Pollution Probe - members address meeting at Toronto City Hall
Date
July 07, 1969
Extent and medium
107 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during City of Toronto hearings on the link between the death of ducks on an island in Toronto Harbour and the use of Deazinon (pesticide) by the Metro Toronto Parks Department. This issue mobilized Pollution Probe, a student organization to join forces with a local environmental group - Group Action to Stop Pollution (GASP) - to convene an unofficial inquiry at which these photographs were taken. Commissioners included Dr. Robert McClure, Moderator of the United Church of Canada; Prof. Ernest Sirluck University of Toronto Vice-President and Graduate Dean and Prof. Marshall McLuhan, Director of the University's Center for Culture and Technology. Prof. Donald Chant, chair of the Department of Zoology, a member of Pollution Probes, spoke as a witness at the hearings.
Title
Campbell Committee - meeting regarding changes to CAPUT
Date
September 23, 1969
Extent and medium
101 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a meeting of the Campbell Committee sub-committee to examine temporary changes to the composition of CAPUT. In the meeting, attended by some 150-200 students, President Bissell refused to repudiate a working paper by the Committee of Presidents of Ontario Universities and reiterated that until the law was changed, student disciplinary issues were vested with CAPUT. In response, S.A.C. Vice-President, Robert Barkwell and another S.A.C. representative withdrew from the sub-committee and argued that their departure meant that the committee should be dissolved. The sub-committee continued the meeting and when it finally adjourned, the students voted for a mass meeting to take place in two days time.
Title
Campbell Committee - mass student meeting in Convocation Hall regarding the report on student discipline.
Date
September 25, 1969
Extent and medium
131 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a mass meeting in Convocation Hall regarding the Campbell Committee report on student discipline. In the meeting, President Claude T. Bissell tried to address the contentious issues regarding the working report from the Committee of Presidents of Universities of Ontario and defended his decision not to repudiate the report. The meeting ended with a vote in support of a number of S.A.C. motions, including a call that the Campbell report be made public within one week.
Title
Campbell Committee- report on student discipline - students protest at Simcoe Hall
Date
September 26, 1969
Extent and medium
34 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs of picket lines in front of Simcoe Hall during the student protests regarding Campbell Committee Report on student discipline, September 1969.
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.
