thedepartment of civil engineering attract“exceptional students” who could be-come “the leaders of tomorrow and con-tribute to the technological innovation,economic development and prosperityof Canada.”

The Tanenbaums are well known fortheir philanthropy: they have donatedsignificant art collections to the ArtGallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery ofHamilton and the Royal Ontario Mu-seum, and are also major supporters ofthe university. “You’ve got to give back tothe community when you’ve done well,”says Tanenbaum, whose grandparents leftPoland with their two children in 1911.“I am a first-generation Canadian. Wewere brought up to give back to Canadaand appreciate what this country hasdone for us.” – Scott Anderson


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ment adviser with National Bank

Financial, has been counselling her clients

for years about the financial benefits of donat-

ing stocks to charity. Earlier this year, the 1971

nursing graduate took her own advice, transfer-

ring 75 shares of BCE to U of T to support the

Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing.

Levesque’s decision is timely because BCE

shareholders have agreed to sell their shares to

the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan for $42.75

each. Shareholders will have no choice but to

part with their BCE stock. By choosing to

donate her shares to U of T instead of selling

them, Levesque will not have to pay any tax on

the capital gain she would have earned with the

sale. In addition, she will receive a charitable

receipt for the full value of her shares. “I’ve

always pointed out the advantage of giving

shares that have appreciated in value,” she says.

“If gifting is something my clients wish to do,

then we always consider the possibility of stocks.”

Even though Levesque hasn’t worked in

nursing for more than 25 years (she taught in

U of T’s department of preventive medicine in

the mid-1970s), she keeps in touch with mem-

bers of her graduating class. Last year, she

hosted a 35th reunion lunch for about 30

women. “Nursing has always been near and

dear to my heart,” she says. – Scott Anderson

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A former professional oboist from the

U.S. has created a financial award in

honour of her late father to assist

students in nursing, social work and rehabilita-

tion therapy.

Nora Post, who has suffered from chronic,

disabling pain for most of her adult life, says she

wanted to do something for the people who

have helped her cope with her condition for al-

most three decades. She decided to make a cash

gift to create an endowment for the award and

a bequest to supplement it in the future. “I’m

helping the people who helped me,” she says.

The Henry Albertson Van Zo Post Student

Award, worth $2,000, was given out for the

first time last year, to first-year nursing student

Amanda Keall.

Post earned two graduate degrees in

music from New York University but never

attended U of T. Like a growing number of

American philanthropists, Post decided to

donate to an institution where her money

would make the greatest impact. “It was a

practical decision, not an emotional one,”

she says. “For the same calibre of education,

I could send six or seven people to school at

U of T for the amount I’d need to send one

person to New York University.” (Tuition

fees at NYU are $36,000.)

Post, who lives in upstate New York, did

not choose Toronto out of the blue. She has

visited the city several times and has some

close friends at U of T. She says she “couldn’t

be more thrilled” to support a named schol-

arship here, and encourages others to explore

the opportunity.“I am not a wealthy person. If

someone like me can do this, it means there

are an awful lot of other people who could do

it as well.” – Scott Anderson

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AU of T professor who wasawarded restitution for familyproperty plundered by the

Nazis during the Second World War hasused the funds to create a prize for thebest student essay on the Holocaust.

Jacques Kornberg, a professor emeri-tus of modern European history, receivedcompensation from the Belgian govern-ment in 2006. The value of his family’sproperty was unknown, but underBelgian law Kornberg was eligible forthe standard compensation of $34,000.

On the eve of the Second World War,Kornberg had left Belgium with hisparents and sister. Decades later, hereturned to uncover the details of hisextended family’s fate. In the Belgiangovernment archives in Brussels, he

discovered that his grandmother, uncles,aunts and cousins had all been deport-ed to Auschwitz, where they were mur-dered in the gas chambers.

Kornberg, who has continued toteach Holocaust history since his retire-

ment in 1998, decided to use themoney to create a prize for graduate orundergraduate essays on a Holocausttopic. “The restitution is no consolationfor me, and clichés about perpetuatingmy family’s memory are just soothingsentimentality,” Kornberg says. “Yet, togive in to cynicism and nihilism isgranting Hitler an added victory.

“Students have shown a strong inter-est in learning about genocide,” he adds.“I felt, therefore, that an endowed essayprize that recognized academic excellenceand moral concern was a way of main-taining hope for the future.”

The Kornberg-Jerzierski FamilyMemorial Essay Prize in HolocaustStudies will be awarded for the firsttime in 2008. – Diana Kuprel

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llumni otesNAP R O F I L E S • N E W S • E V E N T S • C A L E N D A R

eff Rybak, 31, is a graduate of the Uni-

versity of Toronto Scarborough and author

of What’s Wrong with University: And How to

Make It Work for You Anyway. The guidebook-

cum-philosophical treatise examines the pur-

pose of university education and gives practi-

cal advice to students on getting the most

out of their schooling. Rybak, a former vice-

president, academics, on the Scarborough

Campus Students’ Union, is currently study-

ing law at U of T. He talked to writer Graham

F. Scott about his book.

Just what is wrong with university?We don’t tend to invite students to think

about what they really came to university for.

We act as though there’s only one kind of

education, and you come to get that, and then

you’re successful. And of course, it isn’t that

simple. You need a motive to get what you

came for, and you need to realize that what

you came for is not necessarily what the per-

son beside you came for.

That sounds more like a problem withstudents, not universities.It’s a problem with the way universities market

themselves, and are presented by the govern-

ment and society in general.We act as though

this one place is the answer to everybody’s

success: if you want to study something because

you love it, come here. If you want a career,

come here. If you want to change society for the

better, come here. If you just want to get away

from your parents, come here. At some point,

they convinced us that everybody needs this.

Would you say that U of T is doingbetter, worse or about the same asother universities?In my book, I’m not trying to name names. I

think that U of T suffers from the big,

research-based, monolithic university prob-

lem, where everybody gravitates to this one

standard of excellence, to the detriment of

other options. U of T is a good school, I just

don’t think it should be the one standard that

everyone aspires to.

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times you actually have to get up and say,

“I want to participate.” For one student

that might be a writing circle, for another

student that might be a job fair. If you

just wait for what’s handed to you, the odds

are you’re not going to get offered what

you want.

That sounds like students shouldbe approaching the universityas consumers looking fortheir money’s worth. Is thata fair characterization?I’d say approach university in a way that says

you are determined to get value out of it

and you are going to take the lead on mak-

ing sure that happens. I’m not sure that’s

only a consumer perspective – you could

say the same thing about church.You get as

much out of it as you choose to put in.

Why did you want towrite this book?Three years in student government. I was

helping students with academic problems,

and I was getting sick of saying the same

things over and over. So I started to write

things down, to help students understand

things that I thought they’d benefit from. I

wrote about 15,000 words, and a professor

looked at it and said,“You know, you might

have a book here.”

You started your undergraduatedegree at 27. What were youdoing in between high schooland university?Travelling.Writing – unsuccessfully.Working

a number of minimum-wage jobs to sup-

port myself, and generally just living and

growing up. Which brings me to my criti-

cism of this whole “grow up at university”

idea: life lessons are free. ... If you need

some time to grow up, there’s a whole

world to do it in.

Kudos

B iochemist Bruce Alberts and public-health nurse Verna Huffman Splanereceived honorary degrees from U of T in November. Alberts, who served aspresident of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, developed landmark

national science education standards. He is a professor in the department of bio-chemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and co-chair of the InterAcademy Council. Splane (CPHN 1939) has been a consultantto the World Health Organization and was appointed Canada’s first principal nurs-ing officer, the highest office accorded any nurse in the country. She is a lecturer atthe University of British Columbia and University of Victoria.

Elizabeth Hay (BA 1973 VIC)was named the 2007 winner of theScotiabank Giller Prize for her novelLate Nights on Air (McClelland &Stewart). The novel follows a cast ofeccentric characters who work at aradio station in the Canadian Northduring the summer of 1975. The$40,000 award is the largest annualprize for fiction in Canada.

Judith Pipher (BSc 1962 VIC) hasbeen inducted into the NationalWomen’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls,New York, for her contributions to thefield of infrared astronomy. Pipher is aprofessor emeritus of physics andastronomy at the University of Ro-chester. In 2003, NASA launched theSpitzer Space Telescope, which isequipped with infrared detectors thatPipher helped design.

Bernard Amadei (MASc 1979) isa co-recipient of the $250,000 Heinz

Award for the Environment. Amadei is the founder of Engineers Without Borders– USA, a non-profit organization that helps improve the quality of life for peoplein poverty-stricken areas throughout the world.

Two new alumni governors were re-

cently elected to the University of

Toronto’s Governing Council, the 50-

member body that oversees the academic,

business and student affairs of the university.

Larry Wasser (HBA 1978 Innis) is

president of L.W. Capital Corporation, a pri-

vate investment firm, and Entrepreneur-in-

Residence at the Joseph L. Rotman School

of Management.

Stefan Larson graduated from U of T

with a master’s degree in science (molecular

and medical genetics) in 1999, and also earned

a PhD in biophysics at Stanford University. He

is a consultant with McKinsey & Company,

a global management consulting firm.

New Alumni Governors Elected

Novelist and Scotiabank Giller Prizewinner Elizabeth Hay


FESTIVAL

March 3 to 20. Uof T First Annual Festivalof the Arts 2008. Creativity takes centre

stage during this inaugural festival celebrating

U of T’s resident artistic talent. For three

weeks, all three campuses will come alive with

music, theatre, visual arts, dance, film and mul-

timedia.Visit www.arts.utoronto.ca.

ALUMNI EVENTSFeb. 9. Berlin. Berlinale 2008. Uof T alumni

reception to coincide with the Berlin

International Film Festival. University of

Toronto in Berlin, WissenschaftsForum,

Markgrafenstrasse 37. Contact Ira Rueckert

at +49 0 30 2067 2712 or ira.rueckert@

utoronto-berlin.org. In Toronto, contact Teo

Salgado at (416) 978-2368 or teo.salgado

@utoronto.ca. www.utoronto-berlin.org

Feb. 27. Toronto. U of T Black AlumniAssociation Networking Event. Contact

Sabrina Chang at (416) 978-5881 or sm.chang

@utoronto.ca.

Feb. 28. Atlanta, Georgia. Fourth AnnualPan-Canadian Alumni Gala. Canadians

can network and socialize with fellow alumni.

Guest speaker: Daniel J. Levitin, author of This

Is Your Brain on Music and a psychology profes-

sor at McGill University.Tickets: US $85. Four

Seasons Hotel. Contact Christine Pappas at

(404) 532-2030 or christine.pappas@interna-

tional.gc.ca or Teo Salgado at (416) 978-2368

or [email protected].

March 29.Toronto. Love You Forever... andMore Munsch.World première.The theatri-

cal production is based on the stories of

writer Robert Munsch. Recommended for

families with children ages 4 to 8. Ice-cream

party to follow. $16. 2 p.m. Lorraine Kimsa

Theatre for Young People, 165 Front St. E.

Contact Sabrina Chang at (416) 978-5881 or

[email protected].

EXHIBITIONSThomas Fisher Rare Book LibraryJan. 28 to April 25. A Hundred Years ofPhilosophy from the Slater and Walsh

Collections. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m-5 p.m.

120 St. George St. (416) 978-5285 or

www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/exhibitions/

current.html.

Uof T Art CentreFeb.12 to March 15.Cities: John Hartman.

John Hartman paints cities by combining his

own memories of them with a collective

understanding informed by factors such as

politics, film and technology. Organized by

the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery.

Tuesday to Friday, 12-5 p.m.; Saturday, 12-4

p.m. 15 King’s College Circle. (416) 978-1838

or www.utoronto.ca/artcentre.

Doris McCarthy GalleryJan. 16 to March 9. Paragons: NewAbstraction from the Albright-KnoxGallery, curated by Louis Grachos. Tuesday

to Friday,10 a.m.-4 p.m.;Sunday,12-5 p.m.1265

Military Trail. (416) 287-7007, dmg@utsc.

utoronto.ca or www.utsc.utoronto.ca/dmg.

The Eric Arthur GalleryJan. 14 to May 31. ORD documenting thedefinitive modern airport, curated by

Charles Waldheim/Urban Agency. In the sec-

ond half of the 20th century,Chicago’s O’Hare

International Airport was the biggest facility

of its kind. ORD assembles photos of O’Hare

by Robert Burley of Toronto and Hedrich

Blessing of Chicago. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-

5 p.m.; Saturday, 12-5 p.m. Faculty of

Architecture, Landscape, and Design. 230

College St. (416) 978-5038, enquiry.ald@

utoronto.ca or www.ald.utoronto.ca.

THEATREHart House TheatreJan. 16 to 26. Criminals in Love. A

Governor General’s Award-winning play by

George F.Walker.Two young lovers become

intertwined in a two-bit criminal plan gone

wrong. Tickets $20 ($12 for seniors/stu-

dents). Wednesday to Saturday at 8 p.m.

2 p.m. matinée on Saturday, Jan. 26. 7 Hart

House Circle. www.harthousetheatre.ca. For

tickets, (416) 978-8849 or www.uofttix.ca.

Jan. 30 to Feb. 2. Uof T Drama Festival.Four evenings of student-written, one-act

plays from all three campuses. Tickets $12

($10 for seniors/students). 7:30 p.m. 7 Hart

House Circle. http://drama.sa.utoronto.ca

/index.html. For tickets, (416) 978-8849 or

www.uofttix.ca.

MUSICJan. 28 to Feb. 2. New Music Festival.Events include a Gryphon Trio concert, a

composers’ forum and a performance by

Erika Raum with the U of T Symphony

Orchestra. For a schedule, visit www.music.

utoronto.ca and click on “New Music

Festival.” (416) 978-3744.

UTSC EVENTSJan. 29. Reading by poet and fiction writer

Karen Solie. 10 a.m., Bluff’s, Student Centre.

Feb. 7. Reading by novelist and poet LienChao. 10 a.m., Bluff ’s, Student Centre.

For info, visit www.utsc.utoronto.ca.

UTM EVENTSJan. 25. UTM Winterlude. Celebrate win-

ter at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Feb. 15. Networking Breakfast. Guest spea-

ker: UTM alumnus Nick Kuryluk. Topic:

Embracing Change Management in Your

Organization.

For info, visit www.utm.utoronto.ca.

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For many, the word arithmetic evokes memories ofmechanical (and largely boring) tasks involving theaddition, subtraction, multiplication and division of

numbers. But mathematicians discovered long ago that a lit-tle mischief can enliven even the most routine of arithmeticoperations. As Scottish poet Lord Byron once said: “I knowthat two and two make four and should be glad to prove it,too, if I could – though I must say if by any sort of processI could convert two and two into five it would give memuch greater pleasure.”

Some of the greatest mathematicians in history appar-ently took Byron’s idea to heart. Highlighting the fact thatfractions don’t always produce neat results, the eminentRenaissance mathematician Niccolò Tartaglia came up withthis classic puzzle in arithmetic wit:

A man dies, leaving 17 camels to be divided among his threeheirs, in the proportions 1/2, 1/3, 1/9. How can this be done?

Dividing the camels in the manner decreed would entailsplitting up a camel. This would, of course, kill it. Can youfigure out what clever solution Tartaglia proposed?

Before Tartaglia, Leonardo Fibonacci (who devised theFibonacci series) ventured into the domain of arithmeticcleverness in his famous book Liber Abaci (1202). In it, heposed ingenious conundrums involving basic counting andarithmetic. Here’s one of them. (Be careful! The solution isnot as straightforward as it appears.)

A snake is at the bottom of a 10-metre well. Each day itcrawls up three metres and during the night slips back twometres. At this rate, when will the snake be able to slither outof the well?

Here, for the Byronian fun of it, are two other arith-metic puzzles:

A pencil and eraser together cost 55 cents. The pencil costs50 cents more than the eraser. How much does the eraser cost?

A boy and girl are 20 kilometres apart. They begin cyclingtoward each other at a speed of 10 km/h. At the moment theybegin cycling, a bee that had alighted on the girl’s bicycle startsflying toward the boy at a constant speed of 15 km/h. As soonas the speedy bee reaches the boy, it turns and flies back towardthe girl. It continues to fly back and forth until the boy and girlmeet. How far does the bee travel?

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Answers1.Tartaglia suggested borrowing an extra camel for thesake of mathematical argument. With 18 camels, oneheir is given one half of 18, or nine camels; another heirone-third of 18, or six camels; and the last heir one-ninth, or two camels. Divided this way, the total numberof camels adds up to the original 17 (9 + 6 + 2). The extracamel could then be returned to its owner.

2.On the eighth day, the snake begins its journey at theseven-metre level. During the day it climbs three metres,at which point it reaches the top of the well.

3.The eraser costs 2.5 cents and the pencil costs 52.5cents. This puzzle can be solved by letting the cost of theeraser = x and the cost of the pencil = 50 + x. We knowx + (50 + x) = 55. Therefore 2x + 50 = 55, and 2x = 5.

4.Since the boy and girl cycle toward each other at 10km/h, they meet halfway after travelling for one hour.Since the bee goes back and forth at 15 km/h, it willtravel 15 kilometres in that time. It doesn’t matter thatthe distance covered is between the cyclists.



In first year, my friend Aaron Young andI had enrolled in Prof. Eisenbichler’sseminar on Michelangelo. Just a fewdays before reading week, when Aaronand I were out for coffee and a walk, heasked me if I’d like to go to Rome. Heposed the question as if he were askingif I wanted another cup of coffee. I hadno other plans, had never been to Italyand had no desire to bum around UpperAnnesley for a whole week, so I answeredwith an enthusiastic yes.

The following Friday we were walkingunder the warm Italian sun and seeingmany of the sculptures and paintings wehad been studying all term. We toured theVatican and its museums, were blessed bythe Pope and climbed to the top of the St.

Peter’s dome. We spenthours at the Pantheonand walked the cobbledpath from the RomanForum to the Coliseum.We craned our necks atthe Sistine Chapel andsat on the Spanish Steps,where we met other students fromaround the world. We followed thesun around the Piazza Navona. We atedelicious pasta, drank plenty of wine andtried every flavour of gelato imaginable.We stayed in Rome for most of the week,leaving the city only to visit Sardinia,where we dipped our feet into the crystalclear water of the Mediterranean and atelocal pastries filled with cheese and honey.

My good friend Aaron is now my hus-band of almost one year. That early tripto Italy sparked a passion for travel inboth of us – and it sure beat studyingslides in Pratt library!

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Remember them now.Audio cassettes of old radioshows (1930s-1970s). Jack Benny, Burns and Allen,Abbott and Costello, Lux Radio Theatre, etc. Free list.$5 each or 3 for $10. Postage extra. (905) 664-2669.

Remember them now.VHS video cassettes of oldmovies (1930s-1960s).A & B westerns, classics,drama,comedy, etc. Free list. $7 each or 3 for $12. Postageextra. (905) 664-2669.

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HIMALAYAN GOJI JUICEAs seen on Oprah,Time Magazine,BBC News,Women’sGolf and the LA Times. The goji berry is the world’smost nutritionally dense fruit and has many nutritionalbenefits. To learn more, please e-mail [email protected] or call (416) 252-6275.

LIFE/WORK/ACADEMIC COACHProfessional coaching provided for successful, timelycompletion of grad-student theses and major proj-ects. Contact Erika Engel, Assistant Associate Pro-fessor at (416) 485-9700 or [email protected]: www.engelconsulting.ca

PERSONALSAre you a free radical? Form a stable pair bondthrough Science Connection, the singles group forpeople into science or nature. For more information,go to www.sciconnect.com


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RENTALTrue Loft. Furnished one-bedroom. DowntownToronto. January or February 1 to April 15. $2000/month inclusive. Contact (416) 203-7405 or [email protected] Website: www.breweryloft.blogspot.com

REUNIONOakwood Collegiate Institute 100th anniversaryreunion. May 1-4, 2008. Contact Casey Mak at(416) 366-9596 or [email protected] Web-site: www.oakwoodalumni.ca

TAX CONSULTANTTax Questions Answered. Canadian CA willanswer your tax questions, via e-mail, at reasonablerates. Visit www.jamesjonesca.ca or e-mail [email protected]

TRAVELEgypt. Personally escorted tours from Toronto toCairo, as well as Luxor and Nile cruises. Students haveoption to receive Ontario high school credits.For moreinformation, contact (905) 883-1040 or U of T [email protected]: www.egyptgrouptours.com

Exchange Homes for Vacations. 10,000 families in30 countries. Started in 1953 in Europe where 75 percent of our members are based.For more informationand registration go to www.intervac.ca

Yoga Holidays in Inspiring InternationalDestinations. Tobago, February 19-26; Costa Rica,April 7-14. Contact Esther Myers Yoga Studio at

(416) 944-0838 or [email protected] Website:www.estheryoga.com

VACATION RENTALSAlsace, France.Two-bedroom apartment in Andlau.Near Strasbourg on the wine route. $700/week. Formore information, please contact (416) 482-5652.

Italy. Near Perugia. Renovated 13th-century castle.Wonderful suites, beamed ceilings, kitchenettes.Gorgeous view. Superb hospitality. Visit www.borgomonticelli.it

Mexican Riviera.Three-bedroom condo,oceanviewproperty. Convertible car also available. Five minutesfrom beach. Maid/cook/gardener. From $1,200/week.Between Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa. Bookings requiredone year in advance.Please contact (289) 439-0455 [email protected]

Paris. Upscale, comfortable and centrally located fur-nished apartments in Notre Dame, Marais and SaintGermain. Please contact (516) 977-3318 or [email protected] Website: www.rentals-paris.com

Provence. South of France. Furnished three-bed-room house, picturesque Puyloubier, 20 km from Aix.Available for monthly or long-term rental.From $1,300/month inclusive. For more information, please con-tact Beth at (416) 588-2580 or [email protected]: www.maisonprovencale.org

Provence. Near Uzès and Avignon. Beautiful hillsideestate with a four-bedroom house, a three-bedroomhouse, a two-bedroom cottage and a one-bedroomapartment. Two pools, exceptional views and tran-quility in a magnificent location. For more information,contact 011-334-6679-0984 or [email protected] Website: www.saintcastor.com

Sauble Beach Cottage. Summer $1,250/week:Winter $900/week. No pets. For more information,contact (416) 620-0033 or [email protected]: http://sauble beach365.tripod.com/

Tuscany. Bed and breakfast outside Siena. Run byCanadian and U of T alumna Ruth Colapinto. Twodouble rooms with ensuite bathrooms, and a com-mon breakfast area with walkout to large garden.Please contact [email protected] Website:www.tuscanholidays.info

WANTEDRadio tubes, equipment and vintage hi-fis.Will pick up.Contact John Yeung in Toronto at (416) 876-8663.

WRITERS’ WORKSHOPProvence. June 15-21. Join Marina Lewycka, KentStetson and Marianne Ackerman for a glorious work-ing holiday. Unpublished writers welcome. Contact(514) 278-5038 or [email protected] Website:www.atelierprovence.com

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Reliance presses were manufactured inChicago between 1895 and 1911, and thisparticular one was previously owned byDon Black, a Toronto-area dealer and col-lector of vintage printing equipment. Overthe course of the 20th century, as printingtechnology rapidly evolved, hundreds ofpresses of a similar vintage were simplydumped in Lake Ontario, making those thatremain particularly valuable. Rarity isn’t theonly thing going for it, however – it’s also adream to work on.“It’s humongous, but it isso smooth to operate,” says Portebois.“This is machinery of high precision.”

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