Bruce Kidd, a Toronto local who served as UTSC’s principal from 2014-2018, recalls his insistence on utilizing the Highland Creek Valley for campus and community activities during his early years on campus, despite the seeming indifference of campus administrators.
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This beautiful valley walk, you know, I bugged them [Andrew Arifuzzaman, Chief Administrative Officer, UTSC and Jennifer Adams-Peffer, Campus Architect, UTSC] and I bugged them.
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I don’t know, Christine [Berkowitz, Interviewer], if you ever, I mean, there was a path down to the valley. I called it a suicide ramp. [Christine laughs] It was so unsafe, it was never lit.
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I tried to be in a supportive way on their case, to do something about it, but once I was so mad, I even started shovelling.
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They never shovelled the steps, so I took my own shovel and shovelled the steps to get them to do something, because the Highland Creek Valley is extraordinary. It’s extraordinary.
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Anyway, I’m glad that, although again, it was a long fuse, and it only came about subsequently, that as a result of that,
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and they did way better than anything I imagined. I just wanted a safe, lit path, and they came up with this award-winning design, which is fantastic.
