York University's first student council, 1960-1961: Back row (left to right) William Penny, Kathy Robb, Denis Smith (staff advisor), Shari Braithwaite, Dale Taylor. Seated: Trudy Lipp, Doug Rutherford, Claire Shoemaker, Terry Hill.

The York University Act, bestowed with Royal Assent by Ontario's Lieutenant-Governor Keiller Mackay on March 26, 1959, had narrowly escaped enshrining several high moral and social aims for this university. Only after its second stage of formal petitioning to the Legislature when comments were provided by government bodies was our charter legislation relieved of certain "objects and purposes" that Mike Harris and today's politically right fringe, nostalgic for a mythical "Leave it to Beaver" era, would have endorsed. Among those that were trimmed was a proposed duty...

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Contents

• Getting Our Act Together:A Look at the Genesis of York's Charter Legislation between 1955 and 1959
• York's Classical Keyboard Wizards
• Micmac hieroglyphics as peace ambassadors
• Time's Running Out: An Appeal from York Development
• When was York University founded?
• The Road to Royal Assent
• From the Archives
• The Journal
• A short history of the Faculty of Environmental Studies
• Research