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ufashion reveals U of T’s Next Top Model


February 2nd marked the kick-off of
New York City fashion week, and while models draped in luxury gear sauntered down the runway at Bryant Park, our own Hart House was host to similar festivities. U of T’s Top Model Walkoff was the University of Toronto Fashion Group’s (or ufashion – small u) first major event, and indeed the first event of its kind – a modeling contest by and for U of T students.

 

An audience of mostly students lined the walls of Hart House’s music room, which had been converted overnight into a simulated catwalk. A judging panel sat at the end along with a host of photographers ready to snap the models as they posed, while across the room an MC and a DJ sent the models off with quick comments and loud beats.

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Smoke and Mirrors: E-BUTT exposes and attacks U of T’s unethical investments in Big Tobacco

 

Nowadays, anti-smoking statistics and campaigns are just as routine as smoking itself. In light of this, a number of politically savvy U of T students formed a group called E-BUTT (Education-Bringing Youth Tobacco Truths) to help fight the “war against tobacco.” What better place to start than at home – the University of Toronto invests a whopping 10.5 million dollars in several tobacco companies, including Japan Tobacco, Altria Group and Rothmans Inc. On January 16, E-BUTT held its first press conference to address U of T’s unethical investments.

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Past News

Briefs (December 2006)

 

 

U of T Takes Initiative to Improve Aboriginal Staffing

 

 

First generation students in Ontario to receive additional funding

 

 

Canada ‘delinquent beyond delinquency’ in dealing with AIDS epidemic

 

 

Wikipedia a poor substitute for old-fashioned research

 

 

Presidential Search Committee Receives Mixed Reviews

 

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Arts

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Greatest Albums of the Twentieth Century: Rage Against the Machine

 

 

Smart Gossip? You Bet Your Boob Job

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Features

The Bloor Street Challenge

 

 

How Inconvenient is the Truth?

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New Life

 

Commuter Discount Controversy

 

 

 

The African Studies Program: The Students’ Experience

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Perspectives

 

Dear spoiled, bourgeois, self-interested, unthinking jerks…

 

 

 

FYI: Most of us hate Betar

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Sports

 

Varsity Stadium: The Vehicle for Pigskin Decline

 

 

 

Raptors Claw Their Way Back from Obscurity

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Columns

The Condor’s View

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