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
Pollution Probe - meeting at City Hall Council Chambers
Date
February 23, 1970
Extent and medium
43 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a meeting at Toronto City Hall Council Chambers, when University of Toronto faculty members associated with Pollution Probe addressed city counsellors regarding environmental issues in 1970.
Title
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
President Bissell addresses students
Date
September 17, 1968
Extent and medium
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 - 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.
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
Faculty Council meeting disrupted by student protester
Date
February 01, 1971
Extent and medium
35 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs taken during a disrupted meeting of the Arts and Science Faculty Council General Committee in the Medical Science auditorium on February 2, 1971. This was part of students' fight for parity in governing the university.
Title
Student protest - Meeting in Convocation Hall
Date
October 10, 1972
Extent and medium
60 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm
Description
Photographs of a forum discussion between students, President Evans and the provincial politicians in response to the Ontario Federation of Students concerns about the province-wide referendum on the fees strike in Convocation Hall, 1972. Includes photographs of: President John Evans; Minister of Colleges and Universities, Hon. Jack McNie; former NDP education critic Walter Pitman; Liberal education critic James Bullbrook,; Joyce Denyer, one of the founders of the Part-Time Student Association; and SAC president Eric Miglin.
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.
