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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.

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