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\u201cIn graduate programs across Canada, students at the Master\u2019s and PhD levels face a range of experiences and (mixed) feelings as they contemplate the beginning of the semester,\u201d wrote York University PhD candidate Melonie Fullick<\/b> in The Globe and Mail<\/i> Sept. 13. \u201cWhile some are just starting out in their programs, for others the orientation sessions and adjustments to new teaching or research jobs are part of a familiar routine, one that\u2019s often being managed alongside increased professional responsibilities, dissertation or thesis work and family obligations.\u201d Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

York U looks to hire teaching-only faculty<\/a>
\nMost students are aware that an extensive amount of their professors\u2019 time goes to research in addition to their teaching duties. York University<\/b>, however, has become the first university in Canada to announce extensive hiring of teaching-only professors, who will focus on teaching almost exclusively while doing little or no research, reported the Gazette<\/i> Sept. 12. Though almost all Canadian universities have some faculty who teach exclusively, York is the first to hire them on a large scale. Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joseph Boyden on the novel he was \u2018always meant to write\u2019<\/a>
\nYork alumnus Joseph Boyden<\/b>, 46, is one of the most acclaimed Canadian writers of his generation, reported the National Post <\/i>Sept. 6\u2026.He enrolled at York University, studying creative writing and the humanities. York English Professor B.W. Powe<\/b>, who taught Boyden, says he possessed \u201ca quiet passion and a quiet intensity about him, a concentration and a receptivity that was easy to notice. [But] what I thought was most powerful about him was that he carried in himself the mark of determined solitude, the need to create something. There was something in him that made him memorable.\u201d Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jolted by power costs<\/a>
\n\u201cThe blame for increases in the \u2018global adjustment\u2019 portion of customers\u2019 electricity bills should not be laid at the feet of the province\u2019s renewable-energy initiatives,\u201d wrote York University environmental studies Professor Mark Winfield <\/b>in The Globe and Mail<\/i> Sept. 13. \"However fashionable it has become to blame green-energy initiatives for rising energy costs, these figures suggest that doing so does little to inform the debate on energy policy.\u201d Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Martin Gladstone: Where is the gay campaign to boycott Egypt?
\n<\/a>York University Professor and filmmaker John Greyson<\/b> and his traveling companion Dr. Tarek Loubani were arrested in Cairo on Aug. 16. Both Canadian men have been arbitrarily held without formal charge in Tora prison. Egyptian prosecutors (dubiously) claim that the two men conspired with the Muslim Brotherhood in an attack on a police station, reported the National Post<\/i> Sept. 12\u2026.Greyson is an openly gay man (simply Google him) and a fixated anti-Israel activist\u2026.So it all begs the question: Where are the large gay marches outside the Egyptian diplomatic missions in Canada, or the calls for boycotts of Egyptian goods? Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TTC\u2019s new articulated bus spotted on training run near St. Clair and Bathurst<\/a>
\nTwelve of the city\u2019s busiest bus routes are under consideration: 7 Bathurst, 25 Don Mills, 29 Dufferin, 36 Finch West, 39 Finch East, 199 Finch Rocket, 35 Jane, 41 Keele, 53 Steeles East, 85 Sheppard East, 116 Morningside and 196 York University<\/b> Rocket. In March, the TTC board approved the purchase of 126 additional NovaBus LFS articulated buses (\u201cartics\u201d), at a total cost of nearly $120 million, upping the total fleet size to 153, reported the York Guardian<\/i> Sept. 12. Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Three things to do this weekend<\/a>
\nHe went on his historic run for cancer research back in 1980, and all these years later Canadians are still inspired by Terry Fox\u2019s life and work. The 32nd annual run will happen across Toronto, including High Park, Toronto Island and York University<\/b>, reported the Toronto Star<\/i> Sept. 12. Routes vary between 5 and 10 km; proceeds go to the Terry Fox Foundation. Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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