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Title: Students in formal wear socializing
Description: Students standing in a room socializing, near a free-standing ashtray. There is a fireplace in the background.
Subject: Events, Student experience, Students

Title: Students in Costume Posing and Taking Photographs for the GRADitude Campaign [Digital file name: Graditude 009 campaign c]
Description: A student in costume photographs two other students in costume in front of a white and blue backdrop. A piece of paper taped to the backdrop reads 'Strike a Pose!' with the GRADitude logo in the top righthand corner. The visible text of a poster in the background reads 'Freeze Tuition Fees - Stop deregulation'.
Subject: Events, Student experience, Students

Title: Interview with Sitharsana Srithas
Description: UTSC student talks about the university's student initiatives and activities to discuss and advocate for Indigenous issues.
Subject: Ethnicity, Indigeneity, Race, Student experience, Women

Title: Interview with Craig Heron
Description: Craig Heron, as a former professor of working-class history at York University, highlights the link between activism and history. Craig discusses how the New Left has contributed to his political involvement in protests for the democratization of the university as a UofT student and later involvements in strikes as a faculty member at York University. Lastly, Craig touches upon his initiatives as the President of Toronto Worker’ History Project, especially in regards to the production of community plays that he wrote surrounding different historical themes such as the Russian Revolution and the Winnipeg General Strike.
Subject: Activism, Student experience, Diversity, Faculty experience

Title: Interview with Leslie Chan
Description: Leslie Chan discusses his history at UTSC as an undergraduate student, teaching assistant, and later professor. He begins by discussing what drew him to the campus and his relationship with faculty, and he also talks about the school’s student clubs. Professor Chan also touches upon his experience in residence, as well as living in the Scarborough community. He also reflects on how UTSC, in terms of its library, study spaces, and services, has changed over the years.
Subject: Community, Education, Faculty experience, Student experience, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

Title: Interview with Shirley Criscione
Description: Shirley Criscione shares her student experiences as one of the first graduates of Scarborough College in 1968. Shirley highlights how the campus culture was during those years, particularly the impact of having such a small student body (less than 200 students). The campus community was tight knit, where "everybody knew everybody." Shirley also recalls how the larger society was reflected on campus, particularly the roles that women took, the demographics of the student body, what students were expected to wear, and even the normalcy of smoking at the time.
Subject: Buildings, Education, Facilities, Student experience, Transportation

Title: Interview with Elliott Schwartz
Description: Elliott Schwartz, a graduate of UTSC (1969), discusses the social, academic and administrative culture of the campus.
Subject: Buildings, Drama, Extra-curricular activities, Facilities, Student experience

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