Read more about the article “I am Professor John Lee and I’m gay, and those of you who don’t like that can leave.”: UTSC Professor John Alan Lee, 1971-1999 
“Quiet Moment: John Alan Lee Controversial Professor of Sociology at Scarborough Campus, works on a piece of sculpture at Scarborough.” Photo by Alan Dunlop. Toronto Star Photograph Archive. January 15, 1984. https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/316386/quiet-moment-john-alan-lee-controversial-professor-of-soci.

“I am Professor John Lee and I’m gay, and those of you who don’t like that can leave.”: UTSC Professor John Alan Lee, 1971-1999 

When asked about memorable moments during his time as a student at Scarborough College, Anthony McWatt recounted attending a class in the 1980s where the Professor introduced himself saying, “I am Professor John Lee and I’m gay, and those of you who don’t like that can leave.” (McWatt, 2020). Lee…

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Read more about the article Affording Tuition: The history and present of OSAP
Lee, Nancy. Protest banner against Ford’s OSAP changes in front of UTSC Student Centre. March 20, 2019. Scarborough.

Affording Tuition: The history and present of OSAP

Lee, Nancy. Protest banner against Ford’s OSAP changes in front of UTSC Student Centre. March 20, 2019. Scarborough.  As tuition fees continue to rise every year, student loan debt becomes more difficult to manage; the recent concerns with cost of living and the previous 2019 changes to the Ontario Student…

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Read more about the article “We’re Going to Move Against Your Moms and Dads”: The Black Panther Party Comes to Scarborough College
The Scarboro Mirror. (1970, March 25). “Black Panthers Revealed”. The Scarboro Mirror. Retrieved from UTSC Archives Legacy Collection, file 002-E-9-4-1, “General Publicity 1970”. University of Toronto Scarborough Library, Archives & Special Collections.

“We’re Going to Move Against Your Moms and Dads”: The Black Panther Party Comes to Scarborough College

     The Black Panther Party (BPP) came to Scarborough College to inspire a black revolution.  “Black is beautiful” they declared to Scarborough Colleges’ predominantly white student population in March 1970. Six members of the BPP from Chicago took the stage in the Meeting Place in front of a large group of curious students to give a talk on their activist movement – and particularly, the politics of higher…

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Read more about the article Making a Home in the Highlands: The Story of UTSC’s Student Residences
photo courtesy of University of Toronto Scarborough Library, Archives & Special Collections, UTSC Photographic Services Collection, 2012-001C-6-1-52. http://digitalscholarship.utsc.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/photoservices%3A529.

Making a Home in the Highlands: The Story of UTSC’s Student Residences

Arguably no situation has thrown postsecondary students and universities across Canada into as much confusion as the current COVID-19 pandemic. In an attempt to limit the spread of the virus over the past few months, most, if not all, of Canada’s major universities urged their students to move out of…

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Read more about the article Vincent W. Bladen Library: A Students’ Demand
"Scarborough College Student Council president, Sheldon Leith, handing a symbolic cheque of $400,000 to Lee MacLaren, the Director of the Department of Funding at the University of Toronto.” Scarborough College Bulletin, January 1979.

Vincent W. Bladen Library: A Students’ Demand

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re lucky to have online libraries available for our entertainment needs from the comfort of our own homes. In fact, can you imagine what it’d be like without a library, especially if you were a student? Scarborough College didn’t have a proper library until 1982, upon…

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