36 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm and 26 negatives: b&w ; 6x6 cm
Description
Photographs show Claude T. Bissell, University President, welcoming first year student and addressing the student body in Convocation Hall (Opening address). Students greet returning Bissell who was away teaching at Harvard University the previous year. Free watermelon is given to the students prior to the meeting as a form of protest to Bissell's stance on University governance outside of Convocation Hall. Also, included are images of students and tents in front of Hart House representing "Tent City," which is a dramatization of the student housing shortage at the University of Toronto. This issue is further documented in photographs of student crowds in front Convocation Hall being addressed by student leaders.
Title
Campbell Committee Report on Disciplinary Procedures - Mass Meeting in Convocation Hall
Date
October 01, 1969
Extent and medium
78 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs document a mass meeting attended by over 2000 students and staff regarding the Campbell Committee Report on Disciplinary Procedures. President Bissell addresses a supportive crowd.
Title
Protest Meeting and March - "Stop the Spadina Expressway"
Date
March 18, 1970
Extent and medium
73 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a University of Toronto rally against the construction of the Spadina Expressway in 1970. It includes views of University staff and students meeting in Convocation Hall, the march to Queens Park and the rally in front of the Provincial Legislature.
Title
Commission on University Government - mass student meetings on parity|Meeting on student housing issues with Ontario Housing Corporation
Date
January 20, 1971
Extent and medium
71 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
One set of images documents student leaders addressing student protesters in Sidney Smith Hall after the Arts and Science Faculty Council rejected the principle of parity. A second series of images show a meeting in convocation hall between residents of the Married Students Residences and the Ontario Housing Corporation regarding evictions.
Title
Inauguration of President John Evans
Date
September 28, 1972
Extent and medium
63 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs of the inauguration of President John Evans outside on Front Campus where staff, students and alumni attended the installation of the 9th president of the University of Toronto. Shots include the Chancellor's procession from Convocation Hall to the Front Campus, President Evans being hooded and delivering an address. Also included are photographs of student protesters who were in favour of free universal day care, unlimited access to library stacks, and against racism, repression of women and higher fees. Musical program included the Faculty of Music Brass Ensemble, the University of Toronto Choir and ended with the Lady Godiva Memorial Band. Present at the ceremony: Alumni President J. Walter Giles; Premier William Davis; Chancellor Pauline McGibbon; Dr. Roger Guindon; Dean R. A. Greene; C. Malim Harding, Chair of Governing Council; Principal A. C. H. Hallett, University College; Dean A. L. Chute, Faculty of Medicine; Dean J. M. Ham, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering; Rev. J. M. Kelly, President of St. Michael's College; Dean John Beckwith; Prof. Stephen Chennette; Lloyd Bradshaw, Conductor of Brass Ensemble; Eric Miglin, SAC president, students from the Faculty of Engineering and others.
Title
Caput meeting on the Banfield Affair
Date
May 23, 1974
Extent and medium
29 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
CAPUT hearing, 21 May 1974 - 25 June 1974, into the conduct of Tony Leah and William Schabas, in preventing the delivery of an address by American urbanologist, Edward Banfield
Title
Student sit-in protesting stack access to the Robarts Library.
Date
March 10, 1972
Extent and medium
12 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs show students staging sit-in in the Senate Chamber of Simcoe Hall as well as several shots of a banner that read "open the stacks".
Title
Protest over campus daycare
Date
March 29, 1972
Extent and medium
25 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Students with children organize a protest "Daycare for A Day" in the rotunda of the Sidney Smith building to raise awareness of the ongoing issue of daycare on campus. Includes shots of protest banners and mothers playing with their children.
Title
Homecoming - Float Parade
Date
October 28, 1967
Extent and medium
28 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Views of crowds, participating floats and float winner plaque presentation. Some of the slogans that appear reflect issues of the time including legalization of drugs, women’s rights, birth control, police brutality, hippie culture, Canadian nationalism, anti-Americanism.
Title
Commission on University Government - Student sit-in and "Parity Festival"
Date
January 22, 1971
Extent and medium
49 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a student sit-in regarding parity issues on the Commission on University government (CUG). It includes photographs of striking students preparing signs, and attending a mass meeting in Sidney Smith Hall.
Title
Honorary Degree - Adlai Stevenson, United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Date
May 28, 1965
Extent and medium
25 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Images document this special convocation including the procession to and from Convocation Hall, Adlai Stevenson addressing convocation and leaving a black- tie reception at Hart House. There are also views of protestors along the street and on the steps of Hart House with signs protesting the war in Vietnam.
Title
Honorary Degree - Adlai Stevenson, United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Date
May 28, 1965
Extent and medium
102 negatives: b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Views of honorary degree ceremony taking place in Convocation Hall. Several photos documenting the anti-Vietnam protests happening outside with views of people holding placards that read: “No more must die", "Let people know the truth", "Bring US troops home”, “Mr Martin say no to US war”.
