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Confrontation: Vice-president Harry Eastman (left) explains why U of T want to raise its fees - by a average 14.6 per cent - to student council president David Jones (above), while John Whitten, chairman of U of T's planning and resources committee, looks
Confrontation: Vice-president Harry Eastman (left) explains why U of T want to raise its fees - by a average 14.6 per cent - to student council president David Jones (above), while John Whitten, chairman of U of T's planning and resources committee, looks

Confrontation: Vice-president Harry Eastman (left) explains why U of T want to raise its fees - by a average 14.6 per cent - to student council president David Jones (above), while John Whitten, chairman of U of T's planning and resources committee, looks

Date2/25/1980
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  • Confrontation: Vice-president Harry Eastman (left) explains why U of T want to raise its fees - by a average 14.6 per cent - to student council president David Jones (above), while John Whitten, chairman of U of T's planning and resources committee, looks
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Transport of the future, an air-cushioned vehicle for use on rough terrain, is being developed at the U of T Institute for Space Studies. Dr. Rod Tennyson explains how it works to Henry McKay.The vehicle would be particularly useful in the far North. The institute thinks air curtains might serve as covers for buildings one day instead of roofs.
Transport of the future, an air-cushioned vehicle for use on rough terrain, is being developed at the U of T Institute for Space Studies. Dr. Rod Tennyson explains how it works to Henry McKay.The vehicle would be particularly useful in the far North. The institute thinks air curtains might serve as covers for buildings one day instead of roofs.
Griffin, Doug
11/12/1970
Testing the tax: U of T economist Peter Dungan and a colleague concluded in a study that a 9 per cent federal sales tax is likely to push by inflation.
Testing the tax: U of T economist Peter Dungan and a colleague concluded in a study that a 9 per cent federal sales tax is likely to push by inflation.
Lennon, Frank
8/15/1989
Mike Byrd, 34, is deputy superintendent at Vanier Centre. The centre, which was opened in 1969, to replace the old Mercer Reformatory in Toronto, is a therapeutic community, Byrd explains. The residents, 75 per cent of whom are under 25 years of age, live in cottage-style buldings, where each spends leisure time in her own room.
Mike Byrd, 34, is deputy superintendent at Vanier Centre. The centre, which was opened in 1969, to replace the old Mercer Reformatory in Toronto, is a therapeutic community, Byrd explains. The residents, 75 per cent of whom are under 25 years of age, live in cottage-style buldings, where each spends leisure time in her own room.
Bull, Ron
2/15/1973
Downtown reactor: Dr. Ron Hancock, in the reactor room of U of T's Slowpoke, checks over a device that holds uranium rods.
Downtown reactor: Dr. Ron Hancock, in the reactor room of U of T's Slowpoke, checks over a device that holds uranium rods.
Griffin, Doug
5/1/1990
Bachelorhood may not be the carefree, glamorous state society thinks it is. To find out U of T's Dr. Rubin Todres, left, and his students are doing a research project on unmarried men. Dennis Long and Carmel Keating are in class.
Bachelorhood may not be the carefree, glamorous state society thinks it is. To find out U of T's Dr. Rubin Todres, left, and his students are doing a research project on unmarried men. Dennis Long and Carmel Keating are in class.
Goode, Jeff
3/12/1976
Great detective: Christopher de Hamel, here with a 13th-century manuscript from U of T's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, revealed private collection of Baron de Rothschild.
Great detective: Christopher de Hamel, here with a 13th-century manuscript from U of T's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, revealed private collection of Baron de Rothschild.
Griffin, Doug
2/20/1988
Gordon Slemon: Complaints that U of T's engineering school was deteriorating were justified, engineering dean says.
Gordon Slemon: Complaints that U of T's engineering school was deteriorating were justified, engineering dean says.
Lennon, Frank
7/18/1978
Prof. Rubin Todres, left, at the U of T's school of social work is leading a class of post-graduate students in a study of fathers raising children alone. Rob McKay, right, is one of the students working on the project.
Prof. Rubin Todres, left, at the U of T's school of social work is leading a class of post-graduate students in a study of fathers raising children alone. Rob McKay, right, is one of the students working on the project.
Beaty, Keith
3/13/1974
I. W. Smith sits at the wheel -- and the special guidance device -- of a van his students designed for quadriplegics. Smith directs a project-oriented course at U of T's Cockburn Centre for Engineering Design.
I. W. Smith sits at the wheel -- and the special guidance device -- of a van his students designed for quadriplegics. Smith directs a project-oriented course at U of T's Cockburn Centre for Engineering Design.
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
1/3/1977
Richard Ten Cate, dean of U of T's dental schoo, watches students being trained on outdated equipment
Richard Ten Cate, dean of U of T's dental schoo, watches students being trained on outdated equipment
Cooper, David
1/19/1979
New scholarship: James Booth, 17, of Lennoxville, Que., was accepted by six other prestigious universities, but chose to be the first student in U of T's new scholarship program.
New scholarship: James Booth, 17, of Lennoxville, Que., was accepted by six other prestigious universities, but chose to be the first student in U of T's new scholarship program.
McConnell, Colin
10/27/1986
U of T's Peter Dungan suggests letting consumers take $2,000 tax free out of plans such as RRSPs.
U of T's Peter Dungan suggests letting consumers take $2,000 tax free out of plans such as RRSPs.
Power, Peter
11/29/1991