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UTSU – U Totally Showed Up (For Free Food!)

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It’s a volunteer appreciation party for UTSU (University of Toronto Student Union). There’ll be free food and also an “appreciation ceremony”. On their facebook event page is a list of all the things that UTSU did this year, and it’s quite an impressive list. A little self-congratulatory perhaps? But hey, everyone needs a little appreciation once in a while.

Two pats on the back for sure, UTSU. Perhaps you disagree… having never actually found out/or gone to any of the events on that list. Well, why not go to this one. Tell them how they can improve and do better next year while eating their free food. It’s a win win.

When: Monday, April 30, 2007, 4pm – 6pm
Where: Croft Chapter House at University College, 15 Kings College Circle
Details: There will be free food. What kind? I’m not sure, it doesn’t say. See Facebook event page.

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Work With BikeChain

Bikechain is soon ready to re-open for the summer season, and they’re looking for a part-time summer Coordinator:

We are looking for someone who is enthusiatic about sustainable transportation and is experienced with managing volunteers.

The position will start immediately and run until September 5th, with the possibility of extension.

If you are interested, please send me (bikechain [at] utoronto [dot] ca) a copy of your resume along with a cover letter explaining relevant experience and why you would be a good fit for this job.

P.S. Sorry for using the same picture of bikechain so many times! Haha, if you or anyone you know has pictures that they wouldn’t mind having on blogUT, you should send them our way! We would REALLY appreciate it!

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The Real Big Mac

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Have you ever just gasped at how unrealistic fast food advertising is with their fake, shiny, photo-edited burgers? Or, perhaps you’ve sat down to eat at McDonals and ordered a McChicken Sandwich; but the burger looks like it suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome, was thrown in a trash can, and then the trash can was tipped over by a truck, and the burger was run over by the truck, and stray dogs came and chewed on it for a bit, decided it’s not actually food, and then the burger somehow made its way back to the restaurant and onto your plastic platter?

Well, the good people over at the West Virginia Surf Report has done a side by side comparison of “Ads vs. Reality” for various fast foods:

Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately. Nothing was Credit union online tampered with, run over by a car, or anything of the sort. It is an accurate representation in every case. Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all.

See more pictures here.

Good work! Now, the next time I want to go to a fast food restaurant, I’ll first take a look at this page and decide if I REALLY want to eat what’s pictured there.

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The Perfect Sunday Afternoon – Poetry and Tea

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Well, for those of you who are lucky enough to be finished exams, it’s time to wind back and relax! St. Michael’s College has the perfect Sunday afternoon lined up for us!

Thomas Moore – Ireland’s Beloved Poet

A talk by Yvonne McMorrough on Thomas Moore, who wrote such favourites as “The Minstrel Boy” and “The Last Rose of Summer”. Yvonne was born in Ireland, and now lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake. She has a special interest in Irish literature and has given talks on Moore, Shaw, Wilde, Swift and Joyce.

When: Sunday, April 29, 2007, 2 p.m.
Where: Charbonnel Lounge, 81 St. Mary Street (map)
Details: Admission $8 includes afternoon tea. FREE for students

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This is Why I’m Hot – A Graphical Dissertation on the Number One Song in America

Okay, here’s another installation of the exam-time 15 minutes of entertainment series:

A graphical dessertation of Mims‘ This is Why I’m Hot:

Consider the reasoning, first, of just “I’m hot ’cause I’m fly”: Mims is hot because he’s fly. But it raises the question: Does being hot guarantee one’s being fly? “You ain’t ’cause you not” would seem to clear that up: It would appear that fly and hot are interchangable. If you are one, you are both; if you aren’t at least one, you are neither.

Read more here.

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Hot Docs 2007 – Helvetica

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Helvetica is a sans serif font, best known as the default font on Apple computers; Arial is Microsoft’s inferior imitation font. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Helvetica: New York City’s MOMA held an exhibition in its honour and director Gary Huswit made a documentary, Helvetica.

Huswit interviewed a variety of typeface experts, from academics in graphic design to font-makers great and small, all in an effort to compile the varying perspectives on typeface and on that particular one, Helvetica. As we learn in the film, Helvetica is a “modern” font, which helped usher in the era of clean and serious fonts, leaving the cutesy multicoloured typefaces of the fifties behind in the dust. Some admire it for its simplicity and ability to blend into all sorts of surroundings, taking on a different character depending on its setting; others despise the font for its lack of ‘identity’. But it is reasonably unanimously agreed that no matter how hard people try, Helvetica cannot be improved.

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Tuition Fees Suck!

Tuition Fees Suck!

Students and staff are joining forces on Thursday April 26th at 4:30pm at Simcoe Hall Council Chambers (27 King’s College Circle) to demonstrate and vote against the university administration’s proposal to implement tuition fee hikes at Governing Council.

Don’t go because you hate paying even more of your hard earned cash toward tuition. Don’t go because the university administration is further encroaching on the autonomy of student government by attempting to implement the proposal over their opposition. Go because the press release claims the demonstrators will use “creative methods” to voice their discontent.

Creative methods? That’s a teaser if I ever heard one. The full press release after the jump.

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